PORSCHE - Guide E-Book

Sloniger

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Savine
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1958): “ … One of the most important factors in selecting or evaluating any sports car is a knowledge of its history and development. More than perhaps any other car, the Porsche is the creation of one man — Ferdinand Porsche.Here is the fascinating story of his life-long dedication to producing the finest sports machine that design and engineering could engender.But, of course, the Guide is so much more than a history. The various models are fully discussed, and there are detailed chapters on tuning and on accessories that give added performance—such items as volumetric efficiency, valve lash, the HL (high-performance engine), supercharging, improving the spark, camshafts, wire wheels, brake and clutch facings ...”

Leseprobe

PORSCHE

Guide

by Sloniger

Ferdinand Porsche

New digital edition of:

Porsche Guide

by Sloniger

© 1958 by Sport Car Press

Copyright © 2014 Edizioni Savine

All Rights Reserved

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Source text and images taken from the Public Domain

NOTES

ISBN 978-88-96365-52-6

CONTENTS

Title

colophon

Contents

FOREWORD

1. THEN TO NOW - The Story behind a One-Man Automobile

The Young Austrian

Early Designs

His Name on the Door

Cisitalia Opens the Door

The First Car Called a Porsche

Gloeckler’s Spyder

Racing and the Spyder

Things to Come

2. PERFORMANCE PLUS? - Tuning Is Motorized Relativity

Adjust It First

1500 to 1600

Start With a 1600

Try a 1300

Volumetric Efficiency

Use Valve Lash

Ignition

3. SOMETHING EXTRA - Bolting on Added Output

HL Means Hidden Power

Supercharging

Improving the Spark

THE IMPORTANCE OF CORRECT SPARKING PLUG REACH

Camshafts—Mild and Hot

Exhaust Gases

New Shock Absorbers

Other Wheels

Brake and Clutch Facings

Some Extras

4. THE BASIC PORSCHE - Description and Abilities

Engines

Light Metal

Body

Suspension

Gearing

Standard Maintenance

5. THE END RESULT - Putting the Porsche on Road or Track

You Have to Finish

Plenty of Practice

The Top Ten

The Ideal Line

Four-Wheel Drift

How to Start

Position

Competition Extras

Tire Tricks

Pit Signals

FOREWORD

Writing a book on a well-known and much-revered sport car proves just one thing. It should have been an encyclopedia instead. Yet we hope that we have offered at least one nugget that is new to each reader, within the limits of this volume. Regardless of the name on the cover, no such book is the independent work of one man. We would like to acknowledge the help of many firms and many private Porsche drivers in compiling the facts and results which you find here. Even more, we want to thank the many people at the Porsche factory itself, since they made the Porsche Guide possible in the final analysis. There are literary sources as well to whom we are indebted. Porsche und der Weg eines Zeitalters by Herbert A Quint; Hohe Schule des Fahrens by Richard von Frankenberg, a very well-informed writer and Porsche driver; Valve Timing for Maximum Output by Ed Iskenderian; and various copies of Motor Revue published by Motor Presse Verlag, Stuttgart, were particularly valuable. We only hope they will all say that their freely offered time and information was well invested.

Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are courtesy of the Porsche Works.

Sloniger

Heidelberg, Germany