New 2.8 Liter Six for the Racecar, I'll be asking a bunch of Conversion Questions Options

[motorvated]

The first question I have is related to modifications to the engine shelf pieces required for the 6-cylinder conversion. I noticed the Patrick Motorsports sells an expensive engine shelf kit for the 6-cylinder conversion. But, since the 6-cylinder is going into a Racecar, can I just cut out the entire engine shelf to maximize the available space in the engine compartment? Or, has anyone made a template that can be used to modify the 4-cylinder engine shelf to accommodate the 911 engines? I'd like just to remove the shelf parts if they are not needed. Thoughts on this? How do you other racers handle this. Many more questions to follow. I know there are many conversion threads out there, but it's hard to weed through them to see if they address the question(s) that I have. Plus most of Tigre are for street car conversions, not race cars.

Mike S.

[stownsen914]

You mean the engine tin, or the horizontal shelf that's attached to the chassis in front of the engine?

On my /6 racecar I got rid of both*. When the car is moving, the sheet metal doesn't perform as important a function as when the car is moving at low speed or standing still.

* footnote - when I flat bottomed the car and put a diffuser on the back, I needed to add engine sheet metal back in to keep the engine bay from getting to 200+ degrees.