So I drove the 914 several hundred miles up the coast last weekend.

And, while it's powerless, I just can't get over how tractable, torquey, and TOTALLY reliable it is given its age.

It never misses a beat, whether I start it up after it's sat for weeks (or even months...), never misses out on the road, and is...just...always...there. It don't got a lot of pull, mind you, but what it does have is clean and hiccup-free.

For an engine and management system that is 35-40 years old in design and as parts, and an engine that has never left the chassis since 1986, I find this utterly remarkable. I feel like I should throw it a party when it finally blows up.





It's a testament to the design of these engines as well as whoever it was that rebuilt the "question-liter" in my car sometime in the (I'm guessing) 1970s and 1980s. I'd sure like to know who it was...

pete

Who needs more HP? Stockers Rock!

Even my slightly enhanced 914 can be challenged by a minivan on the interstate, but I'll take on any SUV out there in the twisties.

Glad to see the love of your hate or was it hate of your love? Sounds like a marriage bro.

Pete, I'm gonna drop a marble down your intake so we can get started on a six. Quit looking for excuses to keep that four and lets get to work! It can still be hickup free and slam you in the seat at the same time

Pete,
In your rounds, take a 356 super or SC up that same road, and you will be even more impressed with a stock car, no rebuild, but a car that pulls till 100mph, and it now 45 years old, versus the 36 year old, oldest 914.

Try one, it will make you wonder why it was ever changed.

Rich

Its not how fast you get to your destination, its the quality of the drive till you get there.

If I felt like that, I would ride a bicycle....