A lot of work went into this Por-Chev... Options

[JeffBowlsby]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Porsche-914...sspagenameZWDVW

[charliew]

I think when the car is sitting on it's wheels the angle of the links will improve. The wheels are at full droop. He has the springs set to ride higher so they will force the arms farther down when it's on a lift. His car may squat quite a bit when he takes off hard. Your yellow car sets quite a bit lower so the rear arms don't drop as far when the weights off the wheels. The bar could have already been on the car and he didn't notice the angle. He probably has never raced the car anywhere but at the stoplight, don't try him there with your porsche 3.6. you might get a lesson in torque. Also the shields are on the mufflers to prevent the heat from getting to the oil cooler it looks like to me. He put the bulge on the hood for the same reason I've got one on my k5 Blazer, he liked it.
Charlie

[Series9]

I think when the car is sitting on it's wheels the angle of the links will improve....

It's simply not true. The bar is mounted to the wrong place on the chassis. That bar doesn't work.

...Your yellow car sets quite a bit lower so the rear arms don't drop as far when the weights off the wheels.

My car isn't particularly low, and it doesn't matter anyway.

....don't try him there with your porsche 3.6. you might get a lesson in torque.

I promise you, that won't be the lesson. That engine alone weighs 175 pounds more than mine. The total installation is at least 250 pounds heavier.

The lesson: Power:weight is all that matters. That V8 has to make 100 hp more than mine just to offset its weight.

[aircooledboy]

I promise you, that won't be the lesson. That engine alone weighs 175 pounds more than mine. The total installation is at least 250 pounds heavier.

I'd like to know where those numbers come from. I see people throw around numbers like that in nearly every V8 thread. I don't know for sure, but my gut tells me there is no way your 3.6 w/ cooler, tank & lines is 250 lbs less than an aluminium head 350. It's probably less, but not 2-fity. If you can back that position up, I'd like to see it.

The lesson: Power:weight is all that matters. That V8 has to make 100 hp more than mine just to offset its weight.

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I've never called bullshit before, but I've gotta do it here. That's some pretty fancy math there. If in order to keep up with your car a V8 has to make up 100 hp to offset that 250 lbs I'm not buying anyway, that means your car must be making 1hp/2.5lbs. So, either your car is making about 880hp, in which case congrats are in order, or your car weighs about 875 lbs, which is amazing based on the pics I've seen, or (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bs.gif) is in order.

Everybody is entitled to their personal opinion on the merits of a particular conversion, but I get tired of the made up numbers to justify the "V8s suck" point of view.