Porsche first introduced the mighty Le Mans winning 5.4-liter engine in the 1960’s and the twin-turbocharged 917 model dominated the Can-Am series with its ability to produce as much as 1,500 ...

Auto journalist ordered to pay big money for blowing up Porsche 917 engine [UPDATE] Racecars blow engines all the time, but a Porsche 917 isn’t just a run-of-the-mill racecar.

Unlike the 908's boxer crankshaft, the 917's engine used a shorter crank similar to those used in "V" engines in order to reduce the motor's footprint. ... 1500 HP Porsche 917/30, ...

Watch This Time Lapse Of A Porsche 917 Engine Being Restored. It isn't every day you get to see the innards of Porsche's famed flat-12. By Bradley Brownell. Published May 26, 2017 4:06 PM EDT 0.

Porsche tamed the car over the years, but in '71, one 917 hit 224.4 mph on the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans, which is very fast in a car where your shoes are the crumple zone.

Ferdinand Karl Piëch (1937-2019), a brilliant engineer who rose to the top of the Volkswagen Group during a long and illustrious career, sketched out an 18-cylinder engine in 1997, on the back of ...

There aren’t many racing cars that are still relevant on track over a decade after their first outing. For Kremer Racing to enter a Porsche 917 in the 1981 running of the Le Mans 24, 12 years ...

Octane Icon: Porsche 917. Welcome to Octane Icons, a new series born from our newly minted Octane channel. ... The most impressive part of this tour de force, however, was the 4.5 liter 12-cylinder ...

The Porsche 917 is one of Stuttgart's most famous racecars, taking first place overall at the 1970 and 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans.Based on the 908 race car, the 917 was developed in just ten months.

Wysard owns a recreation of a 1970 Porsche 917, the car that conquered the famous race. ... Wysard says it now has Porsche engine. Yet he doesn't go that fast, and for good reason.

Watch a Porsche 917 Replica on Studded Tires Drift in the Snow. ... This is how you get a recreation of a classic race car sliding around in a storm with a lit Christmas tree over its engine bay.