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I have an older Kirk built Vintage Speedster with a 2276 that I sourced from Greg at Vintage. The motor however was mine and it came out of a dune buggy/sandrailer. I'm only running 1.25:1 rockers and 9.4:1 compression and a Webcam 86b with 105 LSA. I haven't experienced any overheating, but I'm also running external oil coolers. I don't drive much on the freeway, but the Speedster does see spirited run's on the I-5 and on the back roads of San Diego County. I've reached 150 kph after merging on to the I-5 easily, but then immediately backed off. I can drive this car around town in 3rd gear if I wanted to, but I don't. On one hand, it's a stump puller and I can short shift it all day long - but I don't. The torque comes in very very very low and I often shift before 3K rpm. 3000 - 3250 RPMs on the I-5 gets me to where I need to go and I can be in the middle lanes, but I prefer the right lane. So on one hand, the engine is perfect for street performance. But on the other hand, it's almost boring to drive and I got what I wanted. So when the time came to rebuild my 1.6 in my '69 912, rather than going Renegade with a monster VW T4, I decided to have the Porsche engine rebuilt and it will be a 1.7 with approx 125-127 HP that won't mind living at high RPMs (but still driveable on the street).  I prefer driving slow cars fast than a fast cars slow so much that I parted with my water-cooled 997 C2S 911.

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