[VW@heart]

In reply to Aircool:

I must have typed my last reply incorrectly. Everything after "....you'll be thinking.." is what YOU or someone like you might be thinking. The entire paragraph is a joke on your car, or a similiar person that drives around a 911 that has 25 different manufactur's parts and stick thier nose up at another guys car for changing the engine.

Have I even owed a VW? The answer is yes about a dozen over the past 15 yrs. As a youjgster, when I was not racing with my V8 friends I was arguing with them the atributes of my lightweight aircooled engine.

In reply to Pillow: Are you following this thread? I was replying to some else's posting by pasting thier Point #4. None of those points are mine. I'm just asking what that has to do with this thread.

Concerning your secound point Pillow. No the ONLY thing to compare with the engines, are what's actually going in and what coming out. EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVERYTHING ELSE. My daddy's old oil-burning-valve-cover- leaking pickup truck engine is not getting a power wash and going into the ass end of my 2001 Porche. What?

Serious money? In relation to what, stock parts? Yes. In relation to stock Porche parts? NO. Geez man high RPM aftermarket chevy parts stacked on shelves all around most of my friends garages. As far as stock parts; forged 283 cranks that can be preped for hundreds of runs at 7,000 rpm are usually free to a good home, thus the high rpm 302 becomes viable for a budget builder.

In reply to 930 fan: WHAT? Your comparing oranges to apples too. Drop all of those Motortrend magazines off at your Barber shop. WOW! That was armchair at its best. If you want someone to help you through your learning process it's not a big deal, but please touch bases with an old V8 racer before posting those guffy armchair statements.

930fan cont: On your road to carifying your knowledge- one clue - NEVER say NEVER. If I had a penny for every free revving reliable SBC, everyone on this thread could retire. YES, 930fan there was no typo, free revving and reliable SBC are all over the place. It's no big deal, you just did't grow up with drag racers offering you a beer in the morning. And for the inexperienced, "Drag Racing" is not always synonmous with "built to blow up". If you want a few GOOD texts to read I can send you a short but good list, seriously. it's no big deal.

Hey 930 and similarly informed posters: the old Porsche mechanic ks911 is telling you with race proven accuracy(not only his first hand comparison), 350hp from 930 is NOT comparable to 350 hp from a HiPo SBC. A bit like there's no comparing a SBC to a 350 hp tractor motor (in terms of power band). The big diference here of course is the SBC powerband can easily be designed to fall right where you need it. Two different hp/TORQUE animals, one with a board usable powerband that I want in my car, the other with a track like power band I don't want in my car. "tracklike" does not imply faster at the track either, back to ks911s point.

---> It seems like the posters have stopped reading the BEGINNING of the thread, and just picking out what ever twist they can argue.

How about sticking to ks911s situation and similiar ones. Taking an old aircooled 911 engine and swaping it for a current tech aftermarket built SBC and more common than not the according upgrades that need to be made to the rest of the car.

Well becuase of this post have recieved several helpful emails, thanks. I have also recieved some interesting pictures and when each authors permission hits my inbox I will post them.

[This message has been edited by VW@heart (edited 03-01-2001).]

[This message has been edited by VW@heart (edited 03-01-2001).]