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MAY MEMBERSHIP MEETING Rooster’s 10430 Shelbyville Rd Ste 7 Louisville, Kentucky 40223 (502) 883-1990 Menu: http://c13936636.r36.cf2.rackcdn.com/ Louisville-July%202015-Website%20Menu.pdf

Monday May 9 7:00 PM Cars & Coffee is always held on the second Saturday from 9-11AM in the parking lot of Captain's Quarters

This casual meeting involves anyone interested in all types of cars. It's a free event, however it is a benefit for Dystonia, so please make a donation and/or buy some coffee or breakfast to support the cause. It is weather-pending, but only depending on what conditions you're willing to bring out your Porsche. Just show-up whenever you can. Who knows, maybe some of us will go for a drive afterwards?

Lexington First Saturday Cars & Coffee Regular time 9:00-11:00 and no cost to attend. Be sure and pass this on to your automotive friends and car club folks. It will be a great opportunity to learn about what’s going on with the local car clubs and to meet other automotive friends.

The May 7 will be at Value City Furniture, 2321 Sir Barton Way, Lexington.

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2016 KY Region PCA Calendar www.kypca.org

Table of Contents Club Contact Info Page 4

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

9—Membership Mtg

3-5—Summer Heat DE

Rooster’s

(see page 27)

14—Cars & Coffee

11—Cars & Coffee

14—Indiana Covered Bridge Tour

11 - Auto Detailing

President’s Column Page 6

Advertisers Index Page 9

Upcoming Activities Pages 15, 20-25

21—Galownia’s Wine & Dinner Party (see page 15)

Editor’s Column Page 17

The MART Page 18

Meeting Minutes Page 26

Membership Info Page 28

AUGUST

JULY

Central Indiana PCA Calendar www.cirpca.org

7—Hall’s On The River 3—Lincoln’s Birthplace Natl. Historic Park 8—Membership Mtg CookOut @ Doll’s 9-11—Fall FASTival DE

9—Cars & Coffee 9—Kentucky Covered Bridge Tour

13—Cars & Coffee

Mike Linnig’s

20—Hofbrauhaus Newport

10—Cars & Coffee 12—Membership Mtg Havana Rumba’s 24—Kentucky Horse Park

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMEBR

2—Overlook Restaurant

14—Membership Mtg Mango’s Mexican

12—Membership Mtg Mellow Mushroom

8—German Fest & Bourbon tasting 10—Membership Mtg

KYRSCCA Autocross Schedule www.kyscca.com

CookOut @ Hessel’s

SEPTEMBER

30—Doc’s BBQ Smokeshack & drive Central KY SCCA Autocross Schedule www.ckrscca.org

13—Membership Mtg

18—Wilderness Trace Distillery Tour

11—Membership Mtg Pedro’s Tech Article Pages 30-31

Studio A mach2innovations

All events are subject to change due to weather and availability.

Rooster’s 15—Huber’s Winery Tour

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2016 KENTUCKY REGION PCA OFFICERS & BOARD

KY PCA Website www.kypca.org Stay informed and participate! Join the KYPCA mailing list and be notified of upcoming events, club news, and membership information.

Remember, it’s your participation as a member that makes the club successful.

Please visit the below website and sign-up today! www.kypca.org (mailing list sign-up for Pacesetter, Driver Education and general information) www.kypca.org/club-news/ (club activities, meetings, or general announcements from KY Region PCA, the latest issue of the Pacesetter (our monthly newsletter), announcements of new models, racing news) www.kypca.org/document-library/ (club specific documents, upcoming club events, frequently asked questions, mailing list sign-up, Web Links) www.kypca.org/club-events/ (photos and videos from club events (member submitted or just something we think is really cool and Porsche related))

Having trouble viewing the www.kypca.org website? Do you have a suggestion on how we can improve it? Please send any feedback you might have to mailto:feedback@kypca.org.

