Lighter engine

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by Bfan

Thanks Bill and thanks for the offer Jake, but I don't think I will take you up on it in the near future. Like I have expressed before, I have great respect for your achievements and reading your homepage got me into the Boxster in the first place. Like you I find big joy in trying to understand how these things work.
I always dreamed about finding a crank from a m96-3.6 to install together with some strong custom rods for a stroked engine. Noe offence meant, but this gives me the idea to find someone to make a custom stroked well balanced crankshaft that will be much stronger than the Porsche equivalent. But my self-assembled 3.6 engine is still going strong, so I hope it is not coming apart in the near future, as I have some other P-car related money gulping projects going at the moment.

Thats where component compatibility experience comes in. The 3.6 crank has larger main journals, to increase the rod journal overlaps and build strength. The 82.8mm stroke cranks are the weakest of the bunch.

The guys like you are the ones who have already booked my first M96/97 Performance Engine Class to 3/4 capacity before I even released the registration. One thing I cover in depth is engine combinations, and how to reduce compromises while increasing performance.