K24-swapping the MOST HATED Porsche 911 is our kind of absurd

Purists, avert your eyes. Everyone else, see what happens when you throw the rules out the window: a 996-gen Porsche 911 with a 500+ hp Honda engine inside.

"This is a hot rod at the end of the day. It has over double the power. If you're not careful with it, it'll probably bite you," says builder Ben Sipson.

Ben has always loved making things, building things, and seeing where it takes him. A few years ago, he helped out some friends K-swapping a Smart Car and became obsessed with the power and value those little motors could provide, making well over 500 hp on stock internals.

So when the opportunity came up to buy a 996 Porsche 911, the generation least liked by collectors because of its fried egg headlights and extremely late-1990s interior, he knew what he was going to do. Didn't matter that the stock engine worked fine. He ripped it out, sold it, and used that cash to fund the rest of the build. Which involved:

- K24a block machined by Cylinder Support System
- IGN-1a race coils
- Skunk2 magnesium valve cover
- AEM400 fuel pumps in a surge tank
- Rising Rate fuel pressure regulator
- Pulsar 6262G turbos
- Haltech 1500 Elite ECU
- All custom wiring

"The car's not for sale. I don't have it listed, but you know, something came along with the right offer. I had no problem selling it. I don't fall in love with cars. I enjoy everything about 'em. It's my entire life if you think about it. Cars are what allows me to support my family and own a house and work for myself."

"I kind of use cars as like a tool to achieve multiple things. With this one, for example, I built a swap kit for it. Not a complete swap kit, but I built engine mounts. It took a thing that I was excited about doing. I make a couple jigs for it. Well now I can share that with other people. Make a couple bucks. Kind of fun to do. That's kind of carried on throughout everything I've done."

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[baysidefabrication]

Big shout out to Tom from the Drive. Video came out great. Guy is an absolute wizard at putting all of this together. Thanks for watching!

[Well_Theres_Your_Problem]

My brain struggles to compute that shape with that sound.

[pab]

“At the end of the day it’s just nuts and bolts and sheet metal”. Wise man, wise man.
I love that car.

[TheTReed]

Came up for sale today and sold in 4 hrs for $37.5k, great price, what a cool car.

[GAMER_PUNK]

The most hated 911 is my favorite 911 lol, plus I'm a Honda guy, so this is a match made in heaven IMO lol

[kamilb]

Going into this video I thought I wouldn't like it. But it's turbo, impressive power levels, custom work. This is actually really neat.

[Suprasavage]

Much better than the last time the Germans and Japanese got together.

[Cavscout]

The best advertisement I've sat thru.

[lbatrzz]

MOST HATED?? Stop hating already the 996 is a beauty.

[hectorconcepcion]

This is by far my favorite swap combination I have ever seen. Good job, buddy, keep up the good work.

[TaylorDeCastro]

Lego analogy is on point. Sometimes the process is better than the payoff.

[JaredDixon]

I'm never one to yuck someone's yum. I love 911s and this definitely isn't my jam, but I really appreciate the work and passion that went into this. You keep doing you!

[aleksandardjakovic]

I love this build so much . As a true Honda guy and owner . They truly are one of those engines that at least once in you’re you’ve been touched by . Love this and love cars

[jm]

I’m a Honda guy!!! And wow this has always been my favorite Porsche you truly build a 1 of 1 dream I can only think of in my head and probably would never be able to achieve but I’m glad you could! This is awesome.

[Juan]

You did a great job on it. You got great talent.

[TheJMedia]

Such a cool swap! The K series motors definitely make big power easily. Love seeing my love for Honda power come together with the beauty of a Porsche chasis

[NYHeeb]

As a car nut myself it never stops to impress me the dudes who can just build it themselves. Respect to the highest caliber. I'm pretty handy but I can't just weld up anything or swap a motor. Wish I had the space and time to learn.

[RWeber]

So cool to see @Baysidefabrication getting the recognition!!
I followed this whole build series on his channel.
Ben is such a talented guy, originally watched his epic skill on the Smart Kart when he fab’d for the Fasterproms channel.
Amazing guy. Amazing work. Much respect to the guy. The K-motor in this beast is incredible alone.
The level of detail & thought put into the “minor” parts of this build is astounding. Truly impressive stuff all around.
This guy Ben is the top of the league when it comes to fab work, but when you look beyond the metal work you can clearly see he knows how to do anything else with the same expertise.
Just to think about the math involved in fabrication is exhausting by itself! But it’s obviously elementary for this guy.
I’ve always been a huge fan of the 996.1 - and who doesn’t love a killer turbo K-Series build - but it’s so cool to see a unique take on the otherwise exhausted idea of “lets K swap it”.
Not only is the idea awesome, but to see the idea in its completion be so much better than what could be imagined deserves applause.
And even still, there was nothing left on the table.
It’s not your basic LS build, it’s not your standard K swap. This is really an intricate build with truly unique design & almost entirely started as a box of metal & parts that had to be made by this guy & then assembled. One-off stuff really.
And you can see he applied that level of detail to every part of this build.
The car looks fantastic, the engine is a beast, the interior is perfect, & the sound is intoxicating.
What a beautiful crossover between 2 entirely different sides of the game. Seeing it come together so well is really impressive.
Ben is a beast ! 🤙
Love this car !! 💪💯

[kidreplay]

1st thing I said was “how do u get to the spark plugs” he quickly addressed the issue 👌🏽🙌🏽💯

[himkid]

At first when I saw the thumb nail I got mad then after watching the video I can really appreciate the build 🤙🏾