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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Its a 71. The transmission I have worked out probably. There is a vw shop here in St. Louis and they have one. Don't know if the linkage is with it or not and I don't have any. I have no idea how they get from the back of the floor all the way back to the back of the transmission but guess they do!! If I get an engine, can I carborate it instead of bothering with the FI or is that a Bad idea? Also, are there 4 and 5 speeds available? -----Original Message----- From: Jim Adney [mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:14 PM To: type3@vwtype3.org Subject: RE: [T3] Porsche Question On 25 Mar 2002, at 7:38, Schwein, William wrote: > I do like the car very much. It seems just basic like a sports car should > be. It didn't come with an engine or transmission at all so I'm really up > in the air as to what to do with it. The body has hail damage some but > there is little or no rust that I could find over the weekend. Do you > have any idea's as to how much an engine/transmission would cost? Can I use > a type III engine and FI in it? If I could get it just mobile (not > necessarily fast) then I'd probably be interested. The body work I can do > for little $$$. If it's rust free, then it really is worth fixing up, and you should find a real 914 engine to go in it, preferably a 2.0L. I suppose you could adapt a type 3 for this, but there's little reason to. The original engine is basically a type 4 engine and it's enough different that you'd end up fiddling around a lot just to put a smaller than normal engine in this car. Originals were 1.7, 1.8, and 2.0L, and the 1.7L engines are pretty wimpy for a sports car. The transmission might be the hardest thing to find, as the shift linkage is completely turned around because it's at the back of this car. There is a pretty good Haynes manual on the 914s, so you might want to start by finding one of them so you can read up. What year is yours? - Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>