A engine for Colin- a Flat VW 8

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:40 pm

http://mestrejoca.blogspot.com/2009/03/ ... amaro.html
With this engine in Cloe mountain passes, deserts and cross country trips would take half the time! Plus it's still a single port!

airkooledchris · Post by **airkooledchris** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:22 pm

For the time and energy it would take to eventually get that to work, to any degree, this is what you should buy instead if you want a flat 8!

asiab3 · Post by **asiab3** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:17 am

Details! Both of you!

Please??
Robbie

airkooledchris · Post by **airkooledchris** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:30 am

[YouTube]http://youtu.be/bsf8S3qgwX8[/YouTube]

The engine I posted was out of a Porsche 908 racecar. Flat-eight air-cooled, mounted midship, twin overhead camshaft, fuel-injected, 2997 cc, 360 hp at 8400 rpm

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:30 am

That looks like one of the 908 motors that was stolen years ago and was recovered a couple of years ago. Sold at auction along with several other early Porsche race engines.
I posted a pic of a VW flat 8 a guy in Brazil made welding two together. Had trouble with the firing order I think just like the flat 8 Porsche engine did until Porsche sorted it out so it was super smooth. Two early 914's had 908 engines installed as one was a test bed for a race car that F. Piech drove a lot and the other silver one was given to Ferry Porsche on his 60th birthday. It had a solid steel roof too as he drove it every day for years. It was de-tuned to 260hp.

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:37 am

A peak inside...

I took the above pic when I got to visit the Porsche Museum for my birthday in 2009

airkooledchris · Post by **airkooledchris** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:46 am

I can't even imagine the shoehorn needed to cram that 908's motor into a 914.....

What an amazing setup for a daily driver though!

Xelmon · Post by **Xelmon** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:04 pm

airkooledchris wrote:I can't even imagine the shoehorn needed to cram that 908's motor into a 914.....

What an amazing setup for a daily driver though!

Hey, it's done with Small Block V8's all the time. Not much different to have an H8 shoehorned in.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 6:20 am

Bleyseng wrote: With this engine in Cloe mountain passes, deserts and cross country trips would take half the time! Plus it's still a single port!

I love the idea, but I know, I just know, the execution is going to come up short.

Bleyseng? Read My Lips . . . .

It Is Not About Half The Time . . .
Colin

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