2.7 six for sale, price seems good Options

[ppickerell]

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Porsche 2.7S Complete Motor

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Date: 2004-03-01, 4:05PM PST


Motor is complete including the fuel injection, distributor, flywheel, wiring harness. It ran until one cam went bad with a flat spot. The cam has been replaced and the motor is on a stand now. I would like $1,200 obo, or interesting trades.
Exhaust and oil cooler are not included, thanks for looking


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[lapuwali]

Perhaps this was true in PA, but not in CA. All but a very small handful of cars sold in CA in '75 had catalytic convertors. Unleaded gas had to be widely available by that time.

Figuring out the engine management wasn't really Porsche's doing. Bosch was doing all of that work. The '74-'77 cars all used CIS, as did the '78-'82 catalytic convertor cars. The difference was the later systems used an O2 sensor, where the earlier systems were open loop. The earliest catalysts available didn't require a fully closed loop system (and suffered for it, dying relatively early). Given the 914 never used thermal reactors, but used catalysts from the start (in 1975, with L-Jet rather than K-Jet/CIS), the knowledge of how to use them was readily available to Porsche from both VW and Bosch. Hindsight is 20/20, but given the public reaction, and given Porsche's reaction to that (the SC), I'd say that they didn't realize at the time how bad the problem was going to be, and regretted the decision.

Company politics was no doubt involved heavily. This was also the period the 928 and 924 were being introduced, and factions within Porsche were seriously trying to kill the air-cooled rear-engined cars completely. They certainly didn't realize at the time that it would be another 20 years before that happened.