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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.28722
EAN num: 9780760305843
ISBN number: 0760305846
Label: Motorbooks
Manufacturer: Motorbooks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 176
Printing Date: December 31, 1999
Publishing house: Motorbooks
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This information-packed guide tells you what to look for when buying a 914, and helps you decide what to do with it once you have it! Whether your goal is a restored stocker, a modified street car or a club racer, this book covers both restoration and modification to body and trim, interiors, lighting and electrical, suspension, brakes, engines, fuel systems, transmission, wheels and tires, and detailing for concours participation. A history of the model traces the evolution of the VW/Porsche collaboration to its demise in the mid-1970s.
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A very poor quality copy of the original. You have the feeling that Motorbooks did this with a 16mm spy camera in the dead of night. It is, however, readable and therefore worth the money.
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Good info for the 914 lover. This is a must have book if you are looking to buy or just fix up a 914.
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There is some good "how to" information in the book but don't expect the book to open any magic doors for you. I consider this a good addition to your Porsche 914 library. The photos are very good and certainly good on a technical level. Porsche 914 owners are bound to find some information here that they did not know. The guys involved with this book are true 914 guys, reason enough to buy the book.
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If you want a book to help you on how to restore your porsche 914, this book doesn't help you so much.
Instead, you can buy a Haynes workshop manual that goes deeper into the details on all your porsche 914, and a haynes restorer manual on the specified subject (interior, engine, bodywork.
Those will teach you something.
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"How to Restore & Modify Your Porsche 914 & 914/6" doesn't tell how to do either. Its best section describes the many places to look for rust when buying a 914. Most of the rest is filled with generalisms and pablum, much of which is not even specific to 914s. The book is filled with annoying technical errors that individually seem minor, but are collectively inexcusable and indicate insufficient research. Example: the author claims that compared to the stock 17mm master cylinder, the larger (19mm) master cylinder's "main advantage is to increase the brake pressure of the system." In fact, for a given force applied to the brake pedal, it does the oppposite. Another example: the author cautions us that the terms "backspacing" and "offset" of wheels are often confused, then he gives an incorrect definition of "offset." Thanks for muddying the pool of knowledge!
On modifying the cars, we are advised that certain components can be replaced with better ones, but the author does not tell what parts to buy, how to install them, or what gains in performance we can expect.
There are many better books on 914s available. "914 Tech Tips 700" by George A. Hussey, IV, gives practical maintenance advice. "The Porsche 914 & 914/6" by Dr. Brett Johnson gives an excellent model year history and shows what parts are original. Neither of these books was mentioned in Mr. Paternie's list of suggested reading. Neither of these books goes into modification in any depth. For that, buy "Up-Fixin der Porsche" (11 volumes) from the Porsche Club of America, or subscribe to Grassroots Motorsports magazine.
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