1986 911 waterpump leaking; coolant everywhere!!

Made you look!!

I've seen other intelligent post from you...I thought maybe you lost your mind. Hey Hey Hey. Its good to see humour on this site. Michael

Visions of a 935 engine transplant into a Turbo-Look ... water-cooled heads and all ...

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Warren Hall
1973 911S Targa

That is a very good one. I am with Warren, I was hoping for a 935 conversion. Do these things really exist? I have only read about them in Bruce's book.
thanks for the laugh david

Oh no now you guys have me dreaming of a 962 engine in my car.....now I can't sleep.
It's good to see a sense of humor. I was worried about someone getting angry at my jokes.
Mike

Ever seen that old (but very original) VW Beetle ad that's got steam coming out the (front) trunk, and a guy standing next to it, (stranded) and the ad simply reads "IMPOSSIBLE". Now that I think about it, Porshce and VW seem to have the coolest ads...

well, along with the Lotus'es:

"For a faster way to get from point A to point B, contact NASA"

Mike, I guess you probably shouldn't read Paul Frere's 'Porsche Racing Cars of the '70s' ... chapter six, "The development of the type 935 'four-valve' engine," might be more stress than your heart can take!

I always wished the flat-eight 908-type engine had made it into production! Considering the legendary reliability it achieved in racing, I have the distinct feeling that 325-350 hp developed that way would have been cheaper to build, buy, and maintain than a turbo-engine! And, the commonality of engine parts with 911's meant only the crankcase, crank, cam boxes, and camshafts would be the only new major components to be manufactured! You can't tell me that wasn't a better, less costly alternative than the 959 and it's production successors! A '99 'Carrera' I saw yesterday, and drove alongside for over a mile was so quiet, the tires made more noise at 40 mph than the exhaust did, in fact it might as well have been an electric car!!! Sad, sad, sad!

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Warren Hall
1973 911S Targa

Warren, I would have to agree about the 908 engine but then some purist will surely complain, dictating that a 911 should be a six cylinder. It would be amazing though... where are those sleeeping pills... I also agree that the 996 isn't what a 911 should be but nevertheless it is still awesome as a performance car. As long as there are people like us to preserve the True 911, we will all be ok.
Mike

I don't remember when it happened, but some time in the early '70s the factory engineers hand-built a VERY SPECIAL 914/8 for Ferry Porsche's birthday ... a rather ordinary-looking 914 from a distance, except that it had quad retracting headlamps, and two HUGE tailpipes! Along with a working heater attached to a hand-built set of heat exchangers, was a fully mufflered, air-filtered 908 engine putting out 325 hp at the rear wheels! The mind-boggling 914 still had dual plugs and a dual-CDI system, and the one thing I would HATE to even think about having to do would be changing the sparkplug WIRES, all 16 of them, crowded in the middle of a 914!!! I have no idea what size tires they put on the back end of that monster, but I doubt their life expectancy was very long!
Can you imagine the look on an AMG Hammer driver's face on the Autobahn when a 914 pulls up behind, and flashes quad headlights at him at about 180 mph, then shifts into 5th gear and disappears over the horizon rather quickly?

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Warren Hall
1973 911S Targa

914s are superior in some ways to ninelevens and they dominate short tracks but supercar power seems more balanced in the latter. the nineleven is a special car to me. And to most of you. I imagine a very late model air cooled Porsche will be an excellent investment. Any of them are.

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'83 SC