V8 guys, take note, Renegade issue...kind of Options

[scotty b]

First off I need to say I do NOT blame this problem solely on Renegade. At this point I suspect this happened because the installer knew just enough to make the Renegade kit work, but not safely. That owu d fall in line with a lot of other almost right issues this car has had. This is now the second time this car has had issues with the CV's coming apart from the adapters. The first time it was the inner CV's, last week he called me about a loud clunking coming from the rear. This was the cause. I feel these were probably not installed correctly the first time as the roll pins were not all the way seated into the adapter, and I had a hell of a time getting the cv completely off. Once the two were seperated I pressed the roll pins in fully and the cv slipped on and off the pins as it should. All of the bolts got locktighted as well. I just thought anyone with a Renegade axle setup needed to be aware of this. IMO going to the 108 cv setup like Jim Kelly is doing is a much better route. It eliminates the adapter piece and gives a much larger cv. It does require 911 shafts, but if you're doing a V8 you need the tranny work done anyway. FWIW, I had not taken any bolt loose when these pics were shot. The 2 bolts that are not engaged at all, came out of the car just like that

[LvSteveH]

Happy to help. Alive and.... a 914 driver once again, my car is finally back on the road. I drove it for the first time in a year or so on Sunday.

I'm doing some quick jetting changes in preparation for a track event this weekend. I've run the re-geared 914 trans with my V8 914 for several years, including track events without issue. It's a tough package to beat for the price. You just have to be clean and smooth with your shifting and try to keep the sudden shock loads to a minimum. My foot was still planted flat to the floor most of the time. The only time I think I almost lost the trans was I missed a heal toe on a down shift coming down from 120mph into a hair pin and locked up the rear tire for a split second. That "chirp" could have done it, but it was fine.

I finally got around to doing the 930 trans upgrade and went with a little more motor. The trans can handle 700hp, so I don't expect to exceed it any time soon. Nothing too crazy on the motor, 400hp or so.

[BajaXJ92]

Happy to help. Alive and.... a 914 driver once again, my car is finally back on the road. I drove it for the first time in a year or so on Sunday.

I finally got around to doing the 930 trans upgrade and went with a little more motor. The trans can handle 700hp, so I don't expect to exceed it any time soon. Nothing too crazy on the motor, 400hp or so.

Jeez Steve, clearly you're a bit desensitized. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I'm running a stock trans for now, as Dr. Evil is building me a 4spd 901 with a Flipped H 5th(4th) gear.

I'm running around 230hp in my Chevy 305 and hanging on for dear life when I've got my foot in it whilst struggling to get traction. I cant even imagine 400hp in one of these cars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[LvSteveH]

Jeez Steve, clearly you're a bit desensitized. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I've been completely ruined actually. It makes me feel like in Crocodile Dundee, when he says, "That's not a knife, THIS is a knife". I was really done in by a 700hp 911 with an LS7 that got traction and knew how to use it.

All that said, a 300 to 350hp 914 is about as fun as anything can get. My car is on the heavy side due to a fairly ridiculous amount of tubing, something like 150' or so. It's actually a tube frame car at this point. So 400hp in my car is about the same as 350hp in a lighter 914 V8.