 "hot rodding" your 4-cylinder, True or False |
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| thomasotten |
 Jul 25 2004, 08:21 AM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 16-November 03 From: San Antonio, Texas Member No.: 1,349  |
"You can spend as much as $6,500 "hot rodding" your 4-cylinder and still not match the performance of a stock 914 6-cylinder."
This is tech tip 100 from an old AA catalogue. Without this turning into an AA bashing thread, I was wondering what club member's opinions were. I had the opportunity to drive a 74 911 targa for the first time this weekend, and it was a blast. |
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| skline |
Jul 25 2004, 08:44 AM
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Born to Drive Group: Members Posts: 7,910 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Costa Mesa, CA Member No.: 17 Region Association: Southern California |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) I built a 2.6 liter engine for a 71 914 and its putting out about 165HP and the cost was about 3k, granted the engine life will only be about 30k to 40k or so in my opinion but it is way stronger than a stock 2.0 liter six and will blow the doors off it. I would consider that hot rodding, however, the stock 6 would be worth more on the market than a hot rodded 4 cylinder. Longevity and reliability are there with the 6 and not so much there with the modified 4. Its all in what you want to do. This was doing all the work myself by the way which not everyone would do. If you were to have this motor built and installed I could see the price being considerably more.
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thomasotten "hot rodding" your 4-cylinder Jul 25 2004, 08:21 AM
davep That is both true, and patently false. You could f... Jul 25 2004, 08:27 AM SLITS Any engine you build for more HP = more heat = dec... Jul 25 2004, 09:30 AM Lou W So what kind of improvements can you expect from t... Jul 25 2004, 12:25 PM ArtechnikA ... Jul 25 2004, 02:00 PM anthony Isn't that an old quote? It seems like a point... Jul 25 2004, 03:07 PM jgiroux67 I've never heard that a 914-4 was 2100 lbs. I... Jul 25 2004, 03:44 PM Bleyseng The early cars were lighter about 1975 lbs with th... Jul 25 2004, 03:57 PM
MXMARK I like my big 4 something like 2533 with tons of t... Jul 25 2004, 04:26 PM |
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