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Originally Posted by Geneman
THanks Van.. great synopsis. Its really hard to believe that the 8 banger NA Ford could keep up at any time with the 12 cylinder monster that was the 917, putting out potentially close to 1100 hp. maybe it was an earlier version of the 917. Yeah its amazing that the GT40s were into senescence so early, even in canam. But the aero took off very quickly in canam, which the GTs lacked big time.
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68 GT40 had something like 425 hp 4.9 liter Carbs
earlier gt40 with 7 liter made more power, not quite clear to me why it dropped displacement and power
69 917 came out with 4.5 Liter delivered 520 hp
the 4.9 did 600
5.0 630 hp
And with Bosch multipoint injection , i'm sure throttle response was better as well