bob wrote:
the later porsche engines over here are being tweeked to produce a streetable 600+ hp so why bother?
For me personally, I wouldn't do any 600+hp engine in a collectible Porsche. However, price out a 600+ hp Porsche engine, and then a 600+ hp LS3. Better yet, just price out a brand new 450-500hp crate motor from each manufacturer.
When you start talking about a 996, or 986, where you can pick one up with a blown motor for pennies on the dollar, or sell the good stock engine to somebody with a blown motor for almost as much as (sometimes more than) you paid for the entire car, that's when it really starts to make cents.
bob wrote:
A v8 perched up so high must make it handle like a pig
I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish by continuing to make these types of claims, exaggerated to the point of falsehood, but I don't think it's actually doing anything you would want it to.
bob wrote:
The rear engined 24hour le mans cars are lapping the front engined Astons and Vets some thirty odd times in the race. They are also the best part of 50kph faster down the straight. All these cars run similar HP but the mid engine stuff just runs off into the distance. In my tiny mind its down to traction out of the corners and aero down the straights .
Remember though, that all else is rarely equal. Note that being the "
fastest" in their class by 0.28 seconds during pre-race testing this year, possibly (probably) combined with sandbagging by Ford and Ferrari, resulted in so-called 'Balance of Performance' adjustments which subsequently dropped the Corvette to a relatively massive 4.66 seconds off pace in qualifying.