Unfortunately, cutting up the car, and removing a section of the rear chassis is the common way people have been doing these swaps. Here at Cusumano Automotive, all this metal will be left intact as factory.
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Here is an example of rear chassis, and sheet metal removed. Here in our shop, your car will never be cut. Making the swap fully reversible.
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A zoomed in look at the rear chassis rail. Porsche boxed this section to provide structural rigidity. In our opinion, It should not be removed.
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This is an example of cutting done to the underside of the decklid. Not only will we never cut your decklid like this, we will maintain provisions for an engine bay fan as Porsche intended.
In our pursuit to have these engine swaps function as close to factory as possible, we add the additional fuses, and relays to the unused receptacles in the factory relay panel.
Until we developed our engine mounting brackets, people have been removing the Porsche motor mounts, to replace them with generic body mount bushings like the one seen above
Porsche spent a lot of time, and money in R&D on the motor mounts seen above. Our mounting system maintains the use these factory mounts. Which also allows the use of any of the aftermarket mounts available from various companies.
Here you can see the motor mount bracket style others have used. This style of bracket suspends the engine from the cylinder heads. Placing the weight of the engine on the cylinder head bolts. In our opinion, this is not best practice.
Here you can see our completed install. Some of the highlights of our process are.
No cutting of the chassis or any of the sheet metal. Keeping the swap fully reversible.
Engine suspended using Porsche motor mounts and our block mounted brackets. Eliminating stress on the cylinder head bolts and giving the engine a “floating look”.
Functional engine bay fan, and engine bay light.
Maintaining the power steering in the engine bay instead of taking up limited front trunk space.
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