President: Steve McCombs Louisville, KY (502) 558-0306 mailto:shmc930@hotmail.com

mailto:belinda@lowcarbrecipes.com

Vice President: Jeremy Miller Fisherville, KY (502) 396-9111 mailto:jers993@msn.com

Website Chair: Mark Bos Louisville, KY

Secretary: Dan Stewart LaGrange, KY (502) 558-5790

Board Members: Mark Bos (2015-16) (see above)

Treasurer: Richard Darnell Louisville, KY (502) 889-8120 mailto:rd@pskentucky.com Membership: Anthony Minstein Louisville, KY (502)216-3443 mailto:Membership.kypca@gmail.com

Activities Committee: T.H. Morris—Chair (502) 548-3275 mailto:terencehmorris@att.net

Edward Hessel Louisville, KY (502) 541-5253

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/50109424636/

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mailto:ky911sc@gmail.com

mailto:stathome@bellsouth.net

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PaceSetter Editor: Belinda Schweinhart Goshen, KY (502) 228-9725 mailto:article@kypca.org

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Edward Hessel (2015-16) (see above) Steven Rountree (2016-2017) Louisville, KY (502) 386-3001 mailto:smr9463@gmail.com

Past President: Jason Miller Crestwood, KY (502) 253-5704 mailto:millermd@twc.com Southwest KY PCA Rep Debra Pollock (270) 791-4044 mailto:debra@medcepts.com

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President’s Report April 2016 Steve McCombs—KY Region President

Wow, Spring is really here and we have an outstanding list of events planned. Both T.H. and Edward have gone out of their way to put together a fun and interesting list of drives and events for this 2016 calendar. I just want to thank them for spending the time and effort to put this list together and especially for taking their personal time away from their families to head up these drives each month. Next month is our Spring DE and by the time this letter is read by each of you the event just may be completely filled up. But check anyway. It’s always a great time, whether it’s your first time or 100th time.

The fun, food, driving experience and friendship is second to none. There are 71 Regions across the country that hold DE events each year and the numbers are growing. And I would put ours up against anyone’s as the best. And as always, we want to deeply thank Bluegrass Motorsports Porsche Dealership, Randy Biery and the entire Bluegrass team for their continued support.

On March 19th I attended the Zone 13 President’s meeting in Springfield, IL. Caren Cooper (National President) and Greg Halverson (National Tour Director) attended. The theme of the meeting was to review National changes and to review each Region’s successes and challenges. I do have to say after attending several of these meetings in the past this was the best and most informative meeting ever.

I want to take a few minutes to highlight items concerning National and the behind-the-scenes actions that go on with PCA North America.

Hopefully you’ll find this of interest.

What is the PCA 10 year Plan: - To provide a professional evolution of the National Office to support the growth and expansion of the Club. (By 2020 PCA will have 100,000 members with an operational budget of $10 million.)

- Communications in all directions to be consistence. And using all forms of digital communications with a common look and style including all printed forms as well.

Hiring professionals in these areas for

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support of these efforts. (i.e. the Panorama chief editor and publisher was Excellent Magazine editor. He now works for PCA with 6 other professionals.)

Dealing with the Club’s aging membership.

(More then 60% of the membership is over 55yrs of age.) Plans to bring new, younger people to become members and developing plan of getting them involved.

Other bits of information: Porsche Club of America, as of the end of 2015, has 73,000 members.

144 Regions have an annual budget of $8.4 million. On average 60% of all new members sign up online. The National office has 14 employees and will be expanding within the next several years requiring more office space. (That’s why they are purchasing additional offices next door to the existing PCA office condo.)

The Raffles: They are a PCA event but is not PCA budgeted. It is held solely on its own merits. If the Raffles were stopped today it would not affect the running of PCA at all. Cars are not purchased until the money is in hand. So if they over sell they add additional cars. That is why there were 6 cars given away in 2015. These Raffles are a big success and will continue with special cars being put together by Porsche AG for these Raffles.

All extra moneys are going back to each Region in forms of rebates.

One other note: the younger generation uses Twitter and the newer forms of instant communications. They consider Facebook for old people and email is seldom used if at all by them. The newest members found out about PCA through friends. So it is very important that we all represent the Club is a favorable light when you meet other Porsche owners and encourage them to join.

PCA is growing and is one of the largest car clubs in the world. We should be proud of the Club and the people who run the operation because 90% of them are volunteers. If there is anything you would like to see or do here in the Kentucky Region please let us know so we can help make this your club and one that’s worth belonging to.

That’s all for now, see you at the next meeting.

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National Corvette Museum Drive Photos by Anthony Minstein

T.H. adding one more horsepower...

No Parking Any Time...unless it's a Porsche.

Robert demonstrating how he modeled for the statue behind him.

Ran out of gas 8 feet shy of the pump.

