Porsche: 944/928 Swap?

No. The 928 engine is too wide and the front clips needs extensive
re-work to make it go.

You might consider a 968 engine. That's pricey but fits and flanges up
to the engine mounts and tranny.

The there's a chevy 350.

Bret Ludwig wrote: 

Speaking as someone who has owned 2 V8 coverted Porsches, I STRONGLY
reccomend against it. Both were factory built by the conversion company and
neither ever worked right. For the money I spent I could have built an
incredibly Porsche engine for either car. Don't believe the dollar/HP bit,
it just isn't so!

CCC

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cccentral@*nospam**sbcglobal.net wrote: 

_Which_ conversion company? I've read good things about one, but if
you have different experiences, it'd be nice to hear.

And what didn't work right?

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The one in Las Vegas. Both cars never cooled correctly, the A/C never worked, the parts used were VERY low buck, the brackets
rusted, the hard parts cracked, and the parts were just junk. We learned later that this company had new owners, but I don't know if that
made a difference. We heard a LOT of positive stuff, but when we tried to find a consistant working car later..... well, it was like
looking for a Unicorn.

For instance we had problems with the starter on one car. We took it in to the starter shop and they said "Well, that's what you get for
buying a 49.00 piece of taiwan junk." When we told them we paid nearly 300.00 for it, the said they hoped we got a cigarette
afterwards.

Bottom line, apparently Rod Simpson has made this conversion work but I have NEVER seen proof that it will work over the long
term. Every car I see is "almost finished" or "just trying to work some bugs out".

We ended up spending 25,000.00 on the initial conversion and another 15,000.00 trying to get it to work right. Think of the 911
powerplant you could build for the intial 25k!

CCc

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This is what I've heard elsewhere as far as a Chevy converison goes. You
look at the price for crate engine, a built engine or whatever and think
"Geez, for $4k I can stick in 450bhp!" Then the reality hits of really
making it work well. All the electronics and accessories cost real $$ to
make work. And getting it to work as a smooth package where you've
dropped in a low-revving torque monster in place of a high-revving
torque weanie means tranny changes. Sure, $4k for the engine and another
$10k getting it right.

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