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Two Porsche 911S Get Wild V8 Swaps At SEMA

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Two Porsche 911S Get Wild V8 Swaps At SEMA

Two Porsche 911s rolled into Las Vegas this week with engines no factory spec sheet ever listed. One swaps its flat-six for a Ferrari-built Maserati V8 pulled from a 2007 Quattroporte. The other runs a 6.0-liter LS2 from General Motors, previously home to a Subaru flat-four.

Both cars are on display through the 2026 SEMA Show, running until November 6 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, presented through Eneos Oil. Jimmy Oakes built the Ferrari-powered car, while Faruk Kugay owns the LS2-swapped GT3 aimed at drifting.

The donor engines could hardly be more different. Oakes's 1978 Porsche 911 SC now carries a 4.3-liter Ferrari/Maserati F136 V8, a flat-plane-crank unit that once powered a Quattroporte sedan. Kugay's 2007 Porsche 997 GT3 runs a dry-sump 6.0-liter LS2 with LS3 cylinder heads, a combination built for sideways drifting abuse.

Maserati and Ferrari shared engineering resources for years, which is how an Italian V8 ended up in both brands' lineups before the arrangement ended in 2023. The F136 was never meant for a 911. It was always a Ferrari engine wearing a Maserati badge, which is what makes Oakes's swap more than a random parts-bin exercise.

Kugay's GT3 took a different road entirely. It previously ran a Subaru STI EJ25 flat-four, a swap already unusual on its own, before the car was rebuilt around the LS2 for dedicated drift duty. The 911 GT3 platform has seen plenty of race-oriented builds over the years, but few ditch both the stock flat-six and a prior swap engine in the same car's life.


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