3 October 2012

Big Block Chevy-Powered Porsche 911...Road Warrior


Not your usual Porsche project, unless Max Rockatansky has a hankering for Stuttgart's finest we're not aware of.
Meet possibly the greatest affront to the snooty club of Porsche purists we've ever seen. Big-block Chevy up front, bagged frame in the middle, and twin-wheel axle out back. RUF eat your heart out; not so much a Yellowbird, more a Turkey Vulture with carrion on it's mind.
Not much in the way of info exists on the build, currently being performed by Diversified Performance Innovations in Dubuque, Iowa. The sacrificial lamb is a 1976 Porsche 911, and the 454ci V8 comes out of a Chevrolet C/K crew cab dually.

Mean as a junkyard dog...
The car has 4-link suspension, it sits on airbags, and the original chassis has been mostly a ladder frame. The old seats have been thrown out for some rat rod-style metal buckets. No room for the flat six it seems; the rear is all full of suspension and that axle.



And for all of you Porsche fans we see who are a' bitchin' and a' moanin' on the forums, below is the donor car - it's not a concours example, rest assured. We would also like to remind these fans that Ferdinand Porsche himself designed a twin rear wheel race car back in the 1930s, the Auto Union Type C/D. But of course as die-hard Porsche fans, you knew that anyway.


Now take the body from this:


...take the chassis and running gear from this...


...sprinkle some airbags...


...and some chassis work...


..said minimalist bomber seats...


...the ultimate in one-upmanship grills...


...and... well not too much else at the moment as it's very much still a work in progress. We don't know if DPI plans on fabricating arches to cover those four rear wheels, but if they do it will put all  7-foot width restrictions around the world on high alert. We'd like it if they keep the wheels uncovered; the words 'post-apocalyptic Stuttgart baha bug' keep getting banded around Amazo Towers. How about geeing up the Detroit Diesel V8 with a brace of turbos or whacking in a Duramax V8 with upswept zoomies; hell maybe even the diesel engine note from hell that is a Commer TS3 two-stroke diesel.
Perhaps they should be true to the 911's roots and rear-mount the engine, complete with angled exhaust stacks; nothing about this car should be subtle.
This car has all the ingredients to snaps necks back faster than a naked Lady Gaga doing handstands on a unicorn down your local high street. And just as likely to divide opinions.
Now you can unclench, Porsche fans...


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