Turbo Longhood

[Jim2]

I've had both this car and a 930 drivetrain sitting here for several years and finally got around to puzzling it together. It's consumed a stall in my garage for 20 months but finally ran today for the first time. You might notice it looks non turbo at the moment, since the engine is a complete unknown to me I left off the turbo, scavenge pump, and oil cooler circuit until I can run it and grab an oil sample to ensure it's not making metal. It will save me from having to clean the cooler circuit and turbo if these parts were to get contaminated.

One thing I can say is as much as the early 901 and 930 drivetrain look similar, nothing fits. Everything needs tweaking for this transplant.

Rundown of the components
83 930 long block
964 cams
Intake ports opened to 41mm
Carrera intake
Powerhaus headers
Light 45mm turbosmart wastegate
Some aftermarket muffler
K27 7200
SDS injection
No intercooler planned
Shortened 930 4 speed LSD
1970 911 chassis
Modified tunnel for the 930 transaxle
Inverted cartridge bilsteins
Raised spindles
Bump steer rod ends
Aluminum x member
Aluminum trailing arms
Adjustable spring plates
930 torsions and carrera front swaybar
930 A arms (for the antidive spacers)
15x7 fuchs
Skinny little S brakes and aluminum front calipers

Hoping it will be light, sub 2400 perhaps? I'll know in the next few days once I get the suspension set up.

Without turbo hips the car seems so small but I certainly miss the turbo hips. Looking forward to getting the turbo on it!

[quattrorunner]

Cool.

[tdw28210]

Very cool.

Only 1 factory turbo longhood. The R5 chassis racer. A converted NA 2.8 RSR. Huge thread here on it.

[Jim2]

Ahhh I noticed Turbo R5 tribute in your signature and figured I need to get to know this guy. Never realized that referred to a 911.

Turbo R5 tribute, ditched to focus on my turbo 1970.

[ppeters914]

Nice. What steering wheel is that?

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[Jim2]

Originally Posted by ppeters914

Nice. What steering wheel is that?

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Momo Prototipo, seems like a decent match to the era of these cars, very basic and no bling. Hard to take a decent phone picture of black interior.

[MikeD930]

Jim...what's your goal for rwhp on the blue 911? I suppose it won't be more than 250 rwhp due to small brakes and small tires. I wonder what happened to all of the photos on your old threads such as your 930 project relocating the intercooler similar to the turbo RSR.

[Jim2]

Hey Mike, this engine isn't much different from my old 930. With the exception the 930 was twin plug most everything else here is identical, cams, intake, headers, turbo etc. Prior to adding an intercooler to the EFI conversion on the 930 it made 381hp at 12psi. This 911 should be around the same territory and with few back to back 100 to 0 events I'm hoping the brakes will do. I believe these brakes are similar/same to those on the early 77 turbos. Tires? The current hockey pucks are positively going to get turned to smoke as best as 12psi can do, I'm hoping it will be epic.

My old project photos were hosted by our internet company who decided to discontinue hosting services. Moving them elsewhere was beyond me, my skill is limited to a hammer, wrench, and sometimes fire.

[MikeD930]

Pushing 400hp with skinny tires...that's going to be a handful!! Your 911 will be a sleeper! That's a bummer about losing your linked photos.

[tdw28210]

Originally Posted by Jim2

Ahhh I noticed Turbo R5 tribute in your signature and figured I need to get to know this guy. Never realized that referred to a 911.

Turbo R5 tribute, ditched to focus on my turbo 1970.

So you beat me to it??? You already started on the 1st turbo longhood tribute build? And you're now pivoting to a narrow body longhood turbo?

Yeah, we should connect. (lol)

[Jim2]

The Turbo R5 tribute in my picture is a Renault R5 Turbo imposter. stupid project to begin with and not worth my time invested. My 911 on the other hand was a narrow body from the get go, and will remain narrow even though I prefer the look of turbo size flares.

[tdw28210]

Originally Posted by Jim2

The Turbo R5 tribute in my picture is a Renault R5 Turbo imposter. stupid project to begin with and not worth my time invested. My 911 on the other hand was a narrow body from the get go, and will remain narrow even though I prefer the look of turbo size flares.

LOL, so the OTHER R5 (which is kind of cool car). Fun fact: I learned to drive stick as 14 year old in my Mom's Renault "LeCar". I like to think of it as a narrow-bodied, non-turbo Renault R5.

[Jonny042]

Cool project!!