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Originally Posted by v2rocket_aka944
A smaller engine is completely pointless in a car that sees normal street driving.
If it's your Sunday morning toy or just for fun then have at it with your 1.8t or neon engines...
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True enough, but I guess I don't see the 944 as a "normal" street car. Mine only gets driven a couple times a month when my wife is picking up and dropping off the kids. And even if it were a daily for me my commute sees no traffic and a sizable portion of the drive is beautiful winding roads through the hills of Southeast Indiana.
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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
why wouldnt you put in an LS series?
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I guess the LS just doesn't speak to me. Its an easy road to awesome power, great reliability, and its a proven solution to many of the 944's problems. I don't have a good reason why, but I just don't want one.
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Originally Posted by Arthropraxis
The Audi inline 5 turbo or the Nissan SR20 DET were mentioned as good options in a similar recent thread.
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I would love the Audi engine and the great thing about it is that there is a porsche part number for the bellhousing. The problem with the Audi engines is that they are getting really old and are starting to get hard to find. The SR20 is an interesting piece, but I'm finding that they really aren't the engine everyone has made them out to be. My cousin has a beautiful S14 with a built SR20 and while he makes great power it hasn't been as easy as the internet makes it out to be.