I recently hit the forum up for help doing a valuation of my 914-6 race car. I was given lots of help, TC is going look at the car and help me price it.

Some people noticed in the picture of my car on display at PCNA in Atlanta , the Porsche Museum's 914-8. I was given access to the 914/8 and have some decent pictures to share. I started sharing them, but they were getting buried in my valuation post. So I will post a couple of pictured each day for all to enjoy.

I don't know why the photos get turned after I add them to my post...help

Greg Lowdermilk
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It looks like you are adding pics from your computer and not from an on line photo album. If so, view the pic you want to post in whatever viewer you use, resize it if necessary, orient it correctly (it may be already correct) then save it again...even if it was already oriented correctly. Then post it.


Keep the 8 pics coming!

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FYI, this is the engine from the silver car, which was wrongly said to be a detuned 908 engine. The photo was taken while I was at the museum in June 2017 when my friend Jen Torner from the archives had discovered the engine was in fact a prototype motor built before the 908 was finalised – a former worker at Zuffenhausen had given a whole file of paperwork to the archives, saying that he had worked on this car. In the paperwork was proof this was no 'ordinary' 908 motor (if such a thing exists!).

Sorry to butt in...

I love to see the details, keep the pictures coming!!

Looks like it has 4 weber IDA 2 barrel carbs, what size are they?
Likely 48mm but Porsche had enough clout to special order any size.

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Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. BTW, I'm kind of liking those turn signal lenses.

Turn signals finish out the form of the fender line, not making the end so abrupt.

I really appreciate you posting the pictures. I also really like the front turns lenses. I think they fit the lines of the car much better. I wonder if they are still available.....

Such a tremendous 914...why cheapen it with the cheesy hood label.

Greg...
Thanks for all the pictures of the 914-8.
Please keep them coming.
We certainly appreciate the views of this car.
John

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Is that an exhaust pipe for a gas heater ?
Love the photos ! so cool, any more ?

I always thought that the orange /8 had enlarged headlight covers concealing the "quad" headlights. The one photo showing the front, left turn signal lens and headlight cover appears to be a normal 914 single headlight cover

The angled perspective fools you but it's a double.

It's is the front of the left a-arm.

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keep the pictures coming!

Greg...I think rgalla9146 means this pipe or tube at the red arrow...looks similar to an early 911 gas heater exhaust pipe...Thanks

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Couple more, sorry they come out rotated, I don’t have the time to fix em.

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Copy, I just added a photo of the front trunk interior, maybe that will give a better clue. I don’t know what it is.

Is that sitting in the bay of a 2-post lift? Please tell me they lifted it to allow for full underside shots!!!

must be under the tank ?

Greg...THANKS so much for the continuous picture display and don't worry about the sideways view...they come right side up when you click on them and the detail is great.



Check out the one headlight lift motor on the driver side and the cross bar (yellow arrow) to lift the passenger side headlight...used later in the 928
Maybe the gas heater parts via 356 at white arrow.

This is fascinating stuff...

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I'm heading out of town, so adding more pics today.

Happy Holiday and Merry Christmas. Hope you all are making plans to attend the PCA Werks Fest at Amelia Island on March 6, 2020. I'm registered to display both my 914-6 race cars. The highlighted car this year is the 914.

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That lift is in the Classic Car Restoration area at PCNA in Atlanta. You are 100% correct they used four wheel dolly lifts. I actually have pictures of the car resting on the dollies. The pictures I took of the underside of the car were from the ground. The car was hidden away in a vault, I had access since my car was stored with it.

There was an article done by a guy that drove the car years ago. He stated what the mileage was, and that he drove it 19 miles. The mileage on the odometer was 19 miles more than he had stated. That validates he drove it. The car was never started or driven while it was at PCNA. I'm signing off until 2020.

Thanks to those who fix my rotated uploads.

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The white bottles are fire suppression.

The silver tubular thing in the back of the front trunk is a gas heater.
Probably a Webasto. No heat exchangers on the eight cyl. exhausts.
What are the two tan upright tubular things in the front trunk ?
BMW 2002 locking gas cap.

Isn't that sticker what the 911R and RSR had instead of an emblem? I don't think I woudl consider that "cheapening" the car

Many of the factory racecars used the sticker instead of a true emblem.
Probably started after the 904

Yes. I don’t think you can cheapen this car.

rgalla9146...you found the gas heater...red arrow
which explains the pipe...gas heater exhaust pipe going under the front near the steering rack area

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looks like maybe a eberspacher heater...some used on 356

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Someone please explain the engine picture in post #25
Gearshift linkage, distributor cap, 8cyl. valve cover, brake hose, e-brake sheath
whats is the perspective ?
Left is forward right ?
I think the pic is upside downand we're looking from in front of the pass. rear tire ?
Check the underside of the front hood. Like nothing else.

Just jump to 7:47 to see the 914/8

https://youtu.be/rr5VUAxcd1o