National Corvette Museum Drive Photos by Robert Klein

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Commercial Rates: 1/4 Page $130, 1/2 Page $250, Full Page $500, per year. Quarterly terms are available but require advance payment.

Business card ads are accepted from Kentucky Region members only at $65 per year. Mail your PaceSetter 9 Region card and a May check 2016 made payable to Page Kentucky PCA, to the Pacesetter Editor.

National Corvette Museum Drive Photos by Holly Kee Miller

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Wine Tasting Social—RSVP Now!!!!!

Based on past success, the third annual Wine Tasting Party is on for Saturday, May21st from 6:30-10PM at the Galownia residence in New Albany, Indiana. It will be a great time to socialize and meet other club members and enjoy great food and spirits.

The format for the wine tasting is structured so that everyone will get to taste many different wines.

Each person (or couple) is to bring TWO bottles of the SAME wine. Price point is $10-25. For the tasting, one bottle of each wine will be opened for those attending to sample/taste. The second bottle will remain in reserve unopened.

After dinner, the names of those attending will go into a hat for a drawing. Luck of the draw, each name is pulled and that person (or couple) gets to select from the unopened bottles as to which bottle they want to take home.

For dinner, the club will furnish a nice selection of cheeses during the tasting, and grilled steaks, vegetables and some desserts afterwards.

If you wish to attend this great event, RSVP to Joe Galownia by Tuesday, May 17th via e-mail at: mailto:jmgalo@hotmail.com. Phone is 502-836-4272 if you have any questions. This is a reservation-only RSVP required party to allow for proper supplies and food. There is ample safe parking, so bring your Porsche. Address is: 3008 Wolf Lake Blvd, New Albany, IN 47150. Rain or shine, looking forward to seeing you there!

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Saturday May 14, 11:30 am (after

Cars and Coffee)

Episcopal Home Church Louisville, KY We would like to invite older Porsche models to our display at the Episcopal Church Home following Cars and Coffee May 14.

Free lunch and a chance to share our cars with the residents.

Are you on Facebook yet? https://www.facebook.com/groups/50109424636/

First batch of summer tour booklets finally ready!

Do you have yours yet??

The leather KYPCA logo embossed passport covers have arrived. We have a wide assortment of colors available. Choose from Red, Navy, Tan, Brown, Royal Blue and Black.

These are the size of a slim wallet and were selected as a perfect compliment to your KYPCA Summer Tour Passport the gets issued each year. The club helped subsidize the price so that these can be offered to you for $5 each.

Get them soon before we run out of stock in your favorite color.

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From the Editor’s Desk

By Belinda Schweinhart I was already looking forward to watching the upcoming Captain America: Civil War movie but now I need to watch it twice: once for the storyline and once for the background. (No, I can’t do both at the same time!)

From The Courier-Journal, Sunday May 1, 2016 page 1U: “The ultra-modern Porsche building outside downtown Atlanta has been turned into the headquarters of Earth’s mightiest heroes on the set of the new Marvel movie Captain America: Civil War (in theaters Friday)…..”

Has anyone visited this building yet? It would be interesting to hear what you thought of the building and why they chose it for this movie. Someone let me know!!!

Good evening everyone, We have created a new way to share information with you about all of the planned activities for the club. This will be in addition to the other tools we already use such as email announcements, the website and the monthly editions of the Pacesetter. A new page has been created on Facebook that is dedicated to activities and events. This page will be accessible only to club members and will contain detailed information about each planned activity, including dates, times, maps, and activity overview. Your use of this page also helps me see how many people are interested in each planned event as you are able to indicate that you are going, might be going, or will not be going.

If you are already on Facebook and would like access to the page, please let me know and I will get you added. By design, it will not show up in a Facebook search and you have to be explicitly added to the group in order to see and receive page updates. I will just need your Facebook page name to get you added. If you are not currently on Facebook, I invite you to give it a try as it is a very powerful and convenient tool for communication. If you aren't sure how to get started, let me know and I would be glad to try and help. Facebook interaction can be as little or as much as you wish.

Thanks! I look forward to seeing you on many of our outings! As usual, if there are things that Edward and I can do to make the outings more meaningful to you, please don't hesitate to drop us a note. We are always looking for new ideas.

Regards, T.H. Morris mailto:terencehmorris@att.net

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THE MART Brushed aluminum rims are 7"x17" $350 for both Crome are 7"x17" and 9"x17" $700 for all 4.

