Lanzante brought along a very special Porsche 930 TAG Turbo to last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car, owned and commissioned by ex-Formula 1 driver Stefan Johansson, is number 8 of the 11 TAG Turbos that Lanzante is building.
Each of the 930 TAG Turbo models being brought to life by Lanzante is powered by one of the 1.5-liter V6 TAG Turbo engines that Porsche built for McLaren to use in Formula 1 in the 1980s. Given that this car is Johansson’s, it’s only fitting that it has the engine from his MP4/3 F1 car used in the 1987 Austrian Grand Prix.
Back in the day, this engine could produce as much as 750 hp but for use in the road-legal Porsche, it has been detuned to 503 hp, although that’s still plenty, particularly since the car only weighs 2,248 lbs (1,019 kg) dry. Mated to the F1 engine is a six-speed manual transmission driving the rear wheels.
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As you may have guessed, Lanzante had to tweak the 1.5-liter engine quite a lot to get it to work in a road car. For example, it has installed smaller turbochargers, a new crankcase and decreased the boost pressure by 25%, hence the lower power output. Despite these changes, the engine still revs to a dizzying 9,000 rpm while under the skin, the car has coilovers at all four corners and sits on 17-inch wheels with Pirelli P Zero tires.
Making this particular Porsche 930 TAG Turbo special is the fact that it has been hand-painted by Johansson himself, combining stripes of red, green, blue, and yellow. These colorful elements aren’t just visible on the exterior of the car but also on the seat backs. The colors weren’t chosen at random either with the green using shades from Johansson’s helmet while the blue and yellow represents his Swedish heritage and the white and red mimic the color scheme of his McLaren MP4/3.
