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Apollo Racer Build Thread, EZ36 Build-Up with ITB's! |
rnellums |
Sep 28 2011, 07:01 PM
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Professional Enthusiast Group: Members Posts: 1,646 Joined: 26-November 09 From: Littleton, CO Member No.: 11,072 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
I am starting this thread to document the build of my recent acquisition of a car I am going to name Apollo. It was previously owned by a fellow out in Illinois and was sold to me via 914 LTD. From what I know It was a purpose built Auto X car, but only has about two hours of run time on the engine.
Here are the specs as I received it: Exterior Mods:
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914forme |
Feb 23 2014, 04:32 PM
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Times a wastin', get wrenchin'! Group: Members Posts: 3,896 Joined: 24-July 04 From: Dayton, Ohio Member No.: 2,388 Region Association: None |
Fans work better pulling air than pushing. I am also not a huge fan of giving up the front trunk yet, I am also not a fan of putting air under the front of the 914. If your going to do it. Run a deep front spoiler to create a negative pressure area under the front to gel hold the front down, maybe. As never ducting under the car tis is not first hand knowledge. I am sure Brant has thought long and hard on cooling of 914s. While they are oil coolers much of his finds would translate into a radiator setup. Especially since you want to see the track with this car.
I will be watching this thread though, looks like a great build. |
rnellums |
Feb 23 2014, 04:49 PM
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Professional Enthusiast Group: Members Posts: 1,646 Joined: 26-November 09 From: Littleton, CO Member No.: 11,072 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Fans work better pulling air than pushing. I am also not a huge fan of giving up the front trunk yet, I am also not a fan of putting air under the front of the 914. If your going to do it. Run a deep front spoiler to create a negative pressure area under the front to gel hold the front down, maybe. As never ducting under the car tis is not first hand knowledge. I am sure Brant has thought long and hard on cooling of 914s. While they are oil coolers much of his finds would translate into a radiator setup. Especially since you want to see the track with this car. I will be watching this thread though, looks like a great build. I agree that I would prefer to dump the air to the wheel wells. What is not visible in those photos is the large hole already cut into my front trunk by the PO for the oil cooler exit, making this a relatively low-risk experiment. I picked up an enourmous 14" puller fan from the junkyard while I was there getting the radiator, but the ducting is going to be much easier for the pusher fan, so I may try that first and see if it cools adequately, and if no, switch to the puller fan. |
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