Which would you choose?, Subie w/325 hp or 2.8 massive IV with 225 hp Options

[hot_shoe914]

Okay I have come to a point where I am in a delima. I have a '73 2.0 car with the appearance group package that has had all 911 suspension upgrades and I will also be adding GT flares. I was originally going to put a 2.8 IV in it with about 225 horses but now am considering a subie engine putting out about 325 horses or more. I have always been a purist but there is something to be said for smoking the competion through the curves and also being able to dust the muscle cars down the highways. I can get into the 2.8 for around 7000.00 for motor and tranny minus installation. I can get into the subie for about 4800.00 minus installation.

What are the thoughts and opinions out there along with the pros and cons for each. All input would be greatly appreciated.



Donald

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[Jake Raby]

I'm not a fan of big T4's regardless of the sales pitches. Funny thing is many of the T4 horor stories rarely make it to any of the boards, but hang around in 914 community long enough you hear/see all the issues and the money that gets thrown at making these motors work correctly.

I'd bet that if YOU knew ANYTHING about them you'd certainly post them right here. Thats because you'll do anything possible to downplay what I create and the TIV- period. Any simple mistake I make is ammunition for a person such as yourself to use against me and the engines I create.

So if it really existed, why didn't YOU post it?

(And you wonder why I kicked your ass off my boards.)

Best choice of all for a 914-4 owner that plans street and some AX is to just go with a nice 2056 and pass on the drag racing. Why not keep thae car as close to stock as possible to retain reliability that was engineered by true engineers rather than barn yard bandits

So, you call me a "Barnyard Bandit"...

Have you ever designed an engine that made 52 HP per cylinder N/A and then standardized that assembly into a package that is able to be assembled by someone that has literally NEVER worked on an engine before??? Until you do you haven't been as effective as this "Barnyard Bandit".

Thats OK, Excellence Magazine will be in my "Barnyard" next week covering another of the developments that have sprouted from the seeds we started sowing 3 years ago. You'll rread about it in a couple of months in a few thousand words of detail. I wonder if Grant has ever had his work featured in such an article?

Here is a good pic to piss Grant off a little more.. This is a customer who I flew 2300 miles to see and repair his oil leak on his RAT Turn Key engine. He didn't have to ask me to do it. we pulled the engine in his garage and repaired the leak..

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