Porsche Race Car Photos (show us what's under the bodywork)

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Hello everyone and hope you can help me with my first post,

I am looking for inspiration for a future project car I would like to build so all photo's welcome.

The photo's can be of any Porsche race car or stripped out road car from any era.

My main interest are photo's of cars using a tubular spaceframe chassis but I would also be interested in cars with fully welded in cages.

[Flieger]

Firstly, welcome to the forum.

Wow, where to start? There are so many photos of Porsche racecars here that most people are probably overwhelmed with choices to post. Maybe if you narrow down what you are looking for you will get more direct responses. Do you want early RSRs on the track? Engine shots? interior? Suspension? Long Hood? Short Hood? Narrow? Wide?...

Here is a good thread to get you started on your tubular frame design: More 935 favorite photos

Also, new members must post a photo of their car. It will help attract responses, as well.

Cheers

[Flieger]

[Flieger]

You can also try here on my Flickr site in these sets:

POC Racing Willow Springs 2009 Tribute to LeMans - a set on Flickr

Porsche 934.5 Racecar - a set on Flickr

Porsche Speedfest 2008 - a set on Flickr

Long Beach Sports Car Races 4.18.2009 - a set on Flickr

Porsche Speedfest 2009 - a set on Flickr

Long Beach Sports Car Races 4.19.2008 - a set on Flickr

Long Beach Sports Car Races 4.14.2007 - a set on Flickr

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Thanks for the welcome Flieger, please excuse my manners but I couldn't find the section for new member introductions so I guess this is the best place to add a brief intro about myself and my car.

This year I finally bought a 1989 Porsche 930 after about 10 years of deciding which is the car for me. My first drive was with my wife and two young kids and we drove from the UK to northern Italy where we live now.

We covered 2000 miles in 11 days taking in 9 countries along the way. My car has had 964 bumpers and later alloy wheels added but over the years I plan to convert it back to as originally manufactured as it has only done 47k miles.

I am not sure how to add photo's but will post some of my car as soon as I get the hang of it.

As for me I am a little less interesting than my car and my working life has been squandered working as a design engineer on a super road car, Le Mans race cars and quite a few F1 race cars.

My future project is to allow all my creative ideas to be expressed and design/build a steel tubular space framed car with the majority of body panels in composites. At the moment I am torn between a twin turbo engined short hood or a big capacity normally aspirated long hood. It would be in a narrow stock bodied style with frt/rear independent wishbone suspension and if I can and it's a big 'if' I would like to have the engine mid-mounted.

I guess the kind of photo's I am after are the ones that show all the details that Porsche would have built into their cars that I can use to allow me to build a car that would hopefully look like the sort of car that Porsche would have built had there been a stock bodied silhouette class where anything goes under the bodywork.

[spence88mph]

Wow, your future project sounds incredible, go the twin turbo short hood!!

[spence88mph]

Oh and as usual, thanks Flieger for the car porn!!

[Flieger]

Here is another very good site: slidevalve911rsr's Photo Galleries at pbase.com

Glad you like the images, spence88mph. I have many more like those.

[Flieger]

Capt,

I have some good suspension close-up images from 911STs or RSRs but not much tube-frame stuff. Are you looking for any component in particular?



Below is Matteo's car:


I do have tube frame cars in the form of 906s, 907s, 908s, 917s...



This is a great introductory thread- consolidating these cool race car photo references. I like it.

[Flieger]

This is 917 chassis #004, being restored by Kundensport. I have a bunch more close up photos of the space frame and suspension, also a couple of the brakes and crankshaft. Let me know if you want more, the files are large and cumbersome to post all of them here.

[Flieger]

Pequod... had to Google it- Captain Ahab's ship in Moby Dick. Hmm, interesting riddle.

[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Pequod... had to Google it- Captain Ahab's ship in Moby Dick. Hmm, interesting riddle.

And there's a Moby Dick 935....I like it. Lost is coming back in January, I like flexing my puzzler.


Those are some knarly welds on that 917 frame. Looks like it evolved over time?

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

... Those are some knarly welds on that 917 frame. Looks like it evolved over time?

Apparently they're all like that. These are referred to as the correct welds by the restorers.

Does anybody know how these were welded?

Is it "stick" welding or something else?

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

And there's a Moby Dick 935....I like it. Lost is coming back in January, I like flexing my puzzler.


Those are some knarly welds on that 917 frame. Looks like it evolved over time?

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Apparently they're all like that. These are referred to as the correct welds by the restorers.

Does anybody know how these were welded?

Is it "stick" welding or something else?

I think it may have been Oxy-Acetylene on the Aluminum frames but I think they started using Tungsten-Inert Gas Electrical Arc Welding on the Magnesium frames.

Looks did not matter, only strength.

[m110]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Looks did not matter, only strength.

...and weight

917


908/3


935

[Pele911]

Awesome welds on the 917and this looks like the half face of a mad Thomas Jefferson cool

[Flieger]

[Ritzblitz]

Some i took this summer




Not a pcar but....

[Wilhelm]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

And there's a Moby Dick 935....I like it. Lost is coming back in January, I like flexing my puzzler.


Those are some knarly welds on that 917 frame. Looks like it evolved over time?

I guess those welds on that 917 frame were similar to the welds on a V2.. Not very pretty, but enough to get the job done. For a V2, about 3 minutes to London. For a 917, only 24 hours at LeMans.. The Germans seem to have a flair for this sort of thing.