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> COTM Sept-Oct 2013 POLL CLOSED, Elliot's car wins with 49% of the vote!
COTM September -OCtober - Voting Open for 10 days
Vote for your favorite!
Britain Smith - Britain’s race car [ 45 ] ** [29.61%]
Crashdown - Matt’s car [ 17 ] ** [11.18%]
1stWorks – Scotty’s car [ 6 ] ** [3.95%]
Neo914-6 – Felix’s car [ 9 ] ** [5.92%]
Elliot Cannon – Elliot’s car [ 75 ] ** [49.34%]
Total Votes: 152
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shawn914
post Aug 22 2013, 04:48 AM
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CONGRATULATIONS ELLIOT.
Another COTM completed with 149 votes cast and Elliot captured 49% of the vote. To the other contestants - thank you for participating!

Welcome 914 World members to our Car Of The Month contest for the September-October period. After two months of ellisor3’s outstanding Tangelo Pearl 3.2L on the home page, it’s time to vote for the next COTM. The COTM is voted on exclusively by 914 World members. Exercise your right!

Each nominee was asked the following questions, with their answers posted above the picture of the car.

1. Model Year:
2. Engine: displacement and number of cylinders
3. Color: an "official" name or paint code.
4. Brand and size of wheels front and rear
5. (optional) maximum 4 words you would use to describe car/experience of owning/building


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post Aug 22 2013, 04:49 AM
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Britain Smith - Britain’s race car

1. Model Year: Originally 1974 - Subaru Engine and Lotus Elise Suspension from 2005.
2. Engine: 2.0L Subaru JDM STi Spec-C engine (4-cylinder Twin Scroll Turbo). ~400whp.
3. Color: Sunflower Yellow
4. Wheels: Bogart, Front 16x10, Rear 16x11.5
5. “ Exercise in Extreme Engineering”
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post Aug 22 2013, 04:49 AM
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Crashdown - Matt’s car

1. Model Year: 1970
2. Engine: 2.2L Type 4
3. Color: Mini Cooper Pepper White
4. Wheels: Jongbloed 15x7 all the way around
5. “ A Work In Progress”
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post Aug 22 2013, 04:50 AM
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1stWorks – Scotty’s car

1.Model Year: 1972 body 1973 engine side shift 5 speed trans
2. Engine: rebuilt 4 euro pistons, cam, modified fuel injection, short intake, headers, supertrap.
3. Color: Porsche Grand Prix White
4. Wheels: Vintage Revolution ATX 15 x7 front and rear.
5. “Purpose built, race ready”

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post Aug 22 2013, 04:51 AM
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Neo914-6 – Felix’s car

1. Model Year: 1974, designed for 2006
2. Engine: 2.7L V6
3. Color: Porsche Seal Grey
4. Wheels: Porsche BBS Techno's, front 18x8, rear 18x10
5. “Best car experience ever...”
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post Aug 22 2013, 04:51 AM
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Elliot Cannon – Elliot’s car

1. Model Year: 1973
2. Engine: 2.2 liter 4 cyl.
3. Color: Black
4. Wheels: Cup wheels from Spain or Italy
5. “Constantly evolving vehicle”
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post Aug 22 2013, 06:17 AM
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Shawn, I really love that you selected 5 cars that are a variety of modification from the extreem of Britian's car, the more sublime of matt's car. Some excellent choices/nominations! it's going to take some time to decide! It will be fun to see how the voting shakes out.
- so thanks for doing the COTM!

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post Aug 22 2013, 06:56 AM
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They're all a little too modified for me. Usually there's at least one car that has a semblance of stockness in the running for us nazis... I mean purists. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Aug 22 2013, 07:55 AM
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post Aug 22 2013, 08:13 AM
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I feel this car is the quintessential balanced 4.Light,fast and fun to drive.It has nothing thats not needed to go fast.
1972 body,complete stiffening kit,boxed rear trailing arms,bilstien with heavy spring.Adjustable front sway bar,rear sway.new bushings everywhere.
The car is pleasure to drive,stiff but doesn't jar your teeth loose over bumps.
The engine is a mystery,guy i bought it from said it was built buy Porsche mechanic with euro pistons.It sounds like it has cam too.modified D jet fuel injection.The car runs fantastic all the way to 14000 ft pulling hard.The inside is bare bones.No heater,radio or vents.Just sparco seats with 5 pt harness.
I have had so much fun with this car.I drive it everywhere,and would not b afraid to drive it cross country.

