I finished the exhaust today. And here is a little diffuser action for you Kelty .
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Ohhh, you're such a tease.

Happy Holidays Dana......now get back to work!

I'm just waiting for the day you get it all finished then get bored or have a kid. Then I will buy it off of you. Just make sure it works good first.

If I ever get bored with this I am dropping in a Turbocharged Subie H6 engine backed up by a subie tranny, Perrin squeezed 600 hp out of one they dropped in an STI! And I have plenty of room for an extra pair of cylinders
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I got the last piece I needed for my exhaust system for Christmas, a stainless DC Sports up pipe to match the stainless header I have from them.
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I managed to pull 4 out of the 5 studs from my renegade up pipe with out damaging them. Unfortunately one got a little galled while I was pulling it and cost $8 to replace!
I am glad I only had to buy one!
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I am planning a couple big work days this week so stay tuned!

nickle high temp neversieze helps with stainless and aluminum and steel exhaust bolts and studs when you need to take them apart.

Good tip! The factory studs sure were in there good, had to drench them in PB blaster, double nut them, and use many big tools and swearing to get them free, it is a miracle I only damaged one of them!

I will be watching I love seeing new posts to this thread.

I only got in 3 or 4 hours of work today.
I welded up the blow off return tube and welded in the cantilever arm mounts.
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I also built the grounding harness for the boost and coolant temp sensors.
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If you haven't already, you should go peek at what outfrontmotorsports does with those things. They are pretty neat looking sans emissions equipment and all polished up.

The 3.0 is only 1.5 inches longer than the 2.5. Just sayin..


Nice work for only 4 hours, BTW.

This is the ultimate go kart.

Driving it will be a blast.

Plymouth, where did you get the adapter to bolt that engine to that trans? What trans did you use?

The adapter is from Kennedy , the box is the stock 914 with stock ratios. You have to be careful with first but with as light as the car is, and the torque curve of the subie engine, I feel pretty confident running it.

What clutch package are you running? Awesome build!

Kennedy stage 2 pressure plate and a kennedy 9-inch Kevlar clutch disk. I am switching to a different clutch though, I was never really happy with its performance during the couple years I drove the car with subie power.

Lookin' good Dana - can't wait to see the final product!
I can vouch for your great car building skills - I get a lot of props on the work you did on my 914AROO when you were at Renegade!
Later,

Love your avatar Doc....

I finally wrapped up the rear suspension. I built all of the linkage so it was a bolt in, leaving the trailing arm unmolested. I still need to buy a couple bolts and bushings but this is pretty much it. I aligned everything and ran it through it's range of movement, everything looks and feels good as far as I can tell, the real test will come when I get it on the road.
Sure is nice to get it back on its wheels!
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Stunningly inspiring work!!! Beyond words

So how much suspension travel do you have in the rear? I know some bomb thrower in a previous post said that the up down motion of the arm would bind or something like that with the angle of the shock motion.

By removing the springs and jacking the car from the bump stops to full strut extension I get 7.5" of bind free travel, the suspension runs out of travel well before the linkage gets a chance to bind.

Looking at this rear assembly, just for poops and giggles, seems like you could do a "kit" rear assembly that "attaches" to rollcage points in the tub.

looks like a V8 or other engine option might fit....Hmmm

You may have found another "side" business from this build, Dana! Ill bet Britain and others might be interested in a rear half kit that is assembled and ready to install!


Great job!!!

Nice! I will be availlable to drive and sort out the bugs when your ready.

Thank you for your generosity!

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What a Rube Goldberg setup
























Stunning as usual

It's like he's making it up as he goes.

" maybe I should cut it in half and make a tube frame..... i could save a lot of space by dampening the suspension laterally..... I've got a couple of minutes, maybe I should bend up an oval exhaust..... this needs Ferrari parts"

Like a trapeze artist working without a net. Wonder if he dreams in technicolor?

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What a Rube Goldberg setup

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It's like he's making it up as he goes.

