My friend, fellow GRM board user, coworker and generally good-dude "sesto elemento" gave me an engine-less 1986 928S for exactly $0. My first thoughts are either a $200 used 8V 928 craigslist engine (just to get it running) or an LS of some sort. Ideas please
Cayenne V8 engine?
In reply to Type Q:
Cool idea, but I want to try to keep it cheap. Ideally, I'll build a Challenge car out of it
Ls juan!
And by that, I mean lq4
sesto elemento wrote: Ls juan! And by that, I mean lq4/lq9
Audi V8?
VW TDI Clean Diesel?
No brainer: Toyota 1GZ.
Toyota 1uz and a holset turbo. Run the supplied auto or buy the adapter pdf and mate it to a variety of Aisin transmissions.
I need cooler friends. 
LM4 + carb + cam = 400hp/tqs for less than 1.5k
Or go EFI and be in the 2-2.5K range depending on how complete the motor is that you get.
I vote Audi V8 or LQ4.
the 928 is a rear trans car with a torque tube so any engine swap would require an adapter plate.
OR........
take out the torque tube, swap in an ls1/6 speed combo and run the driveshaft from the 6 speed to the 928's 5 speed rear trans input, then have 2 shifters and have 30 gears to choose from!
Lq4. Cheap, loads of power and still v8.
In reply to edizzle89:
The corvette are rear trans LS motors right? Just run a corvette drivetrain.
run the vette's engine and torque tube, have a shop mate it to the 928's torque tube.. done
LS swap!
The front mating arrangement of the torque tube uses a bellhousing setup. The driveshaft end is very much shaped like a transmission input shaft. IIRC using a chrysler part on the end of the shaft, a chevy belhousing,and a chevy flexplate takes care of mating chevy motors to the Porsche transmission. The torque converter is in the rear.
M030 wrote: My friend, fellow GRM board user, coworker and generally good-dude "sesto elemento" gave me an engine-less 1986 928S for exactly $0. My first thoughts are either a $200 used 8V 928 craigslist engine (just to get it running) or an LS of some sort. Ideas please
I read that "Low Cost" is a priority. If you can get it to the Challenge with the $200 engine, then you will be styling for cheap at the Challenge. I suspect that if you do ANY swap, you are going to get mired in the garage.
If you use the cheap engine, strip all the weight out and use the budget to buy sticky tires and shiny bits, you will be a contender.
If you do an engine swap, you will push the budget and have a crude engine swapped car that may or may not be sorted.
singleslammer wrote: Toyota 1uz and a holset turbo. Run the supplied auto or buy the adapter pdf and mate it to a variety of Aisin transmissions.
I 2,3,&4th this! 1uzftw
edizzle89 wrote: the 928 is a rear trans car with a torque tube so any engine swap would require an adapter plate. OR........ take out the torque tube, swap in an ls1/6 speed combo and run the driveshaft from the 6 speed to the 928's 5 speed rear trans input, then have 2 shifters and have 30 gears to choose from!
30-speed 928 is the clear winner here.
thatsnowinnebago wrote:edizzle89 wrote: the 928 is a rear trans car with a torque tube so any engine swap would require an adapter plate. OR........ take out the torque tube, swap in an ls1/6 speed combo and run the driveshaft from the 6 speed to the 928's 5 speed rear trans input, then have 2 shifters and have 30 gears to choose from!30-speed 928 is the clear winner here.
You are a berkeleying nut job, both of you.
I like you for that.
Challenge money? Get a LS/LQ with a junkyard turbo. Something nice you want to keep, do the Porsche motor from the Cayenne.
thatsnowinnebago wrote:edizzle89 wrote: the 928 is a rear trans car with a torque tube so any engine swap would require an adapter plate. OR........ take out the torque tube, swap in an ls1/6 speed combo and run the driveshaft from the 6 speed to the 928's 5 speed rear trans input, then have 2 shifters and have 30 gears to choose from!30-speed 928 is the clear winner here.
Previous statement redacted. This is the new WIN.
What about a 4v Modular V8 out of a Lincoln Mark VIII, with a Holset HX35 Turbo, and a T-45 mated up to the 928 5 speed to give it 25 gears, two shifters, and a butt ton of power?
LS
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