Is it me? chevy in a porsche

[mrm930]

Okay - Is it just me or is putting a chevy engine in a Porsche just freakin wrong. I don't get it. Part of the allure for me are the tweaks that you have to do - you have to understand at least the basics of an opposing 6 motor. A V8 - major water cooled - heavy motor is not anywhere in my wish list. However there are several posts and threads here showing the conversions. I read them a-little then - scratch my head and move on.

Okay, is it just me?

[m21sniper]

It's no more wrong than putting a Subaru boxer motor in a 914.

Some Porsche's would be vastly improved machines with a good Chevy motor under the hood.

Like the 924, for instance. A 924 with an LS-1 would be freaking insane.

[Normy]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

It's no more wrong than putting a Subaru boxer motor in a 914.

Some Porsche's would be vastly improved machines with a good Chevy motor under the hood.

Like the 924, for instance. A 924 with an LS-1 would be freaking insane.

Ignore the man behind the curtain; He's just blowing smoke an a few whisps of real advice-!

m21sniper is just another web persona who is happy to fill the city with his persona,while the boaurd shows NO kids at all. There are NO kids here these days! So there are no problem infolvevents in tun with this...

[masraum]

Well, i wouldnt want a 911 w/sbc, but the sbc is a world class motor and in many ways an engineering masterpiece. The would be and improvement to many, many other vehicles. My main beef with tje 911 conversions is that to me the P engine is a huge part of the 911 character. An SBC is lighter than a turbo motor and could easily be as fast or faster much more cheaply.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I've driven a Renegade 944 V8 SBC conversion. It's very, very fast and would make for a hell of a formidable track toy. For vastly less (money and effort) than a comparable 951 to produce the same amount of power.

Still, it just seemed very wrong - fun though it was. The thing was very unrefined and the lack of power brakes was downright scary.

[kaisen]

Originally Posted by mrm930

Okay - Is it just me or is putting a chevy engine in a Porsche just freakin wrong. I don't get it. Part of the allure for me are the tweaks that you have to do - you have to understand at least the basics of an opposing 6 motor. A V8 - major water cooled - heavy motor is not anywhere in my wish list. However there are several posts and threads here showing the conversions. I read them a-little then - scratch my head and move on.

Okay, is it just me?

It's usually a function of dollars per horsepower
No cheaper horsepower than a small block Chev

And the all-aluminum LS small blocks produced for the last dozen years are lighter than the Porsche flat six, even adding the radiator and coolant.

The 505hp 7.0L LS7/Z06 motor weighs under 400lbs complete. What does a 930 motor weigh? Oh, more than 500lbs? Okay. And how much does it cost to build a 930 motor that makes 500hp? Oh, really? That much? Okay.

There have been sooooo many threads hashing over this, if you're truly interested do a search
Otherwise, it's just different strokes for different folks
To each their own

[rouxroux]

SBC is good, cheap, reliable HP! I've driven a Vega with a Hardy/Beck kit which was a great little 1/4 mile car, and a 65 Corvair with the Crown kit mounted mid-engine. fun, fun, fun!

[URY914]

[mattdavis11]

I don't like the idea, but if it was a Mopar motor, sure. A SBC? No way, every swinging Richard has one.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I'd like to put a SBC in my Land Cruiser, how about that? Personally I think that Chevy does engines fairly well, low tech as they may be. I can pick up a low mileage 5.3 V8 for $500-ish, and the adapters are available to mount them in my FJ80 and bolt to my transmission. Just like that, double the HP.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Normy

Ignore the man behind the curtain; He's just blowing smoke an a few whisps of real advice-!

m21sniper is just another web persona who is happy to fill the city with his persona,while the boaurd shows NO kids at all. There are NO kids here these days! So there are no problem infolvevents in tun with this...

You've been drinking again, haven't you?

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by URY914

thats just wrong.

[mattdavis11]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I'd like to put a SBC in my Land Cruiser, how about that?

No, no, no. Ditching a 1fz motor for a SBC, maybe. Still on the fence on that one.

When the 3fe kicks the bucket, anything other than a SBC for me. I'm talking anything, a 134 hurricane would be better.

[dewolf]

Can someone decipher Normy's post....

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO

thats just wrong.

Maybe it's wrong, but betcha it's a thrilling ride!

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by dewolf

Can someone decipher Normy's post....

Impossible language to understand...worse than klingon.

[Laneco]

I love hybrids - the badder the better. I had a 13B rotary in a Fiat X1/9 (a lovely chassis in a desperate search for any engine), a SBC in a Jaguar XJ6-L. We've got two speedster replicas that we're going to build with turbo subie engines.

As far as a Chevy-Porsche hybrid, I'd hesitate to do it to a 911 but without reservation would do it to a 944 with a blown engine. I'd rather put a chevy in a 944 than send it to the cutter. A SBC fits very nicely into that engine bay and it's already water cooled.

Make it a hybrid, keep a good car on the road and have a blast driving it.

angela

[Scuba Steve]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

You've been drinking again, haven't you?

That was also my first thought.

[Jagshund]

Say it with me: Suuuu - bAH - rooo.

Much better. Just dropped my 914 axles off to be resplined for the Subie tranny today!!

[Heel n Toe]

Chris Banning posted these photos of a Chevy 5.7 L in a 944 in the Mulholland thread a while back... why not? Looks like it would be a lot of fun.