P-car 6 or SBC 8, for Ury Options

[Crazyhippy]

Enough of the little horsepower pissing match, it's time for the fast cars to have their pissing match.

I'll be honest, my loyalty to the P-motor doesn't run very deep. They are WAY to expensive for the HP you get. The ONLY advantage i can see from a performance standpoint is the weight, and i'm not sure it's as big as everyone imagines (guessing less than the weight of a decent passenger).

The SBC is easier to work on, builds more HP easily, lasts longer at the same HP level, and sounds better (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/flipa.gif) (subjective i know). You do lose the front trunk, but a 914 is not a practical car to start with, so no biggy (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/boldblue.gif)

I understand people wanting to keep the bloodlines true and blah blah blah.. isn't that kinda like in-breeding?

please discuss (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving-girl.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/burnout.gif)

[Brett W]

There is a local guy that runs in stock class with all manner of Vettes. Early C4s through late model Z06s. His times are usually FTD or close to it. He has brought out everything from stock S2000 to a Stock POS Fiero and put down top times of the day before. Driver is everything in autocross.

But you get on a big track and that ain't always so.

Grant since you enjoy your four cylinder and feel that you don't need anymore to go as fast as the Trans AM boys, that's cool.

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My sense is that V8 conversion guys are just trying to make up for ..well the same thing Corvette drivers are. And I'm sure the V8 conversion guys can out argue this 6 verses 8 topic as they have lots of practice arguing the endless Ford verses Chevy debate. biggrin.gif

And the six cylinder conversion guys must have the same problem. If Porsche designed that four cylinder it must be the end all be all of four cylinders? Get real the car was a budget partnership with VW. The engine is a VW motor, the chassis is Porsche design Karmen produced, OK Porsche doesn't have any love for the car for that reason.

As far as brakes go, Porsche's current braking test and criteria go something like this. Run the car up to top speed as fast as possible, lock the car down and come to a halt, repeat the afformentioned 10-15 times. If the brakes fade once, start the engineering process over again. Now for the stock 914 brakes they probably could handle this because the car is so damn slow in stock form that the brakes would have time to cool in between 110mph top speed runs. But for the rest of the world with a decent HP-wieght ratio brakes are a problem. Most production cars don't have enough (Volvo and Porsche exempted). Sticky tires will overheat stock porsche rakes on the street if you drive hard enough.

I like V8s, I like sixes, I like any conversion that is well done and properly thought out. I don't like rag out ass four bangers that smoke, overheat and drop valves. My Honda could outrun most of the stock 914s on the autocross course. All 104hp from the 1.6 litre motor and still run down the street and get 42mpg.