ferfont1

Well, i feel i'm far enough into my project to start a build thread. Background on the car so no Porsche purists freak out! lol. This is a 99' 996 with the ever so sought after 3.4l m96 So already a good reason to swap the motor out. Second the reason for all the updated body work was the previous owner/owners (8 i believe!!) side swiped a guard rail and went over curbs with it....so i'm not worried about whipping my sawzall out and cutting up the body....since it wasnt perfect to begin with.

So here we are with the PERFECT candidate for a v8 swap!!

*** So this thread will show my journey into swapping an LSX motor into the P-car ***

I'd like to thank whit3out and 1dirtyZ for the inspiration and also Nick (whit3out) has helped me with my questions tremendously along the way. Great car guy that genuinely likes to help the car community!!

Onto the car:
-99' 996 c2 6speed
-09' GT3rs front clip (genuine bumper,fiberglass fenders,fiberglass hood,genuine head lights)
-996 RSR rear widebody and side skirts (took me awhile to figure out)
-19" HRE 542r's (came with some nasty no name 19's with 6 layers of different color paint on them)
-Bilstein PSS10 (came with custom cut springs!! lol)
-Plastidip Matte white exterior (Great 10 footer!!) At some point i may get all the body work 100% and get a proper paint job on it. Looks great at 10 feet away though!!
-Grey interior with some custom touches.....custom black suede airbag covers!lol, i'm assuming they blew out at some point. Black suede on the inner part of the grey seats.

Onto the pics:

Day i picked her up! If i wasnt soo excited to get into a 911 i would have done a proper inspection and probably wouldnt have gone through with the trade. I uncovered a plethora of hidden damage that was not shared with me. Cut springs, broken and welded subframe, broken under chassis braces, broken and jb welded power steering lines, broken ac lines, etc, etc. Anyway, whats done is done.

Cracked front end and ugly wheels in all their glory!!

Genuine gt3rs front bumper and HRE's added


Plastidip added


Farewell trusty M96



Stiffened up the trans mount while easy to get to

Hello broken subframe! Quality weld repair as well! Old vs. New replacement.

I must be hittin the gym good! One twist with my bare hands!! lol

Hello studly!! (reference to the arp head studs for the non wrench turners)

And wah lah!!

Spec stage......stage good enough for 750ft/tq!!!!


Motor and transaxle mated up via custom plate

BOOM we're in!!

Fabbing up mounts with cardboard

Cardboard into metal

Corvette fuel filter/regulator in stock 996 location

Corvette "batwing" oil pan to look more porschey....its also the shallowest pan with cool road race baffling technology


And thats where i'm at now folks!! Here is a list of things before she cranks up!
-Plug up my gutted Porsche engine harness to run the gauges
-Run power,ground,key on to my GM harness
-fab coolant lines
-install batwing oil pan
-fab temporary exhaust consisting of factory ls6 manifolds,pre cats, and cats.
-fill fluids
-Crank her up!! Fingers crossed since i didnt take this motor out of a running car.

rattlsnak

Are you using a kit? (like the Renegade kit), or fabbing everything yourself?

Kalashnikov

Epic thread. Great job on doing so much work to the car. Can't wait to see it running.

Barn996

Wow, quite a story and an interesting build to boot. A litany of surprises that you are checking off one at a time.

STAGGERWING

Quite an effort & appreciate you sharing !
What is weight diff in motors ?

Bob
01 C4

31 Ford cp chp & ch, 302/350

40 ******, 302/350, IFS

38 Ford cp, 327/350, IFS

57 Belair

62 356B --long ago

Capt. Obvious

LSX motors actually weight a bit less than an M96 surprisingly enough.

Great project! Looks like the car was a bit of turd to start off with, hope you got it for dirt cheap!

FRUNKenstein

Fun project. Looks like you've got the right attitude to get 'er done. Good luck & keep us posted.

williamr91

This is awesome!!!! Good luck with build, a bit disappointed you wont sound like a H-6 GT3RS, but this is still something I'd drive All the time.

ferfont1

I fabbed the motor mounts and had a shop that specializes in kit cars build the adapter plate and flywheel. Came out about $3k cheaper than the renegade kit.
Hopefully soon! I only get 2 days out of the week to work on it, but its very close now!
Yeah, everything i find broken/rigged, i go on ebay and find it on the cheap and replace. That rear subrame was only $50!! I think that is the only thing cheap for a porsche since there's not a large market replacing pieces like that.
It's about 50lbs lighter and will be right at 500hp to the flywheel
Oh yeah, i traded a car i didnt have much into, and was already following the original v8 swap threads.
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Just a few more solid days and it will be done, well running.......far from done! lol. It's just waiting on little parts to buy and get shipped to me that holds me up.

It will have the looks and power, just not the sound! lol. But i'll still get some looks with cammed v8 thumping from the back! I looked at gt3rs motors and they were in the $40k range.....way out of my pay grade!!

fpb111

Looking at the yellow color of your coolant overflow tank I would change it while you have access. This one wasn't as aged, yellow, looking as yours.

ferfont1

thanks for the heads up, might just throw in a custom aluminum one i have laying around.

ECS Tuning

This would be a fun project. Very similar to whiteouts thread. If you don't mind me asking, what did you end up trading for it?

alpine003

Which conversion fenders did you use and how was the fit/finish?

NineEreven

Looks great! Keep us updated with pics, as soon as someone with eGas gets into it, ill follow shortly.

ferfont1

it was a 93 FD rx7
Not sure, it was already done. Probably that $3kish one on ebay. Fit and finish was great till i threw on the oem bumper, now there is a small gap between the bumper and front of the hood.
will do!