McLaren: the engine company : a history of McLaren Engines, Inc. and its successors /
Meiners, Roger S.,author.
Society of Automotive Engineers,publisher.
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 nondescript 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!--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Section 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 Engines, 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.
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 nondescript 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!--Provided by publisher.
McLaren, Bruce, 1937-1970.
McLaren Engines
McLaren automobiles
Automobiles, Racing.
Sports cars.