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ks911,
As a general rule, I believe that if you haven't got anything good to say then it's better not to say anything. However, since you've said you don't care what the anti-Chev brigade has to say then it leaves me free to say this - you are a butcher.
Why the hell do you have a Porsche in the first place if you like pushrod v-8s? It's akin to having a Supermodel with a 1st class from Oxford in Latin for a girlfriend and then slapping on a set of Pamela Anderson boobs and transplanting hooker's brain in so that it's easier and cheaper for you to get your kicks in the sack with her.
Pushrod v-8s go with leaf springs and live axles as it suits the primitive power delivery characteristics ( wow at 2000rpm and breathless at 5000rpm). Why put an ancient, top heavy v-8 in the back of an air-cooled flat 6? For the nearly 6k you spent excluding the trans. mods, you could have sold your 2.7 and added the proceeds and a bit more towards a 3.6 swap and got a well respected, near 300hp true Porsche instead of a car that will get you sniggers, incredulity, bewilderment, disgust and nausea from the Porsche and Chevy groups.
"Its only worth doing if it's done properly". These are words worth remembering. If not I'll just go out and get a Fiero based F40 replica, put a built pushrod v-8 in it and say look, I've got more torque at 2500rpm than those know nothing Ferrari engineers and it only cost me 5% of the real thing. If your budget limits your Porsche power options, live with it like 99.99% of P owners do. Please don't butcher your car (no matter how "neatly") and expect kudos and a pat on the back from those that appreciate that 911s'have flat 6 engines.
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