The Official 914 World 3 Rotor 914 Build Thread, Otherwise known as round and round we go...... Options

[soloracer]

Well there has finally been some progress made on my car so I thought I would start a build thread about it for those who are interested. I'll try to keep it updated as I go along.

I'll start off with an introduction to the project for those who don't already know. I bought a 914 with a Sheridan Motorsports wide body in an E-bay auction. The car was being set up for a Porsche 6 to be used on the track. It came with the wide body, a 915 transmission (mag case) that was converted to side shifter with a Vellios kit and the ring and pinion had been flipped. The front suspension is supposed to be from a 911 - don't know the year yet - and the car has a brand new set of Kinesis rims that appear to be 17x12 in the back and 17x10 in the front. Also included were a set of new tires 315's in the back and 285's in the front. The previous owner also had put a front mount oil cooler and a somewhat poorly welded roll cage.

Here are some pictures of the car:

[soloracer]

For a number of years the car has sat in my garage while I made up my mind what I wanted to do with the car. I determined that I wanted to make around 400 hp in a reliable fashion. At first I considered staying with the Porsche six as the original owner intended but after pricing out how much 400 hp would cost and what a potential rebuild was worth I decided to consider other options.

Naturally I considered the V8 route that so many here were doing and thought that I wanted something a bit more unique. So then I moved on to the Subaru engines considering both the 3.3 flat six from the SVX and the 2.5 turbocharged flat four from the WRX. I couldn't find anywhere that that people had modified the 3.3 engine and it appeared that there wasn't strong support for an engine build up so I decided not to go that route. This left the 2.5 turbo and it looked really interesting however I could not find an engine locally. However, I did find a turbo Toyota MR2 3SGTE engine and after some reading figured this would make a good alternative. So I bought the engine and continued to do my research.

As many of you know I also own RX7's and one day a group of us got talking about the 3 rotor engine - known as the 20b - and what the potential was for them. Several of my friends had rebuilt their own 13B's and we were all getting very self sufficient on fixing our RX7's. Needless to say our 20b talk got my mind working - what would be cooler and more unique than a 3 rotor 914? So I sold the 3SGTE and bought a 20b.