Porsche has revealed that it is running what it described as “a large-capacity twin-turbo V8 unit” in its hybrid LMDh, which undertook its first shakedown tests earlier this month.
The engine will be common to Volkswagen sister marque Audi’s LMDh, which is being developed in parallel with the Porsche around the Canadian Multimatic organisation’s next-generation LMP2 design.
The capacity of the engine nor its origins have been released by Porsche, but the marque’s new motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach indicated that the new motor is based on a production unit rather than being purpose designed for racing.
“We were spoiled for choice with the engine for our LMDh prototype, because the product range offers several promising baseline units,” said Laudenbach.
“We decided on the V8-biturbo, which we feel offers the best combination of performance characteristics, weight and costs.”
The only V8 in the Porsche road car line-up is the four-litre direct-injection twin-turbo…
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