4 Cylinder 911 based motor, Polo - by Dean Polopolus of APE, Inc. Options

[bcheney]

I went to the Winter Park, Florida Concours De Elegance today and saw one of the coolest Porsche cars I have ever seen. It was a 356 "Special" built by Emory Motorsports. It has a 4 cylinder, 911 based motor. Dean Polopolus. Owner of APE, Inc. has engineered a powerful high performance piece of machinery by developing the Polo 4 cylinder 911. The Crank case has been casted and machined and is now in various cars all over the world. Glad I went to this event today....Have you guys ever seen or heard of this motor?

[mepstein]

I've worked on many automobiles over the years and after service in the army where was stationed in Germany I became fascinated with the V.W.'s and the motors that pushed them around. I had worked on many Volkswagens before being drafted.


I opened a repair shop that was exclusively Porsche in the mid 1970's and after I sold that shop I turn my attention to building a 4 cylinder air cooled 911 motor. It is total fascination!

This first motor was a rube Goldgerg. It had many official Porsche parts but it was built from a sectioned six cylinder 911 case. It had been welded through the middle and the crankshaft had been shortened by two to run in the new configured case. It ran and still runs beautifully. It sounds like a cam ed Chevrolet motor at idle and I sound like a dying swan in agony at 8,000 rpm's.

Everyone loved it but it was not a qualified professional effort so it was on the the next faze.

I made blue prints of motor and had scaled number put the the prints. The prints were taken to a pattern maker and a casting box was made.

Blue prints of a 4 cylinder horizontally opposed motor was made. The print were taken to a billet crankshaft maker and billet cranks were made.

Cam shaft were machined and ground.

With these very nice pieces a 4 cylinder 911 type air cooled motor is made

I have a 4 cylinder 911 case that has been cast and I have the other parts, Billet Crankshaft, camshafts and oil pump drive that are needed to complete the 4 cylinder 911 type motor.

Dean Polopolus.
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[Derek Seymour]

I have wanted one for a 912 for years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!