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[Chris Pomares]

And a ton more torque. Mine starts pulling fairly hard at 3500 rpm here in Denver and about 4000 rpm at 9000 feet. At sea level when I drove to LUF8, 3200 rpm.
Here's a graph of a 2.4. Not mine but close. The heads in that motor are stock 993. My heads flow half way between a 993 3.6 and a 993RS 3.8. The engine on the chart and my engine have different exhausts. So that's an unknown. Craig Smith out of Morrow Bay and Jeff Jabate north of SF are using 964 heads with good success. Jeff has been willing to invest in R&D and has two POLO's. One making 230 and the other 250. His SWB car will be making 20 to 40 more hp than a 73RS. It'll be somewhat quick.

[Rick Cabell]

Wow, time to shake the piggy bank.

[Chris Pomares]

New aluminum decklid being built.

[Rick Cabell]

From scratch? Steel frame?

[Chris Pomares]

From scratch. Aluminum frame.
If you look inside the car jigs/bucks/patterns have been made off the 69 912 car as it's about perfect. The goal is to make another car in mostly aluminum other than the pan and a few other parts.
Maybe a 1500 pound car with a NA 250 hp POLO or a Turbo POLO with 350 plus hp. Maybe 4 to 6 pounds per hp?

[Rick Cabell]

Now that is a project!

[bob joyce]

I Love This...........
about 30or 40 years ago there was an English man in Crockett ca. that was making wooden bucks and shaping aluminum parts with an English wheel.

I felt like i was visiting heaven
The parts were perfectly smooth, and it seemed that painting would of been a sin.
Please post more pictures of this project Chris

[bob joyce]

i am curious...
are they scanning the 1969 car and then printing out "slices" of the car to form jig. Or sending the slice file to a CNC machine?
The surfboard software i was using Boardcad, AKU shapper allowed this and i was told there was also boat maker software around as well. I am talking 2008 technology (the last time I used this opensource software)

[Chris Pomares]

Nope. Very old school. I can’t give much more info at this point. Other than the guy grew up in the UK and learned old school metal work from the artisans. Now he is one.