If you had to do it all over again..., convert to a flat 6 or v8 Options

[stevenhaas]

Ok!!! So here is the million dollar question!!!! If you had to do it all over again would you convert to a flat-6 or a V-8? What is easier to convert? Seems like the V-8 maybe a little cheaper. However it seems like you have to cut your firewall out… is that also true? (Please note I am no wheres close to it yet but I need a plan!)

What Trans is the best to go with? I was think of a 73-76 side shift 901 with a billet heavy duty intermediate plate from a 70-72?

(this would be built as street car… NO-auto cross….)

[neo914-6]

QUOTE (Jake Raby @ Apr 27 2005, 10:27 PM)

While I typically jump on these posts like a Rabid Wolf I have made it a post not to care any longer! Its all in what you want and the kind of power you like... Personally I'd love to have a stroked V8 in a 914 but only for straight line driving... Or keep the TIV and do what I did today when I left the corner gas station and spin clear through third gear watching the tire smoke in the rear view and the rev limiter bouncing off 8100 RPM with a MassIVe beast of only 2316cc... My least favorite conversion engine for a 914 would be the flat six... I mean hell if you are gonna convert you may as well really convert, add a radiator and lay the blade deep into that baby! The six is an expensive piece that isn't very simple if you ask me.. Hell at least with the V8 you can bolt on a 4 barrell not even tweek the jetting and set the timing by ear and you are done.... and it don't cost 200+ bucks for a damn set of plug wires... But I'm the asshole driving by 911s with the middle finger high in the air  :finger: while driving a 235HP beetle thats never even been restored- Hell what do I know anyway!!! I do that simply because they all won't even look at a VW and I love to roast their ass and never even use full throttle.. Since my other area of expertise with engines has been with aircraft I have often considered some performance tweeking to a 6 cylinder Lycoming engine and drop that baby into a 914..... Hell if you want displacement the 540 is 540 CI!!!!!!! The engine is lighter than a 911 and its not much more expensive to work with! Imagine smoking past some 911 prick with a 540 inch six cylinder! On a non professional level I think the 911 engine is way over rated. It may be the jewel of all Porsche engines to many but so many things about it jst don't make sense to me... But yet again I'm the guy that considers a real Porsche engine a 4 cylinder with 4 cams and bevel gears driving them- it's called a 547...Real Carreras have 4 cams..... I have said it many times, keep the TIV and if you want to convert pput the meanest damn V8 that you can in the bitch... Atleast Chevy's are cheap as hell to build and even an idiot can assemble one and never check a single clearance in most instances.. The only one I have ever built was done 7 years ago and built start to finish in 8 hours- its still alive in the old chevy work truck.. With that being said break out the torch, sawzall, welder and the summit catalog and build that 383 stroker- Or keep the handling and keep the engine that I love... PS- This is the first conversion post I have ever walked away from wearing a smile- I finally figured that  all the rants and preaching do no good at all.... do what you wanna do, hell I'd bolt a Turboshaft in a 914 if it wouldn't melt the paint off the rear trunk lid.

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After option 2, I'm on to option 3, non-porsche turbo 6...