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Wayne,
Since your are in the business, and are devoting your life to Porsche, really I mean this, you need to go to the furthest steps possible, personally, so you REALLY obtain the deepest possible understanding of everything Porsche. My old Judo teacher once said, unless you devote your LIFE to it you will not truly understand it. He was correct. My life was to short to inlcude Porsche, only a narrow portion of the microwave electronics field. But I have taken the last couple of years to devote 100 percent of my time and whole life to learn what I can. If you think this kind of talk is nonsense then you do NOT UNDERSTAND, if you are the best at your chosen profession, you almost certainly do understand.
Anyway enough pontificating.
Wayne, go out and find a place where you can get some hands on, including all the machining operations involved in engine rebuilding. It will help you understand what truly can be done and what cannot. It will, in the end make you more money than you invested in learning. I know there aren't many opportunities in this country to get this type of experience. In the worst case come to Orange county, CA for 9 months and take both the engine rebuilding, and engine blueprinting class at Saddleback College. A genuine hotrodder is the department head, and Professor. I have taken it 4 times now and am signed up again next year (slow learner).
The experience takes a lot of the mystery and crap out of doing the machining operations. You will get to do them all, yourself. YOu will not become a true expert like Walt but the experience will help make things so clear that you will have an entirely new viewpoint. It is difficult to transfer the info to people who have not invested the same time in learning the stuff to much reversion to the mystique of whatever. But transfering more info is in everyones interest, as well as yours, as it will help you develop and sell new and better stuff. This is even more true in the higher tech world of post 1980 engines. Those Honda guys are real techie nerds of sorts and the hot rodders of tomorrow, they are soaking up everything we knew and going the next step. Gotta run to keep up.
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