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Fantastic tale! :-)

Now, the article link I posted is not entirely for laughs. Porsche does have the same transmission casings and parts for the 991 911. It seems like this will help SL-C builders quite a bit, will it not?

The linked article will clear up ALL confusion about transmissions! A Tale of Two Porsche Seven-Speeds: Manual and PDK - Tech Dept. - Car and Driver

This is a good video and the driving is not "gay". I liked it! Thanks for posting it!

Mesa! I have great doubts about this project ending well, if you improve handling by first going to the bars! (Hic!) Les :-)

Whoa! Undercover journalists among us! 60 Minutes (+ another 60 minutes + another 60 minutes + another 60 minutes + another 60 minutes . . . ) Oh, no! I better check my previous posts: I hope I didn't say anything that can be used against me in the Court of the Internet!

Damian, you wrote: Okay, you have piqued my interest. How much weight would an alternative engine need to save for you to say that it is "real" or "good"? Would the alternative engine need to equal the performance of a V-8 engine? If so, which V-8 engine would it need to equal? Sincerely, Les

Fran, James Glickenhaus, and all component car builders: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has shown it is really possible to rapidly, very much more relatively cheaply, and efficiently print out cars. Six weeks from idea to printed car. All RCR, Superlight and SCG003 cars can be produced much...

Perhaps mounting it flat would work? The Count Rossi did so on his Porsche 917.

This is a GREAT wiki. Thank, gentlemen, for your labor of love!

Howard, where in Texas are you moving? Dallas/Ft. Worth?

Hi, Tim! It's April, 2015! How is progress on the SL-C Porsche! :-)

Okay, so here is an idea: mount the rear lights around the edges of the rear, like McLaren styled the rear lights of the P1 (below).

Just for comparison, Lamborghini just announced a GT3 version of their Huracan. The GT3 This is with the rollcage and all the other paraphenalia added to homologate the car for the GT3 class, the 5.2 litre V-10, which will drive the rear wheels only, and a sequential transmission. Source...

Okay, gang: here is another candidate: the Bentley twin-turbo W-12! Think it cannot fit? Take a look at the photo and the article from Road & Track magazine: This is how Bentley packs a W12 into the Continental AHEAD of the front wheels. If we put it into the engine compartment of the SLC...

This is great!

You have a difficult problem there, sir! Here is just a suggestion. In the 1980's, two other men who were building a new car faced a problem similar to yours. They were Giorgio Moroder and Claudio Zampolli. They had Marcello Gandini design their new car, the Cizeta Moroder V16T ...

Yes, Matt, you did! It's a great post. I love the video. I am not trying to denigrate your post, your video, or anything. It's just that Ford had just made the official announcement that they will actually make this engine. We no longer need to stay up late at night, dreaming, wondering...

The MOAB will be a hit out of the ballpark, bottom of the ninth, bases-loaded grandslam-- (--but it doesn't seem very---light . . . . ) Les :-)

This is great! A real help!