Watch a Singer-Reimagined 911 Engine Get Built
The Finest Porsches on the Planet Deserve the Finest Powerplants
The Singer-Reimagined 911 represents the absolute pinnacle of automotive engineering and art. You’d be hard pressed to find a vehicle anywhere on Earth with such incredible attention to detail. Singer rebuilds and reinvigorates air-cooled 911s, turning them into automotive jewelry through more than 4,000 man-hours of work.
Nothing, and we mean nothing, is left untouched. With only the best materials and handcrafted parts, it’s no surprise these things cost $300,000-plus. But while Singer does most of the work on these gorgeous works of art, they don’t build the engines. That job is outsourced to Ed Pink Racing Engines (EPRE), a high-tech outfit known for building and developing racing powertrains.
EPREÂ crafts three different types of air-cooled beauties for Singer. Customers can choose from one of two 3.8-liter variants: one producing 300 hp and the other pumping out 350. The top choice is a 4.0-liter, 390-hp engine that propels a 911 to 60 mph in only 3.3 seconds. All three retain much of the original Porsche character, but they’re blueprinted and built to exact tolerances.
To get an idea of what goes into crafting these engines, Hagerty headed over to EPRE for a tour of the facility. EPRE’s general manger, Frank Honsowetz, gives us some valuable insight into how they go about building engines worthy of Singer’s reputation. And Honsowetz doesn’t exactly exhibit any modesty here, claiming that his engines are the very best modified Porsche powerplants in existence.
And who’s to argue? These Singer engines aren’t just beautiful to look at; they are seriously capable and reliable mills. Combine that with the sweet, sweet music they produce, and you’ve got some of the best engines produced by anyone, anywhere.
