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| TonyAKAVW |
 Dec 20 2005, 05:46 PM
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That's my ride.  Group: Members Posts: 2,151 Joined: 17-January 03 From: Redondo Beach, CA Member No.: 166 Region Association: None  |
There has been a lot of talk recently about affordable engine upgrades for the 914, namely larger displacement Type IV engines and Subaru conversions.
It looks as though a Type IV with 125 HP will cost about $5000 to do. It also looks like a Subaru conversion, using the Renegade kit (or a DIY conversion) will run somewhere around the same price for 165-180 HP (or more with a turbo engine). So the poll question is if you had $5000 to spend on an upgrade for your 914, would you rather have a Type IV or a Subaru conversion? As far as I know, no one yet offers a complete drop-in solution for the Subaru conversion, whereas a Type IV can be purchased and dropped in with little effort. -Tony |
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| TonyAKAVW |
Dec 21 2005, 11:18 AM
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That's my ride. Group: Members Posts: 2,151 Joined: 17-January 03 From: Redondo Beach, CA Member No.: 166 Region Association: None |
I'm beginning to have doubts about this. If you look at the results of the poll so far, there seems to be reasonable interest in the Subaru conversion. I'm willing to bet a nicely done conversion would have no more trouble being sold than a Type IV powered car. I think its easy to say it would be hard to sell simply because there's no data to show otherwise.
Maybe its worth doing another poll here, to see how many 914 owners have done more than take their cars to autocrosses, or track days. Many of those events are open to any car, any engine. I'm willing to bet that only a small minority of the sum total of 914 owners have any real aspirations of racing in PCA or SCCA. Its certainly a valid point to be made that if you want to race you need to stick to a stock type engine, but again the poll results show that there's still a significant interest despite that. -Tony |
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TonyAKAVW High output Type IV or Subaru Dec 20 2005, 05:46 PM
r_towle Talkto Mark about building you a type IV...then pu... Dec 20 2005, 05:50 PM grasshopper i vote for suby power!! 
