Mo engine bay

Cooling system

cooling system........other side

What did all of this cost you to do?
Did you do the conversion yourself, or did Renegade do it?

Ready for G.I. inspection

It looks great ... I bet it goes like h*ll!

Charles

Yeah, top of the line radar detector recommend for running on streets..........hard to keep it under 80 mph. It "was" a 2.0L '73 with dual Dellortos when I started and was a blast to drive until it started knocking (bad). This is just something I alway wanted to do. I'm really surprised at how well the transaxle has held up........a real concern I had when entering this project.

My objective was to have a little more power, modern heat and air and no oil leaks. Not my first Porsche but some of the improvements I wanted to make this time around.

John

I quit counting at about $20,000 but this is how I got there:

Initial investment- '73 2.0 running and in good condition= $3500

Custom built engine including shipping from west to east coast = $5000

Wheels, tires, suspension, brakes (all provided by Rich Johnson) = $3000

Renegade conversion (rear springs, a/c+heater, wiring harness, exhaust, cooling system, HD clutch, v8 conversion kit, gages. = $5000

The rest was spent on various upgrades/restoration.....door latches, various chrome pieces, rubber, bumper restoration (ouch!), gage replacement, seats, mats, new dash pad. This list could go on forever, but you get the idea.

John

OK, I'm in on this thread.

This is Ole yeller, my faithful '71 914-6, 3.0L conversion. I'm the second owner and have added 220K to the original 35K mileage.

No point in discussing pure dollar value as I'm sure the amount invested over the past 20+ years is staggering. My return in driving enjoyment and the doors that have opened to new 914 friendship is worth every penny spent.

By year's end I'll have the new Porsche sanctuary finished out appropriately to house Yeller and provide quality space for my reoccuring German therapy sessions.

Hay Mike Z., send your therapist my way.

Glad to see you posting here Rich!

love that car!

me too!

I've always wanted to know who owned that car! Man I love the look
Eric

Yeah.. now all we have to do is ask Renegade Hybrids to stop using RJ's car in their V8 914 brochures...



B

Here is a picture of my 1974 914 with a Buick V6 (3.8).
Thank You!!!
Phillip J. Haun
Oak Harbor, Wa.

I'm new to the 914 but my enthusiasm is great. The photo is of my 1975 1.8. It came with some sort of big bore kit in it. I bought it in May of 2003 and don't have any contact info for the previous owner to discuss what the engine size actually is. It does have a pair of Delorto 45mm's that are seem too large, I think a pair of 38’s or 40’s would have been a better sizing. I will be swapping the venturis out soon and rejetting as it runs considerably too rich as it is. I paid $2900 for it. I've mostly been repairing little things and cleaning it up (new 914-6 clutch, new throttle cable, turn signal and tail light lenses, fixing small electrical problems, window cranks, etc.). The Riviera wheels have also been replaced with a set of Mahles and 195/60 tires since the photo was taken.

I recently (three weeks ago) acquired a white 1976 2.0 complete car with a 72 1.7 engine in it (the 72 1.7 engine has 61,000 miles on the original completely stock engine and is rather anemic compared to the engine that’s in the 75). The 76 seemed like a pretty good deal at $2100. It appears to be a nearly rust free California car, which included the car with the 72 1.7 engine in it (runs very well), the original 2.0 engine complete as an engine to be rebuilt, a set of five Mahle 5.5x15 wheels, a spare set of seats, gages, and a whole bunch of other spare parts that came off the 72 914 that the engine came out of, not to mention a gaggle of receipts for things like turbo tie rods, Bilstein front shocks, Koni rears, a new clutch and pressure plate, braided stainless front brake lines, and too many other things to list.

Neither car is anything special compared to some of the exotic 914's I'm seeing on this web site but they're mine and should provide a boat load of fun as I get into them. They sure are fun to drive! Oh, and I’ve bought every book on the 914 that I could find so far. Please bear with me if I ask a lot of questions in the future.

