Well, my car in general.

Lets start with the car purchase... When I was 15, or wednesday june 2002, I went over to turlock (30 mins from here) and bought not one, not two, but three 914's.. One drivable, the other two where parts cars. 950 bucks.
Spent some time to get everything cleaned up (10 hours... lol) and really had fun just tooling with it. The brakes where bad, the clutch was non existant, bla bla bla...

So about the first thing I did was the clutch, The clutch tube was loose, so I used J bolts to tighten it down. Then I rebuilt the pedal assembly, and all the brakes. drove ok for a little, but I was running little carbs, So I went with fuel injecion for a while.

I got tired of the 4 lug, and wanted more, So I got basically a 5 lug conversion for about 400 bucks for the front and the rear. Then I got some fuchs to put on and put some Kumho 711's with 225's all around on 16's. Got lots of handling now! But no power.. Considered every option imaginable... from rebuilding my 2.0 (felt weak, had problems) to a subaru 1.8 turbo, to a buick 3.6 v6. Then all the way to somehow talking about a v8, I always wanted to do a v8, but I thought it was out of my league, till people said how cheap it COULD be done... SO what did I do?

I built a cheap v8 conversion using all good parts!!

Renegade hybrid adapter plate and other adapters,
KEP clutch, PP and flywheel.
and my own creation of cooling with a Griffin aluminum radiator!

So far (until today...) It has been under 190 the whole time!

350 sbc v8,

Recently I have put on headers with Magnaflow mufflers (I links to sound files in my sig.)

So its off to find more hp and break more things with me!

Andrew



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