So here's the plan
1. buy a rusted out Chevy corvair and strip the shell off the frame
2. buy a wreaked
Porsche cayman
/
boxster
with the 2.7 flat 6
3. separate the shell of the
Porsche
from its frame
4. make the
cayman
/
boxster
longer because its about a foot shorter than the corvair
5. after some cleaning up, put the shell of the corvair on the
boxster/cayman
body
6. make it have between 300-350 horse since it will be light weight
7. hopefully the
cayman
/
boxster
has a manual stock but if it doesn't then I'll buy and put tin a 5/6 speed manual for fun factor (although if the
cayman
/
boxster
comes in an automatic when I buy it it might not be the easiest thing putting a manual in)
8. it goes zooom
thoughts?
Would the end result be a mid engine car, like the
Porsche
, or rear engine? A quick glance at dimensions shows the
Cayman
is only about 8" shorter than the 2nd gen Corvair, and weighs about 300lbs more. I enjoy driving my '67 with the 110hp engine, but would certainly enjoy something with 3 times the power!
I gotta say it sounds like a technical nightmare and not worth all the headaches. Any modern
Porsche
's electronics and wiring harnesses, including ECU/
DME
, are tightly integrated. Much of the components are CANBUS controlled
Aren't Corvairs air cooled? So you'd need to fit radiators ( 2 or 3), fans, and coolant lines to/from the front and figure where to mount them and modify the grill.
That's all just off the top of my head.
Probably should have cleared this up but im using as much of the
Porsche
components that I can including the engine so its a
Porsche
powered. And since its Chevys first (and only) rear engined car it all works out. But it still is going to be a bad time for me since its a newer vehicle vs a car from the 60s
Yes I'm not clear on which components come from which donner. Hard to wrap my mind around it.
Keep in mind finding a wrecked 987 with a good engine won't be all that cheap. There's a lot of cheap rollers out there with shot engines. So used engines are somewhat in demand.
well if they are that much more expensive with a running engine and a stable frame then I could buy a stable frame with shot engine and then buy a 2.7 flat 6 from somewhere for a decent price and then put the engine in the
Porsche
for (possibly) a cheaper way to do it.
well I would like to keep it rear engine like the corvair and that might mean more adjustments because the
987.1
cayman
is mid engine not rear engine so that might cause some problems with where the engine would go
What frame? The
Porsche
is a unibody car.
that will be the biggest issue but with a welder and a grinder anything's possible.
