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Originally Posted by mrm930
Okay - Is it just me or is putting a chevy engine in a Porsche just freakin wrong. I don't get it. Part of the allure for me are the tweaks that you have to do - you have to understand at least the basics of an opposing 6 motor. A V8 - major water cooled - heavy motor is not anywhere in my wish list. However there are several posts and threads here showing the conversions. I read them a-little then - scratch my head and move on.
Okay, is it just me?
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Many others feel the same way but if you don't want to do it, don't do it.
It's a little egoistical of anyone to suggest that it is wrong or that no one else should do it either.
BTW, the flat six is heavy. Not light.
An iron block chebby V8 with headers, alumimium intake and heads weighs close to the same as a fully dressed 3 liter Porsche six and puts out twice the power and that horsepower is cheap.
There are some people out there that think that anyone who spends $7k or more to rebuild an engine that makes 200 hp is wrong.
That same amount of money would build a NEW reliable 450 to 500 hp from a V8.
I was watching a grand am race the other day, there were three Porsche powered cars entered in the daytona prototype class.
One had a flat six and the other two had V8s. The V8 cars were faster.