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post Aug 22 2013, 08:23 AM
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Thanks everyone!!!!!
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post Aug 22 2013, 07:32 PM
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Well, I would have voted for Britain, but since he is afraid to come to nationals, my vote goes to Ellyut. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)
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post Aug 22 2013, 07:40 PM
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Well, I would have voted for Britain, but since he is afraid to come to nationals, my vote goes to Ellyut. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)


Ok, that hurts.

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post Aug 22 2013, 08:51 PM
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Well, I would have voted for Britain, but since he is afraid to come to nationals, my vote goes to Ellyut. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)


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QUOTE(hot_shoe914 @ Aug 22 2013, 06:32 PM) *

Well, I would have voted for Britain, but since he is afraid to come to nationals, my vote goes to Ellyut. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)


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Ahahahahahaha!
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I voted for Elliott since he's old and may not live long enough to see the next car of the month poll... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)

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L-yut ..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

.... cuz he flew with one of my old Rugby buddies!

.... and I've actually seen his car & liked it for a resto-mod 914! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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I'm pretty sure that this will continue my proud tradition of not voting for the car that wins...

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Ok, Ok...racecars never win COTM. Not sure why, but it is time to change that trend. Let's take a trip down memory lane and explore the life cycle of this one-of-a-kind 914.

Started life back in 1974...I sure it was a pleasant day in Germany...probably raining.

Skip forward to about 2002...an old guy that has been a staple on the 914Club/World since the beginning, JP Stein, got a hold of it and started down the modification process. One of the first things he did was to convert the car to a 2.7L 6-cyl and hammer the fenders for about 500hours to fit wider tires.
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Then, in 2005...JP got bored over the winter and decided that Yellow was faster and proceeded to paint the car Sunflower Yellow. While he was there, he added even wider tires, HPH rear flares, and carbon fiber decklids.
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In 2006, JP invited me to start co-driving the car with him. Within a couple of seasons, I convinced him to cut the windshield off and add a Richie Ginther windscreen, add a front splitter, and rear spoiler, and hype-up the motor a bit.
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In 2010, JP sold the car to me and that is where the rabbit hole really began.

In 2011...after only 1 season as a 914/6, I sold the engine and started the conversion to Subaru power. Not just any Subaru engine, but a 2005 2.0L JDM STi Spec-C engine imported from Canada. I added a radiator in the front and mated it up to my 2-speed 901 transmission.

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And who could forget this video of the first time it ran down my street.
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That car ran great, however with that extra power we just couldn't get the car to handle right. Scrub radius issues in the front, and tire-hope issues in the rear. We tried added more rubber to the rear...
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However, that only made the 40+ year old Porsche suspension design flaws even more apparent.

So, we decided to pick-up a 2005 Lotus that saw the wrong side of a BMW.
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After a bit of cutting, we extracted what we needed from the Lotus. Front and Rear suspension, uprights, brakes, etc.
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In 2012, after about 6months of cutting, welding, measuring, guessing...we successfully grafted from and rear a-arm suspension to the 914 chassis with inboard mounted Ohlin shocks and even wider bodywork. While we were there, we added a new cage.

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What could be better than a 914 that you could just removed the entire engine, transmission, and rear suspension with a couple of bolts.
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So, with new "wider" bodywork we were ready to hit the track again.
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In 2013, we made it look pretty by painting the body work, added a carbon fiber dual element rear wing, a carbon fiber from splitter, and replacing the weak 901 trans with a 930 box that now allows up to turn up the boost knob.
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If you think about it...my car is just like the others on this board. It was stock at one point and then "Murphy's Law" kicked in and one thing lead to another.

So let's break the streak of racecar's not winning COTM...cast your vote for my 914 and I will see you at your next Autocross event (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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Also, don't forget that the car won the first three 914 Autocross Shootouts, Marina, CA, Packwood, WA, and Medford, OR

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