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Originally Posted by javadog
A 930 gearbox would be an absolute disaster in your SC.
You don’t have twisty roads where you are, acceleration seems to be important to you, getting a Corvette is not a bad idea.
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This and this.
I do NOT mean this as a put-down but you are not a Porsche guy. Porsches are great cars, (much better than Corvettes, IMO), but brute acceleration was never their forte. Without canyons or a race track/road course nearby, I honestly do not see the appeal of driving a 911 unless you just love the looks/sound/smell of them so much that going from traffic light to traffic light is exciting to you.
When I sold them years ago at the dealership, every once in a while we'd get a guy or woman who really was a Corvette person. They wanted V-8 grunt off the line, not a refined German sports car. That did not make them bad people or inferior to Porsche people, just different strokes.
Most real Porsche enthusiasts are fanatical about the cars, way beyond reason when you get out the calculator and compare dollars to HP. This was especially true back in the 356 days, when other car nuts just absolutely did not "get" Porsche guys. The cars made zero sense to them. Of course now, the new Porsches are fast and performance is awesome but the $$/HP still doesn't add up unless you just have to have a Porsche.
Porsche enthusiasts were usually obsessed w the cars, new 911 customers often knew more about the cars than we did at the dealer and it was a matter of just letting them stew in the showroom w their chin in their fist for long periods of time, doing their own calculating and decision making process. Your general lack of Porsche knowledge and curiosity, (wanting to install a 930 trans or putting PMO 46s on a stock SC motor), suggests that you are not a Porsche guy.
Back in the early '80s, when RUF was just making performance parts and modifying Porsches for customers, one of their most popular upgrades was putting a fortified 915 in 930 turbo cars so that they had 5-speeds. I've never seen anyone try to put a 930 trans in an SC, that's just lack of knowledge or interest in learning. And the 915 is a fantastic transmission up to its power limits. The problem is the owner or owners of your car, not the transmission.
Have you tried the 911 tech board here? It's 10x the size of OT and just loaded w specific knowledge, (and some kooks as well, to be fair), it's the place to learn about Porsches.