At this week’s 2023 Goodwood Competition of Velocity, former System 1 driver Stefan Johansson unveiled a modified Porsche 911 that not solely did he hand paint, however that is powered by one among his ex-F1 racing engines.

Code-named SJ87, the automobile in query is the eighth of 11 Porsche 930 TAG Turbos by Lanzante, a British motorsports and engineering firm that has additionally made road-legal variations of monitor vehicles just like the McLaren P1 GTR. Introduced in 2018, the TAG Turbo combines a Porsche 930 physique shell with precise F1 engines, particularly the 1.5-liter V-6 TAG Turbo models developed by Porsche and utilized by McLaren within the Nineteen Eighties.

Johansson was one of many drivers for McLaren in that interval, and the SJ87 has the engine that powered his MP4/3 F1 automobile within the 1987 Austrian Grand Prix. Issues did not go properly; the Swedish driver totaled his main automobile in a collision with a deer in observe, after which misplaced a wheel in a pit cease in the course of the race, ending seventh. However the engine was in its final type development-wise. McLaren had been racing the TAG Turbo engine since 1984, and would swap to Honda energy for the 1988 season.

The engine additionally makes loads of energy. Estimated to supply round 750 hp in race trim, the turbo V-6 has been detuned to a extra manageable 503 hp to be used within the 930 street automobile. It is linked to a 6-speed handbook transmission from a 993-generation 911, which directs energy to the rear wheels. Lanzante estimates a curb weight of two,248 lbs, not together with the motive force and gasoline.

Porsche 930 TAG Turbo

The SJ87 will not be the one Porsche 911 with a TAG Turbo engine, however will probably be distinctive because of a livery designed and painted by Johansson, who’s now an artist. The streaks of shade over the white physique embrace inexperienced for the motive force’s helmet design and childhood nickname “Little Leaf,” the blue and yellow of the Swedish flag, and pink and white for the Marlboro colours of Johansson’s McLaren MP4/3 race automobile.

The finished automobile was displayed alongside Lanzante’s road-legal Pagani Zonda Revolución, plus a few the corporate’s Mclaren F1 GTR road-legal conversions, at Goodwood.