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917 parts resources?
- Thread starter Lawrence Guynes
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Looks also that you got better skills and better kit parts that this french Guy !!! 
917lm.blogspot.com
He his trying to built his 917 kit since september 2019 and is far away from your progress ...... !!!
keep on your good work
Porsche 917 Replica
917lm.blogspot.com
keep on your good work
Howard Jones
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If you put an 800HP+ motor in that car PLAN on spending $50K on the rest of the power train......at least................1000? ....you will wish you didn't. And you will have a $300K car you can't sell.
I seriously considered using a complete Cayman donor car to outfit a 917. The Cayman S's have 340HP and a PDK gearbox. IMHO that's PERFECT for a street-driven car and if you ran slicks it would be a very low lap time track car. Why a donor car? Because it is GOING TO BE A SYSTEMS PROJECT and I would want a running car and a working gearbox. I would have wanted a car with the nose knocked off.
However, it could be a cost savings way to go instead of a V8/adapted gearbox power train. Here are some examples of donor cars for sale. I think $20K would do it and that's less than an LS/Porsche power-trained modified to work in a 917.
And imagine taking that car to a Porsche club track day. Hell, you would get offers to buy it all day long.
Here are some current Cayman donor cars for sale. Note: don't buy a flooded/fire car.
I seriously considered using a complete Cayman donor car to outfit a 917. The Cayman S's have 340HP and a PDK gearbox. IMHO that's PERFECT for a street-driven car and if you ran slicks it would be a very low lap time track car. Why a donor car? Because it is GOING TO BE A SYSTEMS PROJECT and I would want a running car and a working gearbox. I would have wanted a car with the nose knocked off.
However, it could be a cost savings way to go instead of a V8/adapted gearbox power train. Here are some examples of donor cars for sale. I think $20K would do it and that's less than an LS/Porsche power-trained modified to work in a 917.
And imagine taking that car to a Porsche club track day. Hell, you would get offers to buy it all day long.
Here are some current Cayman donor cars for sale. Note: don't buy a flooded/fire car.
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pffft, I have a built 427 LS3 in my 917 making around 600 rwhp and I want moooooar power!
when I built my first car - FFR 65 cobra - the one thing I'm very glad that I ignored people on was them saying 'oh, it's a light car, you only need a 300hp 5.0 in it, that's plenty'. Pffffft to that I say - just learn how to modulate the throttle. If you stab it and crash and burn, that's on you.
