New engine coming for Singers

[Chris Stott]

Just popped up on my FB feed... Joint project, involving Singer, Williams F1 and Hans Mezger. Aircooled, 4.0l, 500bhp





More details here... http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/opinion/road-car...

[Slippydiff]

It was mooted a year or two ago that Singer were aiming to produce the ultimate aircooled engine for their cars. 4 valve heads were proposed too if I remember correctly....
Hans Mezger was instrumental in the design of the 4 valve heads for the 956/962 (and most of the Porsche's racing engines from the mid fifties to the 90's......

[jh001ace]

I would really like one of those, they look amazing

[douglasgdmw]

With a little bit of modification it could be the ultimate Porsche furniture and make a V8 coffee table so passe.

Looks absolutely fantastic and good enough for its own individual poster.

George

[Cheib]

Looks amazing....I just dread to think how much having that slung between the back axles adds to the price though! In the volumes Singer makes cars the R&D spend must have been quite something....I can't imagine Mr Mezger has lent to his name to the project for a not insignificant sum alone!

[acey81]

Jesus... That is possibly the prettiest thing I've ever seen.

[ras62]

There's a guy stateside already a long way down the line developing new 2 and 4 valve air cooled engines with 450-500 bhp. Dyno run on this thread...
http://www.renn-list.com/New-Air-Cooled-Engine_107...

Edited by ras62 on Thursday 10th August 12:42

[Digga]

acey81 said:

Jesus... That is possibly the prettiest thing I've ever seen.

fking stunning isn't it.

As a part-time CAD monkey, I must say, very nice rendering too.

More here: https://petrolicious.com/articles/singer-williams-...

[Chris Stott]

[v8ksn]

This......this is amazing!

It only serves to cement my decision that the first phone call I would make after winning the lotto would be to Singer to order my own bespoke 4 wheeled piece of moving art!

Love the cars and love what they do.

[Steve Rance]

Lovely

A glint of analogue light in an otherwise gloomy digital world

[RSVP911]

Chris Stott said:

As Slippydiff knows - I have no idea how they work - but boy is that a beautiful thing - you'd need two - one for the car and one just to sit and stare at- it's a work of art

[Yidwann]

Good job I was sat down when I looked at those pictues..... Didn't think it was possible for Singers to get even more desirable! As mentioned above...... would be the first call after the lotto win (should really play first, but alas its pointless)

[Digga]

Steve Rance said:

Lovely

A glint of analogue light in an otherwise gloomy digital world

A sex symbol in a world of androgynous drones.

If the overall design wasn't pretty enough, it was the rear quarterlight air intakes that really did it for me. It took me a while to 'get' that detail, because I was first looking at this on an iPhone screen, but what a detail!

[IknowJoseph]

It does look sexier than this:



But it would be a tough choice where my lottery winnings would go. Probably still Ruf, but can I say both??

[Chris Stott]

Early testing...

Sounds incredible... and it's quite loud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGyYrUoa9E

[BubblesNW]

If only it was pdk...

[Digga]

I know this is development, but it doesn't quite sound (to me) that it's hitting the 9,000 rpm that's been mentioned in a few of the media reports.

Does sound nice though. Hard from the video to 'get' the real sound quality inside, but the noise outside is pretty special.

[mickthemechanic]

Hi

I read the article but for clarification is this a completely new engine or is it based on a existing Porsche engine?

[Chris Stott]

What it sounds like inside the car...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KgO8QbXKgw