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MAY 2016

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MAY MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Rooster’s 10430 Shelbyville Rd Ste 7

Louisville, Kentucky 40223

(502) 883-1990

Menu: http://c13936636.r36.cf2.rackcdn.com/

Louisville-July%202015-Website%20Menu.pdf

Monday May 9

7:00 PM

This casual meeting involves anyone interested in all types of cars. It's a free event, however it is a

benefit for Dystonia, so please make a donation and/or buy some coffee or breakfast to support the cause. It is weather-pending, but only

depending on what conditions you're willing to bring out your Porsche. Just show-up whenever you can. Who knows, maybe some of us will go

for a drive afterwards?

Cars & Coffee is always held on the second Saturday from 9-11AM in the parking lot of Captain's Quarters

Lexington First Saturday Cars & Coffee

Regular time 9:00-11:00 and no cost to attend. Be sure and pass this on to

your automotive friends and car club folks. It will be a great opportunity to

learn about what’s going on with the local car clubs and to meet other auto-

motive friends.

The May 7 will be at Value City Furniture, 2321 Sir Barton Way, Lexing-

ton.

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2016 KY Region PCA Calendar www.kypca.org

Table of

Contents

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH Club Contact Info Page 4

President’s Column Page 6

Advertisers Index

Page 9 Upcoming Activities

Pages 15, 20-25

Editor’s Column Page 17

The MART Page 18

Meeting Minutes Page 26

Membership Info

Page 28

Pedro’s Tech Article Pages 30-31

APRIL MAY JUNE

9—Membership Mtg

Rooster’s

14—Cars & Coffee

14—Indiana Covered

Bridge Tour

21—Galownia’s Wine &

Dinner Party

(see page 15)

3-5—Summer Heat DE

(see page 27)

11—Cars & Coffee

11 - Auto Detailing

Studio A mach2innovations

13—Membership Mtg

CookOut @ Hessel’s

18—Wilderness Trace

Distillery Tour

JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER

9—Cars & Coffee

9—Kentucky Covered

Bridge Tour

11—Membership Mtg

Mike Linnig’s

30—Doc’s BBQ Smoke-

shack & drive

7—Hall’s On The River

8—Membership Mtg

CookOut @ Doll’s

13—Cars & Coffee

20—Hofbrauhaus New-

port

3—Lincoln’s Birthplace Natl. Historic Park

9-11—Fall FASTival DE

10—Cars & Coffee

12—Membership Mtg

Havana Rumba’s

24—Kentucky Horse

Park

OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMEBR

2—Overlook Restaurant

8—German Fest &

Bourbon tasting

10—Membership Mtg

Rooster’s

15—Huber’s Winery

Tour

14—Membership Mtg Mango’s Mexican

12—Membership Mtg Mellow Mushroom

All events are subject to change due to weather and availability.

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www.cirpca.org

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www.kyscca.com

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President: Steve McCombs

Louisville, KY (502) 558-0306 mailto:[email protected]

Vice President:

Jeremy Miller Fisherville, KY (502) 396-9111

mailto:[email protected] Secretary:

Dan Stewart LaGrange, KY (502) 558-5790 mailto:[email protected]

Treasurer: Richard Darnell Louisville, KY

(502) 889-8120 mailto:[email protected]

Membership: Anthony Minstein Louisville, KY (502)216-3443 mailto:[email protected]

Activities Committee: T.H. Morris—Chair


Edward Hessel Louisville, KY (502) 541-5253 mailto:[email protected]

2016 KENTUCKY REGION

PCA OFFICERS & BOARD

PaceSetter Editor: Belinda Schweinhart

Goshen, KY (502) 228-9725 mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected]

Website Chair: Mark Bos Louisville, KY mailto:[email protected]

Board Members: Mark Bos

(2015-16) (see above) Edward Hessel

(2015-16) (see above)

Steven Rountree (2016-2017) Louisville, KY


Past President: Jason Miller

Crestwood, KY (502) 253-5704 mailto:[email protected]

Southwest KY PCA Rep Debra Pollock


Stay informed and participate! Join the KYPCA mailing list and be notified of upcoming events, club news, and

membership information. Remember, it’s your participation as

a member that makes the club successful.

