Dan Sarandrea (Phila)
Waitin' On Parts...
I was thinking there are a lot of guys here who probably dabble in other worlds besides FIATs, and youse guys might know a guy who's got a guy who knows a guy.....
Need help in the form of personal experience with early Porsche engines, or in the form of pointing me to a Porsche early models forum that has Xweb-levels of quality folks!
Here's why: An older gentleman brought a Porsche 356A engine into my buddy's machine shop this past week. It (and its accompanying car) is a wreck, been in a Montreal-area garage/barn for 20+ years. Two of four jugs present, engine does not turn over. We don't even know if the customer has cyl heads for it, as they did not get delivered to the shop with the engine. Just in case you're wondering, customer had a friend's high school auto body students do the body and that's progressed from rust remediation to metalwork to bodywork to primer.
Customer states he would want more power (odd how that sounds familiar on an X1/9 forum) than the stock 65-75hp to keep up with modern traffic, so he started talking about big bore kits. My buddy has done plenty of Porsche and VW engines over the years so any machine work is no big deal, but he's out of his element when trying to advise the customer on which big bore kits are the best for customer's intended application and budget. Customer did get some sticker shock when he did his own parts list!
Need help in the form of personal experience with early Porsche engines, or in the form of pointing me to a Porsche early models forum that has Xweb-levels of quality folks!
Here's why: An older gentleman brought a Porsche 356A engine into my buddy's machine shop this past week. It (and its accompanying car) is a wreck, been in a Montreal-area garage/barn for 20+ years. Two of four jugs present, engine does not turn over. We don't even know if the customer has cyl heads for it, as they did not get delivered to the shop with the engine. Just in case you're wondering, customer had a friend's high school auto body students do the body and that's progressed from rust remediation to metalwork to bodywork to primer.
Customer states he would want more power (odd how that sounds familiar on an X1/9 forum) than the stock 65-75hp to keep up with modern traffic, so he started talking about big bore kits. My buddy has done plenty of Porsche and VW engines over the years so any machine work is no big deal, but he's out of his element when trying to advise the customer on which big bore kits are the best for customer's intended application and budget. Customer did get some sticker shock when he did his own parts list!
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