HIGHWAYMAN: Bringing the Devore 928 back from the dead
11-09-2017, 01:34 PM
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Did this car ran enough to have an actual racing history?
Seems like it had a steady "diet" of VERY short lived "engine experiments" and was more of a promotional piece than a real race car.
Seems like if you wanted to "restore" it, obtaining the original engine bits and building it back to those specs would have made more sense? (The current engine experiment is very contrary to any of the original variants, correct?)
Like you've said all along, it's your money, your car and you can do anything you want, but your recent shift in the overall goal is very confusing.
11-09-2017, 01:49 PM
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I don't see it....
Did this car ran enough to have an actual racing history?
Seems like it had a steady "diet" of VERY short lived "engine experiments" and was more of a promotional piece than a real race car.
Seems like if you wanted to "restore" it, obtaining the original engine bits and building it back to those specs would have made more sense? (The current engine experiment is very contrary to any of the original variants, correct?)
Like you've said all along, it's your money, your car and you can do anything you want, but your recent shift in the overall goal is very confusing.
Did this car ran enough to have an actual racing history?
Seems like it had a steady "diet" of VERY short lived "engine experiments" and was more of a promotional piece than a real race car.
Seems like if you wanted to "restore" it, obtaining the original engine bits and building it back to those specs would have made more sense? (The current engine experiment is very contrary to any of the original variants, correct?)
Like you've said all along, it's your money, your car and you can do anything you want, but your recent shift in the overall goal is very confusing.
Many cars in every class, their only race history is vintage racing......It's a "gentleman's" club and at least around here he would be in Group 10 unless group 6 wasn't full they'd stick him there since that would be the most competitive for a 928.
Lean-Louis supercharged EuroS was accepted by VSCDA & SVRA and his only racing history is with PCA.
Besides that, no matter how you shake it, this car his historic significance. It doesn't have to be on any sanctioned race track or event to qualify for that status.
Good example is the Allard J2X-C. Raced once, never finished development but fully accepted in every vintage circle and considered a significant piece of history to Group-C and GTP.
11-09-2017, 02:09 PM
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There are plenty of race cars out there that never raced or ever turned a wheel in any sort of competition. It doesn't make them any less rare, and many can be found in museums. The Ferrari 288 GTO Evoluzione comes to mind....probably a 15 million dollar car if you could find one, never turned a wheel in anger.
Check out this link https://thedrivenblog.com/2015/02/23...t-never-raced/
The astute observer will note that many of these cars can be found in museums and as part of exhibits.
Now let's talk about the Devore car a minute. In the 928 community, Devore himself was a pioneer and the founder of a company that more or less started 928 tuning in North America. The car itself has many firsts on it, and many parts that don't exist on any other car. Also, it is the first Kevlar bodied 928 to my knowledge and to this day, it is the only 928 in the world that can accomodate 16" wide tires in the rear and 14" tires in the front. Love it or hate it, it is a unique, one off, early car that has no peer in the 928 world.
Notice I didn't say it's particularly valuable, but value in and of itself isn't everything.
Take a trip to the Porsche museum. You'll see lots of prototypes and rare cars that didn't do a lot of driving necessarily but they moved the ball forward technology wise enough to remain significant.
And they were rare enough to wind up in the museum rather than the dumpster.
Check out this link https://thedrivenblog.com/2015/02/23...t-never-raced/
The astute observer will note that many of these cars can be found in museums and as part of exhibits.
Now let's talk about the Devore car a minute. In the 928 community, Devore himself was a pioneer and the founder of a company that more or less started 928 tuning in North America. The car itself has many firsts on it, and many parts that don't exist on any other car. Also, it is the first Kevlar bodied 928 to my knowledge and to this day, it is the only 928 in the world that can accomodate 16" wide tires in the rear and 14" tires in the front. Love it or hate it, it is a unique, one off, early car that has no peer in the 928 world.
Notice I didn't say it's particularly valuable, but value in and of itself isn't everything.
Take a trip to the Porsche museum. You'll see lots of prototypes and rare cars that didn't do a lot of driving necessarily but they moved the ball forward technology wise enough to remain significant.
And they were rare enough to wind up in the museum rather than the dumpster.
11-09-2017, 04:16 PM
#814
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11-09-2017, 08:05 PM
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11-15-2017, 06:45 PM
#818
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WOW...!
11-16-2017, 01:11 PM
#822
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As luck would have it, I should have two 6.5L motors going to the engine dyno pretty close to each other. This one, and my own from my race car that just got a new set of heads. It will be fun to compare these two dyno charts, both maximum builds, one boosted, the other NA.
11-17-2017, 01:40 PM
#823
Drifting
The oil filler cap is quite a bit lower from the top of the plenum versus the stock intake. Are you guys confident that this intake will fit under a stock hood with no mods?
Can't wait to see the numbers!
Can't wait to see the numbers!
11-18-2017, 01:23 PM
#825
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Looking amazing!
Is that intake much higher than stock or is it just the angle we're looking from?
Can't believe how much you've achieved on the car, an inspiration to us all.
Is that intake much higher than stock or is it just the angle we're looking from?
Can't believe how much you've achieved on the car, an inspiration to us all.