SF 914 Shop Recommendation Options

[frankiec@outrageous.net]

Looking for recommendations for 914 shop/s in San Francisco bay area. Ideally north bay, Santa Rosa, experienced, good communication and honest. Please PM me if you can.

Thanks

[7T914-6]

Just talked to Rich Bontempi last week and picked up some NOS heater boxes for my 6. Very helpful but VERY BUSY. Doesn’t sound the least retired to me.

Have been using Bill Eason (Eason Auto Werks in Oakland. Also old school focused on air cooled Porsches for over 25 years. Great guy.

Used to go to Hi Tech in San Rafael but it’s been a very long time. I know people that go to him and seem happy.

[Tom_T]

Just talked to Rich Bontempi last week and picked up some NOS heater boxes for my 6. Very helpful but VERY BUSY. Doesn’t sound the least retired to me.

Have been using Bill Eason (Eason Auto Werks in Oakland. Also old school focused on air cooled Porsches for over 25 years. Great guy.

Used to go to Hi Tech in San Rafael but it’s been a very long time. I know people that go to him and seem happy.

Rich has some great stories from the old days, & loves to talk about racing his 914-2.0 & proving others in SCCA etc. wrong! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

FWIW - Rich's favorite street upgrade for the 2L /4 is simply to use the Euro/ROW 2.0 Heads with the 8.0 CR that clocked in at 100 HP, plus some good tuning to add some HP & TQ to that.

Apparently they'll still run great on Unleaded - especially in later years when we added mid & high-grade (premium) unleaded to the fueling options.

Rich thought that was as effective or more so, than the small up-bore options used out there (2056, 2100+/-).

BTW - The USA 2L heads are 7.6 CR for 95 HP, & can also be better tuned by a good 914 Mechanic for more than the listed 95 HP, as my guy Hans does, & he was factory trained on 914s, 356s & 911/912s while at Circle Porsche in Long Beach, before starting his own shop in 1972.

I think that Porsche has always been conservative on their listed ratings on all cars (& now SUV/CUV), as well as having performance tweaks that their Techs could do on their cars, including 914s.

I'd been told by Hans & other old schoolers that the tweaks & Euro heads can get the 73-74 2.0 /4 to the detuned 914-6's listed 110 HP (detuned from the `69 911-T's 120 HP 2L -6 for marketing reasons) - but then the 914-6 2L can likewise be "juiced up". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

If you know the tricks, then you can improve any of that era's Porsches, as you can by re-chipping the modern ones.

Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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