Nose Job, What To Do Options

[NARP74]

I have never been a big fan of the nose on the 914 I purchased. I was always 50/50, sometimes I liked it, sometimes I tolerated it. It was on the car and it needed other work so I ignored it mostly. Now I am working on options to see what I can do.

It has a cooler under it, see the pics. Not the correct one though.
Go back to some form of stock?
I like the 916 front end, try to do something like that?
Some hybrid approach?
I don't really want to go down a $10K rabbit hole. I don't really want to cut into the front end and make it a full GT. I may be limiting my options as I think.

[Montreal914]

I am currently restoring my 73 and converting it to a 3.2 /6 but staying a narrow body.

I find it interesting your temperature is going up even with that large cooler, but maybe the air isn't flowing out properly in the back of it? Ducting helps a lot too. It looks like you initially had a different cooler?

My plan is to have a Mercedes oil cooler inside the front and remove the 5 rubber plugs as mentioned by Mark Epstein. I am not set on the air exit scheme yet, either the two rear floor stock ports (per Mark) or side wents in the wheel wells.

One thing to consider is the semicircular front reinforcement you have on your car. I like to think Porsche didn't add this for no reason and want to keep it there. Luckily my MBZ cooler fits under it, but is it large enough for the 3.2... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

As for front, I plan on using the stock bumper and a narrow body GT front valence (FG).


Here was my mock up. The spare is a fake Fuch 15" with a small temporary tire.




Here is the front view.




Again, I don't know if this will suffice as auxiliary cooler for my 3.2. I do plan on running aluminum oil lines along the passenger side long. This should help too.