13 Bats, you are correct, the 914 is a mid engine car and nobody flips the ring gear on those transaxles. I was talking about that melson car the other night being based on the 914 six. Had 914 on the brain. When i was telling you about my plans for my laser, i typed in 914 for my transaxle still had that 914 rolling around in my head. My transaxle is an old 412 transaxle with a Kennedy adapter and flywheel/4 pad clutch setup. It was a pretty smooth gearbox and took a lot of abuse with no problems when i had it in my 67 bug. It was fairly easy to adapt into the type 1 chasis. My Mercury v-6 is one of the old 60 degree jobs from the early70's over bored to 3.2 litres with an Offy intake and a Holly 780 cfm 4 barrel, hooker headers and that old tranny handled it with no complaints. The worst problem i had was with the chrome exhaust. The tight u-bend in the pipes causes a bit of excess heat in the pipes causing the chrome to turn blue. I hope the laser bodywork will allow me a little more room so as i don't have to have the pipes bent in such a sharp curve as i had under the bug. That nice high tail section may work to my advantage in the Laser. Saw one laser a few years back with exhaust running up the center of the pan and curving around into a set of old style lake sidepipes. Looked cool but looked like only about 3 inches of ground clearance in the center of the car. Would imagine that you would have to avoid streets with speed bumps with that type of exhaust setup,LOL. Anyway, i'm not in a rush. Going to take my time and plan out all the mods before i begin. Also, I'm looking at a second Laser that just happens to be here in Florida. If i can pick it up cheap enough, i may use it as the guinny pig as it's corvair six is not currently in the car. I can build that one and leave the first one i bought alone for awhile and just enjoy driving it the way it is.
"917" based on 914-6 for sale!!!
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