I finally finished the 1970 Porsche 914 race car. I will race it in E Production in VARA on the West coast. Before and after pictures below.
It has five lug disc brakes. Stock 914 front rotors drilled and tapped to 5 bolt patter at a local machine shop. Stock 914 rear rotors drilled and five studs added by PMB Performance. BMW 320i front brake calipers, Porsche 911 rear calipers By PMB Performance. Lightweight Porsche 944 wheels. Turbo tie rods. Front adjustable sway bar and rear stock sway bar. Coil over Bilstein racing shocks in the rear. Dual downdraft Weber 40 IDF carbs on the 1.7L Porsche 914 engine. 15 gal ATL fuel cel. Side shift transmission. Racing headers with Supertrap exhaust. Racing fuel cel. Front mounted RX-7 aluminum oil cooler. Autometer racing tachometer with shift light. Tangerine Racing full roll cage. Fiberglass hood, front and rear bumpers....It is quite the little beasty.
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Looks great!
Cool stuff - hope to join you out there with VARA sometime
Welcome and congratulations! Post a link to some video when you have it - would love to watch your car go...
Tony
Nice work and a ton of it for sure. Also like your choice of components! What did you do to the engine?
Can you run spoilers and splitters in your class?
That is just awesome! Your car looks great
I've never raced VARA but as I get older, wiser and a bit more conservative, I really like their no contact rule. I might look into it when my car is finished.
When I raced SCCA there was quite a bit of "rubbing." If you were scared to swap paint you didn't place. I was repainting the sides of the car and buffing out tire marks all the time.
I've never run VARA so take this with a grain of salt
but in other clubs I've run (SVRA, CSRG, HMSA, RMVR, CVAR) a stock motor is going to put you at a huge disadvantage in a 914
even in highly tuned state, an air cooled 914 is pretty under powered compared to the water cooled competition. The good drivers can still win due to handling, but they expect to get pulled down the straights by "built" 1275cc bugeye sprites and other water cooled small bores
I like your plan to get seat time, but eventually you will need that motor to run in the top half of the pack.
Nice looking car!
watch that fuel pressure gauge mounted to the motor
(although I couldn't tell if it was a rigid mounting from your picture)
I've seen brass fittings work harden and crack when mounted on motors
its a big fire if it happens.... so usually recommended to mount them onto the chassis
brant
Darn. The VARA school is 1/16-17 which conflicts with a POC event as well but unfortunately I can't do either one due to family (son's band) obligations.
I'll figure something out, perhaps an SCCA-sanctioned school i.e. Barber or Bondurant. If I stick with my POC game plan I won't have a full non-rookie license till well into 2017. Their 2016 schools are May and December and two are required.
Chris - Be careful here... Racing can make a small fortune (out of BIG one)!
If you must...go for the SCCA licensing school - well respected and accepted nearly everywhere.
FWIW.
Tony
Thanks again Bill. I did not realize that about SCCA's school(s) - bummer!
My car is fully race-prepped and should have no problem passing tech for VARA/SCCA/NASA/POC etc.
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