trbo355
12-11-2009, 02:54 PM
Here's a pretty nifty shop project were working on. Its an 85 Porsche 928S that was dragged out of a barn with a dead motor for 1000 bucks. How do you fix a gay expensive porsche motor? You yank it and drop in a 99 vette LS1 is how!
Renegade Hybrids makes a pretty neat conversion that uses the C5 bellhousing to mate it to the very similar Porsche torque tube drive and comes with a bitchin fabricated oil pan to clear the steering rack. We had to convert it back to cable throttle to accomodate the automatics tranny cable and are using a 99 Camaro harness and ECM.
Im gonna use my HP Tuners to kill the VATS link and its gonna use the stock fan control and A/C command too. We managed to hybrid the Porsche A/C lines with the Camaro stuff after some creative TIG welding. The idea is to make it look like an OEM install and i think a stock Vette filter assembly will work up front since we tipped the radiator back like the C5 vette.
The radiator, fans and condensor are all 99 camaro items for easy replacement and service. The exhaust will use a Flowmaster 2 in. single out muffler in the catalytic converter location with some Hedman shorty headers i sawed up to fit right. Should be fast and fun! factory top speed was 150 mph with a crazy 2.20 to 1 final drive.
That means 150 mph comes up at a measly 4600 rpm so i bet this LS motor ought to push top speed up a lot higher! Wheels are TSW 19 inchers with a Porsche logo glued over the center cap. Sweet!
Renegade Hybrids makes a pretty neat conversion that uses the C5 bellhousing to mate it to the very similar Porsche torque tube drive and comes with a bitchin fabricated oil pan to clear the steering rack. We had to convert it back to cable throttle to accomodate the automatics tranny cable and are using a 99 Camaro harness and ECM.
Im gonna use my HP Tuners to kill the VATS link and its gonna use the stock fan control and A/C command too. We managed to hybrid the Porsche A/C lines with the Camaro stuff after some creative TIG welding. The idea is to make it look like an OEM install and i think a stock Vette filter assembly will work up front since we tipped the radiator back like the C5 vette.
The radiator, fans and condensor are all 99 camaro items for easy replacement and service. The exhaust will use a Flowmaster 2 in. single out muffler in the catalytic converter location with some Hedman shorty headers i sawed up to fit right. Should be fast and fun! factory top speed was 150 mph with a crazy 2.20 to 1 final drive.
That means 150 mph comes up at a measly 4600 rpm so i bet this LS motor ought to push top speed up a lot higher! Wheels are TSW 19 inchers with a Porsche logo glued over the center cap. Sweet!