OT: Porsche Guy or Alfa Guy?

[glepore]

Originally Posted by Steve in SLO

I loved mine, too. Insanely quick and carried momentum through corners like nothing else. I also liked the David vs Goliath aspect of running with Twin Turbos, Corvettes and Vipers on the track. This little car offended a few of them, I'm sure.
914s are climbing in value and make good project cars, but finding a solid example as a basis is a must. Many have led hard lives and they grow rust.

Had a similar teener 6 with a 2.7 on slicks as a hillclimb car. Massive fun.

[Steve in SLO]

Excellent!
Mine was a 2.4S motor built up to 2.7 with E cams and Webers. 1750#. Also massive fun.

[grateful]

I also once made it from Austin to DFW in 30 minutes even with all of the construction in Temple. M3's are incredible.

[texbike]

Originally Posted by grateful

I also once made it from Austin to DFW in 30 minutes even with all of the construction in Temple. M3's are incredible.

Oh, c'mon now.... Austin to Dallas in 30 minutes? What would that be? 400 mph? Is the M3 that you're referring to a small jet aircraft or perhaps a documented wormhole?

Texbike

[jlwdm]

Originally Posted by texbike

Oh, c'mon now.... Austin to Dallas in 30 minutes? What would that be? 400 mph? Is the M3 that you're referring to a small jet aircraft or perhaps a documented wormhole?

Texbike

He is just posting nonsense about Seattle to Tacoma and Austin to DFW drives. Not sure the purpose since they are so far from reality. One too fast and one too slow. I gave him the benefit and used Fort Worth as he said DFW. So only 380 mph.

Jeff

[bking]

Porsche.
In '04 I bought an 02 Turbo with 2000 miles on it. Changed out the seats, stereo, did a little engine tuning work, exhaust, suspension etc. For the next 8 years it cranked out 600 hp, 600 ft pounds of torque, good tunes, and really good times spread out over some 110,000 miles of this country from the Mississippi River to the Canadian Northwest and the deserts of the Southwest. And anything that resembled a freeway was not worthy, and using mostly motorcycle websites, advrider.com in particular, we sought out every off the beaten path little ribbon of winding asphalt that went some where we could find. Road car without peer, in my opinion. And it never, not once, missed a beat. Good times. Thank you Porsche for building a car at this level that is meant to be ridden, and ridden long and hard.

[texbike]

Originally Posted by jlwdm

He is just posting nonsense about Seattle to Tacoma and Austin to DFW drives. Not sure the purpose since they are so far from reality. One too fast and one too slow. I gave him the benefit and used Fort Worth as he said DFW. So only 380 mph.

Jeff

Ah, gotcha. I missed the context of the statement. Thanks.

Originally Posted by bking

Porsche.
In '04 I bought an 02 Turbo with 2000 miles on it. Changed out the seats, stereo, did a little engine tuning work, exhaust, suspension etc. For the next 8 years it cranked out 600 hp, 600 ft pounds of torque, good tunes, and really good times spread out over some 110,000 miles of this country from the Mississippi River to the Canadian Northwest and the deserts of the Southwest. And anything that resembled a freeway was not worthy, and using mostly motorcycle websites, advrider.com in particular, we sought out every off the beaten path little ribbon of winding asphalt that went some where we could find. Road car without peer, in my opinion. And it never, not once, missed a beat. Good times. Thank you Porsche for building a car at this level that is meant to be ridden, and ridden long and hard.

Wow. Sounds like fun! The 996 Turbos are monsters and it sounds like yours was especially so. Great perspective on the cars.

Texbike

[Steve in SLO]

Bking gets the spirit of Porsche.

[William]

Is this wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJLdzRJdKrs








W.

[Tickdoc]

Not exactly relevant to this discussion, but exciting nonetheless:

https://youtu.be/zyYgDtY2AMY

[Vientomas]

Is this wrong?

Yes.

[54ny77]

Heresy, in fact.

Originally Posted by William

Is this wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJLdzRJdKrs








W.

[thwart]

Originally Posted by Vientomas

Is this wrong?

Yes.

Meh. 150 mph capability and a 200 mile range.

I'd drive one.

[William]

Originally Posted by Vientomas

Is this wrong?

Yes.

Well then don't go to the EV West conversion page...

https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index...2fa40g9h6frg06






W.

[Steve in SLO]

I don't think it's wrong, but doing an EV 911 doesn't excite me. Two conversions I've recently seen that are intriguing are an original Mini Cooper, and 914. Karmann Ghias are also a great platform for this .

Example of a Mini:

https://petrolicious.com/articles/th...rder-in-the-uk