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Posted by: scotty b Mar 19 2005, 05:23 PM
For the first time i have been given free reign to do what I want on a 914. It is possible because it is for my dad. After trying to get himn to tell me what he wants in the end he said "I'll leave it up to you, you're a lot better with this stuff than I am" So I have deviated slightly from my original plan to this.
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Posted by: scotty b Mar 19 2005, 05:27 PM
I have actually considerd this in the past. 
I do a fair amount of work on Jeeps and to give you an idea, a CJ-7 wheelbase is 95 inches and a 914 wheelbase is 94.5. You do the math 
Posted by: xsboost90 Mar 19 2005, 05:30 PM
wow- that would be a shame... 
Posted by: jwalters Mar 19 2005, 05:46 PM
Hey man- 
-you trying to copy me or something??? 
J/K-- 
Posted by: scotty b Mar 19 2005, 05:51 PM
| QUOTE (jwalters @ Mar 19 2005, 03:46 PM) |
| Hey man- -you trying to copy me or something??? J/K-- |
Yeah I actually have been trying to figure out how you raised yours!! 
Posted by: xsboost90 Mar 19 2005, 06:20 PM
think it would still handle good raised up w/ some super swampers?
Posted by: scotty b Mar 19 2005, 06:23 PM
| QUOTE (xsboost90 @ Mar 19 2005, 04:20 PM) |
| think it would still handle good raised up w/ some super swampers? |
He'll be prepared the next time a hurricane rolls through and the trees are laying across the road!
Posted by: DJsRepS Mar 20 2005, 06:51 AM
If you do that just enter it in the monster truck jam when they let the street leagle cars and trucks race around the jumps.
Posted by: spare time toys Mar 20 2005, 07:08 AM
Make it a rock crawler 
Those beer and brat guys are mch more friendly than the wine and cheese crowd 
Posted by: seanery Mar 20 2005, 11:14 AM
Time to move OUT of Virgina, boy 
Posted by: riverman Mar 20 2005, 11:54 AM
Isn't there a guy down in Florida doing something similar to his car? I think he calls it Black Sabbath, or something.
You should do yours in white (call it Whitesnake), and then you could have a Good vs. Evil or Spy vs. Spy thing going on.
Posted by: scruz914 Mar 20 2005, 02:02 PM
| QUOTE (scotty b @ Mar 19 2005, 04:23 PM) |
| "I'll leave it up to you, you're a lot better with this stuff than I am" |
It is ideas like this that keeps most dads from saying such things to their sons.
Posted by: Rgreen914 Mar 20 2005, 07:24 PM
8-bolt wheels from a 3/4 ton truck? Don't like the rims but agree with the tire choice. Run those T/A's on my big block Suburban; very quiet and smooth riding tires and not bad in the rain. Original Equipment on the H-2, though in a larger size. One suggestion, open the wheel wells to fit the rubber 
Ron
Posted by: jwalters Mar 20 2005, 07:35 PM
I honestly do not know how mine got so tall--and it has 1 1/2 inch lowered coils on the back--- Gonna have to do some cuttin--hopefully when I get the rest of the weight on it, it will go back to normal--
Posted by: scotty b Mar 20 2005, 08:37 PM
| QUOTE (Rgreen914 @ Mar 20 2005, 05:24 PM) |
| 8-bolt wheels from a 3/4 ton truck? Don't like the rims but agree with the tire choice. Run those T/A's on my big block Suburban; very quiet and smooth riding tires and not bad in the rain. Original Equipment on the H-2, though in a larger size. One suggestion, open the wheel wells to fit the rubber Ron |
'85 3/4 ton Suburban actually. I don't own no stinkin ""trucks"
Whitesnake might just work...or White Lion!! 
Posted by: scotty b Mar 20 2005, 08:39 PM
| QUOTE (jwalters @ Mar 20 2005, 05:35 PM) |
| I honestly do not know how mine got so tall--and it has 1 1/2 inch lowered coils on the back--- Gonna have to do some cuttin--hopefully when I get the rest of the weight on it, it will go back to normal-- |
You know that if you put lowerd springs on upside down it actually raises right? 
Posted by: nebreitling Mar 20 2005, 08:41 PM
i wish you were serious. i'd love to do that to a 914 and then run the baja 500!
Posted by: teenrookie Mar 20 2005, 08:50 PM
| QUOTE (nebreitling @ Mar 20 2005, 06:41 PM) |
| i wish you were serious. i'd love to do that to a 914 and then run the baja 500! |
They raced 914's in the Baja 500 in the '70's. And there are more Porsche 4's and 6's used today than you could count.
Posted by: scotty b Mar 20 2005, 08:51 PM
| QUOTE (nebreitling @ Mar 20 2005, 06:41 PM) |
| i wish you were serious. i'd love to do that to a 914 and then run the baja 500! |
I'm obviously NOT doing this to his car but as I said, I HAVE considerd it. I'd love to roll out at Hatteras with the top off, rods mounted to the rollbar and nail it just to see the expressions
I do enough Jeep work I can always find a donor CJ to use. It would definitly be Jeep frame and drivetrain with a 914 body. But just think about it
Posted by: jwalters Mar 20 2005, 09:04 PM
| QUOTE (scotty b @ Mar 20 2005, 09:39 PM) | ||
You know that if you put lowerd springs on upside down it actually raises right? |
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