QUOTE(Randal @ Jun 14 2013, 10:09 AM)
Do you have to run one of those big oil catch tanks (Peterson) with a 3.6?
I'm running a stock 914-6 tank in the stock location and the engine is a '95 'cause I didn't want to install the second computer, and didn't want carbs anymore on this car.
Frankly, it would be a better weight distribution if I put a big tank up front, there's room. But it was just simpler to do it with the existing tank. Done again, I would run -16AN lines rather than the -12AN's for the main lines. I just put this in another thread, but the -16 has roughly twice the cross-section and will move more oil. My front cooler is huge and has -16 fittings I've choked-down to -12. I use -16 for the tank/engine return line and it would be -20, except that room between the tank and the suspension/engine is really tight in a non-tube-frame car. Even at -16 that little segment cost ~$290 for line and mandrel-bent fittings. -20 would have been at least another $100 - $150 and in 1998 my budget wasn't that generous.
Still, this system has served me well since then since the only modification to it was to add another cooler in the high pressure liquid-oil console at the little filter. I may not have had to do that either if I'd been willing to put fans on the big cooler up front. The 993 alternator is just fine with it.
The 993 is a wonderful engine, and the tools for the '84 Carrera are (mostly) the same ones I use for this car... and although they are different, they're both DME's.
I'm off on a 600 mile round trip in an hour or so in this car. Gas, check the oil and tire pressures, pack the requisite tools, put the top in the trunk and drive!