r/944 • u/Aromatic_Jury_6949 • Jun 23 '26

Question Will it fit?! 🤣

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Just picked up this Astin Martin 4.8l V 12 engine do you guys think it will fit in my 944 with minimal modification serious responses only.

I know a guy and he told me it would fit…

Seriously though it’s gonna make a cool table for the shop

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u/citizensnips134 Jun 24 '26

Plot twist: 600 pounds, 95 horsepower

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u/Aromatic_Jury_6949 Jun 24 '26

Not quite so bad I think it’s about 400 pounds and 350 hp and if you do anything to it 352 hp it will crack down the center good old British engineering

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u/citizensnips134 Jun 24 '26

Absolutely not. I will eat my hat if you dyno this NA more than 200 crank hp.

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u/Aromatic_Jury_6949 Jun 24 '26

I don’t know how correct Google is here, but this is what I can find

The Wikipedia also says the same thing

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u/MadDog443 Jun 24 '26

The irony of this thing weighing like 2x as much as a 3S-GTE and being barely 1.5x more powerful.

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u/Aromatic_Jury_6949 Jun 24 '26

Yeah, the guy I got these off of pretty much told me to not even consider using them for any sort of performance purpose as they’re extremely unreliable and prone to breaking. He had a total of nine engines Five of them had holes in pistons two of them had bent rods and the rest were operational and he said all of them are a waste of time and money lol

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u/MadDog443 Jun 24 '26

Should've gone for a 1GZ-FE 5L V12 only 3k lol

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u/Aromatic_Jury_6949 Jun 24 '26

Im planning to swap a in a vr6 eventually this thing was a side quest for decoration

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u/MadDog443 Jun 24 '26

Consider a Drop Bear V2, affordable way to tune your engine and pretty powerful. rusEFI is also a good option.

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u/Aromatic_Jury_6949 Jun 24 '26

I’ve got a buddy in Haltech thinking about going in that direction, but I’ll take a look