Please visit the below website and sign-up today!

www.kypca.org (mailing list sign-up for Pacesetter, Driver Education and general information)

www.kypca.org/club-news/ (club activities, meetings, or general announcements from KY Region PCA, the

latest issue of the Pacesetter (our monthly newsletter), announcements of new models, racing news)

www.kypca.org/document-library/ (club specific documents, upcoming club

events, frequently asked questions, mailing list sign-up, Web Links)

www.kypca.org/club-events/ (photos and videos from club events (member submitted or just something we think is really cool and Porsche related))

Having trouble viewing the

www.kypca.org website? Do you have a suggestion on how we can improve it? Please send any feedback you might

have to mailto:[email protected].

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/50109424636/

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President’s Report

April 2016 Steve McCombs—KY Region President

Wow, Spring is really here and we have an out-standing list of events planned. Both T.H. and

Edward have gone out of their way to put to-gether a fun and interesting list of drives and events for this 2016 calendar. I just want to

thank them for spending the time and effort to put this list together and especially for taking their personal time away from their families to

head up these drives each month. Next month is our Spring DE and by the time this letter is read by each of you the event just may be completely filled up. But check anyway. It’s always a great

time, whether it’s your first time or 100th time. The fun, food, driving experience and friendship is second to none. There are 71 Regions across

the country that hold DE events each year and the numbers are growing. And I would put ours up against anyone’s as the best. And as always,

we want to deeply thank Bluegrass Motorsports Porsche Dealership, Randy Biery and the entire Bluegrass team for their continued support.

On March 19th I attended the Zone 13 Presi-dent’s meeting in Springfield, IL. Caren Cooper (National President) and Greg Halverson

(National Tour Director) attended. The theme of the meeting was to review National changes and to review each Region’s successes and challeng-

es. I do have to say after attending several of these meetings in the past this was the best and most informative meeting ever.

I want to take a few minutes to highlight items concerning National and the behind-the-scenes actions that go on with PCA North America.

Hopefully you’ll find this of interest. What is the PCA 10 year Plan:

- To provide a professional evolution of the National Office to support the growth and expansion of the Club. (By 2020 PCA will

have 100,000 members with an opera-tional budget of $10 million.)

- Communications in all directions to be

consistence. And using all forms of digital communications with a common look and style including all printed forms as well. Hiring professionals in these areas for

support of these efforts. (i.e. the Panorama chief editor and publisher was Excellent Magazine edi-

tor. He now works for PCA with 6 other profes-sionals.)

- Dealing with the Club’s aging membership.

(More then 60% of the membership is over 55yrs of age.) Plans to bring new, younger peo-ple to become members and developing plan of

getting them involved. Other bits of information:

Porsche Club of America, as of the end of 2015, has 73,000 members.

144 Regions have an annual budget of $8.4 million. On average 60% of all new members sign up online. The National office has 14 employees and will be expanding

within the next several years requiring more office space. (That’s why they are purchasing additional offic-es next door to the existing PCA office condo.)

The Raffles: They are a PCA event but is not PCA budg-eted. It is held solely on its own merits. If the Raffles were stopped today it would not affect the running of

PCA at all. Cars are not purchased until the money is in hand. So if they over sell they add additional cars. That is why there were 6 cars given away in 2015. These

Raffles are a big success and will continue with special cars being put together by Porsche AG for these Raffles. All extra moneys are going back to each Region in

forms of rebates. One other note: the younger generation uses Twitter and the newer forms of instant communications. They

consider Facebook for old people and email is seldom used if at all by them. The newest members found out about PCA through friends. So it is very important that

we all represent the Club is a favorable light when you meet other Porsche owners and encourage them to join.

PCA is growing and is one of the largest car clubs in the world. We should be proud of the Club and the people

who run the operation because 90% of them are volun-teers. If there is anything you would like to see or do here in the Kentucky Region please let us know so we can help make this your club and one that’s worth be-

longing to. That’s all for now, see you at the next meeting.

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National Corvette Museum Drive

Photos by Anthony Minstein

T.H. adding one more horsepower...

No Parking Any Time...unless it's a Porsche.

Robert demonstrating how he modeled for the statue behind him.

Ran out of gas 8 feet shy of the pump.


Photos by Robert Klein

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Wine Tasting Social—RSVP Now!!!!!

