Heat Exchanger Question, For those of us in the South... Options

[aggiezig]

So I come from the VW scene, where it's very common place on resto-mod's to delete the heat exchanger boxes and eliminate the heat all together from the car. Especially so when running larger displacement engines that would not support heater boxes. Living in TX, it's very rare that I would ever use heat anyways.

That being said... is this commonly done on 914's? Obviously there are no modifications to the car other than not running a heat exchanger exhaust setup. Would this heater delete significantly (negatively) affect the value of a 914?

[Dave_Darling]

The heat exchangers are part of the exhaust. You cannot take them off without replacing the exhaust pipes. If you are replacing them with a tuned header setup (such as the Tangerine Racing one), you should see significant extra power.

If you are just stripping off the exchanger wrapping from the pipes, the only benefit will be a very small weight savings way down low where it doesn't make much difference. And you won't be able to put the wrapping back on easily, as you will have to cut it up to get it off of the pipes.

--DD