Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Engine swaps

[Larry T (l02turner]

Hi Doug,
The june issue of R&T contains a great series of articles in memory of the 50th Anniv of the 911.  One was rare photos showng all the special vehicles created by Porsche and never scrapped, sold, whatever.  the 4 dr 911 for there's also a V8 911 meant to be between the Turbo and 959 until it died a quiet death.    The engne compartment was pretty full!!  They kept all kinds of Porsche's there -- some cut models showing various inside details, etc.  cool stuff...But the 48 911 was impressive!

LarryT

On 9/12/2013 10:24 AM, Doug & Terri wrote:

Engine swaps nil? 

 

Picture this – 1980 at a big autocross site on a Navy base in Long Beach Calif.  Even enough room for a drag strip.  Here I was treated to my first visual lie.  “Visual Lie”?  Ayep – I saw a red 911 Porsche and heard a Corvette.  Rump rump rump.  Turns out a 911 engine and all its stuff is just about as heavy as a Chevy small block.  Only advantage is escaping the $15 to $20,000 911 engine rebuild.  

 

That may have been the only Visual Lie as far as Porsche’s go that I have seen BUT that said, the ultimate Visual Lie was a VW Bug body dropped on a mid-60’s Indy race car chassis.  Saw a VW bug with a cover over the passenger seats, with pretty meaty tires.  Otherwise, pretty stock looking.  Down to the two exhausts pipe where a Bug’s pipe peek out of the rear body under the bumper.  Saw that with Ferrari Willi at Riverside Int Raceway at a USRRC final race in, oh, about 1967-8.  Car recently surfaced in Hot VW’s.  At the time we saw it turns out it belonged to Paul Newman.  I think.

 

Onward

 

DOUG

 

From: Rick [mailto:rolindsay [at] yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:34 AM
To: DOUG
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] Engine swaps

 

Hello Friends,

 

I'm just back from Pennsylvania where I attended the Radnor Hunt Concours with Phil Tegtmeyer. Not a single engine swap on the show field. Lots of classics though.

 

Pretty hard to believe how cavalier we talk about swapping engines in a Rolls or Bentley. After all, the engine is the heart of that (or any) car! Perhaps we should ask a Spitfire pilot if they'd prefer a Chevy lump over that Merlin? Or maybe a 427 in place of that high maintenance V12 in the Daytona? 

 

With all that said, I must confess. In my even-more-stupid youth, I once put a Chevy engine in a Jaguar Mk II. It did run kinda-okay but sounded like an Impala. Sold the bastardized Jag for $1500. The buyer had a 3.8 liter XJ engine ready to retrofit.

 

Engine swaps are bad. If all you want is 'go', buy a Corvette and keep your classic unmolested. 

 

2 cents please.

 

-rick

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