Impure thoughts, I might have a line on... Options

[Carlitos Way]

One of the guys at work has a 76 912 that he offered to sell me. I personally don't have much of an interest in a 912, but then I started thinking... can I use any of the parts off the 912 for my 914? What, if anything could I take out of the car? axels? brakes? 5 bolt wheels (or are they 4 bolt?)????

Or is it a 912 worthwhile "investment"???

What are those worth anyway? I'm sure it's only a 4 cylinder engine, so I can't imagine that it would hold its value as well as a 911.

Please let

[lapuwali]

L-Jet can be reasonably forgiving of engine mods, as long as you don't go too wild. A really wild cam with mess with the airflow meter. Eventually, the meter itself becomes the bottleneck. However, I'm told that using meters from other cars with bigger engines will work with any analog L-Jet ECU. Back in my Alfa days, people regularly talked about using a 3L BMW airflow meter on a hot 2.5 Alfa V6 and it just worked. Even the factory tuning arm, Autodelta, did this. I don't know if you could go so wild as to put a 2270 in there and have it work. However, swapping to aftermarket EFI can be done basically invisibly, and you'd solve that problem pretty easily. If the exhaust could be sorted, you'd have a 130hp 912E, which only puts it about 30hp down on the 911 of the day (the 2.7 was a pretty awful engine in stock trim).