[D Hanson]

Rest your case. You ignore that the thread was predicated upon economic considerations balanced with performance and that the TT motor cost perhaps 3 times the costs of a NA motor which contrary to the theme of this thread.

Obviously, you do not want to like the 996 NAs and that is cool. There are plenty of people tracking 996 NA motors without problems. There is nothing wrong with the NA 996 motor and it is much MUCH (did I say much) cheaper than the TT or GT2 motor. Both are water pumpers as you called it in another thread.

Its all about the $$$ here and you kind of switched focus. If you can afford a GT3 motor or TT motor, then that is not the point of this thread. Seemed like the point of this thread was an economical hot rod. The NA 996 motor will fill that role well from a cost and performance stand point.

Guys are getting 350 out of them with cheap bolts ons and you can slap a supercharger on it if you want big hp and torque. My 04 C2 had chip, exhaust, and intake and it was substantially quicker than stock. My 04 NA C2 with the addition of very inexpensive bolt on mods would run consistent 4.4s to 4.5s compared to 4.8s stock. My TT with 500 hp would run 3.9s to 4.0s at that time. My ungodly expensive 964 ran 4.8s to 4.9s 0 - 60s.

True, if money was no object, build that 700 hp beast. Based on the budgets being discussed, however, the 996 NA is the best route to go for that price range and will provide better power dollar for dollar over the 964 3.6 or the 993 3.6.