So what advantages, besides rear mount cooler, small /6 conversions offer? Options

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Yeah, back to looking at 2.2 and 2.4 engines while day dreaming. Not sure it is relational...

Just curious If there are any significant handling/weight advantages. I don’t think so, so does it come down to aesthetics of how the engine spin and sound?

I will duck and cover now...

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Mine is a 2.4 S heads, Weber’s with mod Solex cams which I built about three years ago.

First of all I built it from the 2.4 T motor that was already in the car, so there was no thought of buying another motor. Probably true for many people.

Second I just love the nature of the smaller displacement motors - the way they sound, the way they rev. I think that it just fits the nature of the car. These are vintage Porsche’s after all.

I run a stock 914-4 side shifter, and again a real nice match up.

I have tracked the car once, just to see how it ran. It did fine vs a variety of Caymans, boxster, SC vintage 911’s.

How freakin fast do you want to go anyway? This thing is a pretty quick little street car that is just a blast to drive on the street. And it has plenty of torque.

No oil cooler necessary

I drive it a lot - two or three times a week, that probably equates to 1500 miles a year. Even if I built a crap motor and the mag cases shit the bed after 20,000 miles (neither seems likely) I will be long gone by then.

So why NOT build a nice quick, vintage small displacement motor? For our use, nothing wrong with them at all. In fact it is the essence of what made Porsche so viscerally desirable and mythical back in the day. Yes it does feel just right for me too.

I’ve got a “spare” mag motor with everything I need to build a 2.2 S motor and will do that long before I search out a “more durable, stronger” 3 liter. These things are toys, not long haul diesel semi trucks.

This Discussion makes me want to go out in the garage and start the thing just for grins.

[porschetub]

Mine is a 2.4 S heads, Weber’s with mod Solex cams which I built about three years ago.

First of all I built it from the 2.4 T motor that was already in the car, so there was no thought of buying another motor. Probably true for many people.

Second I just love the nature of the smaller displacement motors - the way they sound, the way they rev. I think that it just fits the nature of the car. These are vintage Porsche’s after all.

I run a stock 914-4 side shifter, and again a real nice match up.

I have tracked the car once, just to see how it ran. It did fine vs a variety of Caymans, boxster, SC vintage 911’s.

How freakin fast do you want to go anyway? This thing is a pretty quick little street car that is just a blast to drive on the street. And it has plenty of torque.

No oil cooler necessary

I drive it a lot - two or three times a week, that probably equates to 1500 miles a year. Even if I built a crap motor and the mag cases shit the bed after 20,000 miles (neither seems likely) I will be long gone by then.

So why NOT build a nice quick, vintage small displacement motor? For our use, nothing wrong with them at all. In fact it is the essence of what made Porsche so viscerally desirable and mythical back in the day. Yes it does feel just right for me too.

I’ve got a “spare” mag motor with everything I need to build a 2.2 S motor and will do that long before I search out a “more durable, stronger” 3 liter. These things are toys, not long haul diesel semi trucks.

This Discussion makes me want to go out in the garage and start the thing just for grins.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) best answer yet,makes you think more about power to weight when you compare say a 2.2 against a 3.2 with front cooler .
Anyone ever weighed the cooler and all the other parts needed I wonder.