Don't do this

[tkrefeld]

[atlporsche]

as long as they didn't PULL a GOOD engine...why not?? it keeps another chassis on the road...

sjd

[Mattias Hellore]

Why not?

[911pcars]

Personally, I would have found another way to access the timing mark on the crank pulley and not created that rough rectangular hole in the bodywork.

It's also missing the inboard screw that holds the left rear light assembly onto the body. Either that or the threads are missing due to rust.

Sherwood

[Jeff964]

I hope its photoshopped..

[A Quiet Boom]

More like photoCHOPPED LOL

[sammyg2]

If it's their car seems to me they can do what they want with it, unless of course there was a secret election and you were voted in as the new 911 Czar with the responsibility of telling everyone else what they can and cannot do to their 911s.

If that is the case I will be very careful with in the future to make sure my modifications meet with your approval.
Do you have an official list of what modifications you authorize?

[tkrefeld]

No I don't have a list, but a 911 with a GM V8 stuffed in to it is not on the approval list I can assure you. I'm not stopping you from doing what you want

[tiorio]

It'll blow most of us off the line...

[MichiganMat]

I agree, there should be a law.

[Jubbie]

Somewhere there is a Firebird with an aircooled flat six under the front hood...

Nice flares.

[tkrefeld]

Originally posted by Jubbie
Somewhere there is a Firebird with an aircooled flat six under the front hood...

[Stuttgart951]

Originally posted by tiorio
It'll blow most of us off the line...

True enough, but Im sure the extra weight and higher center of gravity would redefine 'trailing throttle oversteer.'

Yikes.

[Cerbin]

Originally posted by MichiganMat




I agree, there should be a law.

yeah, makes me sick to my stomach.

[sammyg2]

Sigh.
Urban myth alert.
The extra weight of a small block chevy with aluminum heads and manifold vs a N/A porsche flat six amounts to about 45 pounds. Wow, that is almost as much as a full tank of gas!
The higher center of gravity making any difference is another myth. Very few drivers in this world could tell the difference.
I guess we should all thumb our holier-than-thou noses at 930 turbos too, they have all kinds of weight in the back, more than the above described chevy. I don't remember any threads here that called a 930 an ill handling pig due to the 525 pound engine in the back. Why would that be?
I watch the ALMS races and watch the corvettes pass the GT3RS cars like they were standing still. I know they are in a different class (GTS vs. GT) but the message is the same. the V8 powered car is faster around the track than the best naturally aspirated race car porsche has ever offered.

All those expressing an opinion in this thread who have actually driven and/or raced a chevy powered porsche, please raise your hands.
Bueller? bueller? Anyone?
It may be that I'm the only one with my hand up.
While I strongly prefer the sound and feel of the flat six behind me, I turned much faster lap times when I was being pushed by the chebby. Even on a very tight course where turning made more difference than acceleration I was faster with the chebby than the porsche engine. The V8 made very little difference in the handling of that particular car. I can pretty much guaranty that I would have turned faster lap times in that car that most (but not all) of the 911s on this board. The exception would be the extremely modified 911s and those driven by people with higher skill levels than I possess. (Insert lame excuses here). So we have busted the weight myth, reliability of a V8 is not in question, it is not disputed that the v8 will outperform the run of the mill flat six, so all we have is the exhaust sound. Score so far, V8-3, flat six -1.

If there should be a law against it, why not extend it to all engine swaps? No more 3 liter or larger engines allowed in earlier 911s.
A 3.6 changes the character of a 911T and ruins the character of the car.
If some people on this board can dictate what other shouldn't do, why can't I? I don't want to feel left out. Now who is going to tell Jack Olson his BBII has been outlawed?

I have no plans or desires to put a V8 in my 911. But that does not give me the right to tell others that they shouldn't or can't do it.

I guess I should apologize for getting rude but this is thread is a prime example of why the 911 owners get a bad rap from the other Porsche owners.
It has been said that 911 owners are the whine and cheese crowd, the little winkie group, that we are elitist snobs who think we are better than the rest. I've tried to change that stereotype, maybe they were right. I need a nap.

[iobound]

The better comparison is between the GT3RSR and the Panoze Esperante. In the same class Porsche is whipping the V8 Panoz's butt. Not to mention that Ferrari's V8 is getting it's ass whipped by the GT3RSR also.

With that said I hear ya. Personally, the only car out there that could make me betray my 15 year obsession with the Flat Six Air Cooled 911 is that sexy Ford GT40 remake. I want her, bad! :-)

[Zeke]

Back to the original car posted. It's not something I would do. Sam did and that's why he defends it.

But, if I had to advise on one of these deals, I would not allow the cheap stamped chrome valve covers in there. In fact, I would campaign for an all aluminum engine and some kind of decent looking air filter. A real nice tunnel port out of a Corvette would do wonders.

In other words, what's most offensive to me (other than the sound of a Chevy behind me), is the low tech early hot rod look. If someone is going to do this, at least bring it into the 21st century.

That having been said, I'd probably stop and look if there were 4 double throat downdraft Webers in there.

And rubber radiator hoses? That looses it for me, if nothing else.

[tkrefeld]

sammyg2,

I had no intention of a "I'm better than you" vibe. I am a fan of the Porsche air-cooled flat -6 engine. I think it is of the best engineering designs ever in engines. It is robust, fast, high-revving, long-lasting, easily modified, can be raced in factory form ect ect....Although I think it's a bit "ghetto" to put a V8 in the back of a 911 or 914 to each his own. My interest in the Porsche 911 lies not in the style, the prestige, handling, or the speed. It lies right behind the rear jumper with that engine, and to remove it from the car it...well...you removed the car

[cowtown]

The only other brand engine I'd be tempted to put in a 911 shell is a Subaru Flat-4 Turbo. The Chev SB just seems so out of place back there - it belongs in a 928.