I am going LS1. 8 guys, please stop in...., Does anyone want a bunch of 50k mile super nice Type IV l-jet parts &a Options

[ghuff]

Well I have been staring at my 914 for a while, and contemplating options........


The reality has sunk in that I dont want another turbocharged car on standalone fuel injection.

I saw the 2600$ price tag for the renegade hybrids LS1 kit. I am pretty much dead set on dumping a bone stock LS1 longblock into the car with an edelbrock carb manifold and a holley double pumper of some sort and the edelbrock/msd retro kit.

I will convert to a high flow low pressure carb friendly pump and bam, I will never need more power.

If I do, heads and cam will make an easy 450whp.


Are there other options than the renegade hybrids kit? Who out there is using one?

These questions are just a start, I am still wondering about chassis bracing and so forth as I don't feel like tearing my 914 apart after a few hundred miles of fun driving and autocross.

[andys]

It would be good to know if the bolt patterns are the same, though the two transaxles probably are not unless the Boxster motor rotates in the opposite direction. Kennedy could answer the bolt pattern question.

Having done (well, almost done anyway) an LS1/914 conversion, it takes some doing in terms of fabricating special parts but doable it is. I'd be concerned with the 901 transaxle strength, but that mostly depends on how you drive it; Some people can ruin just about any trans in a heartbeat while others' can make them last just fine. I'm using an Audi 01E 6 speed which some have claimed is good to 500HP, but I'm not anywhere near that anyway. Took a lot of special fabrication to adapt it and to mount it into the car.

The below is a photo before the engine/trans were installed. I did drive the car only once so far just up and down the street; no license plates, no insurance, so I parked it quick.

Andys