Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:46:48 -0500
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From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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Ah yes, it was Elkhart Lake in the summer of 1971 and the McLaren
Chevy's were no match for the 917!! Snuck up as close as I felt
comfortable to peer down into the innards of the 917 while they
worked on it a tad in the pit area. My, my, what a sanitary machine
that 917 was. Definitely a life moment. Driving the 356B home to
Iowa was let down, but not much.
BVTW, at work we have several battery operated Crown forklifts in our
department. Two of them have ID numbers 914 and 917. The 911 is in
another department. My co-workers don't get it.
DM&FS
, 9At 08:29 PM 6/12/2007, Bob Stevens wrote:
>And more on this "off" topic...
>When I lived in Portland, Or had a friend named Ken Luthe who was
>the president of the Porsche Club there (year about '71/'72). He was
>"well-connected" to the Porsche community .. as he should be, and
>repeated a story told him by a friend who drove a "stock" 911 at
>LeMans in about '70 .... "when the 917's would go by at 100mph
>faster than I was going, it sounded like someone rolling down my
>window and putting the muzzle of the 12 gauge shotgun to my hear and
>pulling the trigger". There apparently was just no way to avoid that
>blast at that speed, and the speed differential was so great that it
>wasn't doppler-oriented in its sound delivery ... just a very loud blast.
>Hard to imagine.
>bob> > Completely off topic, but a topic that speaks to me. ;o)> >
>Porsche 917 motor.> Started life in 1969 at 4494cc (85 x 66) and 580
>horsepower @ 8400> rpm. Naturally aspirated.> In 1972, they
>increased the bore and stroke to 90 x 70.4 for 5374cc> and 660 hp @
>8300 rpm> Last data Paul Frere gives is the 1972 917/10 Bergspyder
>at 4994cc> and a pair of Eberspacher turbochargers. 950 hp @ 8000
>rpm. 690 lb ft> torque. In a 750kg racecar... I saw them race a few
>times back in the> day. You cannot imagine what brutal cars they
>were. A thousand> horsepower in a 1700 lb car. Un-effing-believable.
>Performance> figures: 0-60 mph 2.1 sec., 0-100 mph, 3.9 sec., 0-200
>mph, 13.4 sec.> > Source: Paul Frere's "The Racing Porsches" ISBN
>0-668-02972-2> > Jim
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