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Porsche 917 16 cyl
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Business End of a porsche 917 16 cyl version.
in case the 12 cylinder 4.5 litre motor wasn’t enough, Porsche put this together, basically a doubled 3 litre 8 cylinder, mechanical injection, power off the middle of the cranks shaft like the 12 cyl. This couldn’t have passed muster with the FIA for 5 litre prototypes, they might have stroked it down, producing something breathtakingly over-square. At 6 litres, as shown, it apparently made 800 hp…
