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Hello
Mr Wagner in Spiessen /Germany built some 914 V8 using 928S or 928 S4 engines. To gain space he moved the rear bulkhead, it is now flush with the strut dome. However some of the cars don´t use the 914 rear axle as you have more place to go inside the engine bay he reconstructet the rear pickup to accept other trailing arms.
As geman TÜV forces to a fixed roof or a full Cage setup if you go over 200 HP he used the 916 steelroof. IFIK 8 cars where made.
I had the opportunity to drive the first made car witch had still the 914 rear axle and it has a slight tuned 300 HP CIS engine and a 4 speed turbo trany, 930 3.3 brakes on all corners. Curb wight at 1200 kg. Very nice comparable to a 289 Cobra yet better handling and more traction. Topseed was limitet to 280 km/h due the speed rate from the tires and the short final drive. However with my stock bodied 914/2,7 RS I achived 275 km/h when the rev limiter hit the 7500/min. So the 300 HP on a 916 body would made the 300km/h for sure.
Price; if you have to ask for..........
I was involved in one Mouse squirreling in Porsche conversion and it was massive work to pass the german laws yet my 914/2,7RS outperformed the conversion in nearly all aspects,
including the built costs. Well you guys are lucky as your technical regulations are somwhere to one sentence: Have fun
AH reguarding brakes. the 914/4 units are constructet for a lite 100 HP car and perform very well on that. As long you keep on driving like you have a light 100 HP car the brakes will not show to much problems. The brakes are not interesstet about the engine there work is simple to kill dynamic energy by transfering it to heat via friction. If you rise the wight the brakes have to work more dynamic into heat and the same is with speed, If you add speed and wight you maybe will overheat the brakes will you are still not came to a stop so the friction rate drops and your brake distance goes up to infinity.
A simple setup to gain more brake power is to swap the frontaxle into 911T units and use the 19mm MBC. Remove the rear brake proportion valve and the rear will work more efficient however this is risky as overbraking rear ends will come loose. If you have that Problem then use 911SC or 930 inline pressure limiter.
Grüsse
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