--- title: Porsche 917/30 (1973) · HICONIUM description: Porsche 917/30 (1973). The most powerful sports-racer ever campaigned — 1’100 PS in race trim from 5.4 litres and two turbos. Donohue won the last six rounds of 1973; the series never recovered. canonical_url: https://hiconium.com/vehicles/porsche/917/t30 --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.com/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.com/) › [Vehicles](https://hiconium.com/vehicles) › [Porsche](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/porsche) › [917](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/porsche/917) › Porsche 917/30 (1973) [Porsche 917 — the model file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/porsche/917) # 917/30 1973 · Very rare · 6 built Indicative value €3.5M from documented context — not a blended market price ![Porsche 917/30 Can-Am in Sunoco blue](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/cars/porsche-917/art/sunoco.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) The execution The most powerful sports-racer ever campaigned — 1’100 PS in race trim from 5.4 litres and two turbos. Donohue won the last six rounds of 1973; the series never recovered. Six chassis, only two complete Penske race cars. A 2,500 mm wheelbase, over 200 litres of fuel, the first Porsche intercoolers — and on the works bench, towards 1’500 PS. A fuel-consumption rule ended it for 1974; Donohue’s 1975 Talladega record was the farewell. At auction the turbos awe more than they trade. On the record - Can-Am champion 1973 — 139 points to the runner-up’s 62 - 0–100 km/h in 2.3 s; 0–200 in 5.3 s - Talladega closed-course record 1975: 355.8 km/h - $4.4M in 2012 → $3.0M in 2016 for the same car (004) As separated Years 1973 Built 6 Engine 5.4L flat-12, twin-turbo Power 1’100 PS Weight ~800 kg 0–100 km/h 2.3 s Against the 917 K Years 1973 · 917 K 1969–1971 Built 6 · 917 K 36 Engine 5.4L flat-12, twin-turbo · 917 K 4.5–5.0L flat-12 · Type 912 Power 1’100 PS · 917 K 580–630 PS The documents ![The 917/30 in Sunoco blue, Porsche Museum](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/cars/porsche-917/canam-917-30.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) ![A 917/30 on the RM Auctions floor, Paris 2014](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/cars/porsche-917/t30-sunoco.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) [All 917 executions](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/porsche/917#variants)