Best regards to all,
Don

I posted a picture awhile back, but it was a crappy digital shot in my garage. It was a poor compared to the great photography I have seen. Anyway, took this one today and thought it was a cool angle. It was a great day on Cape Cod to drive a 914!

Nice cars guys!

Welcome DBledsoe ... that looks like a really clean car.. the other one you bought sounds pretty decent also. I know of at least 2 other 914's in Boise. One belongs to a guy who builds custom houses in your area.


B

Nemo..

that is a bitchin angle. One day I will have to visit the northeast when one of my trips doesnt involve a race track.


B

Hey Philip,

Welcome to the BBS!
What took you so long to get here

Post some pics of your car so we can see the front 944 turbo-look bumper!

cheers,

Jeroen

jeroen, i met phil and his wife on the way to monmouth. big time trick interior. the side scoops are functional. they deliver fresh to buick v-6. the car is not a glance and go. there's lots to look at.

kevin

Test

It works!

one more

1974914, nice car. What kind of muffler is that showing the reddish orange roundy thing on the bottom right? Does it sound GUD?
bruce

Thanks! Thats a SuperTrapp hooked up to headers. I find that the traps are a touch on the loud side, but then again so is the color so i guess it goes together just fine!

Bill

Brad,

Thank you for the welcome.

A friend here in Boise (works for Hewlett Packard) has a pair of 914's and I've met one other gent while waiting for the wife outside of a store sitting in my 75 914 (his is the green 914 in my avatar). Yesterday on the way to work I found myself following a very nice looking brown 914 and have seen a couple others around town whizzing by, but that's about it. So I know there are several around here but just haven't been able to hook up with them. I was hoping some of them might be on 914 Club dot com but haven't seen any yet.

This is great web site!

Don

To be honest with you, I'm not sure what options were available. The guy that sold it to me told me that he had basically put a new (used) interior in it. It's got striped seat pads, and he was sure to point out to me that I had "real" gauges in the center console (ie, they have actual numbers on them and are not just idiot gauges).

The carpet isn't great, and the dash is cracked so I keep it covered. It had the original steering wheel on it, and that was falling apart but there was a fully functional if slightly beat up older Momo wheel in the boot, so I put that on instead. I didn't like the original wheel anyhow - too big. The plastic shift knob was broken and kept coming off in my hand when I went for second gear, so I put a nice leather Momo shift knob on (installed it myself! ).

It's not quite a total beater, but it is definitely not a show car.

My racer...

72 Tube frame, 912 S4 brakes, ForgeLine 18x11s all around, 95 993 3.6, G50, Sheridan Body = 1800lbs.

YIKES !!
Glad you're not in my class.

Here's my first 914, a used 1975 1.8L L-jet for $1800 back in Sept '96:

Loved the car and did some work to it. Then did a very bad thing

More info about her here.

Now last week I bought a rough 1973 2.0L D-jet (original engine/car was a 1.7L) with an oil leak (PO says it's the oil cooler seals) that was originally a metallic lime-green but currently has a cheap-ass yellow overcoat Rust holes in the body due to the infamous battery location but the interior is sweet. She will be my project car and I'm looking forward to working on her. Luckily, I salvaged almost my entire wrecked 914 before scraping her (please don't razz me, I'm kicking myself in the butt about that daily) so I have some rubber and stuff to put on my "new" 914 (like a rebuilt tranny and shifter & PORSCHE rear reflector). No pictures yet but they'll be coming.

Here's my original pride-n-joy that got me into air-cooled dubs (recognize the nose, Mark?):

A 1972 Squareback (a.k.a. Type III) originally owned by my parents. Hi-perf 2.0L w/5-speed. This engine, were I to swap it with the 914 (a 'cool' swap in the T3 world) would make the 914 an insurance risk

Looking forward to pickin' all yer brains as I start cuttin' an' weldin'

I want to post a 286kb picture from My Documents, but I keep getting this message - Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\InetPub\www.914world.com\bbs2\index.php on line 6

Why does that happen?

You must be on a dialup, or the pic is not a .jpg or bmp.

We really have the upload thing locked down so people dont upload virus' to the server.

