Porsche 930Turbo 3300cc 1983

The Porsche 930 was a sports car built by Porsche between 1975 and 1989, known to the public as the 911 Turbo. Was 911 a manufacturer's model of the top of the range, until the end of production and at the time of its introduction the fastest production car available in Germany.

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Porsche began experimenting with the technology of turbocharging their racing cars during the 1960s, and in 1972 began the development of a turbo version of the Porsche 911. originally necessary to produce the car in order to comply with the certification standards and had the intent to sell it as a street vehicle legal career as a the 1 973 Carrera RS 2.7. Appendix rules of the FIA "J" that led to the 911 Turbo Carrera RSR 2.1 in 1974 changed in 1975 and 1976. The FIA announced that cars for the Group 4 and Group 5 was looking like production cars and would be for "Normal Selling" with a mean the distribution of vehicles to individual customers through normal channels of manufacturing. For the season, 1976, the new regulations of the FIA required manufactures to produce 400 cars in twenty-four months to get approval for the Group 4. Group 5 would require the car derived from a model homologated in Group 3 or 4. To win the Group 5 Championship, Porsche would first have to have a car that could compete in Group 4, which led to the 934. For the Group 5, Porsche would create one of the racing cars most successful of all time, the 935. Although the original purpose of the Porsche Turbo was to gain homologation for the season 1976 racing, the marketing department soon awoke to the potential of this ultra high performance of the machine when the original target of 400 cars was passed at the end of 1975. Since Porsche wanted to be racing for the 1976 season, he won the FIA homologation for the Porsche Turbo to the Group 4 Nr. 645 on 6 dec '75 after which certified that 400 production cars identical had been completed. The 1000a 1976 Turbo was completed on 5 may, '76, and this number production was allowed to reclassify Porsche Turbo for Group 3 series-production cars gran turismo in FIA Homologation Nr. 3076, January 01, '77. Additional variations Group 4 (and Group 5) were enacted in Nr. 3076 and included the 1977 model year (nr chassis. 9307700001, January 01, '77) and the 3.3 liter Turbo (chassis nr. 9308700001, January 01, '78). FIA Nr. 3076 remained in effect until its replacement by FIA B-208 on 01 march 1982 for Group A / B where the designation, approval was changed from "Porsche Turbo" to "911 Turbo".

Ferdinand "Ferry" Porsche, who ran the company at the time, the development of the vehicle handed over to Ernst Fuhrmann, who adapted the turbo-technology originally developed for the 917/30 CAN-AM car to the 3.0 liter flat six from The Carrera RS 3.0, creating what Porsche dubbed internally as the 930.

The total production of the engine was 260 HP (191 kW; 256 HP), much more than the Career standard. In order to ensure that the platform could take full advantage of the output power higher, a suspension revised, bigger brakes and the gearbox stronger they became part of the package, although some consumers were not happy with the use of Porsche 4-speed transmission, while a 5-speed Manual was available in the Race "minor". A "whale tail" rear spoiler was installed to help vent more air to the engine and help create more downforce at the rear of the vehicle, and is added to rear wheels, wider tyres, improved combined with flared wheel arches to increase the width and the grip of the 911, making it more stable.

Porsche badged the vehicle simply as "Turbo" (although the u.s. units early were badged as "Turbo Carrera") and debuted at the Auto Show in Paris in October 1974 before putting it on sale in the spring of 1975; export to the united States began in 1976.

The 930 proved very fast but also very demanding, prone by its short wheelbase and engine design rear to oversteer and riddled with major turbo-lag.

Porsche made its first and most significant upgrades to the 930 for 1.978, enlarging the engine to 3.3 litres and adding an air-to-air intercooler. By cooling the charge air pressure, the intercooler helped power increase from 300 HP (DIN); the "spoiler" whale tail" rear was re-profiled and raised slightly to make room for the intercooler. Porsche also upgraded the brakes to the other units similar to those used on the 917 racing.

Changing emissions regulations in Japan and the U.S. was forced to withdraw the Porsche 930 from those markets in 1980. It remained, however, available in Canada. Believing the posh 928 grand tourer eventually replace the 911 as the top of the line Porsche, Fuhrmann cut spending in the model, and it was not until the resignation of Fuhrmann that the company finally committed the financing to re-regulate the car.

The 930 remained available in Europe, and for 1983 a 330 HP (243 kW; 325 HP) performance option became available in a basis of construction in order to Porsche. With the add-on came a 4-pipe exhaust and a oil cooler extra that requires a spoiler and units bearing often featured holes for additional ventilation snap-on rear fenders and rockers modified front fascia.

A 1982 Porsche 911 SC modified to the Flachbau ("Flatnose" or "slantnose") appearance.

Porsche offered a "Flachbau" ("Flatnose" or "slantnose") 930 under the program (special order) "Sonderwunschprogramm" from 1981, an otherwise normal 930 with a 935 slantnose style in place of the final normal 911 front. Each unit Flachbau was handcrafted by remodeling the front fenders. Very few were built that the slantnose units often commanded a high premium price, adding to the fact that it requires an initial premium of up to 60 per cent (cars highly individualized even more) over the standard price. Several sources claim the factory built 948 units. The units Flachbau delivered in Europe usually presented the performance kit of 330 horsepower (246 kW).

It was in 1984 that Porsche produced the fastest of the 930 Turbo with exhilarating pace 0-60 4.6 s with a top speed of 278 km / h. These are the cars most in demand.

By 1985, the year of the model, 928 sales had risen slightly, but the question remains whether it would be to replace the 911 as the model is more important to the company. Porsche re-introduced the 930 to the markets of Japan and the united States in 1986 with an engine controlled emissions by the production of 282 HP (207 kW; 278 HP). At the same time Porsche introduced Targa and Cabriolet variants, both of which were popular.

Porsche discontinued the 930 after model year 1989 when its underlying platform "G-Series" was being replaced by the 964. '89 Models were the first and last versions of the 930 to provide the transmission G50, a 5-speed manual transmission. A turbo version of the 964 officially succeeded the 930 in 1991 with a modified version of the same 3.3 litre flat-6 engine and a 5 speed transmission.

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