Porsche V8 for your teener, For sale in Seattle Options

[PanelBilly]

Saw a 928 engine for sale on Craigslist last night if anyone out there was thinking of doing a conversion. It was only $700 and looked complete. I'm very tempted but with a small garage and things yet to finish on my car, I'm going to pass on it

[Optimusglen]

Hey Andrew (or anyone) what's your take on the 4.2L timing chains thing? Sorry for the hijack but it might help someone.

The earlier 4.2 had a timing belt, much less of a hassle. I had one in my 2001 Audi S8. Smooth as butter and was running beautifully when I sold it around 220,000 miles. Shares a lot of parts with the Audi 1.8t and 2.6/2.7t, so pretty cheap to maintain. The S8 version had something like 360hp, so even a standard A8 or A6 version would ve plenty for most of us.

[Andyrew]

Hey Andrew (or anyone) what's your take on the 4.2L timing chains thing? Sorry for the hijack but it might help someone.

The earlier 4.2 had a timing belt, much less of a hassle. I had one in my 2001 Audi S8. Smooth as butter and was running beautifully when I sold it around 220,000 miles. Shares a lot of parts with the Audi 1.8t and 2.6/2.7t, so pretty cheap to maintain. The S8 version had something like 360hp, so even a standard A8 or A6 version would ve plenty for most of us.

This, and you can swap parts from an S8 motor in an A6 or A8 motor to bring it up to spec. An RS4 motor has 420hp but thats an expensive motor. And the timing chain could go at any point.

An S8 motor tuned by a tuner will have 95% of the power of an rs4 motor at about 30% the price.