Elva-Porsche race car

Production period:	1963 to 1965
Class :	race car
Engines:	Gasoline 4 & 8-cylinder
Length:	3500 mm
Wheelbase :	2286 mm

The Elva-Porsche was a light racing sports car with Porsche engine from the 1960s

History

Around 1960 the request from the US, the for a light racing sports car with Porsche engine. Porsche then developed for the so-called Elva  (type 547) with four overhead camshafts , among other things, a horizontally above the crankcase received lying cooling impeller from plastic. With 1.7 liter  and a compression of 11: 1 made this unit 183 hp at 7800 / min.

Porsche supplied 15 of these engines for installation in the appropriately adapted Elva chassis Mk VII. This adjustment included changes in the placement of gasoline and oil tank, the cockpit and the rear of the tubular frame. The Porsche five-speed gearbox was tuned to the 13-inch wheels (front 6, rear 7 inches wide). 

The first vehicles were finished at the end of 1963. They were light cars that accelerated from standstill to 100 km / h in about 5 seconds and reached a top speed of about 260 km / h. A car cost over $ 10,000. 

In 1964, Porsche used an Elva Mark VII chassis with the Type 771 8-cylinder racing engine in the European Mountain Championships . This car weighed only approximately 520 kg  and was therefore much lighter than the Porsche RS 61 (type 718) or the Porsche 904 based Spyder. Edgar Barth won the Rossfeld hill climb with the Elva Porsche. Because of the poorer handling characteristics of the Elva, whose frame was possibly too heavily loaded by the 8-cylinder engine, Barth started in the following race but again with the old RS 61 and won as the previous year's championship of the class for sports cars. With only around 19 Elva-Porsches built.