Based on past success, the third annual Wine Tasting Party is on for Saturday, May21st from 6:30-10PM at the Galownia resi-dence in New Albany, Indiana. It

will be a great time to socialize and meet other club members and enjoy great food and spirits. The format for the wine tasting is structured so that everyone will

get to taste many different wines. Each person (or couple) is to bring TWO bottles of the SAME wine. Price point is $10-25. For the tasting, one bottle of each wine will be opened for those attending to sample/taste. The second bottle will remain in reserve unopened. After dinner, the names of those attending will go into a hat for a drawing. Luck of the

draw, each name is pulled and that person (or couple) gets to select from the uno-pened bottles as to which bottle they want to take home. For dinner, the club will furnish a nice selection of cheeses during the tasting, and grilled steaks, vegetables and some desserts afterwards.

If you wish to attend this great event, RSVP to Joe Galownia by Tuesday, May 17th via e-mail at: mailto:[email protected]. Phone is 502-836-4272 if you have any questions. This is a reservation-only RSVP required party to allow for proper supplies and food. There is ample safe parking, so bring your Porsche. Ad-dress is: 3008 Wolf Lake Blvd, New Albany, IN 47150. Rain or shine, looking for-ward to seeing you there!

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Are you on Facebook yet?

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First batch of summer tour booklets finally ready! Do you have yours yet??

Saturday May 14, 11:30 am (after Cars and Coffee) Episcopal Home Church Louisville, KY

We would like to invite older Porsche mod-els to our display at the Episcopal Church Home following Cars and Coffee May 14. Free lunch and a chance to share our cars with the residents.

The leather KYPCA logo embossed pass-port covers have arrived. We have a wide assortment of colors available. Choose from Red, Navy, Tan, Brown, Royal Blue and Black. These are the size of a slim wallet and were

selected as a perfect compliment to your KYP-CA Summer Tour Passport the gets issued each year. The club helped subsidize the price so that these can be offered to you for $5 each. Get them soon before we run out of stock in your favorite color.

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From the Editor’s Desk By Belinda Schweinhart

I was already looking for-ward to watching the upcoming

Captain America: Civil War movie but now I need to watch it twice: once for the storyline and once for

the background. (No, I can’t do both at the same time!) From The Courier-Journal,

Sunday May 1, 2016 page 1U: “The ultra-modern Porsche building outside downtown Atlanta has been turned into the headquarters

of Earth’s mightiest heroes on the set of the new Marvel movie Cap-tain America: Civil War (in theaters

Friday)…..” Has anyone visited this building yet? It would be interest-

ing to hear what you thought of the building and why they chose it for this movie. Someone let me

know!!!

Good evening everyone,

We have created a new way to share information with you about all of the planned activities for the club. This will be in addition to the other tools we already use such as email announcements, the website and the monthly editions of the Pacesetter. A new page has been created on Facebook that

is dedicated to activities and events. This page will be accessible only to club members and will con-tain detailed information about each planned activity, including dates, times, maps, and activity over-view. Your use of this page also helps me see how many people are interested in each planned event as

you are able to indicate that you are going, might be going, or will not be going. If you are already on Facebook and would like access to the page, please let me know and I will get you added. By design, it will not show up in a Facebook search and you have to be explicitly

added to the group in order to see and receive page updates. I will just need your Facebook page name to get you added. If you are not currently on Facebook, I invite you to give it a try as it is a very power-ful and convenient tool for communication. If you aren't sure how to get started, let me know and I

would be glad to try and help. Facebook interaction can be as little or as much as you wish. Thanks! I look forward to seeing you on many of our outings! As usual, if there are things that Edward

and I can do to make the outings more meaningful to you, please don't hesitate to drop us a note. We are always looking for new ideas.

Regards, T.H. Morris mailto:[email protected]

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THE MART

The Mart Rules The Mart Ads are free to all PCA members. It will appear for TWO issues and can be relisted by contact-

ing the newsletter editor. All ads must be car related. To place an advertisement in “The Mart” contact the

PaceSetter editor.

Brushed aluminum rims are 7"x17" $350 for both Crome are 7"x17" and 9"x17" $700 for all 4.

All tires shown are no good. Rims will fit on a 944 with spacers.

