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Originally posted by ianc
Well, to me it really hits home on two different levels:
Level 1) I don't like the idea of removing the beautiful, sophisticated flat six and replacing it with American iron. This is just personal taste though. If someone wants to do it to their car, it belongs to them, and so they can. I wouldn't do it, but it's not my decision to make.
Level 2) This is the level that is the more important to me. I don't know this for sure, but I strongly suspect that you may have to cut the car up to make this mod. If that is the case, then you have effectively changed the car in a way that is irreversible, and to me, ruined it. Since you have now shrunk the pool of available stock 911's by one, I don't love you for that. Not at all. If this is not the case, then see level 1.
Modifications fall into two categories, ones that can be undone, and ones that can't. If you change your radio, or bumper, or seats or rims, they can easily be changed back to stock.
If you cut up your car, you've ruined it; it can never be returned to stock, and that, I believe, is the guts of the reason why people react so strongly to this type of mod.
ianc
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I have a 911 SC 3.0, strictly original with a little tired 100.000 mile engine.
I just had two ways to a more powerful 911.
1. 930 conversion whick should set me back about 15.000 USD or more for a OK engine and ancillaries.
2. Waterpumper, in this case a SAAB B204L (16valve twin cam 4 cylinder with turbo) and pass my annual inspection in Sweden with flying colors.
Easy to tune too, stock internals can handle about 500 hp, some bits even more.
But I have a FIRM stance, I don´t cut any sheetmetal for the conversion.
It should unbolt and changes to a aircooled 911 engine in one day, any day.
I have a another project in engineering stadium which includes a silouhette 911 with tube chassis and motorbike engine in the front
