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P-car 6 or SBC 8, for Ury |
Crazyhippy |
Aug 18 2005, 10:53 AM
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Insert witty comment here... Group: Members Posts: 1,659 Joined: 28-July 05 From: Home of the Coyotes, AZ Member No.: 4,493 Region Association: None |
Enough of the little horsepower pissing match, it's time for the fast cars to have their pissing match.
I'll be honest, my loyalty to the P-motor doesn't run very deep. They are WAY to expensive for the HP you get. The ONLY advantage i can see from a performance standpoint is the weight, and i'm not sure it's as big as everyone imagines (guessing less than the weight of a decent passenger). The SBC is easier to work on, builds more HP easily, lasts longer at the same HP level, and sounds better (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/flipa.gif) (subjective i know). You do lose the front trunk, but a 914 is not a practical car to start with, so no biggy (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/boldblue.gif) I understand people wanting to keep the bloodlines true and blah blah blah.. isn't that kinda like in-breeding? please discuss (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving-girl.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/burnout.gif) |
J P Stein |
Aug 18 2005, 08:15 PM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
Untill Chevy made the Z06, Vettes were not good track cars.....without some serious cooling work.
Most all V8 race cars are drysumped with large oil coolers as that is about the only way to reject enough heat ....now ya don't need to drysump to have an oilcooler, but since it's worth some hp and tends to not allow the oil to "rope" the crank (along with some windage tray/oil scrapper work while you're there), you might as well. Older style SBCs at extendend hi RPMs also tended to fill their valve covers with oil to the detriment of the bottom end and the valve cover gaskets. Since most 914SBCs overheat on the street, you've got a real problem on the track. So if you're doing some 914 SBC track car dreaming, crank up the budget a few notches......or prepare for melt down. The guys in Stock cars/sprint cars have solved these problems and they'll sell you motor....which would be cheaper in the long run.(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) Now to the 911 6. In the late 60s/early 70s, you could buy a 911S, make the required saftey mods and go do/finish the 24 hours of Le Mans....many folks did.....get it? |