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Originally Posted by Mehoff
love this idea and the home grown engineering it requires. Before going any further, just want to be sure you have spoken with race shops about this motor. My understanding is the 991 cups (primarily 991.1) had significant cooling issues that would preclude street driving. They couldn't idle for more than a couple minutes without overheating and even had issues on pace laps....cars needed to be at race pace to adequately cool the engines. This may have already been solved via rebuild changes, but something you should research (if you haven't already).
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Totally! Cooling and making this usable could be a huge problem without completely changing the look of the car.
If it doesn't work and ends up being an unsolvable problem, I'd imagine someone with a Cup car would be interested in all of what I've acquired and I could go back to something similar to what I had.
It's been on my mind anyway. Time has been pretty limited and even when I have had time, spending it with my daughter, wife, and family has really taken priority (by choice).
So as this has stalled and anxiety over little pieces of this puzzle have picked up I've been debating parting ways with it all and picking up something I can just get in and drive for a few years while this chapter of my life takes a pause.
Sometimes I just need to sit and stare at the car for a bit and mull it all over. At times I wish I hadn't parted with the 3.6 prior to getting the cup engine going. That was my initial plan but it's taken longer than intended and after the Overcrest rally debacle, I just needed to shed some weight. Hitting the easy button to allow myself to just pause on this and not make any crazy changes, would be nice.
While all of this has been rumbling in my head, I made it over to the garage last weekend...
and finally washed the car after the rally in October:
It has such incredible hips.
I sat in the drivers seat for a while, contemplating life's choices.
And then unwrapped the full 991.1 cup chassis harness that I've had sitting in a box for 1.5 years.
It's a beautiful motorsport piece and has way more wire and features than this car needs.
Things as little as figuring out which deutsch connector I need to wire up the fuel pump, confusion on the size wiring that Porsche specced for the fuel pump wiring (it looks like 16 gauge) which doesn't have much ampacity. Realizing that the connector is ~$100 just to see if this will work, not really knowing which pin is power or ground, not having the pinout of this wiring harness and lack of information (I could do a partial pinout myself but as an example of how much time that would take for just those connectors, there are 4 possible pins on that fuel pump connector and 16 on the PDM)... It's all contributing to burn out on this.
I've considered doing a standalone again since it's something I'm familiar with and gives me control over things I don't have with the Bosch ecu/Cosworth pdm but I also feel like it makes sense to do the couple things I need to do to get the car running/driving with the OEM stuff.
All good times. I've said this before that I just need to do this one bite at a time but as of late, even that feels like a lot.