About racing a 914 with a swap..., What class? Does the PCA care? Options

[Matt Monson]

As some of you know, I am going back and forth on putting in a 2.4l six or swapping a Subaru Ej25. I want to know what impact the Subaru engine will have on racing the car. I am specifically wondering how the PCA (and RMR since I am in Colorado) treats 914's with non-Porsche engine swaps in them. I want to be able to run my car at club events. I know there won't be a problem in SCCA racing. But I don't know about the "official" Porsche clubs...

[flesburg]

Brant and Matt,

Good information...re DE with a non Pcar.

I think too, right?, that the other comment was correct, that is about big Pcar swaps and club racing...

With our "stock" 3.2 engine, in a Club race, we end up in GT3, and are up against $100K (or more) cars, and so are totally non-competitive. We cannot even keep up with GT5 cars, because of HP and rpm they can turn.

So, if you want to race in Club racing, and you want to be competitive, and your build budget is under 50 or 70 thou, you should stay out of GT classes and stay in a production class, and that limits you to a 2.0 L 6 in a 914 (and it may have to be an "original" six, I'm not sure, or run with a stock 4 cyl 914 (and then you may still be up against non-turbo 944s and not be competitive against them.

The least expensive club race cars in PCA are 944 non-turbos. You can probably be in a production class and have a competitive car for $20 thou or less.

For all of these reasons, we stick to DE events, are instructors, and drive our car as fast as it will go (and it is pretty fast, just not a car that can win in its class). We can out run most any Class F 944 turbo, and most 911s and totally piss them off. (Most of our club racers run in all our DE events too).