Same setup all watercooled 911's use.

The fix: Buy a 996tt or GT3 instead. ;)

most guys run the hard top for aero

Yea, I mean, the seat is very low, but the roof is just damn low in those things. My helmet used to basically rest on the foam pad for the drivers side roof bar that runs front loop to main loop. Nice headrest for right turns, lol.

Nope, no tech ever had me sit in the car- so the 2" below main loop was never checked.…

Well, my spec miata passed SCCA tech all over the country like that, so there ya go.

Spec miatas are damn short inside. Even with my seat mounted low my helmet would rest on the cage where it went over the window. Given a good tug upside down, I could see the top of helmet being close to, or slightly out of the cage. :-/

VW engines themselves are actually very reliable, and downright tough.

All's fair, in love and war. They will get destroyed in comparison tests because they didn't get with the arms race. :-/

Not really. On our engine dyno, with modern serpentine belt accessories, removing the belt entirely (including swapping to an electric water pump, and ditching the alternator) was worth all of 6hp at 9500 rpm. Proportionately less at lower rpm.

Maybe more with crappy stone age accessories and vbelts, but I have a hard…

All of what you just said, is why 911 turbo.

What, you can't finance them a $65k duramax for the same payments as a mid range jetta? Bank wouldn't approve the 240 month loan, eh?

I banged up a 964 cup car at miller motorsports park. That was fun. Spent some time tig welding european parts to save them and forked over $300 for a tail light assembly. Sigh.

If you never crash, you aren't trying hard enough. That's what my dad used to tell me when I was a kid ski racing. lol :)

To me, this is just a shameful stain on the Argentinian people. Those involved should be ashamed of themselves for acting like a band of 8 year olds.

This sounds more like they were doing some "blending" of the rules. As in, blending in the bowls and valve jobs and pretending it is a regular plunge cut mark from a neway seat cutter or similar. Haha

How has nobody posted the OG nose heavy, big iron 5 cylinder hanging out entirely in front of the front axle, rally king? Look at the radiator on the trunk, the alternator back there, dry sump oil tank right at the back, and everything else they could figure out to try to make it balanced. lol

That's a pretty terrible power to weight ratio for a "supercar".

So, who picks up the tab when a worn out ball joint breaks on that black, unmarked speed bump, and a pedestrian gets killed?

Yes. The 944 and this off other german production motors are alusil. By far the most common.

He is correct. Trade name alusil for the high silicone content casting which are honed, etched ran without a coating. Nikasil is a electroplate coating.

High NOx is extremely likely at those levels of cylinder pressure.