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My great Porsche amigo, Jeremy Holmes, is selling his hot rod Porsche 911 SC, affectionately known as the Millennium Falcon. The name comes courtesy of a 3.6-litre, non-varioram 993 engine sitting in the back, remapped to 302 bhp courtesy of Wayne Schofield at ChipWizards.

I love this car. We’ve done quite a few runs together with the Gruppe IB crowd (modified impact bumper Porsches), the most memorable of recent times being a run to Spa in June 2010 for a trackday wth Twinspark Racing and Ron at RSRNurburg.

Jeremy’s got it up at £24,995. I think it’s slightly underpriced, but he’s not one to listen to me. Price up the cost of building this car again and it is not doable to this level for £25k, plus you’ve got to find the bits! Decent RHD 911 SC base in a great colour with no rust, Turbo brakes machined to fit under “ordinary” Fuchs for standard body, decent brake disc solution, 951 7″ Fuchs up front and 9 inch Fuchs in the rear, not to mention that creamy 993 lump with a decent exhaust sorted out.

Personally I would buy it and backdate it. Awesome in that super rare Wine Red Metallic with EB Motorsport backdate parts, bright trim and RSR Fuchs! Here’s what the boy wonder says about it:

Engine & Transmission

• 3.6L non varioram 993 engine, tight and dry. ecu mapped to the car by Wayne Schofield, it produced 302hp on his rolling road
• Patrick Motorsports conversion flywheel, p/s block-off and conversion wiring harness. 993 RS alternator fan hub and bottom pulley. K&N cone filter
• Sachs power clutch
• 3.3 turbo rear muffler
• 3.2 Carrera radiator type front oil cooler with auxiliary fan
• Seine Systems gateshift
• Gearbox rebuilt at 67441 miles. Swepco oil used.

Interior

• 993 black leather front seats
• Genuine Porsche replacement headliner
• Manual heat control levers
• Driver seat rails lowered to gain additional headroom

Running Gear

• 911 turbo/930 discs and callipers, rear callipers machined by Rebel Racing to fit the SC trailing arms. 930 master cylinder and servo
• Refurbed 9″ Fuchs on the rear, refurbed 7″ 944 turbo Fuchs on the front (required to clear the turbo brakes, 911 6s or 7s won’t fit). Toyo 888s
• New 1989 model year 930 front struts fitted 8000 miles ago, rears revalved by Bilstein UK to match the specification of the fronts
• Late 3.2 Carrera ARBs (22mm front, 21mm rear)
• Neatrix bushes on the rear springplates, poly bushes on the front
• 26mm 930 rear torsion bars, 19mm front
• Suspension geometry and ride height set up by Tuthills to their ‘fast road’ spec.

Bodywork

• Factory right hand drive
• Carbon fibre bonnet, non-spoiler steel rear lid (original steel front lid with crest and rear lid with turbo spoiler included if required).
• During my tenure the offside sill and kidney bowl have been replaced, also nearside inner wing has had rust removed and replaced with new metal and nearside outer wing has been replaced.
• Teardrop mirrors (original flag mirrors included if required)
• Factory sunroof
• Under wing windscreen washer bottle removed and replaced by a lightweight 3.2 Carrera intensive washer reservoir (fitted under the front hood)
• Rear wiper delete
• Front oil cooler air scoop

Original service book/drivers manual. MOT certificates going back to 1987 together with a thick history file. Odometer is showing as just over 26,200. In the history there is a certified speedo change by OPC Colchester at 78474 miles (still have that original broken speedo), so total mileage c. 104,000 of which about 8,000 has been done with the 3.6 engine. MOT to August, taxed to end of May. Torque, torque and yet more torque.

Ideal compromise between an out and out track car and a softly sprung daily driver. As our third car we have used it for social trips, taking the family to the coast for our summer holidays and for jaunts to Spa and Le Mans for some track day pleasure. Suspension is firm, but not firm enough for the passengers to complain. It’s never let us down and has enough power and go to show a clean pair of heels to plenty of much newer opposition. Use it and enjoy it as is, or without too much additional effort it could be backdated to RS or ST style.

If you’re looking for a 100% mint original car then keep searching – modifications aside, whilst most presentable the paintwork has a few stonechips and some fading in places. But if you’re after an ’80s sleeper with an innate ability to put a smile on your face, this could be the one. Doubt you’ll find another 911 quite like this anytime soon!

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