At this week’s 2023 Goodwood Competition of Velocity, former Method 1 driver Stefan Johansson unveiled a modified Porsche 911 that not solely did he hand paint, however that is powered by certainly one of his ex-F1 racing engines.
Code-named SJ87, the automotive in query is the eighth of 11 Porsche 930 TAG Turbos by Lanzante, a British motorsports and engineering firm that has additionally made road-legal variations of monitor automobiles just like the McLaren P1 GTR. Introduced in 2018, the TAG Turbo combines a Porsche 930 physique shell with precise F1 engines, particularly the 1.5-liter V-6 TAG Turbo models developed by Porsche and utilized by McLaren within the Eighties.
Johansson was one of many drivers for McLaren in that interval, and the SJ87 has the engine that powered his MP4/3 F1 automotive within the 1987 Austrian Grand Prix. Issues did not go properly; the Swedish driver totaled his major automotive in a collision with a deer in follow, after which misplaced a wheel in a pit cease throughout the race, ending seventh. However the engine was in its final type development-wise. McLaren had been racing the TAG Turbo engine since 1984, and would change to Honda energy for the 1988 season.
The engine additionally makes loads of energy. Estimated to provide round 750 hp in race trim, the turbo V-6 has been detuned to a extra manageable 503 hp to be used within the 930 highway automotive. It is related to a 6-speed guide transmission from a 993-generation 911, which directs energy to the rear wheels. Lanzante estimates a curb weight of two,248 lbs, not together with the motive force and gasoline.
Porsche 930 TAG Turbo
The SJ87 will not be the one Porsche 911 with a TAG Turbo engine, however it is going to be distinctive due to a livery designed and painted by Johansson, who’s now an artist. The streaks of colour over the white physique embrace inexperienced for the motive force’s helmet design and childhood nickname “Little Leaf,” the blue and yellow of the Swedish flag, and pink and white for the Marlboro colours of Johansson’s McLaren MP4/3 race automotive.
The finished automotive was displayed alongside Lanzante’s road-legal Pagani Zonda Revolución, plus a few the corporate’s Mclaren F1 GTR road-legal conversions, at Goodwood.
