A glimpse at one of the rarer engines out there...
 

Saw this monster in the Porsche museum last week :)
Regards,
Andrew M

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That is ridiculous!

All but the end cylinders use twin plugs too. What are the power specs on that?

That does not make any sense...

-m

may have been the 1,100 hp motor they made

Panorama, February 2008 cover?

In the car at Rennsport III. The motor doesn't run but the museum is going to rebuild it soon.

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Count the wires carefully. They're all twin plug. The riser on the end is mid cylinder, not between cylinders.

+1 as to me it looks like there are 16 wires going in to 9 different plug locations on the side of that beast. Just like a twin plug 6 looks like is has a single plug on the ends of covers.

Gregg S. :p

A few more:

MFI Pump:

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Side view

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Specs:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1210219142.jpg


And a very cool cut-away early 2.0L:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1210219187.jpg

Hey I think that might be the 16 Zylinder 917 spyder. "Porsche 917 the Winning Formula" by Peter Morgan mentions that the later turbocharged motor underwent a difficult development, but the flat 12 saw flash horsepower figures of more than 1,500 hp, and he describes the grinning test engineers as coyly "half petrified, half elated".

Think I can shoe horn that into my 914?:D

Of course! It was designed for mid-engine configuration. It looks like the they have one in the spyder and one on a stand, so one for you and one for me. I saw the engine in person at the factory museum many years ago.;)
No one left me alone long enough to smuggle it out back then. :(

One can dream of driving something like that with a 16 cylinder engine in it...

Yep, that ones been gathering dust...er...breathing Stuttgart air for a while... was there in December 2007, some more pics somewhere...

I'm trying to imagine what it sounds like...

Damn!!!:eek: