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Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 5 2019, 04:32 AM
I recently hit the forum up for help doing a valuation of my 914-6 race car. I was given lots of help, TC is going look at the car and help me price it.
Some people noticed in the picture of my car on display at PCNA in Atlanta , the Porsche Museum's 914-8. I was given access to the 914/8 and have some decent pictures to share. I started sharing them, but they were getting buried in my valuation post. So I will post a couple of pictured each day for all to enjoy.
I don't know why the photos get turned after I add them to my post...help
Greg Lowdermilk 
Posted by: DickSteinkamp Dec 5 2019, 09:32 AM
It looks like you are adding pics from your computer and not from an on line photo album. If so, view the pic you want to post in whatever viewer you use, resize it if necessary, orient it correctly (it may be already correct) then save it again...even if it was already oriented correctly. Then post it.
Keep the 8 pics coming!
Posted by: KSCarrera Dec 5 2019, 11:28 AM
FYI, this is the engine from the silver car, which was wrongly said to be a detuned 908 engine. The photo was taken while I was at the museum in June 2017 when my friend Jen Torner from the archives had discovered the engine was in fact a prototype motor built before the 908 was finalised – a former worker at Zuffenhausen had given a whole file of paperwork to the archives, saying that he had worked on this car. In the paperwork was proof this was no 'ordinary' 908 motor (if such a thing exists!).
Sorry to butt in...
Posted by: gms Dec 5 2019, 01:12 PM
I love to see the details, keep the pictures coming!!
Posted by: Mark Henry Dec 5 2019, 01:52 PM
I love to see the details, keep the pictures coming!!
Looks like it has 4 weber IDA 2 barrel carbs, what size are they?
Likely 48mm but Porsche had enough clout to special order any size.
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 6 2019, 03:53 AM
I recently hit the forum up for help doing a valuation of my 914-6 race car. I was given lots of help, TC is going look at the car and help me price it.
Some people noticed in the picture of my car on display at PCNA in Atlanta , the Porsche Museum's 914-8. I was given access to the 914/8 and have some decent pictures to share. I started sharing them, but they were getting buried in my valuation post. So I will post a couple of pictured each day for all to enjoy.
I don't know why the photos get turned after I add them to my post...help
Greg Lowdermilk
Posted by: Tbrown4x4 Dec 6 2019, 05:38 AM
Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. BTW, I'm kind of liking those turn signal lenses.
Posted by: 914Sixer Dec 6 2019, 06:40 AM
Turn signals finish out the form of the fender line, not making the end so abrupt.
Posted by: Cairo94507 Dec 6 2019, 02:31 PM
I really appreciate you posting the pictures. I also really like the front turns lenses. I think they fit the lines of the car much better. I wonder if they are still available..... 
Posted by: JeffBowlsby Dec 6 2019, 02:54 PM
Such a tremendous 914...why cheapen it with the cheesy hood label.
Posted by: johnhora Dec 6 2019, 10:32 PM
Greg...
Thanks for all the pictures of the 914-8.
Please keep them coming.
We certainly appreciate the views of this car.
John
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 17 2019, 05:24 PM
I was out of town, so didn't add any pics. Here are a few more.
Posted by: rgalla9146 Dec 17 2019, 06:14 PM
Is that an exhaust pipe for a gas heater ?
Love the photos ! so cool, any more ?
Posted by: 1970 Neun vierzehn Dec 17 2019, 06:27 PM
I always thought that the orange /8 had enlarged headlight covers concealing the "quad" headlights. The one photo showing the front, left turn signal lens and headlight cover appears to be a normal 914 single headlight cover 
Posted by: mepstein Dec 17 2019, 06:46 PM
I always thought that the orange /8 had enlarged headlight covers concealing the "quad" headlights. The one photo showing the front, left turn signal lens and headlight cover appears to be a normal 914 single headlight cover
The angled perspective fools you but it's a double.
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 18 2019, 08:32 PM
Is that an exhaust pipe for a gas heater ?
Love the photos ! so cool, any more ?
It's is the front of the left a-arm.
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 18 2019, 08:35 PM
Couple of more pictures 
Posted by: Jett Dec 18 2019, 08:55 PM
keep the pictures coming!
Posted by: johnhora Dec 18 2019, 08:56 PM
Is that an exhaust pipe for a gas heater ?
Love the photos ! so cool, any more ?
It's is the front of the left a-arm.
Greg...I think rgalla9146 means this pipe or tube at the red arrow...looks similar to an early 911 gas heater exhaust pipe...Thanks
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 19 2019, 09:35 AM
Couple more, sorry they come out rotated, I don’t have the time to fix em. 
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 19 2019, 09:38 AM
Is that an exhaust pipe for a gas heater ?
Love the photos ! so cool, any more ?
It's is the front of the left a-arm.
Greg...I think rgalla9146 means this pipe or tube at the red arrow...looks similar to an early 911 gas heater exhaust pipe...Thanks
Copy, I just added a photo of the front trunk interior, maybe that will give a better clue. I don’t know what it is.
