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01-29-2004, 07:51 PM
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I am so excited about my new power plant that I had to plaster it all over the internet 
.... Question is, I was looking at my stock 993 Varioram run for ever, plenty of power, way cool motor and thought it looked significantly heavier than the fragmentation gernade I had installed. Photo below. What do you think? Lighter by much?
.... Question is, I was looking at my stock 993 Varioram run for ever, plenty of power, way cool motor and thought it looked significantly heavier than the fragmentation gernade I had installed. Photo below. What do you think? Lighter by much?
01-30-2004, 01:34 PM
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Bill,
I was getting DQ'ed for running a stock 3.6 as a 993RS (should be a 3.8). The weak dollar has pushed the price of the 3.8 kit to about $20K by the time you are done. I am gaining very little for a whole lot a $. So I decided to move to GT and buy a race motor.
I found a 3.8RSR motor with dyno time only that was built by Peter Dawe. Full race motor with titanium valves... Motor was installed and rough tuned this week. Goes on the dyno next week for final tune. Then race Sebring mid February. Advertised as a 380hp motor but Peter quoted a higher number. We will see how much power we are putting out with our throttle set ups and management system. Autometrics in Charleston, S.C. did the job for me.
I was getting DQ'ed for running a stock 3.6 as a 993RS (should be a 3.8). The weak dollar has pushed the price of the 3.8 kit to about $20K by the time you are done. I am gaining very little for a whole lot a $. So I decided to move to GT and buy a race motor.
I found a 3.8RSR motor with dyno time only that was built by Peter Dawe. Full race motor with titanium valves... Motor was installed and rough tuned this week. Goes on the dyno next week for final tune. Then race Sebring mid February. Advertised as a 380hp motor but Peter quoted a higher number. We will see how much power we are putting out with our throttle set ups and management system. Autometrics in Charleston, S.C. did the job for me.
01-30-2004, 03:04 PM
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Cams must have come from a coffee shop "custom spec grind"
DTA control unit
3006 Throttle bodies
cross drilled crankshaft
RSR titanium valves
weld cyl heads
port & polish heads
hot tank, all
compression machine pistons
Hard to believe the machine work was $7,579.
These are some items I pulled off the build sheet. Don't know much about it myself but seemed like a good idea at the time. See how it goes at Sebring.
DTA control unit
3006 Throttle bodies
cross drilled crankshaft
RSR titanium valves
weld cyl heads
port & polish heads
hot tank, all
compression machine pistons
Hard to believe the machine work was $7,579.
These are some items I pulled off the build sheet. Don't know much about it myself but seemed like a good idea at the time. See how it goes at Sebring.
01-30-2004, 04:50 PM
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I have never heard the motor run so can't tell you what it sounds like. I pick it up on the 10th so I will know then. This motor was built as a back up motor for a 993RSR. The owner sold the car and I bought the spare motor. Not a great deal of detail on the buildsheet sheet about the specific parts such as the cams. I guess Peter Dawe could tell us...