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Re: .......if you're so inclined.........
« Reply #30 on: April 21, 2010, 10:35:39 AM »
Why is your engine in the rear? :zoinks:
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Re: .......if you're so inclined.........
« Reply #31 on: April 21, 2010, 01:15:45 PM »
'Cause it's European?
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Re: .......if you're so inclined.........
« Reply #32 on: April 21, 2010, 01:17:12 PM »
Seriously, if I remember right, Dr Porsche's first V8 --the 1938 prototype-- had a rear mount engine. Unfortunately, it apparently had one thing in common with many of today's SUVs--a nasty tendency to roll @ high speeds.
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« Reply #33 on: April 21, 2010, 03:17:15 PM »
Seriously, if I remember right, Dr Porsche's first V8 --the 1938 prototype-- had a rear mount engine. Unfortunately, it apparently had one thing in common with many of today's SUVs--a nasty tendency to roll @ high speeds.

I can't find any info on that car. Is it something he did for Audi??

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« Reply #34 on: April 21, 2010, 03:22:55 PM »
Porsche was  :viking:

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Re: .......if you're so inclined.........
« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2010, 01:37:40 PM »
Why is your engine in the rear? :zoinks:



I'm a car/motorcycle geek........Especially for Porsche cars.
I have a Porsche 911 & all the 911's have the engine in the back of the car behind the rear axle.

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« Reply #36 on: April 29, 2010, 11:42:25 PM »
Seriously, if I remember right, Dr Porsche's first V8 --the 1938 prototype-- had a rear mount engine. Unfortunately, it apparently had one thing in common with many of today's SUVs--a nasty tendency to roll @ high speeds.

I can't find any info on that car. Is it something he did for Audi??

Might've been. I read about it in Phil Dick's last novel, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. Supposedly, Porsche 'borrowed' the idea from a Czech car that was a V-8.
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« Reply #37 on: May 03, 2010, 01:33:18 AM »
Why is your engine in the rear? :zoinks:



I'm a car/motorcycle geek........Especially for Porsche cars.
I have a Porsche 911 & all the 911's have the engine in the back of the car behind the rear axle.

From a pure engineering standpoint, the rear engine doesn't make much sense. Those cars tend to "push" in the corners. With the olde VW stuff, you could spin the engine/transaxle assembly around, bolt the ring gear to the other side of the pinion, and have a mid engined car with much better ballance.

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« Reply #38 on: May 03, 2010, 04:16:41 AM »
Yeah...the way it's so light in the front can be challenging/annoying/dangerous. But it's very consistant in its ways and has improved greatly due to decades of refinment. The 911 will alway be rear engined because Porsche insists that is have a rear seat.............buy a boxster/caymen if you want mid-engine. :green:....another fine specimin of Porsche.

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« Reply #39 on: May 03, 2010, 04:27:30 AM »
Yeah...the way it's so light in the front can be challenging/annoying/dangerous. But it's very consistant in its ways and has improved greatly due to decades of refinment. The 911 will alway be rear engined because Porsche insists that is have a rear seat.............buy a boxster/caymen if you want mid-engine. :green:....another fine specimin of Porsche.

My ex had a Boxter, but after the fun wore off, he sold it because it was too small to carry luggage or golf clubs and a passenger in on weekends.

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« Reply #40 on: May 03, 2010, 05:49:58 PM »
Yeah...the way it's so light in the front can be challenging/annoying/dangerous. But it's very consistant in its ways and has improved greatly due to decades of refinment. The 911 will alway be rear engined because Porsche insists that is have a rear seat.............buy a boxster/caymen if you want mid-engine. :green:....another fine specimin of Porsche.

Or you can go Formula Vee racing.  8)

I liked McLaren's solution to the problem. Put the driver in the middle, have 3 seats and fitted luggage!!  :thumbup:

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Re: .......if you're so inclined.........
« Reply #41 on: May 03, 2010, 06:02:31 PM »
Yeah...the way it's so light in the front can be challenging/annoying/dangerous. But it's very consistant in its ways and has improved greatly due to decades of refinment. The 911 will alway be rear engined because Porsche insists that is have a rear seat.............buy a boxster/caymen if you want mid-engine. :green:....another fine specimin of Porsche.

Or you can go Formula Vee racing.  8)

I liked McLaren's solution to the problem. Put the driver in the middle, have 3 seats and fitted luggage!!  :thumbup:

OTSS, what's your opinion of Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion car?
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« Reply #42 on: May 03, 2010, 11:46:12 PM »
Or you can go Formula Vee racing.  8)

I liked McLaren's solution to the problem. Put the driver in the middle, have 3 seats and fitted luggage!!  :thumbup:

OTSS, what's your opinion of Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion car?

An idea ahed of its time. If we had been driving something like those, we wouldn't need foreign oil.  :-\

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« Reply #43 on: May 27, 2010, 01:01:30 AM »
Diesel, how did your family come into such wealth?
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« Reply #44 on: May 27, 2010, 04:58:10 AM »
My father was a successful business owner who bought and sold his company at the right times.