User:LukasJ11/sandbox

Sources:

This current source I added was written by an author that has written over maybe 10 books about cars and basically things that deal with cars. It has a lot of good information for me to use to add to the current article for the Porsche 906 and fill in some gaps.

This article is for the last sentence in the article that I am going to change because it needs a citation

What I would like to add:


 * 1) On the side tab of the article's website I would like to add how much horsepower the car has so the reader can quickly glance at it and see before reading the actual article
 * 2) Add information about the suspension of the car
 * 3) Add information in the "construction" of the car about the engine and that it came from a Porsche 911 and what modifications were done to it
 * 4) Add information about the gearbox as well that was used that came from the Porsche 911
 * 5) Include history of the car but not just the car itself, but the person who made it
 * 6) Included information on further wins that the Porsche 906 had achieved
 * 7) Including information about the last win that the Porsche ever had in 1969

Work:


 * 1) The Porsche 906 makes 210 horsepower at 8,000 rpm.
 * 2) As much work that was done to the Porsche 906 to make it better than the predecessor the 904, one of the things that stayed the same was the cars suspension. The biggest reason for this was just that there were many parts that had been leftover from the Porsche 904 that they never used, so instead they put it to good use on the 906.
 * 3) The Porsche 906 was fitted with an engine that actually came from the Porsche 911 just with a few modifications done to it. These changes included some exotic metals in the connecting rods and the crank case to help the car perform at a higher level.
 * 4) Porsche had reused a lot of different parts on the 906 like the suspension and the engine, but they had also utilized the 5 speed manual gearbox that came from the Porsche 911.
 * 5) Ferdinand Piëch, the grand son of Ferdinand Porsche, had gotten a very important job just at 28 years old and that was to be in charge of the development of the New Porsche racing cars. His goal for recreating the 904 to the new 906 was to make it as lightweight as can be. This would mean stripping all of heavy steel from the body and using unstressed fiber glass instead.
 * 6) For the first year of the car's debut in 1966, it was achieving numerous victories. American-British race car driver Ken Miles took the 2.0-liter class in the Las Vegas and Laguna Seca USRRC races. These victories didn't just stop in 1966, but went on through 1967 and 1968. Another well known Porsche driver by the name of Peter Greg secured himself some wins at the Bahama Speed Weeks. Now not only were professional racers driving these cars, but so was comedian Dick Smothers and Fred Baker. They secured 8th overall to win it's 2.0-liter class in 1969.
 * 7) The Porsche Carrera 906 first started it's racing career in Finland. The name of the car was the Collier Collection Carrera 6. It eventually started racing in AAW racing but to its luck it didn't receive much victories. The best place it got was for the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring and that was 13th overall in 1969 which was the final year of the car's career.

Rephrase Work:

History: Previously before the Porsche 906 was the 904. It was considered a great car for its time and it held many victories and achieved many great things. Ferdinand Piëch who was now in control of Porsche's R&D, had new plans on how to create the next race car. Because cars were now getting lighter, he decided to take out the steel body from the 904, and instead use fiberglass for the body of the car. Constructing the new car with the fiberglass helped with things such as structural support as well as looks because it was all placed by hand instead of having an uneven paint job done to it.

The finished product weighed around 580 kg( 1,280 lbs ) and was a quarter of a thousand pounds lighter than the previous 904. Not only was the body of the car much lighter but so was the engine of the vehicle. Normally the car would be fitted with a 901/20 6-cylinder with carburetors that was making 210 horsepower at 8,000 rpm. On occasion though there would be times when it was replaced with a 8-cylinder when the car was being used by the factory team. This would help in events such as hillclimbing when the altitude would increase against the Ferrari Dinos in the European championship.