The folks over at Renegade Hybrids have apparently tired of stuffing Porsche’s 914 with small-block Chevrolet engines, a popular age-old shoe-in for Stuttgart’s angular love/hate midship runabout.

Instead, the Las Vegas tuner has figured out how to fold-in the 2.0-liter turbocharged flat-four from Subaru’s WRX. The boxer layout of the engine is said to require no chassis modifications (though the turbocharger and intercooler will likely require relocation). The company has already fitted the WRX STI engine, giving the flyweight 914 what must be a heroic power-to-weight ratio, as it delivers around 300 horsepower and 300 pound-feet of torque… before modifications. Renegade Hybrids reports that so-equipped, the 914 is not only very reliable and absurdly quick, it is capable of over 25 miles-per-gallon.

The vehicle pictured is Ed Hunziker’s 914, which has a host of additional modifications, including a Beck 934 widebody kit, a comprehensively reworked suspension with Bilstein coilovers, brakes cribbed from a 911 SC, and massive 18-inch Victor Equipment alloys wrapped in Toyo Proxes T1R tires. Some of us might pass on the widebody kit (which only looks necessary to accommodate those steamroller wheels), but otherwise, it looks delish.

For more on Hunziker’s 914, seek out the April issue of Sport Compact Car.

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