Can anyone tell me the correct volume of a 914 i.e. cubic capacity of the car in total; cubic metres?
Thanks in anticipation.Geoff

Now thats a new question. You have to tell us why need to know this.
Are you shipping a car on a ship or something?

Take one large graduated cylinder, fill half full with water. Immerse your 914 with windows closed. Measure the difference and you'll have your volume.

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Drop it in a swimming pool?

... has to be a graduated swimming pool, otherwise you won't know beginning and end volumes...

Sure, fill it up one gallon at a time....

mine goes to eleven

Well, why don't you just make 10 louder?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Enough volume to carry four 9.5 inch slicks a jack tool bag cooler duffel bag full of racing crap.

Oh noise volume ? about 95 db at 5500 RPM

I don't recommend the dip it a pool thing these cars get rusty enough on thier own.

Factory dimensions
Length = 4050 mm
width = 1650 mm
height = 1230 mm

Are you planning on burying your 914.
I feel the same way most of the times. LOL
Hope this helped with your questions but you'll have to do the math.

MikeCool

No offense to the asker but...


That has to be one of the strangest questions ever posted on this board

Geoff is asking because he is charged $78 per cu meter to get his car off the ship
in OZ! Customs.....

We calculated 6.7 cu meter, but did not allow for the curve of the windshield,
air under the car, etc.

Just trying to save him a few bucks, they get too much as is!!

Jeff

Now that we know what it is for it's even funnier (I think)

Thanks for the 'splaining

Don't understand why the pool needs to be educated?

Next time I'm gonna ask "how long is a piece of string"

That's easy, your string is 16 posts long.

I think Chips Rafferty already asked that in one of his movies.

Chips Rafferty? he's been gone for yonks!

And all this time I was waiting to see his next movie....you shattered my day.


Cheers Paul F.

about the size of the Planck-Length (~ 1.6 × 10^-35 meters) ...
Andy

Customs should OWE Geoff then....

Pour 2 yards of concrete in it and then just measure what spills over the side.............................kidding of course, thought about doing that to my first one though

Geez,I hope our Customs people never get to read this piece of string!(they will think all 914 owners are fruitloops!)

Geoff,

If you find out the answer (which I think is about 0.95 m3 of water) email Ryan Curnick, a taildragger friend of mine who knows about getting cars into oz - rcurnick@yahoo.com.au

He imported a yellow thing not so long ago from NZ, but had sussed out how to get struff in from the good ole when he was planning to import from there.

H

Thanks Howard,
The car is on the ship and will arrive on 10 Sept.

Shipping cube is just the length at the longest point times the width at the widest times the height at the highest. There's no allowance for under the car, curved windshield, etc. You might be able to get away with giving them a "shortened up" measurement like that, but you'll really just be getting away wit5h it. The real calculation is really the standard overall LxWxH, just like they do it down at the airline checkin counter or at the UPS office.

I figure the cube to be about 8 cu/metres,they will be measuring it apparently. Strictly speaking the volume is around 6.5 cu/metres.At one stage shipping people were trying to say 11 cu/metres. Thanks Paul.

Let me help with some dimensions which are extremely accurate. The front trunk is about four large bags of ice and three cases of caned beer, The rear trunk is two large bages of ice and two cases of beer. You can also stack three cases of beer on the passenged seat.

You ain't smuggeling beer out of the country now are ya?

Nah!...........women???