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David- I think you hit it right on the head, you want what you want, The desires of each owner is all that really matters. As someone on this thread stated, you have to be thick skinned to be in any hobby!
My first Porsche was a rusted out 914. At the time they were not worth much and were barely accepted in the Porsche club. I looked at every bit of history and info I could find about the car's design. I discovered that Porsche had played with many ways to get larger rubber under the car. There were a few that they built that just used the flair off of the 911 ST. Since I had extensively modified the under chassis to repair and strengthen it, I decided to weld on flairs rear flairs off of a 911 speedster ( supposedly Dennis Rodeman's car when he wanted the Turbo look).
I liked the look, I could mount 8" wide rear Porsche wheels with 7" in front on and had a nice handling 914. My 1st Porsche event with it was insulting. A guy said "those are not original- you should have used the 914 GT flairs". When I showed him the article (had it in the car) and explained they wee real Porsche flairs, he shook his head and said "you don't get what we are about". I looked back at him and said he did not get it. Dr Porsche was the original hot rodder! He was constantly modifying every car to make it better perform, not make it just be like every other car.
I did not renew my membership needless to say! Without going on too long (TOO LATE), I decided I would build cars to what I like and you can build to what you like. To quote the old saying "Opinions are like feet- we all have a set. Just can't smell them since the are so far from our noses".
Build it and they will come David!
There is something to be said for the smaller 289 configuration. It does tend to spin fast vs the larger SBF configs. Just like the Chevy Z28 302 (oops, I mentioned the "C" word on a Cobra site) the rod/piston ratio was, in both cases, about perfect.
Good luck! (by the way, I like the plan. had a similar thought on my next one myself).
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