SoloRacer

For sale on evil bay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1986-...#ht_500wt_1182

Carlsbergas

Bit pricey..

drift a 944

Hmm, not far from me, maybe I could check it out next time I'm at Road Atlanta. 120k is a bit steep indeed. I think 119k would be reasonable though.

SeaCay

It's pricey, but it does have some historic pedigree.

Pics: http://www.fabcar-usa.com/photo-gallery/previous-work/

Another (similar) one was for sale ~2 yrs ago for 70K: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...ns-am-car.html The Paul Miller car may have been the "father" of the 944GTR as proposed by Al Holbert.

"Unofficial" IMSA article: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...ns-am-car.html

V2Rocket

imagine if you could blueprint all the go-fast bits and reproduce them...

TonyG

The problem is where to race it and what class would it be in.

While legal in all the clubs, it is a tube frame car.... which bumps it into a class where you have 1000+ HP cars.

TonyG

TonyG

And as far as the price goes.... $120k is nothing compared to what it costs to build a car like that.

TonyG

eman930

Why hasn't this happened yet

TonyG

The whole car is a tube frame race car.

The only thing Porsche on the car is probably the one-off cylinder and block castings.

TonyG

333pg333

I agree, on one hand it's actually great value. On the other, what to do with it? It's old world aero too but you wouldn't want to change this car I doubt.

TonyG

The aero is an easy fix. But you'd still be bumped into classes where the cars are huge HP and stupid fast.

TonyG

333pg333

Just not sure if you'd want to be making changes to a classic...for what it's worth?

eman930

Wow so it's not even a 944 engine?

TonyG

It sort of is....

The head and block were similar but different castings from the production pieces. The pistons, rods, crank, valves, valve springs, were not production. It is dry sumped, and solid lifters on the valves ( note the access holes on the cam carrier).

It's a real race engine not a beefed up production engine.


It's a great car worth every bit of $120k.


TonyG

TonyG

I would. The car would be very fast around a track. And there's nothing like a professionally built race car.

Some aero would be fairly trivial to add on. Plus you'd just make molds of the factory body work, then put a knock-off set on with the changes and go race.

The only real issue is getting slicks in the sizes that are on the car now and brake pads for the calipers. That might have to change a little.

But again... my only concern would be who I'd have to race against being a tube frame car.

TonyG