Dave is correct. There is a lot more to the conversion that just the engine..... the biggest conversion will be your understanding of time travel. Einstein's theory of special relativity says that time slows down or speeds up depending on how fast a 914-6 moves relative to a 914-4. Approaching the speed of the average 6 conversion, a person inside a 914 would age much slower than his brother-in-law at home in his garage sitting in his 4.
Also, under Einstein's theory, a 914-6 can bend time at a faster rate than the same traveler in a 914-4.
Picture, if you will, a four-dimensional fabric called pebble grained vinyl. When anything that has mass (or a big @#%!) sits on that piece of fabric, warpage will cause a dimple or a bending of space-time (the fabric of time) within the interior space. Over time, the space separating the “fabric” will bend under pressure resulting in the need for a new seat cushion. This phenomenon is known, in the world of 914’s as “WTB” or What the Butt...... just bent time?. This bending of space-time can also cause objects to move on a curved path and that curvature of space is what we know as Pacific Coast Hwy.
In a 914-6, space and time warps are a commonplace. They are used for rapid journeys around the galaxy (referred to as OCE's or "Out of County Experiences"), or for travel through real time (mostly to the real local pub) . But today's science fiction – that a 4 to 6 conversion is possible, has become tomorrow's science fact. So what are the chances for space and time warps in your little miserable existence?. Do a conversion and you will experience contracting space (in your limited space on your garage) and a substantial time warp ( as your spouse is screaming at you to get your butt back in the house to feed the starving kids that haven’t had a decent meal since the last parts order to Chris, Bruce, and Mark). In the case of Mark’s products, one can use a front trunk compartment seal to illustrate the stretch of time by simply trying to fit the rubber (time continuum illustrator unit) into a fixed length space (rain gutter)
Keep in mind that for more than two thousand years, the axioms of Euclidean geometry, were considered to be self evident – then, in the early seventies, the 914 arrived. As those of you teeners that were forced to learn Euclidean geometry at school may remember, one of the consequences of these axioms is, that the angles of a triangle, which should add up to 180 degrees, sometimes dont.
However, with the advent of the 914-6 in the last century, Porsche-people began to realize that other forms of geometry were possible, in which the angles of a triangle, need not add up to a hundred and 80 degrees. Consider, for example, the “hellhole”. The nearest thing to a straight line on the rusted and pockmarked surface of the Hellhole within the engine bay, is what is called, the nonexistent reality. These realities are the shortest paths between two points (say, between sheet metal and the end of one’s welder, so they (the two points) are the routes that air lines use. The surface of the Earth on the otherhand, is what is called a two dimensional space. But I digress. For the 914 and 914-6 driver in space, space is curved, and geometry is non-Euclidean. That is to say, linear and solely based on the price and availability of gasoline.
As one who is stuck in the non-Euclidean space of a 914-4, I say go forward and build the 6 – of course, there is a lot more to it than a simple conversion……..
time for another cup of coffee....