Data from Road&Track contradicts with data existing here a bit:
Power: 137 hp@6200 rpm
Torque: 95.5 ft-lbs@5500 rpm
Top speed: 121.6 mph
Fuel Consumption: 10/16 mpg
Luckily acceleration stats and 1/4 mile time are same:)
Porsche 550 Spyder specs
Car type | Convertible |
Curb weight | 550-684 kg (1213-1508 lbs) |
Introduced | 1954 |
Origin country | Germany |
Views | 17.8k |
Submitted by | Jeff B |
Powertrain specs
Engine type | Flat-4 |
Displacement | 1.5 l (92 ci) |
Power | 112 ps (110 bhp / 82 kw) @ 6200 rpm |
Torque | 120 Nm (89 lb-ft) @ 5000 rpm |
Power / liter | 74 ps (73 hp) |
Power / weight | 181 ps (178 bhp) / t |
Torque / weight | 194 Nm (143 lb-ft) / t |
Transmission | 4-Speed Manual |
Layout | middle engine, rear wheel drive |
550 Spyder competition
geoffTheGOAT 1y ago
Fangio Man 12y ago
@lafars
There are many other people who said what happened later.
Like Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips.
After an accident with Jim Clark, von Trips and 16 other people died, over 60 others were injured!
He said, if he ever is involved in a crash in which spectators die, he would like to die too.
lafars 12y ago
"As the story is told, the 24-year-old Dean was enthralled by the car, but his friends expressed a dark foreboding about the vehicle. It was said that actor Alec Guiness told Dean to get rid of the car or he would be dead within the week, which was exactly what happened. Another friend, George Barris, said the car seemed to give off "a weird feeling of impending doom." Dean's girlfriend, actress Ursula Andress, refused to even get in the car. and Nick Adams said the car made him "uncomfortable."
they say the car was cursed and judging by the reaction of his frends it kind of seems like it, heck even a car using the engine of the "little bastard" and another one using the gearbox crahed later on
Fangio Man 12y ago
It was really one week before his death?
What a premonition!
Jochen Rindt said about the Lotus 42:
"Either I become world champion, or I will die in this car..."
He died and became posthumously F1 world champion...
Viking 12y ago
@Shaggy one of the reasons that these Spyders can go so fast with so little horsepower is that they have such a small frontal area. They are small cars. Probably the ultimate version is the 718k RS 60 race car that came out in 1960. Due to new race regulations it had a wider cockpit, a trunk, and a taller windshield, but it was still very small. It had a 1.6 liter flat four with 160 hp at 7800 rpm, and a five speed manual. It was 145.7" long, 86.6" wheelbase, front track 50.8", rear track 49.2" and a claimed weight of just under 1300 lbs. Probably with fluids only 1400 lbs, and maybe 1580 lbs with driver. Very small indeed.
Viking 12y ago
Road and Track tested this in the February 1957 issue. Price as tested was $6800. It had 137 hp and 95.5 lb/ft torque. Curb weight was 1510 lbs. 0-60 mph: 8.2 seconds; 0-100 mph: 25.2; 1/4 mile: 16.1 @ 83.0 mph; and top speed was 122 mph. Kinda neat finding such an old road test.
gallardo man 14y ago
only 53.... thats explains its 2 million price tag... and the 1/24 scale model cost 200 bucks....
Jeff B 14y ago
Heres production notes, a little bit confusing but road cars were made
http://wsrp.ic.cz/chassis/chassis_porsche_917.html
Jeff B 14y ago
Not actually true as far as ive read. Porsche was required to build 50 for homologation purposes in 1970 according to FIA regulations. Porsche only built 12 road cars, saying it was too expensive to build more. Somehow they got away with it, but what im saying is they did make 12 road car 917s called the 917K.
Mike B 14y ago
R390
F1 LM
F1 GT
CLK GTR
911 GT1 Strassenversion
Are in fact road legal production cars made for homologation purposes.
The GT40 is the MKIII road legal version, it was made because of customer demand, the GT40 was a prototype so it required no homologation, the same applies to the 917 you added which was never made road legal by Porsche themselves.