Looks like you are a prefect candidate for the Pilot driving lites instead of those little square lites.
Nice car!


Geoff

Smiles...

Cool car, if it were me I'd loose the steel wheels (get some 4-bolt fuchs w/ black inserts), a rear valence, loose the sticker (make it a real sleeper), and GET IT OUT OF THE RAIN...I can feel it rusting from an ocean away, haha.

BTW I like your sig

I got no roadholding whats so ever and absolutly no brakes...so its going to get all of this and some 5 pattern fuch´s is already waiting in the garage....
The sticker stay´s i like to teaze people.
Have a look at Blitzkrieg racing to see some really cool buy almost to evil German racing gears....

It was really bad weather and the car was so weat....acctually i could feel it to...

Pitbull,

Always good to see a running v8 powered 914!! Looks like your at least number 4 who now posts here.

John

Hi John!! I saw that you also had one, nice!! I like to have a car that can out perform AC Cobra, GT40 and still looks like a shopping car for old lady´s...
To pitty my car lacks roadholding and brakes but it comes next winter.
The engine is very nice Chevy 350 with aftermarket cylinder heads, headers Torker 2 manifold, Holly 780.
It puts out 288hp on the rear wheels wich is great it`s really really fast from 70-240km/h but i need a porsche 930 gearbox than it would be more suited for the engine and I could try to find som more hp.
Fun to talk to you!

Pitbull,

I wouldn't worry about the stock 901 transaxle just yet. My engine makes about 400hp and has been bolted to a 901 for about two years now. Just don't shock the trans during gear changes and keep the dragstrip burnouts to a minimum. You'll be surprised at what the 901 will take.

I have a friend running a v8 with at least 400 hp who is sitting on several spare 901 transaxles. He has abused his gearbox intentially without a failure. While tuning for maximum performance just last month, he did about 30 hard pulls from 0-100 mph. His hard pulls involve launching from a stop, burning the rear tires (huge tires too since he has flares) without failure.

The 930 box is better suited for a v8 due to the gear ratio but is very expensive here in the USA. I've heard it costs about $6000 to bolt one into a 914. I plan to change the gears in my 901 one of these days and may go for the 930 if a deal ever comes around.

Your plan to upgrade brakes and rubber is a good one. Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.

John

Hi John!!
Yes the 901 gear box is quiet okey!! As I told you I gor 288hp on the rear wheels thats DIN HP that means about 360-370 Sae hp in the engine...so it seems to work pretty good!
But as you mentioned the reatio is much better in the 930 gearbox and i really need it...*L*
I was going to drive 300km yesterday but after 100km the hmm whats it could...the black rubber that runs the water pump...cant remeber whats it could in english ahh it was broken...so the car went back on a trailer and I picked up my 928GT instead...
But next weekend Im going to fix it!!

Pitbull, sorry about your luck. That's called a belt in english. You guys that have english as a 2nd language surprise me, you do so well that I forget english isn't your first language.

Thanx I know what it´s cold but it slipped my mind....
I got belts on all my Harleys as well and on all cars...And the belt to the supercharager on our SuperTwin top fuel is the one that brakes if you dont change it...
So my world is full of belts and belt drives...but this time I lost the word...*L*

It´s really hard sometimes when its not the first language, like when you would like to talk about engine parts, or when you got something special on your mind.
But remeber also it´s a lot harder to write than to talk.
So if we meet you would understand everything and I would understand everything as well.

But the poeple in Sweden are pretty good at english, so are the other people from scandinavia as well.
But germans arnt so good, if I would like to buy a car in germany it allways really hard to understand each other. And my only geramn skills is the one I have learned from all the german porno movies...Ich komme, Spritze Hans...*LOL*

haha, thanks (i think?) for the visual

funny thing is, i always liked the swedish porno movies when i was a kid (in germany).
go figure ...

if you need tips on how to prepare the 930 box to fit the 914 v8, ask Brad, he has done it a few times now ...
Andy

That´s a bit strange because I wonder sometimes what you guy know about a small country like us....Swedish erotica is one thing that I have heard before and that all girl are blonde and very pretty, and that they are very easy to get in to bed...*LOL*

But what more do you know about us??

We think we know everything about you guy´s...
Eating Big steak´s, Dounut eating cops, fat kids eating Ben and Jerry´s Cookie Dough ice cream...
And that everybody visit Jerry Springer show once in life...and that you all live in trailers in trailer parks.

Hope everybody understand that this is a joke....

Wrong about the trailer parks and Jerry Springer. Everything else is about right.

I love big steaks! Yummy.

Big steaks...just had one tonight, while Jerry Springer was on the TV and the mobile home across the street was being whipped off by a tornado. Well time to go get some Ben and Jerrys.
I hope after all that I can fit into the GT seat in my 914-8.
Pitbull nice car, love the V8s.
CCLINTHEAMERICANDREAM

Hi guy´s nice to here that you all got some sense of humor!!
But it would be intressting to know what you know about us Swedish people.

Maybe I should stick to the subject but it ´s hard to ask this quetstion some where else...*L*

Well I know about Ulrika Jonson, Sven Goran Erikson and IKEA.
(we need a proper thread for these intercontinental studies -someone is bound to give us a bollocking soon )

He he Im not sure that I know the one that you mentioned because they are not involved in something that goes brrrrrr....But the old Ingvar Kamprad the owner and former of IKEA is hard to dont know he was involved with the nazi party back in WW2.....but that is forgotten now days...

