Found My V-8 914 Project

drive-ability · 06-10-2005, 10:21 PM

I have been looking one for over a year now and stumbled on a post on the Renegade Hybrid site in early February. After a lot of emails, searching for a good escrow co. and transporter the wait is almost over. Its a 70, 914, Edelbrock heads and fuel injection, on a fresh 350 rebuild hooked up to a Renegade converted 930 transmission. All 930 suspension and brakes. Just need to finish up some lose ends, trans linkage, wire up fuel system, install the new calipers etc. Hope to have it on the road in a couple of months. Here's some pictures.

Well, found one and its coming to Ca.

70, 914, V8, 930 trans.
V8 914

License Plate "A go cart"

Another pic

sean_V8_914 · sean_V8_914's Garage

yummy! have fun

914helo · 06-11-2005, 03:08 PM

Should be a blast! Good luck.

mmastro · 06-29-2005, 08:02 PM

All 930 suspension and brakes?

I'd love to see how they did the 930 calipers on the rear of your 914. I'm about to do the very same thing to my 75 V8. All 78 930 suspension/brakes.
Thanks,

drive-ability · 06-29-2005, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mmastro
All 930 suspension and brakes?

I'd love to see how they did the 930 calipers on the rear of your 914. I'm about to do the very same thing to my 75 V8. All 78 930 suspension/brakes.
Thanks,

The front calipers are on and the rear are still in a box. The brakes may be just 911 I cant see them being turbo units but I am new to Porsche. I will try to get a picture up soon.

mike mueller · 06-30-2005, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mmastro
All 930 suspension and brakes?

I'd love to see how they did the 930 calipers on the rear of your 914. I'm about to do the very same thing to my 75 V8. All 78 930 suspension/brakes.
Thanks,

For the rear, a new bracket is welded to the bearing housing with the correct spacing and offset...I'll try and take pictures of the setup I have at home.

mmastro · 06-30-2005, 06:38 PM

Cool! Thanks

byndbad914 · 07-12-2005, 06:34 PM

don't know if it helps you, but check out vehicle craft online. I sent my 930 rears there and had them machined to bolt up to the stock trailing arms and the setup uses a stock turbo rotor for the rear. It is around $400 if I remember correctly. In the pic above with a closer shot of the front wheel, the little bit of caliper I see is not the 78-89 930 Brembo - maybe it has the early 77-78 930 brakes which are quite different.

I have heard of the weld-on bracket too, I suspect it is "six in one hand, half dozen in the other". Just another option... obviously if I mess up a caliper, I would have to have another machined to bolt on, but I haven't ever experienced destroying a caliper so much I couldn't rebuild it...

I don't have any really good shots of the work, but you can check out various parts of my site to see what the later Brembos look like on my 914 v8 project.

www.geocities.com/byndbad914

mmastro · 07-13-2005, 02:05 PM

The 75-77 930 came with the S calipers up front and M's in the rear. The 78-89 930 came with the 917 type calipers all the way around.

I'd be interested in the vehicle craft rear set up for the 917 type caliper on a stock 930 rear rotor, that seems like the way to go (no adapter/weld-on piece).

Cheers,