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When The Idea Of A Honda-Powered 911 Isn't Funny Anymore

- Aaron Bonk

Scott Girondo has pretty much got it right: What offspring of the ’80s didn’t grow up wanting a 911? And what offspring of the ’80s didn’t wind up in some sort of modified Honda? Unless you were preoccupied with that puffy sticker collection of yours or had your sights set on becoming a professional keyboard player, these were your goals.

For decades, the two objectives remained inconsistent with one another, though. Own a Porsche and you’d likely snub anything with a B-series in it. Own a Civic, do something like turbocharge it, and you’d likely take joy in embarrassing something like that 911. The two worlds remained separate—as logic said they should—and then people like Scott came along and messed it all up.

Scott likes messing up your status quo—those preconceived parameters that you think every 911 and Civic hatchback ought to fall into. You have to if you want to go ahead and do something like take an ’80s-era 911 and stick a mid-’00s Acura engine into it. Which is exactly what Scott did, that is, after he yanked the small-block Chevy from the Porsche’s hind end.