What are 914s Capable of, performance wise Options

[yahthatsright]

As a 21 year old college student most of my peers have a hard time understanding why I think my 85 hp 30 yr old car is so fun. Usually I get the question, “Okay, It seems like you can make a lot of upgrades to this car, If you did that how fast would it be” I usually answer with a stutter, uh uh I dunno. So, with a 200 hp six and moderately stiff suspension, what kind of numbers do you guys have? It would be very interesting to see some braking stats, 0-60, some form of slalom, anything. I’m also wondering if the guys out there with 300 to 400hp or getting that much more for performance.

[Britain Smith]

I posted this on the OR autocross thread. It is the list of cars in this weekends autocross and the results, there are several Porsche and several non-Porsches in this list. You can get a quick idea of how the cars stack up to each other. Granted, there are several factors that are not included on this list...driver skill, tires, suspension upgrades, motor, etc. but you get the idea. Just as a matter of reference, my car placed 6th overall and is a stock '70 1.7L with swaybars, 140lb rear springs, and Falken's. It weighs 1950lb stock also. There were a couple of really modified WRX's that were really fast also.

So, overall I would place the 914 right up there with the best of them when it comes to overall performance as judged by an autocross. Many people are very surprised that a 35 year old car that cost me $4500, has 65 hp on a good day, and is my daily driver can perform so well when compared to several generations of Porsches and other more technologically advanced cars.

-Britain