944s Ventiller

peanut · May 28, 2010

ORIGINAL: 944 man

What Ive written is correct. When I say 'short stroke crank', I mean as opposed to the longer 87.8mm stoke crank that takes the 'new' engine from 2,688cc to 3,000cc'. The mythical 2.7l 944S would have what was essentially an M44/41 S2 engine, but with a 78.9mm short stroke crankshaft. As I said earlier, itd be more expensive to manufacture as it wasnt in series production, and itd be less attractive than an S2, dynamically inferior and completely pointless.

I think its a simple mistake, not a print error. Its only slightly more credible than the '250PS Turbos were sixteen valve' myth that was popular in the early nineties...

ok we hear you .

I think you may be getting too hung up on just one tiny aspect of the article which may well turn out to be a typo or incorrect as you say but we don't throw out the whole topic just because one aspect may not be correct.

Your aggressive tone seems to have killed this discussion dead
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944 man · May 28, 2010

Im not aggressive: Im just rushing.

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os951 · May 28, 2010

I presume that you were not a Porsche employee at the time and cannot know with such certainty what limited special editions were produced by Porsche 20+ years ago. If you can produce documentary evidence from Porsche I would be very interested to see it posted on this thread.

Asked about 2.7L 16V 944 from a friend who worked for Porsche in Weissach during the time 944's were under production. He has never heard such a version. He said to me there was no sense to build such a car, because 944 S was launched for model year 1987 and factory already have 944 S2 running prototypes during early 1987. I have seen one of these 1987 S2 prototypes myself.Producing a 2.7L 16V, would have been very bad moneywise, and i have very hard to belive Porsche made such an error.
So many Porsche books have a lot of errors.At least i don't bellive every world i read from them.