Lowered Porsche Engined Land Rover

How cool is that? Although, Bryn's probably makes more evolutionary sense.

Just your title's full of win!

That's very cool! I really like that, nice find!

yep, very cool.

Odd running gear choice though but being a VW and aircooled fan i can see the appeal

I probably would have fitted a built type 1 motor though.

try Autofive he must have one lying around.

No. It's design is based around the type 1 VW, but the changes Porsche made to give it more power make the Porsches their own unique engine, and it's not similar enough for many of the parts to interchange. This makes it rare and expensive!! Also, depending on the particular model of early Porsche, they had all sorts of wild go-faster stuff on them like dry sumps and overhead cams.

I tried searching for more info on it but drew a blank. Looks like a really interesting build!

excellent! landrover combined with minitruck and aircooled vw stylings

The 356 engine in its later form (after about 53) is a totaly different engine to a VW. The Porsche case is 3 peice, the 3rd part being the front timing cover and about the only interchangable part is the distributer, but a VW part uses a Vacum advance unit, the Porsche one doesn't, so even though it will fit , it won't be any good!!It is difficult to get a lot of power from a 356 or 912 engine because the cam is too close to the crank, making stroking impossible, for larger capacity you have to rely on oversized pistons, most racers build 1600cc screamers, with about 160bhp acheivable. The dry sump engines are the 4 Cam Carrera units, and use gear driven overhead cams, very complicated to re-build, usually at a cost of 60k and up!! the 4 cams were fitted to Spyders, Abarth Carrera's, single seaters and 356 Carrera's, as well as a few specials in 1500 and 1600cc's but were continually developed until they became the Carrera 2 litre engine that was fitted to 356 Carrera 2's and the 904 and some other specials... But, the old Landie probably would be better off with a big type 1 VW motor, they are cheaper and you can get a lot more power out of them!!!

Nothing constructive to say, so................

THAT RAWKS A PHAT ONE!