McLaren: the engine company : a history of McLaren Engines, Inc. and its successors / Roger Meiners.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meiners, Roger, author.

Contributor:

Society of Automotive Engineers, publisher.

Series:

Society of Automotive Engineers. Electronic publications.

Society of Automotive Engineers. Electronic publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McLaren automobiles--History.

McLaren automobiles.

Automobiles, Racing.

Sports cars.

McLaren, Bruce, 1937-1970.

McLaren, Bruce.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xvii, 253 pages)) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, Pa. (400 Commonwealth Dr., Warrendale PA USA) : Society of Automotive Engineers, 2020.

Summary:

An 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.

Contents:

Sectio 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 Engins, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7680-9513-1

OCLC:

1153742534