" maybe I should cut it in half and make a tube frame..... i could save a lot of space by dampening the suspension laterally..... I've got a couple of minutes, maybe I should bend up an oval exhaust..... this needs Ferrari parts"

Like a trapeze artist working without a net. Wonder if he dreams in technicolor?


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Then there is the fibreglass. Don't get me going on that crap. Is he building a car or a boat ??? Oh I know it's a Corvette..... At least we know he isn't buying anything from AA for this car

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What a Rube Goldberg setup

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It's like he's making it up as he goes.

" maybe I should cut it in half and make a tube frame..... i could save a lot of space by dampening the suspension laterally..... I've got a couple of minutes, maybe I should bend up an oval exhaust..... this needs Ferrari parts"

Like a trapeze artist working without a net. Wonder if he dreams in technicolor?


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Then there is the fibreglass. Don't get me going on that crap. Is he building a car or a boat ??? Oh I know it's a Corvette..... At least we know he isn't buying anything from AA for this car
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Well, he might need bumper tops.

It's funny 'cause it's true...
Rube Goldberg indeed, it might not be functional but at least it's entertaining!

Dana, why does your exhaust terminate forward of the diffuser?

I apologize if this has been asked before, but I noticed your tranny mounts are upside-down in relation to how they are normally on a 914. Would that cause any issues for the mounts themselves since they are being "pushed on" instead of being pulled? Just curious...

The forces are still going in the same direction, and the stopping points are in the same places on the transmission. The tube frame is now doing the job that the bolts/nuts would have been doing in the stock configuration. My guess would be 'no'.

I am building the car in 3 stages:
The first stage is just a drivable bare chassis, I will dyno the chassis and dial in the suspension.
The second stage will see the under body aero work done, this is when the diffuser will be mounted and the exhaust completed.
Third stage is bodywork.



Since they are in the proper orientation with a reasonable load I am guessing that they will be fine. Like Kelty said building this thing is like a trapeze artist working without a net, I am going to have to thoroughly test the chassis to really see what works and what doesn't.

Great work. Love it.

Do have a minor question, with the exhaust as it is, anything that falls into the exhaust pipe will it not end up inside the turbo? (Water, nuts bolts, hamsters...) Am I missing something?

It is possible but the car will see very limited use with the exhaust like this, if feral hamsters become a problem I can throw a screen in there once the chassis gets closer to being drivable. I am just piecing components together for now, still a long way to go before it sees the road. The reason for the stubby exhaust is that I honestly don't know where the rest of it will go until the diffuser and maybe even the body is in place, I am just making this up as I go.

Awesome build. And since you got all of us in the peanut gallery at 914world watching, you are never really without a net

Interested in seeing the rear suspension with axles in there. Looks like the axles go either behind or inside the black squared-off piece?

Also super interested in a rear diffuser for the 914...

That exhaust would be just fine popping up out the top like a stinger on a Baja Bug! I love that look!

Thanks for sharing all the great photos and posts

AGREE!!

I built the speed sensor bracket today, installed the axles, and painted the intercooler tubing and exhaust.
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Check out inside the exhaust in this pic, you can see the O2 sensor and all the way back to the wastegate, this should flow pretty well!
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Looking at that bracket makes me wonder how your weight saving tally is going. Do you have a target weight?

Right now the weight savings are somewhere around 525 pounds give or take. If it ends up around 1800 pounds when it is completely done I would be happy, could end up much lighter though.

What are you using for a speed sensor?

I got a Hall Effect Sensor from Small Car Performance for mine, but I haven't installed it yet.

-Britain

Superb Dana!!!! Excellent work.... can't wait to see how you are going to build the body..

I'm pretty sure when Dana gets an idea, right before he executes it, he goes "BWAHAHAHAaaaaaa . . ."

Too cool for words.

I honestly don't remember all it says on it is "0140", I think I got it from North Hollywood Speedometer, pretty sure it is the one Renegade sells for their Subie kits.