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Posted by: bigkensteele Nov 6 2011, 08:40 PM

I want to install a console, but I don't want to cut up my really nice original piece. I would like to find one that is already cut for a console, or one that is decent, but someone is willing to part with alone. I have a '75, so I am looking for the late pattern.

Thanks,
Ken

Posted by: Tom_T Nov 7 2011, 01:27 AM

Ken,

There's no cut for the stock console, other than at the heater lever & the heater indicator light next to it, but they occur on non-console 914s/tunnel carpet pieces. You should be able to install right over your existing OE carpet.

Posted by: bigkensteele Nov 7 2011, 11:46 PM

Tom, that is true, assuming that I don't want to screw the console down in the rear, close to the cross-member. Granted, that would be a rather tiny hole, but then I also need to connect the console wiring harness to the existing wires in the tunnel. Are the factory wires long enough to go from the connections near the shifter, to the front most part of the carpet and then back to the gauges? Looking at the console right now, I have to say that it is a toss-up.

PS - PM works better for me during the week, as I am not occupying anywhere and actually work.

Thanks,
Ken

Posted by: bigkensteele Nov 21 2011, 06:05 PM

Surely, somebody has a decent one...