I am new to the 914 club and new to Porsche in general. I guess I only own 1/2 a Porsche really! This one I didn't start but am glad to have. The car has all Renegade conversion parts, a 400 plus HP Chevy V8 with Edelbrock heads and port fuel injection. The motor is fresh and still needs a lot of work. The transmission is a 930 built by Renegade, and the suspension and brakes are all 930. I have never driven or driven in a 914 of any kind tho I have has a few fast sports cars. I spent 20 years working for General Motors dealers as a drive-ability / fuel injection specialist, so I know a bit about how cars work. My last car was a 93 Twin turbo Mazda Rx7 with about 300 hp but didn't like the engine package with its low torque rotary turbo engine. Its great to see these cars around and looking sweet. Almost 30 years ago I saw a V8 914 and always wanted to build one. John Irvine Ca.

HI and welcome to the gang from another work in progress v8 guy

Welcome to the club! Show us some pics of your car!




Stephane

Welcome to the Club John, I too live in Orange County and have a V8 conversion. Come on by sometime and we can exhange notes and talk cars.

Welcome to the nut house, John. You have a monster support group in place here. Tequila preference?

Welcome John! I think we've already 'met' over on the V8 hybrids board.

Here are some pictures, not much to look at but hope to get things going soon.




http://www.solisearch.net/ims/pic.php?u=86...09HEELK&i=49464

http://www.solisearch.net/ims/pic.php?u=86...09HEELK&i=49468

http://www.solisearch.net/ims/pic.php?u=86...09HEELK&i=49473

Looking good!

Welcome to the "source". check out my link to conversions... Thanks for keeping Renegade "healthy"

I just got my parts to re-assemble my car...

Hey John,

Welcome. I too recall seeing you on the chev board. The story behind your car was pretty interesting as if I am remembering right?. Tell us more.

Whatever you do, don't listen to these guys. A V8 914 is deadly!!!! You must immediatley ship it to me for destruction!!!

PM me for details....

see you at a SoCal Gathering soon

QUOTE (aircooledboy @ May 22 2005, 06:45 PM)

Hey John, Welcome.  I too recall seeing you on the chev board. The story behind your car was  pretty interesting as if I am remembering right?.  Tell us more.

This acquisition has taken 3 or 4 months to finely happen, but I am still awaiting the transport Co. to deliver the car.
I first emailed the owner 3 or 4 months ago and it took him a month to reply. In the mean time he moved from MN. to the east coast. When I emailed him for details he would take sometimes 3 weeks to get back to me but I just kept the faith. He and his uncle were building the car but his uncle got sick and sadly pass away. The car sat in a MN. warhorse for 2 years. Well we agreed on a price quickly but I wanted to use an escrow service to handle the transaction. It took some time to find an escrow co. that was legitimate. Then I had to wait another 2 or so weeks to get a reply back. I was thinking this would never happen. In the mean time I called Scott at renegade and asked him about the car. Scott told me the car had nothing but the best parts and really was going to be something special. I guess they spent around 16,000 dollars just at renegade. That doesn't count the engine and many other upgrades. Well we finely got together using his brother to broker the deal with the car in MN. I am now waiting for the car to get here. It should be here in a few weeks. It seems the transporters who drive the trucks hate to deal with non running cars. I have 14 days to inspect the car before the money can be released by the escrow co. If I don't like the deal I can veto it within the inspection period. I am going to take my time completing the car and the first thing I will do is completely insulate the body/interior. My goal is to make the car as civilized as possible. That means a lot of work insulating everything against noise and vibration, as well as installing A/C. This is going to be a road car thats driven every day.... wish me luck!!!! ha ha ha

Hey Cool!, Welcome, There are several V8 guy's here. You've come to the right place.