johnnyreb2010

thanks jasper, you've been sweet, forget about that stigma about porsche owners, i didn't realize how much you knew about american made vehicles too!

tooloud10

This is silly. Not the Porsche with the GM small block, but the snobbery that exists that someone has "disgraced" the community with a project like this. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that doesn't treat the ownership of a car like some kind of religion. I say more power to the guy that got off his *** and actually created something, even if it's not my cup of tea.

ivangene

a lot of talk and I admit, I read up to the V8 Porsche FrankenVette part and tuned out....

but HAAHAA at Jasper, I read his post

911SLOW

Yeah and the rest of us here that think that is a bad idea and a mechanical disgrace to match a one ton v8 behind the rear wheels of a light car, pray everynight under the icon of Saint Ferdinand Porsche and every year on September 3rd we visit Maffersdorf town where we was born and light candles and dance around a fire.
Come on. No snobbery from my side at least. I mean F Porsche and all their shareholders yes but I just don't like the idea as an idea.
And the got off his *** to create something bravo to him can be said for anyone doing anything is not an excuse for a bad concept.



John

ivangene

I think thats my "exit" cue

911SLOW

tooloud10

A one-ton V8?

If there's no snobbery on your part, then it's safe to say that I wasn't referring to you. As far as "bad concept" goes, though, you have a little more work to do to convince me of that. Nobody here has driven, much less even SEEN the car in question, yet you're quick to dismiss it as a "bad concept". For all we know this is the slickest engine transplant ever done and it drives like a lightweight 997TT.

Especially hilarious to me is this "air-cooled heritage" talk going on in the forum of the first water-cooled 911 models. There's something of a "hierarchy of hate" amongst Porsche owners and this is just another example...air-cooled 911 owners make fun of all the other Porsches, 911 owners hate on the Boxster/Cayman, Boxster/Cayman guys make fun of Panameras and Cayennes, and Panamera/Cayenne owners make fun of all the other makes. CGT owners would probably find something to hate if they weren't busy spending their money.

I'm not saying that anyone should be expected to like the modification, but the negative talk about something nobody's even laid eyes on is pretty telling to me.

911SLOW

Ok 486 pounds but you got the point. It’s not mechanically clever.

Maybe if you see the ridicule you’ll start praying with the rest of us. I think the Barnard phrase "A picture is worth a thousand words" is appropriate.

About the civil war between Porsche aficionados I agree with you and also I couldn’t care less. People tend to do these things in all aspects of life. Let them be.

John

johnnyreb2010

tooloud, i knew this was gonna **** off some of the porsche die-hards, but i just had to find out why, they think that the porsche is to be idolized & its a disgrace to change one thing on this car unless its oem, or at least it suits them, i just like cars it DOESN'T necessarily have to be a porsche. i'm gonna quote rayS, i think this sums it up, (the fastest race cars & the fastest street cars porsche has ever produced have 1 thing in common, they were all WATER-COOLED, porsche has a great history of air cooled cars, but it is just that a history. like it or not air cooled is a part of porsches past that will probably never return, i never could understand those enthusiasts who could never see past the air-cooled cars)imo the ones that are offended are the air cooled. but some people will always live in the past, by the way ivangene, would you pick me up on the way out

Edgy01

You can do anything you want to these cars. However, once something other than a Porsche engine is installed they are not considered 'Porsches' anymore.

ivangene

we could turn this into the "most modified P-car thread.... no matter how you gfeel about it, its cool that people do "stuff" and I admire them rather I would or would not do it..

just because I would not do it doesnt mean I dont think its cool they did.... and rather its an old Model T or a 2011 Porsche GT3RS.... having the ***** to modify something is what makes the world a cool place to be.

also I have zero input because I have never done those things... In high school I had a buddy put a 396 into a Datsun B210... yea, crazy (scary) but there are always people wanting to do that sort of thing...

johnnyreb2010

edgy01, thats what one of my porsche old die hard buddies told me when i put WATER in mine, but as far as the other car, no it still has porsche on the title, & you can't tell the difference going down the road, it may sound a lil' meaner

johnnyreb2010

ivangene i just sent you a pm

911SLOW

^

Johnny listen every time you send a PM you don’t have to announce it. If you keep it a secret it’s ok.


John

Pac996

Besides engine weight and torque to road for the cornering aspect of things, $25k is BS.