Contact Matt Innes at mailto:[email protected]

Downsizing my Porsche collection of memorabilia. FOR SALE: Brass alloy belt buckle. Older Kentucky Region horse head logo in 3 dimension. Was made in the 1980s and sold to members. Has the loop and pin

style belt attachment. Engraved "D. Wynn" the maker, and "24" as the production number. $25 OBO. Located in Louisville. Can deliver locally. Phillip Doty Questions: 502-386-1522

1991 944s2 Cabriolet 219,000 mi. 13 yrs service records. Good+ condition.

$11,000 obo. In Louisville 502-523-0319. mailto:[email protected]

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WAIVERS REQUIRED FOR MINOR PARTICIPANTS

**Important update for those planning on attending club activities with their underage family members**

We are excited to offer a variety of activities to club members. Occasionally, minors attend these events and this is good to see because it is important that we continue the family friendly culture. We are all well

accustomed to signing the waiver supplied by PCA national immediately prior to departing on our drives. We also have forms specifically addressing the participation by minors. In the past, we have been able to utilize the single signature of the guardian/parent attending the event but this is no longer the

case. A recent development has led the insurance company to state that unless both guardians/parents of the minor sign the waiver, then neither the adult attendee or the minor attendee are covered by insur-

ance. If you plan to bring your under the age of 18 family members along, please print off the waiver and have both parents sign the document and bring it along with you to the activity. A link to the waiver form

is included below.

Minor Waiver Form from PCA National Website link:

https://www.pca.org/resource/waiver-minors

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Saturday May 14, 10 am

Indiana Covered Bridge Tour

Saturday May 21, 6 pm Joe & Jane Galownia’s Wine and Dinner Party New Albany, IN

2016 Activities

Please RSVP for any activities that you plan to attend. This will be most helpful in providing an accurate headcount to our various hosts along the way and it helps Ed and I tremendously for our planning efforts. Reply to mailto:[email protected] as your RSVP. Spam filters tend to hide messages so if you don't get a timely acknowledgement back from me on your RSVP, please assume that I did not see your message and track

me down so I include you in the headcount. Cheers! T.H. Morris

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Friday June 10, 7:30 pm Polly’s Freeze Georgetown, IN

Saturday June 4, 8 am—

Sunday June 5, until 5 pm Driver’s Education Spring Session Greencastle, IN

Saturday May 28, 10 am

Urban Bourbon Tour #2 Jim Beam Urban Stillhouse and Evan Williams Experience

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Saturday July 9, 10 am Kentucky Covered Bridge Tour

Saturday June 18, 10 am Wilderness Trace Distillery Tour Danville, KY

Saturday June 11, 11:45 am—

2 pm Auto Detailing presentation at Studio A mach2innovations St. Matthews, KY

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Saturday July 30, 10 am Doc’s BBQ Smokehouse & coun-try road tour Brandenburg, KY

Sunday August 7, 10 am Halls on the River Winchester, KY

Saturday August 20, 10 am Hofbrauhaus Newport Newport, KY

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Saturday Sept. 24, 10 am Kentucky Horse Park Lexington, KY

Saturday Sept. 10, 8 am—

Sunday Sept. 11, 5 pm Driver’s Education Fall Session Greencastle, IN

Saturday September 3, 10 am Lincoln’s Birthplace National Historic Park Hodgenville, KY

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Sunday October 2, 10:30 am Overlook Restaurant Leavenworth, IN

Saturday October 15, 10 am Huber’s Winery Tour—15th Anniversary Borden, IN

Saturday October 8, 5:30 pm 2nd Annual German Fest & Bourbon Tasting Steve and Bernadette Doolin’s home

LaGrange, KY

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Minutes from Membership Meeting - April 2016 By Dan Stewart, Secretary

President Steve McCombs called the meeting to or-der. 2 new members were introduced to the group.

Steve gave an update of the Zone Presidents meet-ing he attended. He will have a separate update on this for the newsletter. Some of the highlights:

-PCA has over 73000 members -144 Regions in North America -$8.4 million budget

-90% of activities are done by volunteer members. -There are only 14 salaried employees of PCA. -PCA has created a 10 year plan for the future. -The raffle of the new cars is planned to continue,

and the extra revenue will be split and returned to the regions as a rebate.

