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The Porsche 914 or VW-Porsche 914 is a mid-engined sports car designed, manufactured and marketed collaboratively by Volkswagen and Porsche from 1969 until 1976. It was only available as a targa-topped two-seat roadster powered by either a flat-4 or flat-six engine .
1.16 Porsche 914. 1.17 Porsche 917. 1.18 Porsche 918. 1.19 Porsche 919 Hybrid (9R9) ... Porsche 914 engines Vehicle Engine MY Engine numbers Technical data 914-6: 901 ...
Porsche 914/6 GT rear view. The 914/6 GT was a race configured version of the 914/6. The factory offered the GT option, which was distinguishable by its box-like steel fender flares. It quickly became known as the 914/6 GT and was raced employing different engine configurations. This included the 'T' specification, which was a basic 911 engine.
In car tuning culture, an engine swap is the process of removing a car's original engine and replacing it with another. This may be a like-for-like replacement, or to install a non-factory specification engine.
In April 2011, Porsche announced the third generation of the 997 GT3 RS with an enlarged 4.0-litre engine having a power output of 500 PS (368 kW; 493 hp). The naturally-aspirated 4.0-litre flat-six engine (the largest engine displacement offered in a street-legal 911) was introduced with their 2011 911 (997) GT3 RS 4.0, in 2011. [18]
The point is that the mid-engine layout as used on the first Porsche, the James Dean Porsche 550 the neat little 914, and the current Boxster's, and Cayman's, make these cars more pure sports cars than the big front-engined 924, 944, 928, Cayenne, and Panamera, or the soon to be extinct from all but vintage car racing, the rear-engined 911.
Power came from a new 4.5-litre air-cooled engine designed by Mezger, which was a combination of 2 of Porsche's 2.25L flat-6 engines used in previous racing cars. The 'Type 912' engine featured a 180° flat-12 cylinder layout, twin overhead camshafts driven from centrally mounted gears and twin spark plugs fed from two distributors. [10]
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive roadster (Boxster) and fastback coupe (Cayman). 911: 911: ... Porsche 914-6 GT Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 3.0 Porsche 934 Porsche 935