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Originally Posted by TriGem2k
What kind of powerplant did the 959 have?
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Hi,
The 959 used a tweaked existing engine - the Porsche 'Indy' engine. It was a six-cylinder 2.85 Litre engine with air-cooled Block, water-cooled heads and a pair of sequential Turbochargers. Max boost was 1 Bar, 450 hp (340 kW) @ 6500 RPM. The engine was capable of being tuned to 600 HP.
The Body was Aluminum/Kevlar/Nomex. It used the Porsche-Steuer Kupplung (PSK) all-wheel drive system. It had electronically controlled dampers, ride height and tire monitoring with unique pressurized magnesium wheels.
The car was not street legal in the US until the Show and Display excemptions were granted in 1999 allowing the car to be driven 2500 miles annually. In 2002, Steve Canepa did several US legal conversions adding OBDII compliant software, exhaust, twin KKK Turbochargeers and a more advanced Bosch Motronic engine management system. The conversions are more powerful and fast than the originals producing 600hp. 200 959s were built, about 50 of them as Rally 'B' cars and the rest as homologation cars...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99