Re: real muscle

[Geordy <geordy@lodgepole.com>]

I have to disagree with the POS comment,  My friend has a 924 turbo and
it kicks ass.  It's a good dependable motor with a much lower
maintainance cost than the 944 motor.  Though your lucky to push 100mph
with the non-turbo but the handling of the car makes up for lack of
topend.

Mark A Peele wrote:
> 
> FWIW, the 924 2.0 is a POS. It is an old Audi truck motor.
> 
> Mark . . .   (THINK VW) keep the non-VW posts to yourself!
> Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
> Previous Sciroccos: 1981S (RIP), 1980S, 1975TS, 1975
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> From: David Ruby <dbruby@ainet.com>
> To: scirocco-l <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Subject: RE: Re: real muscle
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 98 23:24:04 Pacific Daylight Time
> Message-ID: <199812010725.XAA21887@ainet.com>
> 
> One of the coolest Porsche to VW engine transplants I've heard about is
> the 3.0 litre 911SC powerplant
> dumped into a Vanagon Syncro.  Talk about a big, square Carrera 4!
> On to Sciroccos: I have been becoming increasingly curious after hearing
> about all these bolt-in (more-or-
> less) motor swaps:  We had one person a few weeks ago talking about
> installing a Porsche 924 2-litre into
> his VW.  If this is possible, do you all think a 944 powerplant would fit
> (I know, its tranny/transaxle system is
> totally different, among other things)?  If maybe, then would the 3.0
> litre, light alloy, Vario-Cam 968 4-banger
> fit?  Now that might be exciting!  (if it worked)
> 
> Dave
> 86 8v
> 79 Golf Diesel (soon to receive illegal 1.8 JH and GTI stuff???)
> --------
> >From: brads@mindspring.com
> >To: dbruby@ainet.com
> >Subject: RE: Re: real muscle
> >Date: Januar 00, 2048
> >
> >At 06:56 PM 11/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >>How about other bizzare engine swaps? Anybody? I once saw a shitbox
> >>Volvo with a 350 in it.
> >
> >EC had an article on a kit for dropping a Ford 302 V8 into a Volvo. If I
> >had an old Volvo that needed a new engine, I'd probably do it. And then
> >theres the company that does the Chevy V8 conversions for all Porsches,
> >that'd be a sweet car. I've heard of people dropping Porsche 911 engines
> >into VW vans, and bugs as well. There was also a Datsun 510 that I used
> to
> >see around Tech campus all the time that had an aluminum(block I think)
> >Buick V6 in it.
> >I think in a Scirocco, if you went to a larger motor configuration,
> you'd
> >have to be very careful, otherwise you'd wind up with a car that was
> >noseheavy. Besides with the 2.0 16V, G60 and VR6 engines available, they
> >seem like they'd be about the best swap candidates if your looking to
> >directly drop in a high hp motor, without building one up. Plus with
> these
> >choices, its all been done before. So you should be able to find the
> people
> >that know what parts you need, and have fabricated the parts that need
> to
> >be fabricated.
> >
> >Brad
> >
> >
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