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McLaren: The Engine Company is the previously untold story of McLaren Engines, an American company founded in 1969 by Bruce McLaren and his partners to build engines for McLaren's legendary Can-Am and Indy Cars. From this base in suburban Detroit were born the mighty big-block Chevrolet V8s that powered the iconic orange cars to two of their five consecutive Cam-Am championships. McLaren's busy dyno rooms also spawned the howling turbo Offenhausers that put Mark Donahue and Johnny Rutherford in Victory Lane at Indianapolis three times between 1972 and 1976.For decades this non-descript shop was the hotbed of horsepower for factories and top independents alike. McLaren Engines developed the turbocharged Cosworth DFV Formula 1 engine that powered Indy cars for both Team McLaren and Penske Racing. It rendered BMW's turbo engine for U.S. IMSA racing that later became BMW's Formula 1 weapon. The long list of race engines developed here powered Buick Indy and IMSA cars, BMW GTP cars, Cadillac LeMans prototypes, Porsche Trans-Am 944s and David Hobbs' F5000 single seaters. There were McLaren-built big-block turbo V8s for offshore boat racing and even a Cosworth-Vega engine for American dirt tracks!Author Roger Meiners combines his life-long passion for motor racing and technology with his historian's sensibilities to make the engines, cars, and key personalities come alive within this book's pages. Ride along with Meiners as he uncovers little-known details of the company's transition from a race shop to an engineering company, developing lust-worthy performance cars such as the sensational 1987 Buick GNX, the 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix Turbo, the FR500 Ford Mustang concept, and other projects that the public never saw. Today the company, known as McLaren Engineering, is a subsidiary of Canada-based Linamar Corporation, and is sought after by global automakers for its unrivaled testing, development and manufacturing capability.

Table of Contents:
Introduction xiAcknowledgments xiiiForeword xvPreface: Two Men, Two Visions xviiSECTION ICHAPTER 1The Beginning: Tragedy and Perseverance 3CHAPTER 2Bruce McLaren: Driver to Europe 7CHAPTER 3Rev-Em Racing: Teddy, Tyler, and Bill 13CHAPTER 4Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd. (BMMR) 17The Tasman Cooper 17Cooper-Oldsmobile—The Zerex Special 18CHAPTER 5McLaren's Engine Program—Before Detroit 23The Oldsmobile F-85 Aluminum V8 23Gary Knutson 24The F1 Indy Ford 25The Chevrolet "Small Block" 26The Chevrolet "Big Block" 29CHAPTER 6The First "In-House" McLarenEngine Shop 33SECTION II. FOUNDING M c L A R E NENGINES, I n c .CHAPTER 7Moving to Detroit 41McLaren's Headquarters in America 42CHAPTER 81970: Indy and Can-Am 47The First McLaren Indy Car 47The 1970 Can-Am Season 51Reynolds Block 52Chevrolet Racing 53Chevrolet Racing: The Cosworth Vega 55NASCAR Engine Development 56CHAPTER 91971: Knutson Returns—With Bailey 59Roger Bailey's Ticket 61"Herbie Horsepower" 62Roger Meets Herbie 63CHAPTER 10McLaren Racing 1971–1976 67A New McLaren Indy Car 671971 Can-Am Season 70vii© 2020 SAE International1972—McLaren's Last Can-Am Season 71Can-Am Big Block Summary 751972: McLaren M16 Wins the 1972 Indy 500 771973: The IndyCar Program Continues 77The Tragic 1973 Indianapolis 500 791974 IndyCar Season 80Team McLaren's First Indy Victory 81The 1975 Indianapolis 500 821976 Indianapolis 500: Another Win for McLaren 83CHAPTER 11Developing the TurbochargedCosworth DFV 85Taming the Vibes 89CHAPTER 12IndyCar Racing: 1977–1979 931977: The M24-DFX Makes Its Debut 94The 1977 Indy 500: Touching 200 96The 1978 Season 96The 1979 Season 97CHAPTER 13A Skunkworks F1 Engine 1977–1979 101The BMW 320 Turbo Engine 1011977: Ready to Race 106The 1978 Season 107The 1979 Season 109CHAPTER 14Crisis and Crossroads 113Team McLaren Leaves America 113Decision 114A Reprieve … 114SECTION III. A NEW M c L A R E NENGINES: THE RACING BUSINESSCHAPTER 15Rebuilding 117Mayer Motor Racing 117The CART Technical Committee 118BMW Engine Programs 118The McLaren Mustang 120Peugeot V6 Turbo 121Porsche Turbos 924 and 944 1211997 Saleen Mustang at Le Mans 122CHAPTER 16The Buick Turbo V6 Racing Engine 127The ARS Engine 131A Version for IMSA 131Buick Turbo V6 Drag Car 133Buick LeSabre Turbo V6 Bonneville Car 133The Buick Hawk: Six Valves per Cylinder 134CHAPTER 17BMW Returns: The IMSAGTP Car 139CHAPTER 18Project 734: McLaren Goes Offshore 145SECTION IV. A NEW M c L A R E NE N G I N E S : T H E A U T O M O T I V EENGINEERING BUSINESSviii Contents © 2020 SAE InternationalCHAPTER 19McLaren International, McLarenEngines, and ASC-McLaren 155ASC-McLaren 156The Buick GNX 157The Pontiac Grand Prix Turbo 161CHAPTER 20Other Niche-Market ProgramOpportunities 169The GMC Syclone Prototype 169The Supercharged Oldsmobile W-Car ConvertibleProposal 170A Niche-Market Postmortem 171CHAPTER 21A New Customer: Ford Motor Co. 175The Breakthrough 177"Belden Court"–The Vehicle Development Center 179CHAPTER 22Other Automotive Engineering Business 183Legend Industries 183The PPG Pace Cars 185O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt 188Other OEM Projects 190General Motors 190Delphi 192Eaton Corporation 193Catalytic Converter Testing and Development 194Other Projects 194SECTION V. TRANSITIONSCHAPTER 23The McLaren Engines/ASHA Merger 199The Cadillac LMP Engine 201The Ramjet ZL1 Crate Engine 205The Transition Continues: A New Investor 206Indy Car Racing: One More Time 206Acquiring Dart Machine, Ltd. 206Selling Gerodisc 207CHAPTER 24Linamar Acquires McLaren 209CHAPTER 25McLaren Acquires New OEM Programs 213Generation III Viper Engine Development 213The Generation IV Viper Engine 214Lamborghini Huracán Competition Engine Programs 215Electric Vehicle Powertrain 218CHAPTER 26A New Headquarters and a New Name 221Project Unity: Going Forward 222Appendices 225About the Author 247Index 249


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780768095135
  • Publisher: SAE International
  • Publisher Imprint: SAE International
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: the Engine Company
  • ISBN-10: 0768095131
  • Publisher Date: 30 Mar 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 272


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