924 Turbo Land Speed Vehicle, 1 only.

[guru944]

To all:
Not long ago, they found a car they'd completely forgotten about - a Porsche 924 made entirely of body filler. Not really, but that's what it looks like. Equipped with a 250-litre fuel tank, lightweight panels, a massive turbo and a primitive low-drag body it was intended to break speed and distance records, but Mercedes did something similar first, so Porsche hid this curiosity under an old blanket, behind a huge crate. And forgot about it.


Enjoy & Later...

[ideola]

For that and much much more: 924Board.org :: View topic - Porsche secrets (including 924 content)

[petrolhead611]

They were planning to do 10,000kms in daylight?Probably impossible-do the math. Or was it to be on a floodlit track? No lights on the car.

[fiat22turbo]

LSR typically takes place at places like the Bonneville Salt Flats or the Texas Mile in the US and the extra weight of the fuel could help with traction. I also suspect that it would use a very high amount of fuel when at WOT since it likely is pushing a large amount of boost and also using some of the fuel for combustion chamber cooling.

[ideola]

Porsche's Sleeping Beauties
The Porsche Museum displays only a fraction of the company's 505-strong historic collection. What about the rest? They've finally all been gathered under one roof -- and Octane has been granted a peek.
Author: Delwyn Mallett || Photos: Matthew Howell
Octane Magazine wrote:

...The magnificent multi-million-euro museum that opened in 2009 has 85 cars on permanent display. An additional few dozen are at any given moment 'touring' the world on loan to dealers or attending classic car events and shows...but that still leaves around 350 vehicles that have to be stored. Until now, the cars have been scattered across several locations around Stuttgart, but late last year Porsche decided to concentrate its cars in one location. To that end, it renovated a vacant factory only a short distance from its Zuffenhausen production line and museum, in the adjacent suburb of Kallenburg.
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Another exercise in aerodynamic efficiency revealed for the first time is a 924 'mystery car'. On the day we're there, the museum staff are still researching the background to this odd-looking 924 that they had 'discovered under blankets hidden behind a pile of packing cases and crated engines'. When you have 500 cars to look after, mislaying one is perhaps understandable. According to that guru of all things Porsche, the estimable Karl Ludvigsen, work on this hot-rod 924 started in 1976 and progressed into 1977. The purpose was to raise the profile of the 924, after the somewhat underwhelming response to its launch, by attacking the 10,000-mile World Endurance record just set by the Mercedes-Benz C111.

Extensive work in the Volkswagen wind tunnel resulted in a significant reduction in the 924's Cd, down from 0.36 to 0.268. Meanwhile, as one group of engineers was reducing the car's drag, another set was pumping up the horsepower. A massive turbo, exhausting via the shortest route through a 'nostril' in the front wing, boosted output of the 2.0-litre four from 125bhp to 255bhp at, as Ludvigsen puts it, 'a conservative 5500rpm'. With a non-stop 10,000 mile target this was probably deemed enough horses to guarantee reliability, as later racing versions would eventually pump out as much as 420bhp! The long-distance intent of this unique 924 is evident in the stripped-out interior, with rollcage and enormous fuel tank filling the rear deck space.

[v2rocket_aka944]

just this morning i was wondering what the all-time highest speed in a 944 was...

[BikePilot]

That's 66 gal of fuel. Definitely not burning that much for LSR and it'd be insane to use fuel as weight ballast. That must have been for the 10k km endurance work they had planed or some extended-distance speed record (doing laps around a track for hours I'd reckon).

[ideola]

Guys, read the excerpt from the Octane article again. It was NOT an LSR car. It was going after the World Endurance record set by Mercedes.

[mikepellegrini]

Baja 500?

[FrenchToast]

Originally Posted by ideola

Guys, read the excerpt from the Octane article again. It was NOT an LSR car. It was going after the World Endurance record set by Mercedes.

No. It IS for LSR. Duh! Don't you get it?

If it's aerodynamically tested, it is for LSR only. Duh. Aerodynamics aren't used for anything other than LSR.

Just kidding.....

Yes, for endurance. Cool design study! Too bad they never followed through.

I wonder what the current endurance record is?

At least it again see the light of day! Well, mostly indoor light. Maybe entirely indoor light. Ermm, light of the internet? Well, the internet actually is light. Imagine that!

Take care,

[ideola]

FYI, there is an excellent article in this month's edition of Panorama on the 76 World Endurance Record car.