Jeremy Miller discussed the June DE. Registration opens on April 17. As a reminder, the PCA Instruc-tor training class will also be held at the June DE. If

you are interested in becoming an instructor, please contact Jeremy or Mark Bos to sign up. This is a na-

tionally recognized instructor training event, and the PCA instructors are often used at other track

events such as 10/10ths, ReZoom, Chin, and BMW clubs just to name a few. Bluegrass and Porsche North America will have two new 991.2 cars on dis-

play and available for ride along sessions as well. Richard Darnell presented the financial report. 12

new members have joined the region since January. TH Morris gave an overview of the upcoming activi-ties. As a reminder, there is a club only Facebook

account to allow you access to the activities being planned. Be sure to contact TH to get access. The Wine and Steak event will be held in May at Joe

Galownia’s house. Be sure you sign up for this. Next month’s meeting at Roosters on Shelbyville

Road.

Advertiser’s INDEX Blue Grass Motorsport………………………………………..5

Lichtefeld Incorporated……………………………………...7 Pedros Garage…………………………………………………..26

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Stuttgart Specialists………………………………………….29

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Go to www.MotorSportReg.com to register.

September 11-13 June 3-5 and September 9-11, 2016

KYPCA we will be aligning with the recently changed PCA guidelines regarding helmet certification. The new standard will be current Snell certification peri-od and one period prior. This will NOT go into effect until after our June 2016 event. In other words, 2005, 2010 and 2015 Snell certified helmets WILL BE VALID for June 2016 event. September 2016 event and forward will follow

the new guidelines.

April 17, 2016.

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May 2016

Yrs Name City Car Year, Model, Color

38 yrs J Russel & Rose Stein LOUISVILLE KY 1960 356 17 yrs Jeremy & Shelly Miller FISHERVILLE KY 1995 911 Carrera

17 yrs Richard & Cathleen Vater ALEXANDRIA KY 1999 Boxster 12 yrs Richard & Karen Basham HAWESVILLE KY 1978 911 SC Silver 9 yrs Robert & Jeanette Hardy PENDLETON KY 1969 912 Sand Beige

8 yrs Gary & Mary Meszaros BOWLING GREEN KY 1994 911 Carrera 2 Mid. Blue 7 yrs Joseph & Jane Galownia NEW ALBANY IN 2008 Cayman S White 6 yrs Marcia Brown BOWLING GREEN KY 2002 Boxster S White

6 yrs C. J. Theobald LOUISVILLE KY 1970 911E Blue 4 yrs Bruce Anderson LOUISVILLE KY 1986 944 Turbo Red 4 yrs Matt & Beth Bynum LOUISVILLE KY 2002 911 Carrera Blue 3 yrs Mark & Boo Parker LOUISVILLE KY 1987 944S

2 yrs William Blodgett Jr LOUISVILLE KY 2014 Panamera GTS Blue Met. 2 yrs Rick Segeleon LOUISVILLE KY 2001 911 Turbo Speed Yellow 1 yr Jim Clark LOUISVILLE KY 2012 911 Carrera S Cab. Black

1 yr Greg Harbison NEW ALBANY IN 2007 Cayman S Carrera White 1 yr Craig Klutts BOWLING GREEN KY 2002 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet 1 yr Bryan Metzmeier FLOYDS KNOBS IN 2014 Cayenne Diesel Brown

1 yr Gregory Poganski LOUISVILLE KY 2009 911 Carrera Carrera White 1 yr Jane P. Shirley FLOYDS KNOBS IN 1996 911 Targa Midnight Blue 1 yr Tom & Clint Stinnett CLARKSVILLE IN 1970 914-6 Light Ivory

1 yr Robert M Summers UTICA IN 2008 911 Turbo Met. Gray Met.

**Incomplete profiles are based on the info you filed with National when joining/renewing your membership.

PCA Anniversaries!!

Welcome New Members!!

April 2016

David Cummins Prospect KY 1999 911 Carrera Silver

Chris Evans Louisville KY 2002 911 Turbo Lapis Blue Josh Jacobi New Salisbury IN 1999 Boxster Silver Nathan Fornwalt Louisville KY 1976 911S Targa Copper Met.