All tires shown are no good. Rims will fit on a 944 with spacers.

Contact Matt Innes at mailto:mattinnes1@aol.com

1991 944s2 Cabriolet 219,000 mi. 13 yrs service records. Good+ condition. $11,000 obo. In Louisville 502-5230319. mailto:wadaum515@aol.com

Downsizing my Porsche collection of memorabilia.

FOR SALE: Brass alloy belt buckle. Older Kentucky Region horse head logo in 3 dimension. Was made in the 1980s and sold to members. Has the loop and pin style belt attachment. Engraved "D. Wynn" the maker, and "24" as the production number. $25 OBO. Located in Louisville. Can deliver locally.

Phillip Doty Questions: 502-386-1522

The Mart Rules The Mart Ads are free to all PCA members. It will appear for TWO issues and can be relisted by contacting the newsletter editor. All ads must be car related. To place an advertisement in “The Mart� contact the PaceSetter editor.

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WAIVERS REQUIRED FOR MINOR PARTICIPANTS **Important update for those planning on attending club activities with their underage family members** We are excited to offer a variety of activities to club members. Occasionally, minors attend these events and this is good to see because it is important that we continue the family friendly culture. We are all well accustomed to signing the waiver supplied by PCA national immediately prior to departing on our drives. We also have forms specifically addressing the participation by minors. In the past, we have been able to utilize the single signature of the guardian/parent attending the event but this is no longer the case. A recent development has led the insurance company to state that unless both guardians/parents of the minor sign the waiver, then neither the adult attendee or the minor attendee are covered by insurance. If you plan to bring your under the age of 18 family members along, please print off the waiver and have both parents sign the document and bring it along with you to the activity. A link to the waiver form is included below.

Minor Waiver Form from PCA National Website link: https://www.pca.org/resource/waiver-minors

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2016 Activities

Please RSVP for any activities that you plan to attend. This will be most helpful in providing an accurate headcount to our various hosts along the way and it helps Ed and I tremendously for our planning efforts. Reply to mailto:terencehmorris@att.net as your RSVP. Spam filters tend to hide messages so if you don't get a timely acknowledgement back from me on your RSVP, please assume that I did not see your message and track me down so I include you in the headcount.

Cheers!

T.H. Morris

Saturday May 14, 10 am Indiana Covered Bridge Tour

Saturday May 21, 6 pm Joe & Jane Galownia’s Wine and Dinner Party New Albany, IN

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Saturday May 28, 10 am Urban Bourbon Tour #2 Jim Beam Urban Stillhouse and Evan Williams Experience

Saturday June 4, 8 am— Sunday June 5, until 5 pm Driver’s Education Spring Session Greencastle, IN

Friday June 10, 7:30 pm Polly’s Freeze Georgetown, IN

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Saturday June 11, 11:45 am— 2 pm Auto Detailing presentation at Studio A mach2innovations St. Matthews, KY

Saturday June 18, 10 am Wilderness Trace Distillery Tour Danville, KY

Saturday July 9, 10 am Kentucky Covered Bridge Tour

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Saturday July 30, 10 am Doc’s BBQ Smokehouse & country road tour Brandenburg, KY

Sunday August 7, 10 am Halls on the River Winchester, KY

Saturday August 20, 10 am Hofbrauhaus Newport Newport, KY

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Saturday September 3, 10 am Lincoln’s Birthplace National Historic Park Hodgenville, KY

Saturday Sept. 10, 8 am— Sunday Sept. 11, 5 pm Driver’s Education Fall Session Greencastle, IN

Saturday Sept. 24, 10 am Kentucky Horse Park Lexington, KY

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Sunday October 2, 10:30 am Overlook Restaurant Leavenworth, IN

Saturday October 8, 5:30 pm 2nd Annual German Fest & Bourbon Tasting Steve and Bernadette Doolin’s home LaGrange, KY

Saturday October 15, 10 am Huber’s Winery Tour—15th Anniversary Borden, IN

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Minutes from Membership Meeting - April 2016

By Dan Stewart, Secretary President Steve McCombs called the meeting to order. 2 new members were introduced to the group.

Steve gave an update of the Zone Presidents meeting he attended. He will have a separate update on this for the newsletter. Some of the highlights: -PCA has over 73000 members -144 Regions in North America -$8.4 million budget -90% of activities are done by volunteer members.

-There are only 14 salaried employees of PCA. -PCA has created a 10 year plan for the future.

