I actually like how he really beat the shit out of it before handing it off to the customer making sure it's gonna to be able to perform and do what he paid to do
When I was in high-school, one of these came up for sale in a local paper. I was shocked to see a Porsche that was new to me. Then I saw that it had a buick 3800 swapped in and widened fenders. To me it looked awesome. I couldn't afford to buy it with cash, and my father laughed at me when I showed it to him. I am fairly certain that that 3500 dollars would have served me well had I been able to scrape it together. But we'll never know.
Absolutely LOVE THIS CAR!! You killed it man. The 914 is extremely underutilized. What a great car and I’d love to see more restomods! Excellent job RenegadeHybrids. Love love love it.
I had them build one for me many years ago. It was a fun experience going down and documenting the progress. I was trying to recapture that feeling I had with my 64 GTO rag top. It wasn’t the car, it was the time. I did the LS1 new old stock with the re geared 901. It was a screamer. Lots of fun. A guy in Alaska bought it sight unseen. Deposited the entire balance before I even sent the car to him. Good times, glad they’re still doing it 👍👍🤟 my videos are still on RU-vid.
Not quite what I had in it. I bought a nice Lotus Elise after that. Street legal race car. Very fast! No more cars for me, unless BTC goes to a million lol 😅
Ironically, I bet he didn't. (Rumor has it...) Two 8 cylinder 914's were built as gifts to Ferry Porsche and potentially someone else. Furthermore, since the 928, Porsche has attempted to inject and even replace the flat 6 for an arguably better V8 platform. At present, Porsche builds more V-styled engines than opposing-flat-engines by far. Not that Porsche would have contracted an over simplified American Company to build anything, but there is certainly many benefits to the V8! From the distant roots of the overly simplistic "Peoples Car" (VW), why do they continue to over-engineer everything? I just don't get it...
@@RenegadeHybrids Just dont forget, if it wasn't for the Chevrolet Corvair, the Porsche 911 would never have happened. 1960 Corvair flat 6, Porsche was only a 4 banger... Porsche wanted a 6 but could not figure out the center cylinder cooling, they hired the GM engineer, a former aircraft radial engine designer... So.. you Porsche dicks, tip your hat to your poppa, when you see a Corvair go by...
Truly awesome little 914 screamer, and I so appreciate the attention to detail shared by the Renegade Hybrids crew. I will be LS3 swapping my 2000 Boxster S in the future to create my own vision of a little go-kart with 'balls', but this 914 is next level in every way. Bravo, and looking forward to more exciting videos from the crew at Renegade!
love the car but the harley salesman needs to take a xanex. .We have swapped an LS Ranger and a couple e30 bmws but I might need one of these. My buddy George used to build the v8 swap kits for these back in the 80s and still has his 500ci caddilac swapped 914 rotting away in his back yard.
I had a 1975 914 1.8 in the late 70’s. Handled great, no power. Always dreamed of getting a 916.. Ive owned numerous fast cars over the year’s. I’d buy one of those in a heartbeat.👍
My love for Porsche came when my brother brought home a 914, made it rally ready ( he was a mech on a local team, 930s 935) and built that little car to be the most violent cornering and breaking machine you’d ever have sat in. Then, he dropped that 1.8 and went 3L and suddenly it was truly a monster. I cried a little watching yo rip away in this beast.
Another Awesome 914 video guys! Almost makes me wish I still had one. One of the most light weight, fun cars ever! And they used to be very inexpensive, LOL!
The first Chevy powered 914 I rode in was in about 1971. Rod Simpson a LAPD cop did some conversions and offered a basic kit to bolt up the Chevy to the Porsche transaxle. Rod limited the throttle opening to about 3/4 on a 327 with around 250-300hp. So probably around a limited 200 hp when Porsche did not even offer a car for sale with horsepower approaching 200. But Porsche did not have a transaxle that could candle the torque until the 4 speeds in the 930’s years later. It was still quicker than any 911 in a straight lineand better balanced even with Chevy cast iron heads and block. But the 914 was not considered to be a real Porsche, with the possible exception of the 914-6 and the 914 flat sides became door ding art. I drove a 914-6 and the handling was benign but it lacked power. Finding a suitable 914 donor is now the issue. A Z06 motor swap would be interesting.
