OK, now you got me.  These are hands down my favourite engines of all time.  These cars were the epitome of real world race cars that were next to impossible to beat.  This is the first time I get to see the engine in detail and I'm very thankful to Jim for posting this link.  Gonna save it and look now and then just to keep my moral up.  So many moving parts, making such incredible horsepower, it's really unbelievable.  Thanks to Porsche and those engineers who dreamed this up !

On 2011-08-05, at 10:20 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Gulf P cars? Ya mean the ones powered by the luftboxer engines?
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/917carl/917_12_cyl_engine
> 
> Oh that's right, Like Ferrari, it's not a boxer, it's a 180 degree V12.
> 
> Fun! 1000 hp, 1200 #. There are even a couple of them that are
> licensed for the street.

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