JohnInTexas

GregBBRD, right you are! I have seen some rear engine compartments that look like a nightmare to work in. The Delorian is another one.

porsche 928 RI

some off-shore powerboats in the mid 80's used 928 engines !

Iwanna928

My 79 passed the Steve test for sure. 3 plus years of driving it hard and she seemed to only want more. I have never owned a car that demanded me to drive it. 2nd was a Thunderbird SC.

JohnInTexas

Now THAT would have to sound good!

Tony

I'm amazed mine is still in one piece. I have 176K miles on it now, granted not much of that is under boost, but all the latter miles are..last 20-25k or so? With heat and all out here i was expecting something to let go. So far so good. Besides being a pretty sturdy motor I attribute it all to the Sharktuner and the ability to safely tune it.


Leak down on my stock motor before the S/C'er
149k miles...2004

1:1-2%
2:3-4%
3:1-2%
4:1-2%
5:1-2%
6:1-2%
7:2-3%
8:1-2%

166k miles ... 2009 ....10psi boost

1: 2%
2: 2%
3: 1%
4: 1%
5: 1%
6: 3%
7: 2%
8: 2%


I'm at 176k now and plan on doing another one soon.


That VW golf is my Holy Grail

soltino

As the buyer of a new 1970 914 and also a new 1984 GTI thosr Videos were very interesting.

Nuen Werke

I disagree about the 930 but of course I work on 928"s and the 911 series and currently have two 930"s at the shop. One is mine and is a major project and the other is a customer's. I can drop the engine and have it on a pallet in 90 minutes and from there it is a joy to perform any work on. It is def. easier than a 928 but I enjoy the 928 work more.

bwoyat

I confess, it was my car that Colin was talking about! Lol

I blew the head gasket at a track day and kept driving it that day then at another event a couple months later? My buddy with a C4S said "wow your car is pretty quick out there!" He's afraid now since I told him that I was only running on 7 cylinders with water lubricant! Lol

The pictures show the blown gasket and what the oil looked like in the separator after the gasket blew for those who've never seen it before. Yuk!!

Lucky for me there were no additional problems as Colin mentioned. He pulled it apart, put it back together and it runs great. Still need a little tuning to confirm we have no more knocking but that will have to wait until spring as the car has been put to bed for the winter. It appears that a $50 waterpump on the IC'r seized creating really high intake temps causing detonation?

All good now except I think we need to rig up a warning system to indicate if the pump fails again to avoid the same issue at another track day.

But have to say, they are pretty tough engines!

IcemanG17

your headgasket looks WORLDS better than the one that came out of my 84 Estate lemons racer.....117k "quoted" mileage from the junkyard and 100+ hours on track in 3 years since then looked like this

Lizard928

It wasn't that old.