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My car is pretty smelly and it's rather annoying as I like to daily drive. The engine (3.0L with Webers) is probably in need of a rebuild, thus burning oil, and there are no cats. Even though I did the /6 conversion myself I'm not really interested in doing a full engine rebuild myself. Paying somebody 10k minimum doesn't excite me either.
I've always had a dream of building an electric car but that's $$$. You can also buy a brand new LS3 engine for less than 8k. I could always sell my complete 3.0L along with the /6 conversion parts to fund a different engine project. Just playing around with ideas. I might not do anything at all and just deal with it. Any thoughts? |
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914 Guru ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,900 Joined: 2-January 09 From: Burlington wi Member No.: 9,892 Region Association: Upper MidWest ![]() ![]() |
I have rebuilt hundreds of engines in my life and about 30 911 based engines over the last 10 years or so. The 911 engine itself is a very robust and typically are not big smokers unless they sit allot or in your case probably have aluisil cylinders and they tend to have issues with rings and will smoke. I used some QSC cylinders on my turbo build about 6 years ago and they were great. cost about 1k and bought them from supertec. I also used JE pistons. I drove the car a fair amount and it only smoked when it sat for extended periods but only for a few seconds. I ran a 3.2 intake with MEga squirt and it worked flawlessly. I did not smell like the car etc.
Now when I had carbs on a 2.7 of mine I always smelled like carbs.. I am a long way away from being ready to make any final decsions but I will probably do another 3.2 intake on what ever engine I decide on and do megasquirt or something similar. I am guessing carbs are the majority of your issues. Really consider ITB's or something else like that or swap a complete 3.2 in. The 3.2's are nice engines and as many have mention the cost difference is probably not a huge amount once you sell your 3.0 |
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