

| Subject: | Porsche flat 8 on ebay...from digest. |
| From: | Don Hanson |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:42:06 -0700 |
A 928 is a V-8. 4 cams, 32 valves and about 275hp from the factory. A very fun car but a eminence nightmare..Electrical system from Hell. You should be at least a millionaire if you even think of racing. That would get you in the door as a "poor cousin" racer. Auto racing, on anything above the local oval, is fairly money dependent.. "Nothing beats cubic dollars" is the basic rule there, and a million?...chump change in that world..There are weekend Porsche Club of America club racers who spend more than that yearly, on a couple of club races.. But, speaking of flat 8 Porsche motors, one of the 996 997 water boxer 6 bangers would really fit well into a Van..You can buy a crate motor from Porsche for about $60k that will deliver over 400 hp to the wheels, without a turbo! The Twin Turbo puts out 500+... The motor I ran in my 928 was built with a stroker crank and 8 individual throttle bodies, titanium con rods..crap like that, and it put out 575 rwhp on the dyno..again, normal aspirated...A little pricey,(around $20k per motor) but nothing like the factory Cup car motors at $60k. The Cup car motors call for 'refreshing' at 100 hours...I got over 3 seasons from my big 6.5 liter 928 before I lost the oil in an 'agricultural excursion'...That was it for my racing career...ran right out of my savings...fun though.. "cubic inches without cubic dollars= an Ex-racer" Don Hanson
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