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Tony Inae's 914/6 Conversion
Diary
Well, can you
believe it, another 914/4 to 914/6 conversion diary. Doing a conversion like this has been a dream since highschool.
This is how it all began. I bought my first '74 914 at a wrecking
yard for $1300. It was hit from behind. Someone gave me a rear end quarter
pannel and I was able to clip and weld it to my car. It was finished
before my 16th birthday. I will include pictures of it when I
find them.
Trevin Hunt and
I managed to roll it around a hairpin turn, down a 6 foot embankment. I was just going too fast around the turn, the front right tire hit the gravel and the rest was history.
Lucky for me, I needed an excuse to purchase a straight body
with no body work. The insurance company totaled it and gave me $4500 for it, and I bought it back from them for $750... what a deal. I found the perfect shell (which was an engine burn) for $1800,
and put all the pieces from the first one into the second one.
No bondo, no body work (except on the rear deck lid from the
fire and the rear trunk lid. It had been sitting at a Porsche repair shop in Lodi, CA.
I then drove
the bright guards red 914 through part of college, until I needed
a more reliable car. Between unreliability and not being able
to smog the car since putting on dual webber carbs, the car sat...
first in the garage, then my folks found a better spot outside
in the back yard. There it sat through two years while I explored
Japan, the remaining 3 years in college, 4 years of med school,
and 3 years of residency in Family Practice. That's a long time
for a car to sit outside.
It was time to
do my payback with the Air Force (they funded med school), and
before making the trip to San Antonio, TX, I got this wild idea
to see if the car still ran. I put gas into the car, bought a
new battery, and shabang! It fired right up and I drove it to
southern California where I and my wife lived. I was actually thinking about converting this beast into an Electric vehicle, but while browsing the internet under 914's, I stumbled upon a company called Motor
Meister
They had a 6cyl
911 engine for me. They picked up my car, dropped the transmission
to rebuild, and I picked up the car with my '85 BMW 325e and
a U-Haul dolly. The BMW pulled the car half way accross the country
to our new home in San Anotonio, TX. I hear the transmission
is finished waiting to be sent to me. As soon as I can scrape
up more money, the birth of the engine can take place. The car
is sitting in our garage, waiting patiently.
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Motor
Meister
Corpus
Christi Porsche Club of America
Lone
Star Region Porsche Club of America
The
Pelican Parts Official Guide to the 914-6 Conversion
Porsche
914-6 Pages
The
Rennlist
The
Porsche 914 Club
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