I've reached a fork in the road, neead input on which way to go Options

[Type 47]

if you check my sig below you will see that I'm familiar with the 914 and some of my decisions may be emotionally influenced. I acquired a 75' about 5 years ago that was in great shape, low miles. I bought it with a fully resto in mind; and somewhat wanting to end up with something that emulated my original 73' that I bought in 77'.

I took it fully apart. The only rust it had was surface rust on the under side and probably some in the shift tunnel. other than that no rust in the hell hole, jack mounts, really anywhere. So I should have buzzed off the surface rust on the bottom and have called it a day.

But no, I had to take it apart and have it media blasted and a fully body restoration. Cool 62k car getting a full up resto. Damn the media blast revealed that it had been rear ended; which meant the front was bashed too. Late 1970's body shop's fixed the car OK; it really just hast a little crumple in the back trunk and the front trunk. somewhat minor but is really major.

So while the original body work was OK and the resto bodywork really makes it only visible when you pull up the carpets in the front and back trunks (that will eventually be there).

SO HERE IS THE FORK IN THE ROAD...
I'm ready to put this together. I have an LS1 sitting in the corner of my garage. emotionally I would like to just put the 2.0 back in and suffer through getting the Weber's or the original FE back on. I'm also thinking that the LS1 might increase the enjoyment of the 914 once it's finished.

I've dreuled over RH cars literally since they began and still have a VW/Porsche magazine with a 914 and 911 conversion on the cover.

Even though this car was damaged in it's early life, i'm not sure I want to cut it up to do the conversion. I've not talked with RH about what needs to be sacrificed for the conversion, but I know it has to be at least the front trunk area. I saw a post about a fairly radical conversion and it cut the rear trunk, firewall, and front trunk.

i'm hoping the basic conversion just makes a place for the radiator.

SO CONSIDERING the damage back in the day, it will never be a concourse car. It is completely rust free.

SHOULD I PUT IT BACK TO STOCK OR DO THE LS CONVERSION?????

If you noticed I have c6 z06 track car and a c7 z51 so I don't really mind going stock with 102 2.0 HP but 350 HP in a 914 sounds really fun too.

This is a big fork in the road and your input is very helpful