Singer and Williams AE engine collaboration!
500hp air-cooled flat-six, input from Mr Mezger, a rev limit beyond 9K...
Mezger is of course the man behind some of the greatest engines of all time, including the water-cooled flat-six in Porsche's GT1 LMP cars, that incredible flat-12 in the 917 and the turbo V6 in some 80s McLaren F1 cars.
The engine started life as one of Mezger's designs - the 3.6-litre has evolved to a 4.0-litre capacity with most internal components made with lightweight materials including titanium, magnesium and carbon fibre. The rev limit has been extended past 9,000rpm (!) and there are titanium con-rods, four-valve heads, dual oil circuits, aluminium throttle bodies with carbon fibre trumpets, an enlarged engine cooling fan plus carbon fibre air-box and a ram air induction system. Air will be fed to the engine through the rear quarter window intakes helping push the power of this engine to 500hp.
Apparently this is only the beginning of Singer's new level of restoration and modification services that will lead to more lightweight and higher performing cars; quite exciting news...
No prices have been announced yet, but if you need to ask and all that. We will first see the engine in Scott Blatter's reimagined and reborn 1990 Porsche 911 in September, the man who already owns two Coupes and a Targa.
In fact - any one of those images is an 'image of the week' candidate and the physical thing would make a great art piece in someone's foyer.
Gorgeous.
I see a strange contrast between the recent 911ish cars from Singer or Ruf and the headlines Porsche has provoked in recent days and months.
911: wonderful
Singer: awesome
Ruf: astonishing
Porsche as a brand: arrogant characterless Volkswagen bh, diesely bd
I think Porsches with it´s engineering ability and it´s history had deserved different treatment by it´s strategists and marketing gurus. All the more reason to celebrate what Singer (or Ruf) makes out of the Porsche heritage.
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