Video: Porsche Flat-Six 1/3 Scale Engine Makes Beautiful Music

Our fascination here at EngineLabs with scale-sized engines is well-documented; the manufacture of the intricate parts required to build one of these machines is nothing short of mind-boggling.

By using Porsche factory blueprints, a careful eye, and plenty of hard work, the Dutch builder reportedly spent over 6,000 hours to construct the flat-six and assemble it into working form. For comparison, that’s 250 24-hour days. If he spent four hours a day working on it (not unreasonable, but also a stretch if he has a regular job), that’s the better part of 1500 days, or over four years of construction time.

flatsixFrom what we can gather, the scale engine is approximately 91.5 cubic centimeters of displacement, or a little bit bigger than the weed-wacker your landscaper uses.

Only eight horsepower is on tap, but the throttle response is nothing short of immediate – crack the butterflies and the horde of angry bees comes to life.

Everything is there and operable, all the way down to the stack induction and engine fan. The level of detail is incredible, right down to the Porsche logo on the cam covers.

We’d even go so far as to say that the scale engine sounds better than any Porsche engine we’ve heard in a long time.

Unfortunately we have not been able to dig up any more information on the engine or the builder, but the opportunity to hear some crackly flat-six goodness is not one you should pass up.

Click the video and check it out!

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Jason Reiss

Jason draws on over 15 years of experience in the automotive publishing industry, and collaborates with many of the industry's movers and shakers to create compelling technical articles and high-quality race coverage.
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