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After our project 911 received its first dose of GT3 refinement in our last segment (October 06), we turn our attention to the interior, where our project car is equipped with a number of Tequipment sport enhancements, including a short-throw shifter assembly.

Since replacing the venerable 911RS as the ultimate Porsche road and track car, the 996 GT3 has gained phenomenal appeal. Few cars are as readily equipped for club racing than this lightweight factory-prepped racer. It's the car you can competitively track all day and then drive home afterward. Prod

In part 1 of this series, we tear down the engine from this 1988 Porsche Carrera.

We left off with my 3.2-liter Porsche 911 motor torn down and in numerous pieces. To reach the desired goal of 80 hp/liter while retaining street manners and utilizing 91 octane pump gas, I chose to increase the displacement from 3.2 to 3.5 liters using larger 100mm forged pistons and cylinders with

The last installment of Project 911 SC/Carrera left off with a very sexy bottom end, a butt built for speed if you will. Ollie's Porsche Machining in Santa Ana, Calif., hot-tanked the case and removed the original fasteners to make way for the ultra-tough ARP units. The case spigot bores were enlarg

They say Rome wasn't built in a day. The same should be said for any well-built Porsche 911 motor. They both took some time to be designed. So, hot-rodding my own 911 engine proved to be a maddeningly slow process. I fought through the weeks of running around town chasing parts, and of meticulously

This is the final installment in a series detailing the metamorphosis of a limping 3.2-liter 911 Carrera engine into a fire-breathing, 3.5-liter twin-plug monster motor. If you haven't followed along to this point, valve guides that are infamous for wearing prematurely on many SC and Carrera motors

Check it out as Cort Wagner goes for the lap record at Willow Springs International Speedway in our Project 911S.