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[Mars478]

From far away it looked like a nice guards red, stripped interior, no rear glass, 931. Unfortunately, the car wrecked during the course of the race on the passenger side rear wheel area. After the car came in I went over and talked to the team. He explained to me that it was an 82 931, and that he thought the damage was repairable (I thought otherwise..), but he said "check out the engine". We walked over the engine bay and I expected to see a big turbo, maybe a 944 engine or something, and I was incredibly surprised to see a Nissan 16V engine in there. He explained to me that he used the clutch out of a car from the 70's and made an adapter plate himself, maintaining the stock porsche transaxle. I was blow away. It looked like a super clean install. Does anyone know this car?
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924, 82, 5 speed, dark red, 500 dollar special.

Daily: 99 ML320, 210k and still trucking.

[fiat22turbo]

Not surprising. The 944 and 931 used a pretty common clutch spline that correlates with some Chryslers, Fords, etc. The trick is finding one that matches the flywheel diameter and getting everything lined up properly when building the adapter for the bellhousing.

A friend here in Portland is building a 931 to compete in ChumpCar, he's running the stock motor though (with megasquirt, FMIC and a few other mods).
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Stefan
1979 924 Carrera GTS (clone-ish)
1988 944 Turbo S (Silver Rose)