crayphile:
Grant:
crayphile:
blueflame:
Wow - and the "new" 1956 Speedster has a Carrera engine? 

Please give us some pics...
Blueflame
I wish it had a 4 Cam engine - that would be 2.5x the price. I will buy a 4 Cam eventually as part of the 356 "set". Photos may be a while given Covid etc, but they will come!
Would you look for a car that originally had a 4-cam motor or add one to a car that came with a standard motor? I imagine the number of original cars is tiny, no?
Must be difficult to source an engine - they don’t share any parts with the standard motor, do they?
First preference would always be a car with its original engine. As you say, they are completely different from a normal engine and much more specialised to maintain. However, there are a number of them around - but they are pricey. The "Carrera" engine was originally 1600 but in its swansong it was 2.0L in the Carrera 2.
Those 4-cam motors are little marvels. The 911 didn't have a road-going 4-cam motor until the water-cooled era (MY 1999), I think. I know there are some interesting options for the 356 cars now (there is an outfit that makes a 4-cylinder version of a 911 motor with over 2.0L displacement, but only 2-cams), but I can't imagine anything cooler than an original 4-cam.
Is this outfit well regarded?:
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2012/04/16/new-complete-four-cam-porsche-carrera-engines-now-available
A little more info from Porsche:
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/history/porsche-356-a-cabriolet-1600-gs-carrera-four-cylinder-flat-engine-fuhrmann-koenigswellen...
Here's an auction for an original motor that did not reach reserve, though bid to $220k:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-porsche-4-cam-carerra/
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18 GT3 Manual, 73 Carrera RS 2.7 Carbon Fiber replica (1,890 lbs), 06 EVO9 with track mods. Former: 16 Cayman GT4, 73 911S, Two 951S's, 996 C2, 993 C2, 98 Ferrari 550, 79 635CSi