Could it be golf and soccer??

Hey Pitbull,

Been to Sweden twice. In '94 and in '96
Both times we went backpacing in the "Glaskogen" nature park (it's near Arjang if I remember correctly)
All I can say it's real pretty and clean (no one throws their crap on the street) out there and the people are friendly and hospitable.
And yes, most speek english very well, which is good, 'cause the only Swedish I know is "Knäckebrod"

cheers,

Jeroen

Oh, and one other thing...

THERE ARE NO ELK IN SWEDEN!!!

We stumbled through the woods for 4 weeks and never found any.
They are a myth and only exist on traffic signs, stickers and t-shirts at the tourist traps



cheers,

Jeroen

He he, thats what my brothers from the club in Netherlands also saying, it´s the same with elk´s that it is for troll, santa claus etc etc...

Nice that you like Sweden!!

One of your more famous exports - The Swedish Bikini Team.

He he Swedish bikini team...never heard of it!! Thats great, but I havent been reading so many Playboy´s in my life (we have better magazine´s over here)
But actually i have been at Hugh Heffners Playboy Mansion!!! We was suppose to drive the Gumball 3000 two years a go but we had so many problems with insurance for the car, they would like to have 15000 Dollar for insuring the car for 2 months 1 months in US and 1 month´for the boat trip to Us. But Maxmillion is a good friend of mine that are the manager for Gumball, so he invited us to the party at Playboy Mansion and thats an offer that no one can resist so we went over and had a hell of a nice party!!

Hey Pitbull,

Which club would that be???

And John, do you think you can book those babes for the WCC?
I'm sure I can fit at least 2 in my Daewoo rent-a-wreck

Here's our 914, towed home. She's got a siezed 2.0L and all the options but intermittent wipers. We stopped in South Bend, IN at the Tire Rack to get some 195/60/15's. They're great people over there (plug!)
In a couple weeks I'll be pulling the motor and let's see if you guys and gals out there can guess the problem. The previous owner said "It just quit" I asked with a bang or a crunch? He said "no, it just stopped"

Welcome to the club Dave!

Welcome Dave

Thought you'd like to see my latest. Along with the country house.
Ed

The teener with younger brother...."light em' up"...life is good in the country...long roads...plenty of long/short twisties to go around and clean air....plus if your car is 25 years or older...get historic plates...and NO inspections....but where I live...there are no smog tests.

Yesterday I went for a ride in the teener...left house at 6:30 AM cool crisp air and a 80 mile RT ride....can't ask for anything better...
Ed

glstrojan....you sound like a person of experience...and I do believe it was your sister who squealed like a pig....

alas...here I can and do carry a shotgun in my pick-up truck...in the open ...loaded and all legal with NO hassels from the law...

it was just a poor attempt at country humor using country stereotypes. by the way, i like your 914. is that stripe painted or decal?

glstrojan....I knew it was humor...I like twisting the knife...I mean sawsall...as well as the next person...

stripe was painted on by PO...and thank you for your comment...re my teener. It is going to go through some changes before the end of summer...have been looking shooting it pearl tangerine with some ghost flames.... very subtle flames...you won't see them until you are right on top of them and the tangerine changes color as you walk by...shooting will be done by Shelby Chan...# 1 painter in the Corvette world... lives 10 miles from me...she is one of the best in the US...

Here's my "ride"! Sure makes those jack stands look good, doesn't it!

Alright Jack! Keep up the good work, and let me know if ya need an extra hand for an afternoon.

Curt

here's her heart!

someone just emailed me this pic from the de a couple weeks ago.
This is in the hardest braking zone on the course between turns 6 & 7 at putnam park. The dangley thing in the front turned out to be a piece of rubber that got knocked loose when I went agro going into 4. You can't really tell, but the track was like ice at this time. It had rained off and on throughout the weekend, but just enough to bring the oil to the surface without washing it off. It would dry very quickly 2-3 laps once it stopped but when it was sprinkling it was treachorous.

I've never heard it put that way in all my years of being around racing. David Hobbs used to say,"The black is for driving, the green is for decoration".

that's one nice looking ride. Something about the combination of the fuchs, the ivory paint, and the racing numbers just makes it look classic and super hot to me.

Thanks!

Fake fuchs will be gone soon. I've got some nice 16x6s polished and painted by Al Reed

Hello,
this is my 1970 adriatic blue 914.




Hope you enjoy it

Love that blue. Great pics, thanks and welcome to the club.

per Mueller's request....

Here is a pic of a 76 2.0L I met at Issaquah on Sunday

The proud owner Ya-Woo. I think he is related to Ya-Roon!

Dunno if we're related, but his car sure looks better than mine

cheers,

Jeroen

Michelko:

I like that color of blue!

Are those U.S. spec side marker reflectors on the front?

Zambezi Green, over tan, 59k miles-stock except for webbers..

nice lookin ride by she's sitting kinda high unless you go 4x4 ing. Slam that baby down some!


Geoff

Great lookin ride.....

When I got her three years ago or so...the shocks and springs were shot to hell, so when I replaced everything I brought it back to stock ride height, but I like it, so damn low anyway, and it's not like there's any lean in the corners as it is...

The paint looks better in the pic than in real life, hope to have a decent re-spray this summer, if nothing new breakes...