This vintage F1 Ferrari racing engine perfectly demonstrates how an F1 engine should sound like. The engine you are going to see in the video below is a 3.0L 180-degree V12 that was pulled from an old school 1971 Ferrari 312B2. The engine received a complete refresh at Carobu Engineering located in Costa Mesa. It was attached to one awesome Superflow Powermark dyno and the results are staggering. Its best run is 365HP at 10,000 rpm. Now, a competitive F1 engine that dates from the early 1970s would likely produce around 450HP at 12,000 rpm.
This platform eventually managed to surpass 510HP in 1980. This was before the regulations changed to 1.5L turbo engines. Having said this, this engine can do even more here and it`s not running at its full potential! Carobu`s Tate Casey has one theory why this engine doesn`t run at its full potential. This engine platform was also raced in Ferrari`s 312B Le Mans car and these engines were heavily detuned in order to last the full 24 hours. Having said this, we suspect this Ferrari racing engine has endurance camshafts. Nevertheless, this flat-12 is a real milestone engine.
It helped Ferrari defeat the Cosworth DFV engine that was dominating F1 in that era. Ferrari managed to win the 1975 World Title with Nikki Lauda and this powerful revolutionary engine. The guy behind this extraordinary engine design is none other than Enzo Ferrari`s chief engineer – Mauro Forghieri. He was charged with building a new engine after the team from Maranelo managed to score only one single victory in `67 and `68. That he managed to do with great success.
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