does anyone have information on the year/engine vs weight of the 914 and 914-6, and the GT as well, if you do i could really use it, thanks
Aaron
if you believe the Spec books, and the recent retrospective article in "GT - Purely Porsche' 914.4's weigh 970 Kg and the 914.6 weighs 940 Kg.
the 940 Kg number comes right out of the 914.6 owner's manual and i have NO idea how Porsche managed to convince the world a /6 is 30 Kg lighter than a /4. must have been some interesting 'homologation special' cars built up to make the GT's more competitive.
even if the /6 was on the optional Mahle rims and the /4 was on steel wheels - i don't see it...
anyway - those are the 'official' weights...
can anyone give me the weights from the sticker on their doorjambs, along with what year the car is?
it would really help
1976 car-2690 lbs GVWR
QUOTE (ArtechnikA @ May 23 2005, 06:38 PM) |
if you believe the Spec books, and the recent retrospective article in "GT - Purely Porsche' 914.4's weigh 970 Kg and the 914.6 weighs 940 Kg. the 940 Kg number comes right out of the 914.6 owner's manual and i have NO idea how Porsche managed to convince the world a /6 is 30 Kg lighter than a /4. must have been some interesting 'homologation special' cars built up to make the GT's more competitive. even if the /6 was on the optional Mahle rims and the /4 was on steel wheels - i don't see it... anyway - those are the 'official' weights... |
QUOTE (lapuwali @ May 24 2005, 10:43 AM) |
The spec book figures must only cover one year. The 914/4s don't all weigh the same. ...I'd bet someone long ago switched the /4 and the /6 numbers and it entered official history. |
I'm willing to believe it was just an honest mistake with an early transcribing of figures, which then got propogated to spec books and owner's manuals. However, it could very well have been some homologation dodge. Maybe the spec book shows the average weight of all three models.
I seem to remember the original Car & Driver number for the '70 1.7 was under 2000lbs (they weighed it). 1980lbs springs to mind. I think that was either with no fuel or 1/3rd of a tank. The test car had steel wheels.
To the original poster, I'm sure you see this is not a cut-and-dried issue if any accuracy is desired. If you want measured figures for complete cars as new, then go hunt up a copy of the Brooklands 914 book, which gathers road test reprints from when the cars were new. I used to have a copy, but it's vanished. C&D tested all of them, and had a standard methodology for weighing them.
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