QUOTE(nathanxnathan @ Jul 3 2022, 05:53 PM)
QUOTE(Montreal914 @ Jul 3 2022, 09:50 AM)
If I recall, the 76 912E had L-Jet. Table says D-Jet...
I think you're right, Wikipedia confirms it.
Trying to verify that, I came across a thread on 912bbs.org saying that 912e engines didn't have numbers stamped on the block, and the number on the fans shroud started in "406" and not 2 letters. I don';t have much experience with 912's to know for sure.
912E is L jet.
bus motor is more or less a bored out 1.8 as
@TheCabinetmaker says.
its all about torque. its a truck engine (thats not an insult - just what it is).
the 914 2 is a porsche re-engineered VW engine.
i think Hans Mezger did the design work on it?
EDIT
maybe the most interesting engine of them all is the least known.
1.8 AN engine for europe only.
8.6:1 compression ratio and 85 hp.
pumping out nearly the same as the USA 2.0 L from 75 on.
but carbies and no emissions gear and a taste for high octane fuel.
if they had stuck L jet on that i reckon they might have pulled 90 hp out of it.
but it would have required its own tuned L jet system = more research development $ they didn't have budget for?