Porsche freaks. What wrong with this car?

[clutch-monkey]

Never heard of GM conversions either

Would love to rock up to a snooty 911 meet in this

http://youtu.be/NBF5HcXsiI4

they've been around forever but never really work in the aircooled cars because you can't cool the V8 properly.
996 and boxster really saw them get popular, what with the IMS fears and already having radiators in place.

[Stix Zadinia]

and i think putting a V8 in an air cooled car might affect it's value a little lol

[ZammoTheCockroach]

Maybe he paid a paver to do it?

funneh.

[irsa76]

they've been around forever but never really work in the aircooled cars because you can't cool the V8 properly.
996 and boxster really saw them get popular, what with the IMS fears and already having radiators in place.

They've been doing the SBC into 911 conversion since the 1970s,

[clutch-monkey]

They've been doing the SBC into 911 conversion since the 1970s,

yes, and outside of cut up track toys they still tend to overheat at anything over stock hp without big body mods to get actual size radiators in there.
some people make it work, and some people put a radiator under the whale tail grille lol. it's all a big fuck around.. 996 was a godsend for these guys.

[irsa76]

I never said they worked

[clutch-monkey]

I never said they worked

haha
one guy on pparts put a 350 into his 912. made the swb handle great

[ALLMTR]

Ahh yep, the 996 - the 911 no one touches with a barge pole unless its a Mezger donk.

......also fried egg headlights

Some cunt would clean up if he could get 997 headlights integrated into a 996 guard/bumper, me thinks

[TJ Shermuz]

Coming from an ex-Lotus Exige S owner...
As a street car

Cayman>Lotus.

And that's not because it's inferior. Quite the opposite. The Loti is a better car - so much so, that you just can't fully enjoy it on the street. So the stripped race-spec' is a shameful waste, compared.

So the lotus is the better car but the defect is the owner?

[TJ Shermuz]

i made a graphic

[VRSenator065]

How does an oil pump sieze momentarily? Were the bearings fucked? Which parts were replaced in the $15k repair?

NFI, initially they weren't sure what had happened, it broke the timing chain with 60,000 on the clock pulling away from the lights at average speed. Bent a couple of valves on that bank, and damaged the sprocket on the end of the IMS. Craig was sitting there spinning the shaft of the oil pump by hand when I was there and it suddenly locked up, he smiled and said that's it, they are known to do it. In my case engines out, blocks split, so more or less minor rebuild, bearings, heads, rings, no rebore or anything. Check out the IMS thread on the Porsche forum, pretty sure you will quickly work out which guy is me. Buyer beware...http://porscheforum.com.au/index.php...7-ims-failure/

[Stix Zadinia]

Some cunt would clean up if he could get 997 headlights integrated into a 996 guard/bumper, me thinks

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Porsche-9...-/190329856647