In a message dated 8/21/02 12:52:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
sstones@IDIRECT.COM writes:

<< The Porsche 914 had a flat four, the pancake styled fan housing on a very
 similar engine to the 70s cans.
 I believe that the 944's only 4 cylinder engine was the same inline 4 that
 originated in the 924.   But if I'm wrong flame away. >>

no flames today. they are reserved for mike miller. anyway, yes, the 914
enbgine is basically the same engine as the aircooled vanagons. the early 924
engines are actually audi truck engines. later on porsche took the 928 engine
and sliced off one cylinder bank and created the 944. even later than that,
they stuck all the mechanicals of the 944 into an old style 924 and called it
the 924S. that was all done in the interest of having a lower priced porsche.
924S turened out to be mraginally faster on the straighwawy than the 944 dues
primarily to better aerodynamics. so i heard...

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