-The raffle of the new cars is planned to continue, and the extra revenue will be split and returned to the regions as a rebate.

Jeremy Miller discussed the June DE. Registration opens on April 17. As a reminder, the PCA Instructor training class will also be held at the June DE. If you are interested in becoming an instructor, please contact Jeremy or Mark Bos to sign up. This is a na-

tionally recognized instructor training event, and the PCA instructors are often used at other track events such as 10/10ths, ReZoom, Chin, and BMW clubs just to name a few. Bluegrass and Porsche North America will have two new 991.2 cars on display and available for ride along sessions as well.

Richard Darnell presented the financial report. 12 new members have joined the region since January.

TH Morris gave an overview of the upcoming activities. As a reminder, there is a club only Facebook account to allow you access to the activities being planned. Be sure to contact TH to get access.

The Wine and Steak event will be held in May at Joe Galownia’s house. Be sure you sign up for this.

Next month’s meeting at Roosters on Shelbyville Road.

Advertiser’s INDEX Blue Grass Motorsport………………………………………..5 Lichtefeld Incorporated……………………………………...7 Pedros Garage…………………………………………………..26 Stein Automotive……………………………………..………..7 Stuttgart Specialists………………………………………….29

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11-13 9-11, 2016 JuneSeptember 3-5 and September

April 17, 2016.

Go to www.MotorSportReg.com to register.

KYPCA we will be aligning with the recently changed PCA guidelines regarding helmet certification. The new standard will be current Snell certification period and one period prior. This will NOT go into effect until after our June 2016 event. In other words, 2005, 2010 and 2015 Snell certified helmets WILL BE VALID for June 2016 event. September 2016 event and forward will follow the new guidelines.

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Monthly Membership Reports

by Anthony Minstein

PCA Anniversaries!!

May 2016 Yrs

Name

City

38 yrs J Russel & Rose Stein 17 yrs Jeremy & Shelly Miller 17 yrs Richard & Cathleen Vater 12 yrs Richard & Karen Basham 9 yrs Robert & Jeanette Hardy 8 yrs Gary & Mary Meszaros 7 yrs Joseph & Jane Galownia 6 yrs Marcia Brown 6 yrs C. J. Theobald 4 yrs Bruce Anderson 4 yrs Matt & Beth Bynum 3 yrs Mark & Boo Parker 2 yrs William Blodgett Jr 2 yrs Rick Segeleon 1 yr Jim Clark 1 yr Greg Harbison 1 yr Craig Klutts 1 yr Bryan Metzmeier 1 yr Gregory Poganski 1 yr Jane P. Shirley 1 yr Tom & Clint Stinnett 1 yr Robert M Summers

Car Year, Model, Color

LOUISVILLE KY 1960 FISHERVILLE KY 1995 ALEXANDRIA KY 1999 HAWESVILLE KY 1978 PENDLETON KY 1969 BOWLING GREEN KY 1994 NEW ALBANY IN 2008 BOWLING GREEN KY 2002 LOUISVILLE KY 1970 LOUISVILLE KY 1986 LOUISVILLE KY 2002 LOUISVILLE KY 1987 LOUISVILLE KY 2014 LOUISVILLE KY 2001 LOUISVILLE KY 2012 NEW ALBANY IN 2007 BOWLING GREEN KY 2002 FLOYDS KNOBS IN 2014 LOUISVILLE KY 2009 FLOYDS KNOBS IN 1996 CLARKSVILLE IN 1970 UTICA IN 2008

356 911 Carrera Boxster 911 SC Silver 912 Sand Beige 911 Carrera 2 Mid. Blue Cayman S White Boxster S White 911E Blue 944 Turbo Red 911 Carrera Blue 944S Panamera GTS Blue Met. 911 Turbo Speed Yellow 911 Carrera S Cab. Black Cayman S Carrera White 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet Cayenne Diesel Brown 911 Carrera Carrera White 911 Targa Midnight Blue 914-6 Light Ivory 911 Turbo Met. Gray Met.

**Incomplete profiles are based on the info you filed with National when joining/renewing your membership.

Welcome New Members!!

