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Posted by: TonyAKAVW Feb 28 2003, 01:05 PM

https://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/overview.htm

-Tony

Posted by: Aaron Cox Feb 28 2003, 03:18 PM

My dad and uncle are considering the same darpa challenge using an H1 hummer....still in thought process...must be able to climb rocks and go offroad..not exactl;y 914 territory.....

Posted by: airsix Feb 28 2003, 04:51 PM

I don't like autonomous off-road vehicles. They smell bad, scare easy, and run off with your pack.

-Ben (grew up with horses)

Posted by: Aaron Cox Feb 28 2003, 08:29 PM

what if you were to use a baja bug? lifted, no ground clearance problems, lots of cockpit room, extremely simple! Extremely reliable! what else could you want? a hovercraft? lol

Posted by: r_towle Feb 28 2003, 09:04 PM

Has anyone ever built an all wheel drive 914???

Is it possible?
I was thinking about a rally car out of a 914...

What I want is
914/2.0
914/electric
914/8
and a 914 4 wheel drive

I might sound crazy, but slowly the collection has started to get bigger..

Rich

Posted by: Dave_Darling Feb 28 2003, 10:36 PM

You can do anything, with sufficient application of a welder and a plasma cutter.

But making a 4WD 914 would be a cast-iron bitch. Note where the transmission is--in the back. Note what is in the way of anything going from the transmission to the front wheels--the engine, and for that matter the whole freaking car... Not a job I'd wish on anyone.

Hey, wait... SammyG--"You can't make an AWD 914!"

Heh, now Sammy will build it! If he's not too busy being a Concours Weenie....

--DD

Posted by: Mike D. Mar 3 2003, 04:14 PM

The vehicle would have no driver. So there is no point in having the passenger compartment. Cut it out and that is where the heavy duty 4x trans. will sit. -
-Mike D.

Posted by: Dave_Darling Mar 3 2003, 04:18 PM

Kewl!! What about the engine? We gonna throw that away too?

--DD

Posted by: Mike D. Mar 3 2003, 04:26 PM

DD, well yeah...We throw out the 1.7 from the doner car to make room for the 6.6 L diesel. -
-Mike D.

Posted by: TonyAKAVW Mar 3 2003, 04:42 PM

What about a second 914 engine and a 911 transmission driving the front wheels?

-Tony

Posted by: Sammy Mar 3 2003, 06:01 PM

Damn, beat me to it, the second engine thing that is. I was thinking more along the lines of a VW 1.8 wasserpumper and trans installed in the front. Cheeep to do parts wize, adds weight but more than doubles the HP :- )

Shifting might be a chore, I'd stick to the auto trans in the front. It would just have to keep up with the back and versa visa.

Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Mar 3 2003, 06:04 PM

Here is a shot of a Baja 914: There is more on my Collectibles website at the link below