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Originally Posted by PeteKz View Post
...and magnesium case. When Porsche decided to do a turbo, they designed a whole new aluminum case, cylinders, pistons, crank, rods, oil pump, squirters, etc. The magnesium case alloy will not take that additional heat and pounding.
Actually, the 3.0 Turbo (75-77), used the same crank, rods and oil pump as the 2.4/2.7 na engines
The 934 (steel street rods) and early 935 (titanium rods) used a race version of the 6 bolt, 70.4 crank.

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