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Sorry, I can't help but take the bait.
Just out of curiousity, you say that you want to keep the car 80% stock but are going to a chevy engine and changing the bumpers? Don't you consider this a more than a 20% variation from stock?
I think I understand where the emotion and the word "butchery" is comming from when talking about a chev conversion. The butchery doesn't really imply ugly chopping with crude tools from Midevil Times, I think it means that you have removed the heart from a man and replaced it with that of a monkeys.
What upsets me (and i'm sure most p-car car owners opposed to this conversion) is that you are using the Porsche for superficial reasons and not really respecting the car for it finer points. You said this yourself, you like the styling of the 911. Surely there are lighter, stiffer chassis out there that you could use your chev engine in.
Well there it is, my loaded opinon and nothing more. Sorry for the lack of fact and technical details.
I am young and I don't make a fortune. I see how much this 3.0 rebuild will cost me and a chev conversion could be very tempting at this point. I can't bring myslef to do it, I love my "F6" too much.
The way I see it, if you can't afford a 911, then don't buy one. Its not like anyone told you that it would be cheap....
Sorry to keep this post alive,
Adam Roseneck
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1978 911SC 3.0
roseneck@cyberbeach.net
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