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Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:48 pm

Four years ago when Covid hit, I came up with the idea of building a car with my children. my daughter 17 who was going to school at the time. to become a welder. she was no longer allowed to come to school due to covid and my 21-year-old son was unemployed, so we started building a car. I decided to build a steel car because it is much more complex than an aluminum car. and my daughter was not yet ready to weld aluminum and after all she was the one who would weld most of the car, I decided to make a Porsche type 114/2, a car that was designed in 1938 but never built. the car was designed with a water cooled v10 engine but i would make it with a vw 1944 KDF / Denzel engine in the coming weeks I will share the construction of the car with you
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Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:18 am

so did you already have the wooden buck? is that another - aluminium - body in the background?

:popcorn:

Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:08 am

very cool project! It looks uncannily like the typ 64 recreations, except for the split rear screens. Are there any other adaptations to the original typ 114 project? The 114 was to be mid-engined and watercooled, I feel that a different engine than the old flat four could suit it this project better, for instance a highly efficient V6 of Italian extraction?

Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:21 am

What a fantastic project !

Bests

Antoine

Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:24 am

356 seppe wrote: Four years ago when Covid hit, I came up with the idea of building a car with my children. my daughter 17 who was going to school at the time. to become a welder. she was no longer allowed to come to school due to covid and my 21-year-old son was unemployed, so we started building a car. I decided to build a steel car because it is much more complex than an aluminum car. and my daughter was not yet ready to weld aluminum and after all she was the one who would weld most of the car, I decided to make a Porsche type 114/2, a car that was designed in 1938 but never built. the car was designed with a water cooled v10 engine but i would make it with a vw 1944 KDF / Denzel engine in the coming weeks I will share the construction of the car with you
you can
Also follow on FB & Instagram @ Metal Master Seppe & Jespers Edwin

I like the split rear window of this 114/2 / type64..I always thought why they weren't made like that in the first place ..now it's nice to see how it would look like with the split window looks nice..porsche should of done that in the first place ......im just wondering if it's gonna be a mid engine can't wait to see the surprise....

Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:33 pm

mid engine 1944KDF gearbox & KDF/Denzel engine is Currently built by Speedwell USA

Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:38 pm

I'm wondering if you are gonna be adding more vents for more air or are you just relieing on just the vents under the rear window ...

Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:22 pm

There are slots under the front bumper and a duct runs through the floor for fresh air for the engine.

Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:54 pm

Well done!, both the car, and the hands on education for the kids! 8)

Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:15 am

Amazing!

Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:53 am

can you knock out enough cars to get a racing series homologated? :lol:

is the floor a double skin like the 64?

Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:41 am

Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:35 pm

[email protected] wrote:
I like the split rear window of this 114/2 / type64..I always thought why they weren't made like that in the first place
The only reason a split Beetle's rear windows are split is to avoid the expense of drooping the glass to make it curved. Since the original Type 64 was much more curved than a Beetle, there would be no way to put flat windows in. This drooping was required. That meant there was no need to make it split.
In the 50s, the split rear windows was an undesirable feature.

Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:06 am

Bruce wrote: [email protected] wrote:
I like the split rear window of this 114/2 / type64..I always thought why they weren't made like that in the first place
The only reason a split Beetle's rear windows are split is to avoid the expense of drooping the glass to make it curved. Since the original Type 64 was much more curved than a Beetle, there would be no way to put flat windows in. This drooping was required. That meant there was no need to make it split.
In the 50s, the split rear windows was an undesirable feature.

The typ 64 was a race car and had perspex windows, that could be changed when needed, when they became scratched. That is why they cold use a curved rear window and partially curved windshields on car 2 and 3.

Perspex was not viable on a production car.

Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:18 am

The world is filled with talented people. This project shows You and you family rank right among those at the top of the game. Fantastic!

Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:20 pm

[email protected] wrote:

I like the split rear window of this 114/2 / type64..I always thought why they weren't made like that in the first place

The only reason a split Beetle's rear windows are split is to avoid the expense of drooping the glass to make it curved. Since the original Type 64 was much more curved than a Beetle, there would be no way to put flat windows in. This drooping was required. That meant there was no need to make it split.
In the 50s, the split rear windows was an undesirable feature.

differences between type 114/2 & type 64rear
split window
rear of hood more pointed at the bottom
tube frame
bumpers
air intake in the front
water-cooled V10

Tue Oct 01, 2024 2:13 pm

Isn't this type 114 /2 thats gonna have a denzel engine ???

Wed Oct 02, 2024 2:21 am

Outstanding work!