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I feel there comes a point when the thoughts of an evening in the bar should be reconsidered - sober
Mike
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ikillcopiers
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As ridiculous (and awesome!!!) as it sounds, yes, that tower is two superchargers,
one on top of the other.
Leave on the audio if you have a chance, the guy gives a bit of the specs out.
1600bhp!!!!
one on top of the other.
Leave on the audio if you have a chance, the guy gives a bit of the specs out.
1600bhp!!!!
Flick
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It's the intake plenums. Looks similar in execution to the Tundra engine someone in Florida put into a Supra last year with a pair of GT42's between the belts and the radiator.
This 944 has a rodent munching turbo in place of the passenger side fog light.
Edit- I thought we were talking about the 944, not the sequential supercharged GTO.
This 944 has a rodent munching turbo in place of the passenger side fog light.
Edit- I thought we were talking about the 944, not the sequential supercharged GTO.
i read the renegade hybrids page re chevy small block in a 944... one quote took me aback; 'the original 944 Porsche motor is unreliable'
unreliable compared to a chevy engine? how many of them clear 250k? do chevy even exist any more? i saw a Matiz recently but i dont think it was a V8. Guy down the road has a corvette that must be a V8 but ive never seen it move. (lived here 6 years).
unreliable compared to a chevy engine? how many of them clear 250k? do chevy even exist any more? i saw a Matiz recently but i dont think it was a V8. Guy down the road has a corvette that must be a V8 but ive never seen it move. (lived here 6 years).
Given that 944's with duff engines seem to be worth very little, that could be a good way into something seriously interesting.
I think there are issues with getting the RH kit to fit on a RHD car, if you are using the more sophisticated engine they offer (from memory, there are two V8's which are possibilities, one of which is significantly superior - does it have an alloy block instead of a cast iron one or something? Getting this engine to fit with a RHD steering column and rack is meant to be tricky.)
Oli.
I think there are issues with getting the RH kit to fit on a RHD car, if you are using the more sophisticated engine they offer (from memory, there are two V8's which are possibilities, one of which is significantly superior - does it have an alloy block instead of a cast iron one or something? Getting this engine to fit with a RHD steering column and rack is meant to be tricky.)
Oli.
ikillcopiers
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To be fair, those big lazy American V8's are quite reliable, but I wouldn't go
so far as to call the Porsche engines unreliable.
As regards engine choices, originally Renegade Hybrids were doing the LT
series V8s, which are cast iron block.
They don't do a bellhousing adaptor for this engine any more.
They instead do it for the newer LS series V8s, which are all aluminium, but still
pushrod. These are the engines in the Corvettes (I think the current Corvette is an LS-7).
Also, being GM, the Holden V8 cars use LS engines.
I remember reading on here many moons ago that someone was thinking of doing the conversion,
I don't know who, and had talked to Renegade about it.
As far as I recall, most of the stuff would fit, but he'd have had to get one or two parts done custom,
might have been the manifold?
I really don't remember......
Couple of sites for ye, if anyone's interested
Renegade Hybrids
Porsche Hybrids Forum (recently the subject of a hostile takeover by Renegade)
Hybrid9s Forum (disgruntled members of above forum started this one)
so far as to call the Porsche engines unreliable.
As regards engine choices, originally Renegade Hybrids were doing the LT
series V8s, which are cast iron block.
They don't do a bellhousing adaptor for this engine any more.
They instead do it for the newer LS series V8s, which are all aluminium, but still
pushrod. These are the engines in the Corvettes (I think the current Corvette is an LS-7).
Also, being GM, the Holden V8 cars use LS engines.
I remember reading on here many moons ago that someone was thinking of doing the conversion,
I don't know who, and had talked to Renegade about it.
As far as I recall, most of the stuff would fit, but he'd have had to get one or two parts done custom,
might have been the manifold?
I really don't remember......
Couple of sites for ye, if anyone's interested
Renegade Hybrids
Porsche Hybrids Forum (recently the subject of a hostile takeover by Renegade)
Hybrid9s Forum (disgruntled members of above forum started this one)
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