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I see the 968 Club sport with the supercharger is for sale again at a slightly reduced price. Purely out of interest how much ( yes I know piece of string) but how much might one pay to have a 968 supercharged and a bit of intercooler and brake updating. Cant see there would be much change out of 10,000. I'm sure this chap has spent a lot more and I suspect if I drove the car it would blow me away. Sadly I dont have 20,000 lying around at the mo , or fortunately I dont would possibly be more accurate

Regards Mas

Buy it for the Pod

Stephen , if I were loking to spend 20 G on a car at the mo TBH , I'd seriously consider it but I'm not.
I have other things the dear lady would like me to spend it on such as a kitchen ! . Mind you as I told her we do have a kitchen. Of course she could cleverly reply
" you do have a Porsche my dear "

Looks like some machine though doesnt it ?

What about a turbo conversion on a 968 , anyone know a realistic cost for either purely curious ??

If it was £15k I'd be very tempted, even so I'm not sure the car is the finished article just yet.

What do you guys think of this kit?

http://www.928motorsports.com/parts/968 ... harger.php


Lots of discuusion on Rennlist.

Rich

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/9 ... y-car.html

Rich

JMG BUILD 968 3.0 Turbo S! January 2007
JMG are well known for our special request cars that we build for customers. Back in the 1990's Porsche made a very limited run of Porsche 968 Turbo cars and even fewer 968 Turbo S cars, using a 3.0 version of the 8 valve 944 Turbo engine. So when one of our customers asked us to convert his 3.0 16 valve 968 into a race built 968 Turbo, we did just that and now its done!!!

Was it successfull? A one off? Where is it now?

Details?

Was it a 3ltr 16v turbo?

Price?

Pics?

Rich

It's in the London area owned by Nick_968 from the 968UK forum that you're on too Rich. It's a faithful recreation of the 968 Turbo S, using a brand new factory 3L block and 944T 8v head but with a bigger Turbo and full Motec standalone ECU. It runs very well, but Nick is an absoute stickler for perfection and the intake temperatures were a bit too high for him so he spent a lot of time and research getting a custom built intercooler combined with the radiator.

It looks fantastic in the flesh, dark blue and Speedline 18" rims like the genuine article

Where is it for sale?

The 9M supercharger kit was around 5ishK this was for 340BHP running standard chipped management.They could go further but that needs MOTEC management reputedly 400+BHP was available but the few that have tried it have found that reliability suffers when you get to that level. Meaning you need steel rods & more importantly forged pistons to survive at those levels. Future owners of these conversions have fund that power levels are a lot lower than claimed.

On my conversion when I get on with it, I'm looking for 310BHP running around 5PSI of boost & an intercooler on an otherwise standard engine.

Thought he went the usual 2.7 head route ?, I asked him about buying his old 968 block to use in a Hartech type build but he didn't want to sell it without the 16v head.


Just want to add I'm not being pedantic about the 2.7 head just interested if anyone is using a modded turbo head with the 3.0 type block in the U.K.


Paul.

Yes you're right, it was the 2.7 head - I got all confused in the excitement

, I've had the chance to buy a couple of the 2.7 heads in the last 6 months but the thought of all the ensuing expense made me pass on them, I'm also waiting to see what happens to the pistons in the Hartech car when someone buys it, fits a DPW and whacks up the boost