First off, let me introduce myself. I have been around here for quite some time adding my two cents in here and there, but never really involved in the conversations. I hang out over at 914club.com most of the time due to my close ties with some of the founding members there. I have actually owned my '69 912 since I was 15 and through high school I did an extensive restoration on the car to keep me out of trouble. I then left the car in my parents garage while I got an engineering degree at UT Austin...well, I finally earned my graduate degree, moved to Silicon Valley, and I am back into the Porsche scene full time.
Anyway, enough with the introductions...
I have never been really happy with the lack of power that a stock 912 makes. Therefore, I decided to sell the prestine motor on ebay and begin the long journey into more horsepower. However, since I have an early LWB car that handled marginally well I decided to stick with the 4-cylinder powerplant. I am currently about 75% done with the build-up of a turbo charged, electromotive TEC-3 controlled, Type-4 Engine. Before you start turning aways, let me explain that this motor has all the goodies conceived by the type-4 gods and will hopefully perform to expectations. For those who are interested, the engine specs can be found here (the cam selection has since changed however)...
http://www.britainsmith.com/Porsche/TurboMotor/index.htm
As a summary: it has 98mm Mahle Aluminum Cylinders, 78mm Forged Counter-weighted crank, Carrillo Rods, Ceramic Lifters, Pauter Roller Rockers, Thermal Barrier Coating, and a 911 style upright fan shroud, just to name a few.
While I was working on the motor build, I decide that I wasn't happy with some of the work that I did while restoring the car in high school, so I got to work. This work has included stripping the engine bay, front trunk, interior, and underside to bare metal to be painted to color match the rest of the car. I built a rotesserie for this and it is still in progress. You can see the details on the rotessire here:
Rotessire Thread 2.3L Turbo Type-4 Motor Specs
