Jamie's 914-H6 Subaru Swap, Palm Springs California Options

[jamlip]

### EDIT - for the purposes of not filling this forum with multiple posts about the same car, I'm going to continue the recomissioning of this car in this thread. Details begin on page two. ###

Checking in as the new owner of a 1971 914.

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Dragged out of the desert yesterday. Basically a shell, a steering rack, one wheel and a title.

Appears to be in decent shape. Probably needs a floor (rust penetration), definitely needs a front pan (cut up, no idea why) and some repair to the hellhole (small rust hole, but unsure what lies beneath). Rockers, doors and rear trunk appear to be very nice. There is light crash damage to the front left which has been hammered-out. I can't find bondo on it anywhere.

Kind of hesitant to post this as I've always wanted a 914, but unsure if this is the one. Long-time Porsche fan - owned a '72 911T when I was in my mid-20s, and now have a twin-plugged 912 which I restored (from a shell which wasn't a whole lot nicer than this).

Anyway, I have a rough idea of what I want to do with it. In the time being, I need to start hunting down some parts. Lots of parts.

[jamlip]

Little update on the home-made manifolds, which are now on the engine.

Many years ago I did a Megasquirt EFI conversion on my 1972 911T (imagine doing that now!) using a single throttle body plenum from a 2.7 engine. During the project, an acquaintance in the UK mentioned how Triumph throttle bodies would make excellent EFI intakes for a flat six motor and that kinda stuck in my mind as something I'd like to try.

I later Megasquirted my 912's 616 engine, using Weber IDF-style throttle bodies and two VW Golf could packs to run a crank-fired twin-plug ignition system. It worked great.

When I got my hands on this Subaru EZ30 engine, there was no question that it was going on Megasquirt, but I assumed I would use the single-throttle body intake. Two other things bothered me about that idea - although the engine fits beautifully in the car, the intake doesn't and I'd have to cut the trunk sheet metal, and the intake is also -really- heavy. Then I remembered the Triumph throttle body idea.

I ordered a pair of throttle bodies from eBay. They're from a Daytona 955i. They have no injector ports (the EZ30 has injector ports in the heads) and the bell cranks are configured for push and pull throttle cables. I'm not sure why you'd need this on a three-cylinder motorcycle, but it's great for me because I can link the two ITBs together for my six-cylinder application.

For the manifolds, I investigated various ideas (3D printing etc), but in the end two $36 blocks of 6061 T-6 alu from eBay won out.

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I scored out the intake port spacing on each side...

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Then I chain-drilled the middle sections of the ports...

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... and got to work with a die grinder.

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