Transfer from Bluegrass Region Christopher Day Louisville KY 2012 911 Carrera Gray

Monthly Membership Reports

by Anthony Minstein

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Published in the April 2016 issue of “Die Porsche Kassette”

In 1492 Christopher Columbus

sailed west from Europe to what

many considered the edge of the

world, but he didn’t fall off. Neither

did Ferdinand Magellan some 27

years later when he set off to

circumnavigate the world and

although he died

before finishing, his crew sailed on

and proved that it was round. That belief was

held for another 429 years until another

Ferdinand set out to prove Magellan and his crew

wrong. That other Ferdinand was Herr Porsche

who in 1948 in the small Austrian town of

Gmund, put a flat-4 engine in the middle of the

now legendary Porsche 356 #1.

From that day on ...

But, what is a flat engine and more

importantly why is it flat?

A flat engine, or a horizontally opposed engine

has its cylinders arranged horizontally in 2

banks therefore making it literally flat, as

compared to the more common “V” or

“vertical inline” types of engines. The flat

engine layout has several advantages for a

sports car over the conventional

designs:

● It occupies less vertical space

allowing the car to have a lower

profile

●It can be placed lower in the car

thus lowering the center of

gravity

●It is a very balanced (vibration-free) design

because of the opposing motion

●It is easier to “air” cool

●It has lower rotational inertia (less weight on the

crank) and less power loss

Initially, Herr Porsche used flat-fours, borrowed

from Volkswagen (also his design) and put them

into the 356 and then into the 912 models.

But, in 1963 Porsche decided that his cars needed

more power so the first flat-six went into

the now iconic 911. It started out as a 2.0

liter, normally aspirated, air-cooled engine,

which went through a myriad of changes,

modifications and improvements throughout

the years. On some of those flat-6s, stating

“Porsche amplifies the sound by using a resonator and an electric valve which pumps the sound into the cabin.”

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in 1975, Porsche also installed turbochargers.

In 1996 Porsches’s flat-6 engine got water-cooled

and went into their brand new mid-engined

platform, the 986 Boxster, as a 2.5 liter, normally

aspirated power plant.

In 1999 a 3.4 liter version of that engine went

into the first water-cooled 911, even though the

previous two platforms of the air cooled 911s had

sported displacements of 3.6 liters (964 and 993).

Flat-6s with 3.8 liters were used in some of the

“S” platforms, and on some high-performance

models (997 GT3 RSR and 997 GT3 Cup) the

displacement eventually went as high as 4.0 liters

which is what the factory claims is the largest

displacement possible while maintaining optimum

efficiency, power output and ease of cooling.

Aside from the flat-4 and flat-6 engines Porsche

also built several other flat power plants,

exclusively for racing:

1.5L and 2.0L flat-8 in the 718 (1961 and 1962)

2.0L and 2.2L flat-8 in the 907 (1967)

3.0L flat 8 in the 908 (1968)

4.5L flat-12 in the 917 (1969)

5.0L flat-12 in the 917 (1970)

5.4L flat-12 Twin-Turbo in the 1973 Can-Am

917/30 with the following specs:

1,580 HP

0-60 mph in 2.1 seconds

0-100 in 3.9 seconds

0-200 in 13.4 seconds

Top speed in excess of 240 mph

And even though Porsche made earth-shattering changes for 2017 by announcing that it was eliminating the normally-aspirated flat-6 engines

in both the Boxster and Cayman platforms and exclusively offering 4-cylinder [gasp!] turbocharged engines ... ... at least they’re keeping them flat! ...

... and now we wonder what will they sound like?

In order to make them sound more like a Porsche

and less like a Subaru Sti flat-4, Porsche amplifies

the sound by using a resonator and an electric

valve which pumps the sound into the cabin. At

least it’s real sound, albeit amplified, and not a

fake engine sound track through the car’s

speakers as some other manufacturers such as

VW with the GTI and BMW with the M5 have

done :(

These new blown flat-4s are being offered with

gobs of power and torque, but ...

... The Symphony in flat-6 will be missed.

Rest in Peace, flat-6.

For more information on Porsche flat engines and more, please visit my website: www PedrosGarage.com.

For more information on Porsche flat engines and

more, please visit my website at

www.PedrosGarage.com

Happy Porscheing,

©2016 Technolab /

PedrosGarage.

technolab

Pedro P. Bonilla Weston, FL 33327

(954) 385-0330

mailto:[email protected]

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www.PedrosGarage.com

www.PedrosBoard.com

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