Amber Gramps

What would be the reason for this.

This belongs to a fellow lister and I lifted

the picture off of Russell Berry's site.

Please fill me in.

Helios59

Maybe he's reaaaalllly into leather?
Nice looking Magnacors, though..

Amber Gramps

Not the chaps, the welds.

Amber Gramps

Ported / Polished ???

TroyN

Most likely.

I wonder how much better it is to have the coil facing up and away from the vibration of the fan housing. Seems the shorter path afforded by the stock location would outweigh the benefits of doing that.

Amber Gramps

Troy, the coil is in it's normal position for the 3.2

....it's the split and welded intake plenum I'm freakin' out about.

Here is a shot of Ed's motor. Look at the PORSCHE on his and then go back to the picture above....the PORSCHE is gone....

whalebird

Good question. If port and polish, I think I would extrude hone before going to that much trouble.
One could construe that it has some kind of head/port/engine swap like a 3.6, but other clues in the picture make this highly unlikely. It apears to be a 3.2, and one would use the appropriate intake for a swap I assume.
Beats me.

Amber Gramps

Here is another clue, but I'm still clueless:

https://rennlist.com/forums/6387080-post4.html

3.2 intake on a 3.6 motor???




EDIT: I think I see it...The runners are shorter too.

He cut it's height by at least an inch two as well.

Amber Gramps

Sorry guys, it was a long night.

OK, here it is.....

In an effort to fore go the 3.6 swap first he tried to shorten

the runners on the intake manifold. In doing so he had to

also make it narrower. Personally I would have trusted

Porsche on this one. I do remember my '64 Cuda running

far better on a tunnel ram than in the normal over under Edelbrock.

Am I close yet?

whalebird

So I was right. Well, at least I guessed. I still feel like you Douglas - WTF. You have heard me say it before, but there is a cool PMO carb set up for the 3.6. I love that idea, and you know it would sound awesome. If your going to all that trouble...

deep_uv

A 3.6 would have twin plugs, though.

rusnak

A 3.2 intake and engine management system could be put on a 3.6 but the question is "why"? I've seen 3.6 Variram engines transplanted into 3.2s. The project is very costly. The exhaust system needs to be significantly changed.

The stock 3.2 and 3.6 intakes are designed to compress air above a certain RPM. The 3.6 systems were attempts to elongate the power range with moveable intake plenums. I wonder how the modifidied 3.2 intake worked in the end on the 3.6.

Interesting that he also has some sort of hot wire mass airflow sensor.

whalebird

Exactly. which means he would really go backwards in many ways like the dual drive belts. It would be a lot easier to make a 3.2 a 3.4, or a 3.6 and maintain the original architecture.

Amber Gramps

that is a Scivision MAF kit

Diamond Blue

This is how the port and polish was accomplished. Cut them in half and do the work and weld them back together. As I remember Andial among others did this to get more even and better flow through the Carrera intake. There is a great deal of flow difference between the runners on the intake, just couldn't find the exact difference but is significant for two of the runners from the rest. You could do the Extrude Hone but it is not as precise as cutting them in two and doing the work. The only way to do it before EH.