Damn, another toy I’ll never have. I know one thing for sure, working your ass off only to give it right back really blows, honestly, WTF’s the point anymore.
Since you're talking about weight savings, I have an EarthX PC680 replacement that weighs just over four pounds and takes the space of a motorcycle battery.
Yes, and there were a few other points we could have saved here and there, but the lights and dash did a good job pulling weight off the front. Didn't really want to loose that much more up front. The car was handling extremely well. This video is just Scott showing off. However true corner performance, mechanical grip, acceleration and braking was magical in this car!
light cars spoiled me forever. I don't need a lot of speed when the car is able to be controlled so well. besides, on a mountain road it's nice for the drive to be a bit scenic, and not a one hundred percent concentration test. .
Just call us. Customers don't appreciate it when the boys tell other potential customers how much the bill was for a certain car on a social media form. Maybe they don't want a spouse to know how much they spent, or their nosy neighbor, or whatever.
The targa bar on a 914 is pretty strong and the car is certainly not prone to rollovers. Not saying it can't happen, but in comparison to other cars we've had fun crushing over many years, the 914 held up pretty well. Many MANY other sports cars have failed horribly in far less significant accidents. Thanks for your input.
It probably doesn't matter too much for the use case for this car, but is there any concern about aerodynamics or water ingress from the wheel cutouts in the frunk ?
There is always positive air pressure exiting the front wheel wells...either by the flow through the radiator at speed, or by the fans when it's going slow. The front trunk was never completely water tight in the stock 914, especially when your lights were flipped up. So, anything in the 'frunk' was ok to get wet. Obviously, we didn't care to keep things dry with the new opening in the front providing air to the cooling system, so it's just not a concern, really.
I like everything about the car except the drivetrain. I'd rather go with commissioning Brent at PFI to build a 700HP K20 with a 5 speed sequential dogbox. Might shave a good bit of weight over the LS and possibly make it one heck of a Time Attack car. Just my opinion. I really am OK with LS engines, but I'd really like to see an even lighter car for track course running.
Nice inspirational video. Maybe you can help me too. I have a 1989 Lotus Esprit with some mods but now has a blown engine.... I'm open to all crazy ideas. :)
Here is the link to the Lotus Esprit video Scott shot for Renegade! This covers just about everything! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-92i-H9-FQbE.htmlfeature=shared
It's best to give the guys at the shop a call. This car was a bit of a challenge because of the rust issues. Renegade doesn't do paint and body, but we can do some rust abatement and chassis strengthening. So, it really depends on the specific car.
Built one of these,, should have never sold it ,wish I still had it, had a California car with the original paint,white 1976,, no rust, previously service data Porsche dealer...
I'd certainly agree with that. The car left structurally superb, but cosmetically questionable. We aren't in the paint and body business, but we are in the 'mechanically-safe' business!
What’s the 0-60 on that? I’m building one but I wanna know what’s to much hp and I’m trying to experiment that way I get the perfect balanced weight to hp ratio
@nathanielbeltran7416 Not sure. We don't do drag racing with these cars much. Track events and racing on continous road race circuits is what we do. Sorry...
@marklangren3142 These we import by the container from...you guessed it, China. These do not fail. Seriously, we have a few racecars that Scott races with these wheels. They are not a cheap light weight knock off. These are quite robust.
What a very cool car, too bad the paint work sucks. I would be hessitant putting all that tech, money and speed equip in it with the body and paint the way it is. Its like painting a pig.
@joefin5900 Removed for weight reduction. Furthermore, these cars shouldn't see much rain if you can help it due to high probability of rust. This one in particular should be kept dead dry since the body shop did nothing to remove, fix, and seal the existing rust before they chucked a layer of crappy paint on it.
