[Cdn17Sport6MT]

Since we are going join venture turds...1991 Dodge Sprit R/T......2.2L turbo with Lotus cyl. head...227 HP which is pretty impressive for 1991...
View attachment 146649

Naturally aspirated? I would guess not... It's only 134 c.i. displacement... so 227/134=1.69 hp/c.i.

Not 'gonna do that in the '90's...w/o a turbo...

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

Hey, re batteries with removable caps... for most cars, i.e. those with accessible batteries, I would be willing to pay extra to get a battery of this type (and to be able to test individual cells with a hydrometer (hyGrometer ?). It is opportune to be able to ensure individual cells are not running low in acid; adding distilled water, charging, and then finding out the specific gravities of ea. to early-on learn if the battery is becoming weak. Load tests are good too, of course. I've been able to nurse-along batteries some years beyond their Best-Before dates in this way... but for my older cars.
I would not advocate, though, having a less-than-stellar battery in a Maser, i.e. electronic modules intensive car!

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

Sorry, it is indeed, a hydrometer, not a hygrometer. The latter is for relative humidity in the air.

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

I don't normally dig Japanese stuff, but these things are just cool. I'm not positive they came in LHD?

View attachment 146737

They are cool. Don't think they're available LHD. There are quite a few here in Vancouver. Can import them with impunity after 15 years old, here in Canada.

Certainly a RHD in a LHD jurisdiction is not convenient (or particularly safe)... but the Britons seem all the time to drive RHD cars on the Continent... so...

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

View attachment 146735

Yeah, a Turd. Funny, though, many hotrodders speak of a Mustang II subframe, rack and pinion PS.... as a basis of their respective build.

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

Had a work colleague who did some stuff for a buddy of his who had a Ferrari 308. Dan's opinion of the electrics in that car was not exactly stellar. Dan was more used-to domestic vehicles.

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

The Triumph TR7 had a solid rear axle, coil springs. It may have had a panhard rod (I don't remember). It was twin carbureted I think. Still, it was the TR8, with the aluminum Buick V8, that had adequate power... in exactly the same chassis.

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

I’ll see your turd and raise you a turd View attachment 146860

Sorry, not a Turd... The Type 4 engine powering it had (in about '70) the aluminum alloy case that the 911 only got in '77 in Europe, '78 in North America. The 2.0 litre version had forged alloy wheels, designed-by-Porsche cylinder heads. It was not lightening quick, and it had its issues, but 'boy did it handle... and it was pretty decent.

There also was a six cylinder powered version, the 914/6...

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

For '76 only, they took a regular 911 of the day (not sure if it was galvanized by then, btw) and put the 91 hp (914's) engine in it. Not 'real quick, but the 911 of the day was pretty light. Bit cheaper than the 911 as a result. Lot cheaper to build engine.

 

[Cdn17Sport6MT]

I’m just saying, bet Porsche would want another try at 914 now, redo
They did a 912 4 cylinder too.

The 914 was austere, very, very plain and simple... in perhaps a way that the Beetle was plain, plain, plain. Certainly distilled the car down to it's basic functions of driving. I 'kinda like that elemental kind of thing. I don't care how many features a car has... if the steering feel and accuracy, the gearshift feel and synchro smoothness, the engine smoothness, the brake smoothness are not all excellent, then I just don't want the car. I'm 'real fussy about those aspects of the car - 'way more so than the outright accelerative performance; the rest is window-dressing to some extent for me.