i was looking around and came across this:

http://nissan6.914resources.com/specs.html

interesting..

 

very interesting! hey why not!? Light, reliable, free reving, good torque and alot cheaper than one of Porsche's own flat 6 engines!

 

wonder what headers he has???

 

He's probably using the stock manifolds with a custom Y collector. You note that his hp is "est"

 

that is pretty intresting.

i wonder how much fabricating it took to put that in the porsche. reverse that now> i wonder how much fabricating it would take to put a 911 turbo in my maxima. ... yeah i dont see it happin either

 

he says 3-2-1 into cat, guessing he means headers, don't you???

 

Wow alot of fabrication to put this engine in, mad props to the guy doing this.

 

Wow. Well you can see the stock manifolds there. Look at the x-over pipes! That's a TERRIBLE design!

That engine is positioned N / S. I wonder which tranny he used? Or maybe there's an adaptor plate to use the 914 tranny?

 

Looks like an adapter plate.

 

Parts List and Costs
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CONVERSION
1997 Nissan Maxima engine, harness, ecu = $1672.50
Kennedy adaptor package w/9" = $950.00
Spal 11" fans 2x = $206.98
Welder's labor = $150.00
Aluminum radiator = $128.03
Exhaust u-bends, cat, flanges, chrome tip = $121.03
RH tranny mounts 4x = $120.00
911 sport mounts 4x = $107.79
911SC muffler, used = $100.00
Cold air intake, K&N cone filter, hose = $84.50
Radiator hose 1.5" @ 25 ft. = $79.10
Oil cooler, adaptor, remote filter = $67.96
JTR Vehicle Speed Sensor = $67.00
Aluminum water filler neck = $60.00
Motor mount steel, misc hardware = $40.31
300zx gauge cluster recalibration = $40.00
fuse blocks, relays, wire = $39.54
Aluminum sheet metal = $35.00
Heater hose 5/8" @ 20 ft. = $14.20
Pick-a-part heater core = $10.00
Pick-a-part overflow bottle = $8.29
Aluminum radiator elbow w/ air bleeder = nada
TOTAL = $4102.23

 

That's sweet. Wonder how much of that $1672.50 was the JWT ECU programming.

Never thought I'd see a custom Nissan ECU inside a Porche before our own 99-01's got em.

 

best porsche engine swap ive seen was a small block chevy, with aluminum heads and stuff, only weighed 60 pounds more than the stock engine. it looks like an adapter plate for sure, and a lot of customizing (including some...interesting exhaust)
*edit* and he used a 300zx gauge set...what kind of monster is he building?

 

frankencar

 

i like his ghetto dryer duct original intake

 

that was great haha with the tube running into the tb lol

 

yea, a little too small on the diameter. why did he pay that much for an engine?

 

That's awesome.

I had originally thought about what a VE would do in a 510. Now, a VQ in a 914 is even cooler!

 

appx 13.5 1/4 mile .. . wow, I guess weight is everything. 2200 lbs.

 

Having owned one of those 914 engines (they came in the VW Vanagon and the VW 412, too) I would say he must be very happy now. The 914's and 412's probably don't have any problems with the 2 liter H4, but in the Vanagon it is seriously underpowered. I recall it being rated at 65-70 hp. During the summer you had to be very careful not to overheat the engine (forget about using the air conditioner - that was for cold weather only), which would cause the valve seats in the aluminum heads to come loose. I ended up rebuilding mine three times in the 10 years I owned it. The good news is that it is a very easy engine to remove and rebuild. I could pull the engine, unassisted, in 40 minutes, and that was taking my time.

The other problem with those engines is that parts were so expensive. You can buy a set of pistons and matching cylinders for a VW Beetle for around $60. For the 914 it's more like $250 (which sounds kinda cheap, actually, but at the time it didn't seem like it).

But I love air cooled engines. I love the way they sound when they are tuned and running right.

 

Not any worse than what some of our turbo guys are running.

 

For those of you who couldn't figure out the website (Jeffy):

http://nissan6.914resources.com/begin.html

Those are all his pics.

Looks like a really fun project!

 

Still doesn't make any better. Plus turbo exahusts are a little different. (push vs pull)

 

Neeto! 1232222222222222222

 

Oh I agree with you. Anytime you have flow coming together at right angles like that it's a bad situation. But, especially when you want the exhaust to power a turbine.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Pushing the turbine vs extracting a NA head?

 

2199 lbs is just amazing

 

Although that setup just sucks in either case, at least with a turbo, you can "overcome" the bad design by upping the boost with a controller. Force feeding it via positive psi pressure. With a na setup, you are stuck with that bad design and there's nothing you can do about it.

 

How much power can that poor old 914 tranny possibly hold? With the new engine alone, you are making more than double the power of the 914, maybe triple.

 

no...more like double, not triple.