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Father son, 73 Porsche 914, What to do? |
Beesonjohn94 |
Oct 25 2015, 08:11 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 14-August 15 From: Brea, CA Member No.: 19,062 Region Association: Southern California |
My father and I bought this white 73 Porsche 914 that has some rust issues but we bought it as a running driving car. It had a leaking Trany, fixed that and some other little thing but nothing major till we had some oil leak on the exhaust and cause quiet a smoke out. So we decided to pull the engine and trans, as well as further inspect the car for rust. The major amount is in the rear trunk, which was fiberglassed over to hide the rust, as well as on the passenger side rear pan all around the jacking donut and this car was equipped with a aftermarket a/c setup so the front trunk pan has a large cut into it. My ideas consist of doing a Subaru swap with renegade hybrids kit and going with a EJ257 motor. My fathers has the idea of taking the car completely down to bare metal and repaint the car. I am willing to live with the paint it has, the car does have some bondo on the passenger side front fender. We do plan on take our stock motor apart and regasketing it at the least, we don't if it's a 2.0 or not but it does have dual weber carbs. So I ask the world for your wisdom and guidance in this project, we have beefing looking at restoration design.com to buy our metal parts from.
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Dave_Darling |
Oct 25 2015, 11:28 PM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,991 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
Engine serial numbers will be on a raised pad on the right half of the crankcase, or in front of the oil filler tower. The 2.0 914 motors will have serial numbers that start with GA, GB, or GC. W, EA, and EB are 1.7s, EC and AN are 1.8s. (You won't have GB or AN, as those were Europe only, but I'm listing them for completeness.)
If the intake manifolds are held onto the head by three studs, one on each side and one down in between the pipes, the heads are 2.0 heads. If there are four studs (two down in the middle) they are 1.7 or 1.8 heads, or VW heads. You can build pretty much any displacement 914 engine on any 914 crankcase, and on many of the VW Type IV cases as well. So the serial numbers are only an indicator, not a guarantee. The 2.0 heads are expensive, so it is more likely that an engine that has them is a 2.0 or larger. But again, not a guarantee. --DD |
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