914/6 GT 2.8l ? Options

[Rufus]

Hi Guys. In reading through the Petrolicious article linked below the following quote near the end caught my eye ...

“And though he’s thoroughly enjoyed competing in it, Dominik has a truly outrageous plan for its next step, one that involves more paperwork than engineering. When the 3.0 RSR came out in the early ‘70s, a lot of people wanted to upgrade from their 2.8L engines, and in California there were apparently many such swapped-out blocks just sitting around outside Porsche workshops. Somebody had the great idea to put them in the back of the 914 and made 12 examples, although no one knows what happened to any of them. The important thing though is that he got the road registration documents for the engine change, and if Dominik can find them he’ll be able to do the same conversion and get the technical passport for a prototype classic.”

https://petrolicious.com/articles/taking-po...-6-gt-rally-car

Does anyone know anything about someone on the West Coast installing a number of 2.8l’s into 914’s? That last sentence I quoted suggests the 914’s converted to 2.8l’s were completed in some quasi-official(??) manner somehow legitimizing the configuration for European vintage racing as a “classic prototype”.

Opinions anyone? Any truth to this? Anyone heard of “road registration documents” for such a swap? Just wishful thinking for someone involved in European historic racing? ... or just BS?