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Christopher Runge

Jun 3, 2026

74:24
I know that you had an early flat four that was, um, 2.4 liters?
74:31
Yeah.
74:31
So in 2016, there's a, there's a couple different parts to this story.
74:37
In 2016, I started talking with Dean Polopis, uh, who builds the Polo 911 4.
74:43
Dean and Chuck Beck of Beck Spider fame, both, I believe it was in the early, maybe mid-'80s, around the same time, had the idea to take a Porsche six-cylinder 911 engine and remove the two center cylinders and shorten the case.
75:03
And they both did this, starting by welding the case, modifying crank, modifying all the internals to make it a four-cylinder 911.
75:12
And it proved to be, both of them successfully did it, proved to be a very robust little engine.

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104:35
Can you maybe tell us a little bit ab- more about that car?

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