If you on dialup... we have a timeout set to 30 seconds for uploads (again..for security)


feel free to email it to me Brad@all914.com and I'll post it for you.



B

Shit Jim Cole thats a cool car. Your just a stones throw away from me. Dont be surprised if ya see me sleeping next to your car one morning Do yo do any autocrossing up in the vancouver / Victoria area?

jc87930,

That's my kind of car

How about some shots without the bodywork, please.

Paul

Here's mine, got mahles on her now though...cracked two of the fuchs in a pothole a couple of months ago...

Car looks great Mike Nice ride.



B

Thans man

My 914-6. Second Owner. Under 100k

I just joined. I should be getting my 914 in a few days. It is a 1974 that has some issues. Mainly there is alot of surface rust, No holes just surface. I plan on prepping it and hopefully getting it painted before I leave for Boot camp in a year.

Andy Rattley

Welcome Andy!!

Nice lookin car! How does it run?? Thanks for posting pics and joining up.

Geoff

Eric,

Very nice 6, sorry we could never get together in SLC, but have sinced moved to south Texas.

Dont you have a GT project too?


Welcome to the board!

Hey there Andy, welcome to the 914 sanctum
I'm just East of you a couple miles in Boring.
Nice car like that will get ya hooked every time. You'll be hard pressed to kick this habit
bruce

Welcome Eric and Andy Glad to see your first post including a pic of your car. Dont be shy about jumping into the main BBS and posting questions. I think Eric is/was a Rennlist regular. I could be wrong but the name sounds familiar.


B

Why not just swap the 1.8 for a 2.0 and keep the L-Jet? As long as it's only an interim solution anyway. Leaves more $$ for

I'm running a 2.0 with the 1.8 FI, only changes involved the intake runners and injectors. I had to cut and re-weld the runners to match-up to the plenum, and simply swapped in injectors from a 2.0 bus. It runs a bit rich, especially on overrun (nice popping from the Bursch!) but it gets great milage due to the increased torque according to Rich @ HPH

CSOBONC Mike Scott in SJ, CA Still trying to unload a '74 1.8...

" picked it up for $4500 Canadian so, thats what, maybe $2700 US. What a deal!
It's a totally cool machine, we are both hooked on it! Who needs drugs, buy a 914 if you need a rush! We now both want more power, this year it gets a 2L d-jet..."

73' 2.0

Steve, are those ATS wheels? what size? the car looks, umh, different?

we like different,
Andy

Andy,
Those are CSA wheels from the land down under they are 15X7's. I'm glad you like "different"cause it certainly is. LOL!

My second 914.
First was a good old green 76 2.0L that was perhaps the most reliable car I've ever owned. It worked, it was way fun, and even as a regular little 914 2.0L I could make horrid street driving kids feel bad in their souped up Eastern imports - sometimes its just the driver.
Sadly, the 2.0L was killed by a Ford Escort on New Years Eve day while going to watch my wife in her big screen debut (featured extra -and she kept her clothes ON!!!).
I came running to this board and with the 'groups' help I found a NEW child.

The second 914. Its a 73 1.7L, I have no real knowledge of the car. Right now I'm putting in another 1.7L engine, the first 1.7 has a bent/broken intake valve problem -AKA a rebuild problem. So far, I'm happy with the new 'look' the first car needed a TON of paint related work, rust, some minor dings etc.

I want to remove the back 'mullet' spoiler, but am waiting until I can have the entire car painted. I have a few little under-carriage related rust issues to deal with over the next year -and naturally, I still have to see how the new engine runs.

Till I can find a 6 cyl I like (and can purchase) this is the car, not very 'beefy' but still, its a dying breed and I'm happy to have one that still breaths!!!

Hey Eric:
Very nice ride, glad to see someone else from the SLC area on this board, echocanyon was in this area never did get a chance to met him and now he's in texas. There are a lot of teeners in this area, I've seen a bunch of them at Ed Andrews shop, maybe sometime we can get a group together and cruise up to Park City or just a cruise. Welcome to the board, a lot of knowledge in here.