This 850 Horsepower Slantnose 911 Turbo Is The Most Tubular Porsche Imaginable

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Second chances are beautiful. This 1988 Porsche 930 Turbo Slantnose was suffering from corrosion and fire damage when it landed at Porsche Santa Clarita. After an extensive restoration you’ve got what you see here: The raddest of the rad — a totally bodacious 1988 Porsche 911 with an 850 horsepower 3.5-liter turbo motor that’s somehow not the most extreme part of the car.

Porsche Prejob

This is the third year that Galpin, our sister company, and its Porsche store Porsche Santa Clarita (organizer of one of the best Cars and Coffees in LA) have entered a car in the Porsche Restoration Challenge at the Werks Reunion at Pebble Beach. This is a nationwide contest organized by Porsche. Here’s how the brand describes it:

Now in its third year, the Restoration Challenge is aimed at cars that are due for expert attention from the best possible hands: Porsche-trained technicians who are, like many owners, passionate enthusiasts, and have a portfolio of more than 80,000 Porsche Classic Genuine Parts at their disposal. America is home to more classic Porsche vehicles than any other market in the world, and more than 60 dealers are expected to participate.

There are three classes in the Restoration Challenge:

The Preservation category is intended to keep original components of the vehicle present, enhancing the vehicle to improve its overall function while not restoring it to like-new condition. For instance, this could mean making minor paint corrections versus a full vehicle repaint. The Restoration category is for those projects going through a true restoration process, returning it to like-new condition. Vehicles in the Restoration category will be most closely aligned with original production specifications. Based on the Porsche Sonderwunsch program, the Individualization category is for those entries that fulfill a special wish. This is the category for the creative use of Genuine Parts.

Clearly, this is not a car going up for the Preservation category as the work was extensive:

In Progress

The previous two years Galpin won the People’s Choice Award and, yeah, they’ve now won it a third time.

Rad 911 Rear
You can see why. This 911’s been Reebok Pump-ed with enough ’80s nostalgia to make Oingo Boingo blush [Editor’s Note: I have no idea who or what that is. -DT]. Let’s start on the outside, where the flatnose has been augmented with an X83 Flachbau factory body kit that was only available in Japan and, even there, is extremely rare. That’s covered in a rich Rubystar paint job and a “racing stripe” inspired by the Porsche 75 year logo. It’s wild, but it works.

Rad 911 Wheels

The body is nicely contrasted by custom made HRE wheels in a classic basketweave design with a turquoise blue paint. That same turquoise color repeats inside, with black and white pasha inserts.

Rad 911 Interior

The instrument cluster was also upgraded, and there’s a new audio system with the Porsche classic radio featuring a custom Blaupunkt sound system. I need to check and see if it’s a 911 with a quadrophonic Blaupunkt.

Guagecluster

“Our goal with this Slantnose was to bring it back to the original generation while incorporating our own unique Galpinized design,” said Beau, co-founder of The Autopian and head of Galpin Motors.

Rad 0911 Strap

Here’s a shot of the before, just to set expectations for how major this transformation was:

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Here’s a look at the car dismantled:

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The biggest change might be out back, where the new upgraded 3.5-liter turbo flat six sits. There are individual throttle bodies, a custom oil cooler system, and a transaxle with and LSD and cooler — all necessary to keep those 850 horsepower pumping through this thing.

911 Rear Window

Also helping keep this car propelled forward is the revised suspension, which takes parts from the 997 GT3 RS, as well as some ASP bits and MC coiloivers.

911 Kids Choice

It’s so choice. It was also the People’s Choice as well as the Kid’s choice because, as always, the kids have great taste.

Here’s Beau explaining how it came together:

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So badass.

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58 thoughts on “This 850 Horsepower Slantnose 911 Turbo Is The Most Tubular Porsche Imaginable”

  1. Wait, not sure if I missed something, but you got 850hp from that engine using only original parts? Certainly not period parts, right? Anyway, this is a very impressive power upgrade!
    P. S.: I think that this nose job is the only part that is overdone in a “bad” way, maybe the “X83 Flachbau” kit is rare for a reason 🙂

  2. I think the engine fan in the accent color might be my favorite detail. But I love thw whole thing. Sometimes just a little too far is just exactly far enough, and I think this is one of those times.

  3. The slantnose was peak drug dealer Porsche, or junk bond trader Porsche. Personally I’ve never likes them as street cars. I understood the need on a 935 but not on a 901 or 930 where the round lights are essential to the look.
    My money no object 911 would be a nice 911SC/RS the last of the OG 901 platform cars. Being both old and conservative mine would roll on Fuchs wheels with stock paint and interior in something other hand Guards Red because that was such a cliché in the 80s

  5. Absolutely love the colour constrast and the stripe. I don’t like the body kit as much as the original design, but I get it that it does make the build extra special. And when it comes to modding cars, I’m firmly team you do you. Nice job!

  7. It’s is definitely, very much, totally the embodiment of the thing that it is.

    My only negative feeling is that it seems like the original car was in pretty good shape. Seems like a good one was sacrificed, versus restoring something rough.
    On the other hand, you bought it, so you can do whatever you like.
    And you certainly did!

    1. Oh my God. I never realized… The last one is, absolutely, the best thing. Ever! I knew they were around before Forbidden Zone, but have never seen any of it.

  17. Didn’t these have a power delivery that tended to thin the ranks of the over-confident? I seem to remember a RUF version in GT3 or 4 that was like, ‘good…fast…backwards death’. A Yellowbird or something? I got pretty good at that one—but don’t think I’d care to drive a real one with 850hp in anger.
    Man’s gotta know his limitations

    1. The early 930s from the 70s were total death machines but the wider track, revised suspension, and more refined turbos of the 80s cars made them less likely to go off the road backwards.

  18. Hummina hummina hummina
    *eyes pop out*
    AROOOOOOOOGA!
    *jaw drops tongue rolls out*
    WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF
    *pounds fists on table*

    I think I’m in love.

  20. I love me a flat nose 930, but about the only color I cannot stand is turquoise, so I am highly conflicted here. Paint the turquoise bits white and I am 100% onboard.

  21. I told my wife that I found her dream car. When I showed her the pics, she squealed, “It’s a Barbie car! I love it!.” Great job Beau and team!

  22. Flatnose Turbo might be my favorite combination of words but even in the 80’s that color scheme would have been considered pretty out there.

    1. In the 80s, I’m pretty sure the reaction to the car would be, “It’s pink. What are you, some kind of f*g?” and the car would then be summarily written off as “gay.”

  23. The Most Tubular Porsche Imaginable

    Is it totally tubular? *reads article* Yes. Yes, it is.

    It’s like, how much more tubular could it be? And the answer is none. None more tubular.

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