No. Rear wheel would have to come off. In a cabriolet, you can stuff a bike with wheels off behind the seats easily.
No.
This assumes you're talking about a 74-89 mid-year/SC/Carrera.
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my father fit his 55cm road bike behind the two seats in his 87 cabriolet. had to put the top down first though. wheels in the front. no chance you could fit it with a wheel on, and definitely no chance you'd get two bikes in there unless one is riding shotgun with a seatpost removed.
i had a yakima roof rack on the 944 when i was younger, mostly to keep the muddy mtb out of the trunk. i could also fit 2 bikes with their wheels off in the trunk with the rear seats folded down.
Bummer about the two bikes. Here's what I've been dreaming of. It's at a Porsche dealer in Montreal. '87, Lowish miles (90K km) and somewhat pricey ($40K Cdn). I hope someone buys it soon because it's been driving me nuts.
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Robert Redford didn't seem to mind a roof rack on a 911.
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Yup ;)
Whatever floats your boat. I like that old car, get it.
Attachment 65426Taking the 72S to the Hill Country Rally this weekend. So off the bike and in the car for a change.
Frank
Well, some good bad news and some good...
The bad:
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Some ass clown decided he didn't want to use his brakes on turn 2, but rather use our car as a way to slow down.
The good:
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Second 935 is in color
No x in the main hoop or between the back stays?
@ Christian - There will be, we wanted to keep it open while we messed around with some prototype suspension.
@ Mister - Yes that is an original 914-6 heavily raced in IMSA in 82 and 83. We restored it to the way it was when it was raced back then by Dick and Alice graves. It never was a podium car but always finished top 10.
Thanks. Very nice. I figured it was a 914-6 and not a 916 (with, what, like a dozen ever made), but thought I'd ask as you've posted some pretty sweet cars. My father liked the 914 quite a bit. I posted this some time back, maybe you've seen it already, but thought I'd post again:
One of my father's friends was Lenny Cummings from Auto Sport Engineering in Stow, MA. Don't know if you know him (or his son Mark) as Lenny was once quite involved in the racing scene here. Lenny always tried to convince my father to build a 914-6 but my father wouldn't listen.Quote:
Back in the late 1980s my father decided to put a 1967 Chevrolet 283 into a 1974 Porsche 914. He also upgraded the suspension to that of a 911 and performed all of the bodywork on the car (except for the paint). My father was an extremely talented mechanic, fabricator and welder and this car was probably his favorite project. When he passed away, I gifted the car to my cousin in Arizona who absolutely loves it. He lives in Tucson where there is a shop that specialized in 914 V8 conversions called Desert Hybrids. After 20 years, the car needed some updating and this guy does amazing work. My cousin has about $10K into updates, most of which are tied to the new cooling system. Here it is when it first arrived in Arizona:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/3a97276eb...elzo1_1280.jpg
Engine getting installed back into the car after the updates:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/360dea8f2...elzo2_1280.jpg
http://24.media.tumblr.com/6780f17c6...elzo3_1280.jpg
http://24.media.tumblr.com/29e69cc64...elzo4_1280.jpg
Anyway, keep up the good work!
Very cool! I love seeing the v8 conversions. Yea, there is only a handful of factory 916's. We had an opportunity not to long ago to pick one up, but it was in real rough shape and the seller wanted way too much.
Thank god: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLGLut7NXQ
It would never pass tech inspection otherwise.
They are in all our cars
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What do you mean by the second door double rails?
It seems like that would just be added safety.. I don't think you can get fast enough in a Mazda to warrant that type of overkill but for school cars, I suppose. We gut the doors and fit the side impact bars as far from the driver. We have had a few serious accidents from our customers (total write-offs) and the cage didn't budge.
NASCAR (dual, extending outward from the sill) door bars are really good when you are likely to strike another relatively flat object (e.g. Armco barrier or another car) but aren't so great for point-impacts that strike between the a-pillar and b-pillar (e.g. a tree in a side strike). To that end, they are good for track cars, less so for rally cars.
I think Sean's cage looks good, but I don't like that double-design on the Barber car very much. Look where the lower outer tube connects in front -- to the middle of another horizontal element (inner door bar). That should be tied into the connection of the (inner) door bar with the a-pillar hoop. As it is, it'll cause a point loading in the inner door bar. Not ideal.
The Barber design might be ideal then for the low mass Mazda on the track, yet mx5 Cup/CTCSST rules don't seem to mandate this style though the SB Challenge runs during the same race as Cup cars. Anyway good info.
Christian needs to do a vsalon rally/track/autotest school for us unwashed.
Well, She's finally done. 610 hp and 540 ft pounds of torque. Loading her up later this week and on the way to Road America for the KICK.
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Do you happen to have any pictures of that 914 in the background? I know it was lurking in one of your previous posts and I've always had soft spot in my heart for those goofballs. A long time ago at the Concours in Cincinnati someone had a PERFECT 914 with a twin spark engine and it was my favorite car that year.
914-6 IMSA GTU. This was in tech at Indy a few weeks back at an SVRA event.
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Us in the pit before a practice session.
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Yummmmmmm
I once drove a Kremer 935 K3 for four or five laps at Anderstorp. Went slowly and made a fool of myself generally, but it's one of the few experiences in my life I'd never ever trade away.
The big one is the exhaust, the smaller is for the waste gate.
I have to find my way up there and see these creations in person! Wow..
No laughing at my BRZ!
Sean - the green '73 on the JJR Facebook page: what wheels are those? And yeah, the rest of it is nice too.
You get paid to build Porsches???
Just incredible!
That's like me being paid to sit around
in my underwear and read magazines!
-Max
dad's summer yellow '87 911. he keeps winning concourse events with it.
http://www.pcaocr.com/userfiles/file/aug14PandoW.pdf
he's also got an 05 911S that is his daily driver/autocross car.
there was a hint of a 56' forest green 356 with 7k original KMs (yep, not miles), that he was going to purchase, no steal, from a private collection. i think that deal went sideways.
yeah, we're Porsche people- mom had a Cayenne S and GTS as well. I really want a Macan, but I am going to wait a few years for a used one as the price will probably drop like the proverbial rock.
I know a couple guys, both of whom had early versions of the Cayenne Turbo and both of whom had said never again re: "exotic SUV". I never got into details with either as this type of vehicle is so far out of my realm of possibility or interest, but the reliability and maintenance were often the topic of conversation. Since then, both have gone to Land Rover and BMW for their SUV's.
Just curious, I suppose, about your lust for the Macan. Is the draw because you're a porsche guy through and through or is it something more?
My understanding is that many Cayenne Turbo engine repairs require engine removal. But a Land Rover instead? I hear the X5 gets dicey too.
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