The Porsche community increasingly seems split into two camps. On one side, purists love only their original air-cooled 911 sports cars and anything else simply doesn't belong in the conversation. On the other, fans of Stuttgart engineering love everything their beloved company does, from early experiments like the four-cylinder 912 to the mid-engined 914 and all the way to today's electric Taycan super-sedan. But if there was one car that could unify both sides of the Porsche battle, it might be a wild build that's the star of a new video posted on YouTube by Hoonigan AutoFocus. The red 911 might look a bit radical at first, but a deep dive by host Larry Chen into this project from E-Motion Engineering reveals all the secrets involved in body swapping and turbocharging a Porsche GT3 Cup car—and keeping it street legal.

Melding A Turbo S With A GT3 Cup Body

Joey Seely of E-Motion shares how his shop melded a 991.1-generation Porsche 911 in Turbo S trim with a 991.2-gen GT3 Cup body, with a host of customizations to go along with the marriage. The first clues that something special going on here is the race-style set of rear rain lights above the license plate out back, plus the retractable tow hooks up front within a GT3 Cup bumper that allows for GT3 radiators and air conditioning condensers.

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What Parts Belong To The GT3 And Turbo S

Turbo Body Swap Porsche GT3 Cup Car 2
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The hood and fenders are all sourced from the GT3, though the car retains cabin and pollen filters for the Turbo S's climate control system. The car was built for a customer on the 2016 Turbo but the bodywork, including also the decklid and wing, is from 2018. It still wears a glass roof and a standard interior with all the creature comforts.

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Turbo Body Swap Porsche GT3 Cup Car 3
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The goal was to build a custom car that remains street legal while also adding a ton of the race-spec features like the rear wing that mounts to the carbon fiber body pieces rather than the decklid. Under the skin, though, the Turbo's intercoolers presented a bit of a challenge to squeeze in behind the rear wheels. The engine itself is running on stock internals, with upgrades to the turbos, exhaust, and intake manifold for performance enhancements that allow the setup to produce 800 horsepower at all four wheels—or an estimated 1,000 horses at the crank—when running on a race-fuel map with methanol injection.

Sources: youtube.com and emotionengineering.com.

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