914-6 Wiring Harness Diagram, What is the simplest way to wire up a 6 in the place of a 4 Options

[forrestkhaag]

It is time to consider the wiring changes necessary to light up a 3.0 6 verses my downtrodden lowly 2.2L 4.

The 911 wiring harness that came with the motor (core) has a host of useless attachments for the FI from the original 911 application.

To further complicate matters, the character that removed the (core) engine from the donor 911 used a big pair of dykes to snip the wires leaving the alternator / in one fell swoop! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)

Anyway,.... I have what is left of the harness to establish wire gauge but my questions revolve around the best way to rewire my new build to the existing wiring in my 71 and how much of the old wiring can i reuse in the conversion......

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Dave_Darling]

The best ways involve sitting down with the wiring diagrams for both the 914 and the 911, and looking at what the wires to the engine do in each case.

Since you mention "useless FI" on the 911 engine, I assume you are going with carbs? That simplifies some things, but does make for more complications as the 914-4 wasn't delivered with carbs and there isn't much provision for them. (Yes, oh Peanut Gallery, I know--but this car isn't a Euro-spec 1.8 nor an original Six.)

BTW, there wasn't a lot of electrical stuff in the CIS system on the 3.0 SC engine. Depending on the year, there was basically the warm-up regulator and the fuel pump. Later ones had the O2 sensor circuit as well.

One big change is that the 914 alternator is externally-regulated, while the 911 one is almost certainly regulated inside the alternator. So there may be fewer wires coming out of it to deal with.

Remember that the wiring colors are pretty consistent; brown is just about always ground for instance, red is almost always +12V, and so forth.

--DD