Here's A Cost Breakdown For A $17k Porsche 911 LS Swap
Last time we saw YouTuber and brave/bonkers used car buyer Tyler Hoover’s 996 Porsche ‘Apollo 911’, its LS2 V8 engine transplant was nearly finished. At the time the man was having regrets over his decision to do the engine swap, with the higher than expected cost listed as one of the main reasons.
So, just how expensive was it? Well, there’s no way to sugar coat this, so we’ll just come out with it: $17,043. Ouch.
At $4750 the engine made up a relatively small percentage of the final cost, with the end figure inflated by an expensive conversion kit, the unexpected purchase of a whole bunch of extra parts, and a lot of labour.
Hit play about and be prepared to wince at the full breakdown…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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He should get a 13b-REW.
That would probably have been more expensive
R O T A R Y P O W E R
Why?
No, LS swap in a 911 pisses off Porsche purists and that’s something funny, plus LS engines are common, cheap, bulletproof and easy to fix, everything the 13B isn’t
Couldn’t get any worse than a RX7 LS swap.
Should have done a Ev conversion
Tomislav Celić #CTthegame EV fanboy incoming
No.
YAAAS
No, you would still have not finished the conversion, it would have cost you three times more, and try to find any kits for an artisanal EV conversion in a 911. You won’t. And there’s no interest in it.
Even still, a Flat 6 probably would have costed more. Because Porsche, that’s why
Why not Subaru then?
He forgot to budget an extra $50,000 or so to defend against the inevitable haters.
Just dab on them. Costs nothing
Don’t givin’ a F**k it’s free :)
What is a 966? MattRobinson
It’s a typo-spec 911
So you took something German and made it american…
Good luck with the maintenance unless the back seats can go down is the most obvious thing someone would say to him. It’s work enough to put that engine into such a small space but the implications of it may be for a long time.
I’m 100% sure a rebuilt six wouldn’t cost 17k
If you want to make the same kind of power it does… and even more!
$4,750 for the engine? Did he buy a brand new crate engine? Could have pulled one at a junkyard for under $1,000. My neighbor does that all the time for the hot rod cars he builds.