"this discussion never ends!"471" option was just a list of parts - could be built by anyone with the money
- it was all about fooling the FIA into homologating the model for WMC racing
search for and download this
SporttechnischerLeitfaden Comp'nPartsList - get English version here NOW - "Information regarding Porsche Vehicles Used for sports Purposes 911 S-914/6 from model 1970"; (print number 4890.20-200-03-72), 45 pages, , inclusive of racing car for GT-group 3 and group 4, 2nd edn
GT m471 Competition Parts Listthen, build your own - any way you like it - as long as you start with a genuine sixer serial number - 4cyl conversions don't qualify
see this - (among multiple other debates about the 471 cars)
"The factory had made a bunch of "m471 kits" to change over a 914/6 to a GT. These kits were around for a few years and racers snapped them up to build GT clone cars."
m471 optionthere are a lot of different opinions about whether the factory made and/or documented any of the said optioned cars
- for the most part, they did not document them, for reasons well discussed in other places & books;
so COAs are somewhat irrelevant, (and recently reported to be less than accurate by more than a few owners of many Porsche models) - "documented" is a non-issue
also see this
m471 and GT issuesBrian Long wrote:
- "... there was a competition version available - the 914/6 GT, homologated in March 1970 .."
- Chapter Five - Motorsport " The 914/6 GT ... was nothing more than a standard 914/6 fitted with the optional R-package"
- " in addition to the works vehicles (12),
a large number of cars were converted to GT specifications for customers, either by the factory or by privateers from Porsche supplied parts.- " the 914/6 GT came in three versions: a customer car for competition/fast roadwork, a track racer developing 220bhp, and a rally model with around 160bhp at the wheels." ... " a 100 litre fuel tank was added on the racer..."
Brett Johnson writes:
- "While there was only one body style, a number of engine types combined with varying trim combinations make restoration of the 914 or 914/6 a bit confusing"
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FIA WMC homologation dictated "one" GT engine that we tend to think "is the only one",
but the rest of european rallye & hillclimb & slalom competitions took many forms and each dictated different torque & HP curves
but as you are learning - a lot of us guys each only have certain snippets of the whole story - and i doubt that anyone is still alive who was employed at Werks1 who actually knows it all & could tell it to us in English
- anybody up for a trip to Stuttgart?
the value of the '70-'71 GT cars as racers was simply in their competitive "2-liter Spezial GT Klasse" advantage -
and
as DD points out -
every one was a different flavor, pieces selected from the "R" parts list for specific competition purposes, and fitted specifically to their team drivers"also
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