Fifteen-Eleven Porsche 914 Open to Order

If you had $440,000 USD to spend on a Porsche, World Rally Team Mellors Elliot Motorsport (MEM) bespoke division Fifteen Eleven, is wagering you’ll want its 1975 914 build. 

The company announced nearly three years ago its intent to build the project and has just recently made ordering available. 

Now, this isn’t a run-of-the-mill Porsche 914. The original ‘75 chassis and engine are long gone and replaced with that of a 987.2 Cayman S (2009-2012) along with T45 tubular chassis reinforcements. 

It’s hardly a simple resto-mod. MEM is known for its competition rally car preparation, and dug deep into its parts bin for top-tier solutions. 

Body-panels are widened and made from carbon fiber. The extra space needed for the radiator and oil package from the donor Cayman S. It also has a rear duck-tail spoiler and “Moby Dick” style driving lights. An odd reference to Herman Melville’s classic American novel perhaps. Looking it up, the best correlation we can infer are the headlights look like the inverted silhouette of the sperm whale. Your guess is as good as ours?

The 3.8-liter engine has between 380-400 horsepower, a stainless steel exhaust, a fly-by wire throttle, and a six-speed transmission. Working with the Cayman’s suspension architecture, they installed Reiger three-way adjustable coil-over shocks - Reiger is a U.S.-based shop that makes WRC shock absorbers. 

Behind the Michelin Pilot Sport 2 wrapped 18-inch Fuchs wheels, are Brembo brakes with four-piston calipers with cross-drilled and vented rotors.

 

Inside the car are Recaro sport bucket seats, a custom wooden shift-knob and a redesigned bulkhead to give more leg room and accommodate a FIA-compliant bladder-equipped fuel cell. Fifteen Eleven can even build the car in either left-hand or right-hand drive orientations. 

There is no denying the 914 has been the proverbial “ugly duckling” of the Porsche lineup, but as of late with the resurgence of “older” cars, the 914 looks prime to get more attention. The proof? Just look at what Fifteen Eleven has done and it’ll keep coming down the line.

No reviews of the vehicle have been available yet, but we’ll be very excited to see some on-road and testing reports when published.