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Dr. Porsche nixes water cooling
Leafing through my old Christophorus, in issue #211 of April 1988, pg. 21, the venerable Dr. states "The boxer engine is too expensive and too heavy with water cooling. It is no longer suitable for rear mounting."
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02-23-2004, 08:58 PM
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Perhaps he meant, at the time, for production cars.
I think the Porsche folk were using water cooled heads in racing motors at the time Dr. Porsche would have made such a statement. If I am wrong, I stand corrected!  BR, Kurt |
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02-23-2004, 10:52 PM
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Seems to be working just fine now
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The Doktor was just an old dinosaur, well past his "best before" date.
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Didn't the good Dokter also say something about his company being a sportscar manufacturer? And that the last car on earth would be a sportscar?
Ok what is a sportscar? I don't know. I don't have a satisfactory pat answer. I do know what it's not for me. It's not a SUV nor is it the mooted 4 door saloon BMW M5 basher.
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1983 Porsche 911SC 3.0 liter flat-six 204hp
