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Posted by: synthesisdv Apr 21 2004, 05:13 PM

Actually haven't seen it yet but heard there is a 5 page story about a guy who fixed up his 914. Has 2.3L motor with D-jet. etc, etc.

Is this anyones car we know?

dr

Posted by: 415PB Apr 21 2004, 05:26 PM

I have the May issue and I cant find it in there. Are we talking Porsche EXCELLENCE?

Posted by: synthesisdv Apr 21 2004, 05:45 PM

My bad, its in the June issue, just came today.

dr

Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 21 2004, 05:47 PM

nuff said....

Posted by: 415PB Apr 21 2004, 05:50 PM

Shit, I just got the May issue two days ago, WTF. Guess I will have to go back and get the June issue.

Posted by: kwales Apr 21 2004, 05:50 PM

June - got mine 2 days ago!

Guy did an interesting trick on the back of his rollbar. Removed the chrome trim and ground the spotwelded flanges off. Gives the car an interesting look and and it gets rid of those flimsy aluminum vertical trim pieces!

His 2270 runs a modifed teener EFI with a Webcam 93 grind. Same manifold pipes, big Volvo TB, getsya 97.7hp at the rear wheels.

Also some head info on the Q&A section- rethreading the head for CHT, etc.

Ken

Posted by: East coaster Apr 21 2004, 06:27 PM

Somebody post pics..........I was thinking of doing the same thing to my targa bar and I'd kill to see some pics of it done.

Seems like a great way to kill a weekend.....cut....grind....weld....grind more...repeat as necessary!

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Posted by: jonwatts Apr 21 2004, 06:53 PM

Is this car red? The modified rollbar and volvo TB sound like a car that showed up to the SSI swapmeet a few years ago.

Posted by: Rob Ways Apr 21 2004, 07:19 PM

Good article. Its a red 75 restoration with all the favorite mods. Use your imagination.

Posted by: Gint Apr 21 2004, 08:03 PM

Lemme guess, the car is red right? Where are those pics?

Posted by: Bleyseng Apr 21 2004, 08:10 PM

whoopie do, I have gotta 95hp at the rear wheels with my 2056.

Geoff

Posted by: Jake Raby Apr 21 2004, 09:10 PM

That shows the efficiency of the two...

As long as its not running hot, I commend him for what he was able to do with it- But I'll bet that somewhere that sucker is lean.

Posted by: JmuRiz Apr 21 2004, 09:17 PM

Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out on the newsstand when it comes out here. Wouldn't you think he would have made his own manifold runner pipes (bigger diameter) since he was working on stuff anyway? I always thought that was the restrictor on the stock FI intake. Correct me if I'm wrong. Makes you wonder what one of Jakes 2270's puts at the wheels running webbers....hmmmm

Nathan

Posted by: Levi Apr 21 2004, 09:32 PM

This car looks like its been modified in that area


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Posted by: Jake Raby Apr 21 2004, 09:41 PM

Almost all of them I have seen guys put on chassis dynos were making 125-135 ponies.. seemslike most of them going to cali make more. I have sent a few there that made as much as they did on my flywheel dyno. Our climate and elevation suck for power, even with correction factors... what is 185 ponies here, may be 200 there from what I have seen depending on the day and location.

The last engine that I dynoed then instyalled and chassis dynoed went from 151 ponies to 132 in the car. Not too bad... but even a worn tranny cost you on the rolling road, just like CVs and hanging brake calipers.

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Posted by: thesey914 Apr 22 2004, 12:24 AM

I reiterate, can some kindly person scan this for us overseas who will not get to buy this mag?

Posted by: Brad Roberts Apr 22 2004, 12:53 AM

If I recall which car this is... it is NOT a 2270. I think JW is correct. It is the car from my SSI swap meets. Tall guy. Runs AutoX sometimes with the car. Very clean ride.


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Posted by: Britain Smith Apr 22 2004, 01:01 AM

Alright, I haven't even read the article yet but I scanned it for all...


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Posted by: Brad Roberts Apr 22 2004, 01:07 AM

Yep. That is him. Resize those..


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Posted by: Brett W Apr 22 2004, 06:48 AM

Clean looking car. He did a great job on the looks and probably the suspension, Used a good combo. Too bad he used the stock Djet. If he ran Megasquirt he could tune it better. Who wants to stop the fun at 5500 rpm? What a waste. My 2056 made 118 at the wheels but I was about 10ft-lbs off that torque number. No way My torque looked like his though. Bet that sucker is fun to drive.

Posted by: rdauenhauer Apr 22 2004, 09:30 AM

What about this vanagon Flywheel swap?
Wht would the benifit be ..seems like youd want to REDUCE that recip. mass not increase it.

Posted by: Howard Apr 22 2004, 09:43 AM

Britain, thanks for the scan. Good reading.

Posted by: waterboy Apr 22 2004, 03:41 PM

I like Everything about that car, except for the front bumper

Posted by: 415PB Apr 22 2004, 05:32 PM

Thanks for the scan Britain.

Posted by: type47 Apr 22 2004, 07:07 PM

in the same issue is some bad news for the 914 fan. a while ago in the magazine (excellence) 10 people chose their 10 favorite p-cars. (people like alwin springer, bruce anderson, jerry seinfeld, sorry i don't remember others). anyway we were all happy that so many had 914s on their list. well, the 10 people (practically) now are choosing their 10 favorite racing p-cars. how many 914s made the concensus top 10........? that'd be zero, 0, zippo, zilch......

come on! how about the sunauto #40 Le Mans racer?????

Posted by: seanery Apr 22 2004, 07:57 PM

the race car competition is extemely tough IMHO. Much tougher than the street car competition. Porsche made soooo many outstanding racing cars.

550
RSK series
904
908
910
917
935
936
956
962
GT1
GT3
RSR
RS 2.7

that's just off the top of my head, and doesn't include the can-am cars. they made some really bad racers.