Re: RE: Chevy speak (long)

[Mike0264@aol.com]

) regarding your thoughts on v8 porsche

> conversions.  Not

> quite with you here either.  The 914 is the best candidate for a 911 6/T

> transplant, not a v8.  Your "it handles terribly" might be better

> applied to

> the 911, since a properly setup 914 can take ALL 911/T/S parts (including

> brakes, suspension and engine) with no modifications to the body

> structure,

> and it's better balanced and has a lower baseline weight and cog.  And a

> properly setup 914 with the 911 conversion will take most tweeked

> porsches at

> the track (bt-seen and drove-t)  A properly setup 951, easily

> takes the rear

> driver 911's.




any one watch the Monterey historic races on sunday....a factory prepared
914-6 won it's class at the laguna seca
course...beating all the 911"s to the finish line...much the same results as
when it raced in the early 70's


mike 4kq