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High HP 914? |
d k |
May 3 2011, 10:59 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 2-May 11 From: Miami Member No.: 13,014 Region Association: None |
Hello people.
I'm a noob here, but been around cars for awhile. Recently acquired a 75 914 that is very clean and going to do the Subaru conversion. Car will be used mostly for track events and some odd miles on the street. The question that I had, is how does this car respond to high horsepower? In stock form, the EJ257 will put out 300 at the crank and I'm wondering if it makes sense to tweak it a little more.... I've seen a few conversions done here and read through a ton of threads. Some very helpful info here, but I haven't read anybody's feedback on what the chassis will do if throw 500hp at it? Besides all the supporting mods necessary to handle the power, what will the driving dynamics be?? Maybe it's not worth to do anything except just the engine swap, but since it's going to get a full cage, big brakes and aero, maybe go big (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) David |
avidfanjpl |
May 5 2011, 11:04 PM
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914 Hemophiliac Group: Members Posts: 720 Joined: 6-April 10 From: Bear, Delaware Member No.: 11,566 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Dr. Stein!
I was impressed by the car, but I was more impressed that you have so many immovable objects so near the course. In SoCal at OCR events, we would be peeling 911's off of telephone poles about 10 minutes. Impressive. John |
J P Stein |
May 6 2011, 02:04 PM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
Dr. Stein! I was impressed by the car, but I was more impressed that you have so many immovable objects so near the course. In SoCal at OCR events, we would be peeling 911's off of telephone poles about 10 minutes. Impressive. John Unfortunately we in the Portland area are not blessed with something like El Toro or even a reasonable faxsimility........yes, I'm jealous. Packwood big but 130+ miles away but is not as good from what I've seen of Mather or El Toro. In my 10-12 years of ruining at the smallish venues up this way, I have seen about 3-4 contacts with immovable objects. Me thinks you are exaggerating a touch. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Granted, sometimes a newbie shows up in "flat out" mode and gets a stern talking to about safety. They settle down or are shown the door....but that should happen regardless of venue. |
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