As for the Porsche, it sucks. I've all but abandoned it 'cause now my toy is the Olds. But still, I keep the 928 tagged and stuff, and I'd like to drive it from time to time. My intention when I built the 455 for the Cutlass was to keep the Porsche as my economy car. It would be the "kick around car" and it's real cool for that.

But I loaned the 928 to Steve and he brought it back with a "water pump leak." Steve took it straight to Tom, who replaced the water pump early in the summer. But Tom gave it back to me with a bad head gasket and a broken radiator. No point giving it back, really - It was steaming like a train within minutes. So it's just been parked in the garage since the moment I took it back from Tom. I gotta take it back to him soon; It doesn't make much sense just leaving it sitting in the garage.

I'd really like to have a 944 Turbo like yours instead of my 928. Big block American iron is the fastest stoplight to stoplight, and blown small displacement German stuff is great for cafe racing. So having them both is like having two different flavors of the same sort of thing.

But the 928 isn't blown and it isn't small displacement. I don't think the German's large displacement V8 is as good as ours. We've just had sooo much cummulative experience with the design - You can practically get performance cam shafts for an American V8 in the local convenience store. Porsche would need to employ the entire German population to do research for a generation to match America's experience with the design.

But if we're talking about small displacement engines - and particularly those used for performance - we're talking about a completely different story. American automotive engineers didn't even care about engines less than 5 liters until a couple of decades ago, and the Germans had been building performance cars with tiny four and six cylinders engines for decades. Even Harley Davidson chose to use Porsche jugs and heads because of their vastly greater experience with metallurgy for air cooled designs. So I'd really like to get rid of my 928 and get a 911 or a 944 Turbo instead.

Wanna sell me yours? :-)