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Porsche Indy V8 engine

motor vehicle engine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ109236409 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Porsche Typ 9M0 is a 90° four-stroke turbocharged 2.65-liter V8 Indy car racing engine that was designed, developed, and produced by Porsche. It ran in the CART PPG Indy Car World Series from late 1987 to 1990. The engine was used in the Porsche 2708, and later in various cars from March Engineering.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Porsche, Indy and engine is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Porsche Indy V8 engine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.