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Your going to be spending an arm and leg anyway, older models are only slightly cheaper to maintain than newer more expensive to buy models. You might as well spend the other arm and leg and get all the power you want.

I went a little nuts the first year I owned my 83. It seemed to run ok, but just didn't have the sort of power I wanted. I fussed over what kind of changes to make, looked at engine swaps, or just getting a different car entirely. A nasty oil leak forced me to pull the intake and I decided to replace all the vacuum and breather lines, do new plug wires etc etc. It runs great now, nothing like it used it with lots of smooth power. Not as much as my Euro or an S4, but enough I stopped thinking about changing anything on it.

Lesson is, the 928 has a big powerful V8, that can feel like it is running fine even when the power is maybe 75% of normal.

First make your car run 100%, then think about options like exhausts or swapping in a Euro or Euro hybrid motor, early ones are CIS, so its an easy swap.
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