stefan einz wrote:Porsche is essentially unique in encouraging owners to use their cars on track.
I know you're a Porsche-ist, but let's not forget about Lotus, Caterham, Radical, Ariel, Zenos, Ginetta, etc etc. It's far from unique
stefan einz wrote:Porsche is essentially unique in encouraging owners to use their cars on track.
jont wrote:stefan einz wrote:Porsche is essentially unique in encouraging owners to use their cars on track.
I know you're a Porsche-ist, but let's not forget about Lotus, Caterham, Radical, Ariel, Zenos, Ginetta, etc etc. It's far from unique
jont wrote:akirk wrote:so that should never happen if the software is written well
You're clearly not a techie, are you
stefan einz wrote:The rev range monitoring gives Porsche valuable data in this regard. Whilst you can only enter the dangerous over-rev ranges by a mis-shift in manual car (or potentially in a spin), if you see that the driver is constantly banging off the rev limiter it does tell you something about their driving style!
StressedDave wrote:It's both more and less complex than that. As any fule kno, the Porsche engine was exceedingly modular, with separate barrels for each cylinder (rather than an engine block) bolted to a common crankcase at one end and a cylinder head. So using much of the same kit of parts, Porsche could put flat-4,6,8 and 12 engines together with the only difference being the crankcase, cylinder head and crankshaft.
So the flat twelve was six barrels per side with unique bits to either end of the barrels.
StressedDave wrote:Nope, just a bog standard V12 with a 180 degree bank angle and six crankpins. Porsche chose not to make it a Boxer which would have needed twelve crankpins and mucked around with the firing order.
the other concept you're thinking of is the W12, as used in the Bugatti Veyron. Here have a link http://www.volkspage.net/ssp/ssp/SSP_248.pdf
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