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Posted by: wonkipop Mar 31 2021, 07:43 PM

i was delving around in 4Legend website looking for pics of 914 #....001.
saw these images of piech 8 up on the hoist as part of 50th.
some of you probably seen these.

looks like a pretty funky gear shift rod going on?
...amongst other things.

Posted by: Tom_T Apr 1 2021, 04:32 PM

IIRC the transaxle & shift linkages were adapted directly from the 908 racer that this drive train came from. Maybe look it up on the Porsche or Porsche Museum websites where they covered this car - which they had dubbed "914-S".


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Posted by: wonkipop Apr 2 2021, 05:35 PM

yes.......i can see because its coming out of the rhs of the car that it must be adapted somehow (but directly adapted ) from the 908 or the 917s........ their shifter was on the rhs sill too, (or a 917 anyway).

that shifter rod must do some weird things once it gets inside the cabin to get to the central shifter? wonder what it shifts like ---

i've not seen anything much on this car in terms of detailed tech. these were the first images i had ever come across of what its like underneath. nothing on the porsche website or museum.



also some wild looking fuel line routing and insulation wrapping.
wonder if it suffered from vapor lock.
or are they oil lines?

Posted by: Johny Blackstain Jun 12 2021, 07:45 AM

Headers not heat exchangers... must be hell in winter

Posted by: rgalla9146 Jun 12 2021, 10:56 AM

Shift linkage makes detour under passenger seat !!!

Posted by: IronHillRestorations Jun 13 2021, 07:47 AM

I seem to remember that it had a gas heater

Posted by: SirAndy Jun 13 2021, 01:41 PM

There's a detailed drawing somewhere.

Basically, it goes from the shift lever to the right and then straight back under the passenger seat.

Posted by: SirAndy Jun 13 2021, 01:42 PM

Here you go ...




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Posted by: wonkipop Jun 14 2021, 06:16 PM

thanks. makes sense now. wild car.