Posted by: JmuRiz Dec 19 2019, 09:38 AM
Is that sitting in the bay of a 2-post lift? Please tell me they lifted it to allow for full underside shots!!!
Posted by: sixnotfour Dec 19 2019, 12:41 PM
must be under the tank ? 
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Posted by: johnhora Dec 19 2019, 03:01 PM
Greg...THANKS so much for the continuous picture display and don't worry about the sideways view...they come right side up when you click on them and the detail is great.
Check out the one headlight lift motor on the driver side and the cross bar (yellow arrow) to lift the passenger side headlight...used later in the 928
Maybe the gas heater parts via 356 at white arrow.
This is fascinating stuff...
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 19 2019, 04:36 PM
I'm heading out of town, so adding more pics today.
Happy Holiday and Merry Christmas. Hope you all are making plans to attend the PCA Werks Fest at Amelia Island on March 6, 2020. I'm registered to display both my 914-6 race cars. The highlighted car this year is the 914. 
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 19 2019, 04:41 PM
Is that sitting in the bay of a 2-post lift? Please tell me they lifted it to allow for full underside shots!!!
That lift is in the Classic Car Restoration area at PCNA in Atlanta. You are 100% correct they used four wheel dolly lifts. I actually have pictures of the car resting on the dollies. The pictures I took of the underside of the car were from the ground. The car was hidden away in a vault, I had access since my car was stored with it.
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 19 2019, 04:52 PM
There was an article done by a guy that drove the car years ago. He stated what the mileage was, and that he drove it 19 miles. The mileage on the odometer was 19 miles more than he had stated. That validates he drove it. The car was never started or driven while it was at PCNA. I'm signing off until 2020.
Thanks to those who fix my rotated uploads.
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 19 2019, 04:53 PM
Greg...THANKS so much for the continuous picture display and don't worry about the sideways view...they come right side up when you click on them and the detail is great.
Check out the one headlight lift motor on the driver side and the cross bar (yellow arrow) to lift the passenger side headlight...used later in the 928
Maybe the gas heater parts via 356 at white arrow.
This is fascinating stuff...
The white bottles are fire suppression.
Posted by: rgalla9146 Dec 19 2019, 05:07 PM
Is that an exhaust pipe for a gas heater ?
Love the photos ! so cool, any more ?
It's is the front of the left a-arm.
Greg...I think rgalla9146 means this pipe or tube at the red arrow...looks similar to an early 911 gas heater exhaust pipe...Thanks
Copy, I just added a photo of the front trunk interior, maybe that will give a better clue. I don’t know what it is.
The silver tubular thing in the back of the front trunk is a gas heater.
Probably a Webasto. No heat exchangers on the eight cyl. exhausts.
What are the two tan upright tubular things in the front trunk ?
BMW 2002 locking gas cap.
Posted by: Chi-town Dec 19 2019, 05:07 PM
Such a tremendous 914...why cheapen it with the cheesy hood label.
Isn't that sticker what the 911R and RSR had instead of an emblem? I don't think I woudl consider that "cheapening" the car
Posted by: rgalla9146 Dec 19 2019, 05:46 PM
Such a tremendous 914...why cheapen it with the cheesy hood label.
Isn't that sticker what the 911R and RSR had instead of an emblem? I don't think I woudl consider that "cheapening" the car
Many of the factory racecars used the sticker instead of a true emblem.
Probably started after the 904
Posted by: mepstein Dec 19 2019, 06:13 PM
Such a tremendous 914...why cheapen it with the cheesy hood label.
Isn't that sticker what the 911R and RSR had instead of an emblem? I don't think I woudl consider that "cheapening" the car
Yes. I don’t think you can cheapen this car.
Posted by: johnhora Dec 19 2019, 09:58 PM
rgalla9146...you found the gas heater...red arrow
which explains the pipe...gas heater exhaust pipe going under the front near the steering rack area
looks like maybe a eberspacher heater...some used on 356
Posted by: rgalla9146 Dec 20 2019, 01:57 PM
Someone please explain the engine picture in post #25
Gearshift linkage, distributor cap, 8cyl. valve cover, brake hose, e-brake sheath
whats is the perspective ?
Left is forward right ?
I think the pic is upside downand we're looking from in front of the pass. rear tire ?
Check the underside of the front hood. Like nothing else.
Posted by: Greg914-6GT Dec 27 2019, 06:53 PM
Just jump to 7:47 to see the 914/8
https://youtu.be/rr5VUAxcd1o
Posted by: sixnotfour Dec 27 2019, 08:58 PM
Someone please explain the engine picture in post #25
Gearshift linkage, distributor cap, 8cyl. valve cover, brake hose, e-brake sheath
whats is the perspective ?
Left is forward right ?
I think the pic is upside downand we're looking from in front of the pass. rear tire ?
Check the underside of the front hood. Like nothing else.
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