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Originally Posted by pcar928fan
I sure hope Russ was kidding about the Vette build quality vs. the 928...
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James, I'm not being totally anal at all with this discussion per se, just find it interesting that some folks can't get past a few issues.....
I've driven and owned my share of both. There's good and bad in all of them. As I plainly stated, I am not a big Corvette fan, but the Vette didn't suffer the electrical bugs these 928s do, and you don't have carpet in a Vette that you just "throw on the floor" like the 928. Rebuild a Vette engine, parts are everywhere and very inexpensive. Try that with a 928---you know what I'm talking about. The last time I saw a price on a set of stock 928 pistons/rings (any year or choice), they were $2500 and up. You can buy SBC sets for less than $200 on eBay.
Want HP? We've got less than $10G's in our 540 BBC that dyno'ed 1000hp and has run two full seasons without a teardown or issues. Try that with any combination of stroker/blower/turbo 928..... Kuhn's turbo setup is $11.5K plus the short block plus labor--let's just say $25K. Mr. Brown's stroker is rumored to be upwards of $25K. Louie Ott, Mike Simard, the Drama Queen have how much in their ITB strokers??? $30K and up? Murf's blower and short block to match--$20K+. Carl Fausett's stroker plus blower is $30K+. Todd's stroker is how much?...and no one has a trans that will handle their power (at least no one is talking about one that wouldn't involve something really, really exotic). Not to mention that none of these 928s have done 1000hp and 850 ftlbs of torque----at least not yet. You can easily see where this goes...it's beyond silliness.
I like my 928, and I like the Quick 32 car. They are worlds apart. They should each be respected for what they ARE, not what we'd like them to be....the quick 32 car will never turn a corner at over 15mph and the 928 will never run the 1/8th in the low 5's at over 145mph.
if this guy wants to restore a Weissach, I'm all for it!!!
Geeez I need to go back to work....I'm spending entirely tooo much time on this!!!!
--Russ