April 2016 David Cummins Chris Evans Josh Jacobi Nathan Fornwalt

Prospect KY Louisville KY New Salisbury IN Louisville KY

Transfer from Bluegrass Region Christopher Day Louisville KY

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1999 2002 1999 1976

911 Carrera Silver 911 Turbo Lapis Blue Boxster Silver 911S Targa Copper Met.

2012 911 Carrera Gray

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Published in the April 2016 issue of “Die Porsche Kassette”

But, what is a flat engine and more importantly why is it flat?

In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west from Europe to what many considered the edge of the world, but he didn’t fall off. Neither did Ferdinand Magellan some 27 years later when he set off to circumnavigate the world and although he died

A flat engine, or a horizontally opposed engine has its cylinders arranged horizontally in 2 banks therefore making it literally flat, as compared to the more common “V” or “vertical inline” types of engines. The flat engine layout has several advantages for a sports car over the conventional designs: ● It occupies less vertical space allowing the car to have a lower profile ●It can be placed lower in the car thus lowering the center of gravity ●It is a very balanced (vibration-free) design because of the opposing motion ●It is easier to “air” cool ●It has lower rotational inertia (less weight on the crank) and less power loss

“Porsche amplifies the sound by using a resonator and an electric valve which pumps the sound into the cabin.” before finishing, his crew sailed on and proved that it was round. That belief was held for another 429 years until another Ferdinand set out to prove Magellan and his crew wrong. That other Ferdinand was Herr Porsche who in 1948 in the small Austrian town of Gmund, put a flat-4 engine in the middle of the now legendary Porsche 356 #1.

From that day on ...

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Initially, Herr Porsche used flat-fours, borrowed from Volkswagen (also his design) and put them into the 356 and then into the 912 models.

But, in 1963 Porsche decided that his cars needed more power so the first flat-six went into the now iconic 911. It started out as a 2.0 liter, normally aspirated, air-cooled engine, which went through a myriad of changes, modifications and improvements throughout the years. On some of those flat-6s, stating

in 1975, Porsche also installed turbochargers.

In 1996 Porsches’s flat-6 engine got water-cooled and went into their brand new mid-engined platform, the 986 Boxster, as a 2.5 liter, normally aspirated power plant.

In 1999 a 3.4 liter version of that engine went into the first water-cooled 911, even though the previous two platforms of the air cooled 911s had sported displacements of 3.6 liters (964 and 993).

Flat-6s with 3.8 liters were used in some of the “S” platforms, and on some high-performance models (997 GT3 RSR and 997 GT3 Cup) the displacement eventually went as high as 4.0 liters which is what the factory claims is the largest displacement possible while maintaining optimum efficiency, power output and ease of cooling.

Aside from the flat-4 and flat-6 engines Porsche also built several other flat power plants, exclusively for racing: 1.5L and 2.0L flat-8 in the 718 (1961 and 1962) 2.0L and 2.2L flat-8 in the 907 (1967) 3.0L flat 8 in the 908 (1968) 4.5L flat-12 in the 917 (1969) 5.0L flat-12 in the 917 (1970) 5.4L flat-12 Twin-Turbo in the 1973 Can-Am 917/30 with the following specs: 1,580 HP 0-60 mph in 2.1 seconds 0-100 in 3.9 seconds 0-200 in 13.4 seconds Top speed in excess of 240 mph And even though Porsche made earth-shattering changes for 2017 by announcing that it was eliminating the normally-aspirated flat-6 engines in both the Boxster and Cayman platforms and exclusively offering 4-cylinder [gasp!] turbocharged engines ... ... at least they’re keeping them flat! ...

... and now we wonder what will they sound like?

In order to make them sound more like a Porsche and less like a Subaru Sti flat-4, Porsche amplifies the sound by using a resonator and an electric valve which pumps the sound into the cabin. At least it’s real sound, albeit amplified, and not a fake engine sound track through the car’s speakers as some other manufacturers such as VW with the GTI and BMW with the M5 have done :( These new blown flat-4s are being offered with gobs of power and torque, but ... ... The Symphony in flat-6 will be missed.

Rest in Peace, flat-6.

For more information on Porsche flat engines and more, please visit my website: www PedrosGarage.com.

For more information on Porsche flat engines and more, please visit my website at www.PedrosGarage.com Happy Porscheing, ©2016 Technolab / PedrosGarage.

technolab Pedro P. Bonilla Weston, FL 33327 (954) 385-0330 mailto:ppbon@aol.com mailto:Pedro@PedrosGarage.com www.PedrosGarage.com www.PedrosBoard.com

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Back cover photo from Holly Kee Miller.