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Jelly_Belly
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HNNNNNNG brb, buying a slantnose since its as close as il ever get to driving on of these....
Edit: brb buying a beetle since its as close as il come to owning a porsche.
Edit: brb buying a beetle since its as close as il come to owning a porsche.
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Drunkn~st4r
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Big Pat
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On a daily basis? I was born in the 70s and I never, ever saw one of those until the Glen's Zippo Grand-Prix in the early 2000s...
But you are lucky, you were born in the 90's, so you get to see M3 GTRs and SLS GT3s on a daily basis, so it all balances out, you know?
Jelly_Belly
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I always loved them lol. Pop-up headlights were an essential part of any 80's vehicle. And the slant nose resembles the 935 race cars. Thankfully enough people agree with you to lower the price (kinda-ish) of the slant nose so they are slightly more affordable than normal 930s lol.
skylox
Legacy Member
Even though I won't go as far as saying I hate them , I'm with you on that one , not my favourite at all
GotBass?
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Same here... Love the 935, but hate the 930 slants. They look ok from the front, but the proportions aren't right from the side.
HeadBanger
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Are these cars still air cooled? Because it blows my mind that an air cooled engine can make ~800hp
Jelly_Belly
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Yep pretty sure they are air cooled.
I was 90% sure 800 bhp was overly generous then I did some research and found this...
Skip to 1:55
970bhp from an air cooled engine flat 6.....
pep fab
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ca m'a toujours impressionné la puissance qu'il réussissent a extraire de ces moteurs, on s'entend que sur papier un moteur aircooled placé a l'arrière de l'auto ou ya peu d'air, avec des turbo qui lui chauffent le cul et des cylindres a plat avec une lubrification et retour d'huile loin d'être optimal c'est pas trop winner...Eddy Bello a quand même réussi a faire 1200hp ya 20 ans et il roule encore.
oldschoolZ
Well-known member
cool video !
I always liked the 935, because it was basically a prototype but still (loosely) based on a production car. Impressive how safety standards have evolved, they had fiberglass seats with a BOLT IN aluminium roll cage. ALUMINIUM haha.
An old guy I work with used to work for the factory Porsche team in the late 70's and early 80's in the US and Europe. He told me the rear half shafts on 935's were titanium and they had u-joints, yet they still had to limit the power because it was the weak point in the drivetrain. Full power was not used for complete endurance races, only for qualifying and overtaking.
Apparently, there's a manual boost controller knob on the dash, and when it was wound up all the way the boost gauge would go out of range and do a full turn more before settling... Of course it was very thirsty for fuel, on full power fuel consumption was close to 150 litres per hour, depending on the track, that would work out to around 100litres / 100km
I always liked the 935, because it was basically a prototype but still (loosely) based on a production car. Impressive how safety standards have evolved, they had fiberglass seats with a BOLT IN aluminium roll cage. ALUMINIUM haha.
An old guy I work with used to work for the factory Porsche team in the late 70's and early 80's in the US and Europe. He told me the rear half shafts on 935's were titanium and they had u-joints, yet they still had to limit the power because it was the weak point in the drivetrain. Full power was not used for complete endurance races, only for qualifying and overtaking.
Apparently, there's a manual boost controller knob on the dash, and when it was wound up all the way the boost gauge would go out of range and do a full turn more before settling... Of course it was very thirsty for fuel, on full power fuel consumption was close to 150 litres per hour, depending on the track, that would work out to around 100litres / 100km
Mayerz
Legacy Member
Yep, only in the 956's they started watercooling the heads but still not the block
Big Pat
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Jelly_Belly
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I loved the 935 because they resembled the porsche road cars. The 917 is cool however it doesnt seem familiar to me like the 935. Id pick a 935 over that anyday. not that id ever get to have the choice tho.......