Engineer Puts LS Power in a Porsche Cayman

Check out this LS Powered Porsche Cayman!

The Debate Is Over – How Do You Make A Porsche Faster? Stick a Corvette Engine In It!

We’ve all known somebody who has swapped an LS engine into their hot-rod, muscle car or Mustang.  The LS engine is so well respected in the automotive community as a reliable, low-cost, high-output engine that its become a “best practice” for people looking for lots of horsepower on a budget.  The LS engine has become so universally loved by mechanics and tuners that the Holley company hosts their annual “LS Fest” not once, but twice each year – once in Las Vegas, Nevada and once in Bowling Green, Kentucky.   While American muscle and a lot of Japanese tuners – especially the Mazda Miata – turn to the LS engine for big gains in power, it is far less common to find one of these beastly engines swapped into the LS’s “natural enemy” – namely, a Porsche.

Where the LS engine started life as the primary powerplant for the fifth– and sixth-generation Chevy Corvette, the Corvette has spent decades as a staunch rival to the Porsche 911.  Its the decades old debate of “American muscle versus German engineering”…that is, until eight-time national karting champion Jordon Musser decided it was time to bring the two together and create a machine that used the best of both worlds.  What he has created is a Porsche Cayman that produces a staggering 1,210 horsepower thanks to its twin-turbo LSA V8 engine swap.