Very original 6 on BAT, Quite the example Options

[gereed75]

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1970-porsche-914-6-115/

After just a cursory review of the pix this appears to be one of the most complete original sixes I have seen

Incredible what is on this car and even what is not. Have never seen an original intact cold start valve and piping on a car. Have never seen the original fuel vapor system intact. No sway bars. 14” Fuchs.

Could that be original paint?

This will be an indicator of potential value of such a car. Pretty exceptional.

[johnhora]

wonkipop

Great info you found...

This will add a little to that conclusion:
My 914-6 9140432060 is a 5/70 production date that was delivered in Louisville KY and is 22 cars down the line after the one for sale and mine doesn't have any evaporation system equipment or modifications and the fuel tank does not have the charcoal canister brackets. Apparently Porsche had a pretty good idea of where the 6's were going and didn't put anything on them not required or on the build sheet.

This yellow 914-6 will be a very nice car for someone.

[wonkipop]

wonkipop

Great info you found...

This will add a little to that conclusion:
My 914-6 9140432060 is a 5/70 production date that was delivered in Louisville KY and is 22 cars down the line after the one for sale and mine doesn't have any evaporation system equipment or modifications and the fuel tank does not have the charcoal canister brackets. Apparently Porsche had a pretty good idea of where the 6's were going and didn't put anything on them not required or on the build sheet.

This yellow 914-6 will be a very nice car for someone.

yes - exactly. i would have thought a fair proportion of the 6s would have been customer ordered as you say. and porsche knew where they were being delivered to. built to exact regulation requirements and no more when it came to emissions gear. some of course would have been general showroom stock but a lot would not have been.

the 4s were likely a very different story. a lot more general spec stuff as the expectation would have been mass sales. proportion of showroom stock to personal customer orders would have been significantly different you would think. hence logic of a more universal all states inclusive of california conformity for 4s?

not entirely unrelated is the actual layout of those carbon cannisters in the 914s.
both the 6s and the 4s. which is something we got deep into with the 1.8 L jet research, completely inadvertently. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) the hook up of the hoses to the cannisters is entirely a porsche design - same as used in the 911s of the time. the hose from the fan and the hose to the carbs was inverted when compared to the VW design layout used on every VW except the 914/4. but the same components were used by both companies.
same cannister that is. turns out the porsche layout is tuned for carbs and the vapor load that comes out of carbi bowls on hot shutdown. thats the problem porsche had with its carb cars. for VW this problem did not exist, they had EFI, no hot shutdown vapor load at the engine inlet side of things. the vapor load was nearly entirely from the fuel tank. the VW design was tuned for maximum life of the cannister, the porsche design was to cope with the carbs and make it through the EPA test. porsche would have seen the cannister as a service item with much shorter replacement times. conveniently located in front trunk for quick replacement. VW hid these cannisters in all sorts of less convenient locations on all their other regular models.

in 1974 the 914 finally changed to the VW layout with the engine bay cannisters fitted to the 1974 L jets. from then on all the 914 models used the revised VW standard layout.

it was one of those funny little things where the early 914/4s could have had the VW layout with a different hose hook up to the 6s but instead a standard porsche layout was used for all the cars.

interestingly porsche themselves switched to the VW layout on the 911s in 74 model year as well. why? because they went to fuel injection and dropped carbs entirely for the USA market by that point. so they too could finally tune the cans for long life rather than just coping with the EPA test for certification.

however in neither case did the cans achieve the 50,000 mile warranty provision the EPA required. all were noted as 30,000 mile changeover replacement items. little known and forgotten now but if your car had done more than 30,000 miles but less than 50,000 miles and was less than 5 years old the can was a free of charge warranty part replacement. regulations required the manufacturer to do that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)