[fandm17]

Hi everyone. Not too many posts under my belt yet, but lots of reading--daily actually, for a number of months--of the wealth of info available here. I have had a 912 for three years, during which time it has been completely restored. Porsches are like potato chips, though, you can't have just one. So recently I bought a 76 911S as a winter project. Maybe more about my cars will follow in a future post. But I digress ... now for the question ... a question that always resurfaces when Porsches sprint through my mind. Like many, as a poster-hanging child, the original objects of my lust for Porsches were the turbos, of course. That is probably not uncommon. Although I have never driven one, all that I have read seems to indicate that the 3.0 L and 3.3 L 930's are purely race cars and should be driven as such. The low compression ratio, 4-speed transaxle, and turbo lag combine to make the turbos rather un-streetable. On the track, where one can keep the revs above 3500-4000, this is probably not an issue. But I have never been out on the track, and I am not a rev-happy driver. Yet my fascination with turbos continues. I have recently come across a few VERY nice 930's. One of them was so nice, in fact, I almost considered--dare I say it--getting rid of my beloved 912 and middie-S in order to come up with the money to buy it. Blasphemy! Anyway, to get to the point, I wonder if anyone can comment on the street-ability of the 930. I am curious what it is like driving around town. Is it unbearably sluggish pulling away from stop signs and red lights? Does the turbo lag make it difficult to drive in such situations? Does it finally develop boost just when you need to decelerate again? How would it be for long trips of about an hour or so? That is, does it run very hot when run for extended periods of time? Perhaps the intercooled turbos (1978 and after, as you all know better than I do) run cooler and are more reliable. My intuition tells me that, intercooled or not, the temperatures would eventually reach a steady-state. I am just asking for opinions before I go out and waste someone's time by looking at and test-driving his (or her) car. I am anticipating you all to say turbos were not meant to be grocery-getters: they are intended for the track, and the track only. But maybe a few of you have commissioned a 930 to civilian duty. Thanks for taking the time to read this and hopefully reply! --Chris