Yes, and it could be Dr Piech will inject some fresh perspective into the whole Porsche motorsports mix!

 

If anything it was even clearer that is was a Porsche powered car - the German flag colors and pretty much nothing else on the body.

LOVE that the little guy won. excellent.
And they won using PAGID YELLOWS ;-)

 

Actually the engine run last year by the Spirit of Daytona team was more of a stock motor than the one in the #9. The SOD guys didn't have the resources to do a "proper" race development. It performed well and finished, but it was heavy and down on power. It took the Lozano Brothers to spend the resources and use their experience with Chevy motors to do that. In addition, they had to live within the GA rules constraints on bore/stroke/restriction and use of a Delco throttle body.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I read/heard the Cayenne motor was really an Audi, licensed to Porsche.

 

You are of course quite correct. Porsche did in fact loose the GT class, but they did not get their "*** whipped by a MAZDA".
Call that car anything you like, but don't call it a MAZDA.
Enlightened?

 

Only the base engined (V6) Cayenne shares/d the same engine with the Taureg, but the Porsche version is substantially modified.

 

Spot on about the V6, and the Cayenne V8 (NA and turbo versions) are pure Porsche engines (and good ones)

 

sounds like you owe me a phone call.

 

I'm sworn to silence.

 

You can tell us...There are only 2 or 3 people on this forum... and we won't tell

 

Interesting reading on the engine specs: http://admin.grand-am.com/assets/2010enginelist.pdf 300 more RPM than the other common V-8's. (And yeah, 9600 on the Porsche 6-cylinder.........)

Back to the Lozano angle, and that I did remember them from road racing Chevy applications--did they also work with 962 engines in the '80' and '90's? Friend of mine seemed to remember them from that with some possible backmarker teams.

 

Amusing - got an email from Porsche this AM, their regular promo news updates, and it led off with "How a V8 won at Daytona" or something like that!

 

Yep.

How a Porsche Riley Powered by a Cayenne Motor Came to Win the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona

I'd like to hear more from LBP; http://www.lozanobrothersporting.com/

 

You guys should go to porsche.com. The home page states "Porsche wins long distance classic in Florida" . That about says it all.

 

 

Yeah, it's ironic that Porsche AG spends a lot of time and money going after people who they think use the name "Porsche" inappropriately, but then they throw out that promo like it was their car when in reality they had nothing at all to do with it other than building the basic Cayenne motors that eventually wound up in the #9.

Lozano & Action Express Racing should sue them.