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McLaren, the engine company a history of McLaren Engines, Inc. and its successors /

An 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meiners, Roger (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Warrendale, Pennsylvania : SAE International, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Sectio I. Chapter 1. The beginning: tragedy and perseverance ; Chapter 2. Bruce McLaren: driver to Europe ; Chapter 3. Rev-em racing: Teddy, Tyler, and Bill ; Chapter 4. Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd. (BMMR) ; Chapter 5. McLaren's engine program
  • before Detroit ; Chapter 6. The first "in-house" McLaren engine shop
  • Section. II. Founding McLaren Engins, Inc. Chapter 7. Moving to Detroit ; Chapter 8. 1970: Indy and Can-Am ; Chapter 9. 1971: Knutson returns
  • with Bailey ; Chapter 10. McLaren Racing 1971-1976 ; Chapter 11. Developing the turbocharged Cosworth DFV ; Chapter 12. IndyCar racing: 1977-1979 ; Chapter 13. A skunkworks F1 engine 1977-1979 ; Chapter 14. Crisis and crossroads
  • Section III. A new McLaren engines: the racing business. Chapter 15. Rebuilding ; Chapter 16. The Buick turbo V6 racing engine ; Chapter 17. BMW returns: the IMSA GTP car ; Chapter 18. Project 734: McLaren goes offshore
  • Section IV. A new McLaren engines: the automotive engineering business. Chapter 19. McLaren International, McLaren engines, and ASC-McLaren ; Chapter 20. Other niche-market program opportunities ; Chapter 21. A new customer: Ford Motor Co. ; Chapter 22. Other automotive engineering business
  • Section V. Transitions. Chapter 23. The McLaren engines/ASHA merger ; Chapter 24. Linamar acquires McLaren ; Chapter 25. McLaren acquires new OEM programs ; Chapter 26. A new headquarters and a new name.