[TooBrash]

Ah dew
When I look at my postings I cringe, so instead of starting a thread here or in the racing sub, I'll ask here what effort can I make to LIGHTEN these or somewhat lower the WEIGHT in the rear, to better compare with early 912? A local Porsche expert whom I am luckily able to bug says I could swap trailing arms [sic] which are steel in the 912E and alloy in the 6-cyls. I can mothball the heat exchangers and reactors and smog pump which would save many kilograms, and after winning the lottery get nikasil cylinders which would be good for 5 lbs. I was thinking of trying to do a space frame crossmember, which the local guy said some drill. I am not malcontent; if you recall any scenes in horror flicks where the camera is speeded up and people, like, crawl on the ceiling, or run from werewolves, that is how the car seems to go through turns. But the press, specifically Octane, (not the mag edited by Raby,) thrash this model on this basis. Some Men's Journal guy consoled me some, but as someone without the aptitude to fathom carburetors I'm constrained in power and seek to address weight. I can't find much on the issue, as if it's some proprietary issue that nobody wants to get out. The local guy said that alloy calipers could be substituted too, and that an 18mm Benz master cylinder could be dropped in, although that isn't a lightening mod and would seem to mean I'd have to stomp even harder coming on i.e. backed up exit or deer.
I'm glad I can edit my stupid postings and replace with more drivel herewith. Even with braces these are pretty cars, I can google the VIN, unlike myself, deceleration and transmission are flat-out luxurious, although I hear bearing rotation which I thought lube was supposed to muffle. (The Swepco or whatever it is looked clean on my finger and seemed up to the fill hole...). I'm also kinda scared to drive in the big city, where no one is attentive to operating their car, and the brakes don't have a servo. I have to replace some plywood under the pedals and then I'll know how beefy the attachment for them is. As a road cyclist (who eschews lycra mostly,) I was appalled at the 215/65R14's which I rationalized replacing Hancook up front because of "dry-rot" with 185/70/14, which changed the feel of the steering, and now am OK with the Goodyears in the back. This is all stuff people already know; the PO it turns out had been making the effort with the bureaucracy to get to me the title; he just kept me in the dark all along but his reputation is hopefully intact enough. Sonuva- I'll have to extol his virtue somewhere, stealthily. I wanted a completely impractical car; I had my eye on bugeye Sprites but they were expensive and I don't know about British parts availability; the 912E falls kind of short, it's actually kind of useful, although about this locale, I used to say, "even somebody with a Porsche doesn't have much fun driving around here." Originality seems to be such a big deal with it; I'm one of those more inclined to install a different color door than drill two holes on the passenger side for an outside mirror. I'll probably end up clamping a mirror to a Thule rack.