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I have the car and the story, but not the firsthand experience. It was my former brother-in-laws 930, 77, non intercooled. He was `racing` a M6 out on the 5 on the way to Frisco in one of his moments. The way he told it: He was cruising at 80 - 100 and came up on the M6. The M6 gets on his rear wanting to play so my former bro drops it a gear and runs with the M6 in tow. He claimed he could walk away from the M6 up till about 150 - 155 indicated. I don`t know what the actual top speed was but he stated that it was all the car would give in fourth. At this speed, the M6 would catch and pass the 930. It pissed him off to no end. Any ways, he stated that they did this about three times (this was during the middle of a summer day when the ambient temps. were in the high 90`s) and on the third time the car lost power and became very audible (noisy). Pulled over and thought he had a miss. Now my former brother in law is a great guy, but was undeserving of this car and didn`t know the first thing about Porsches. Stops at a mechanic in Fresno (the car is barely running now) who though a plug blew out of the #3 cylinder. Wrong. Couldn`t correct the problem so towed it to a more knowledgeable shop who discovered the head had failed at the junction with the cylinder. Soooo. without mods I would not consider running a 930 at sustained boost. I read at the press intro in the 1970`s at the banked speedway in Texas they also wounded a few turbo car due to the same problem.
Tinker
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