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Posted by: IronHillRestorations Oct 28 2021, 07:12 AM

Just kidding about this being my favorite thing to do on 914. Got the ventilation control, flapper boxes and fresh air blower housing installed. In all the years working on 914’s this was the easiest install of this system I’ve ever done. It still took nearly all day, including cleaning the cables and adjusting everything. I used to say that dealing with dead gasoline was my #1 least favorite job, #2 (pun intended) is the ventilation system in the front trunk. The early blower housing without the plastic grill does make it a little easier. This is #2178 that’s a full bare metal, rotisserie, resto-mod.

Posted by: Shivers Oct 28 2021, 08:18 AM

Looks nice

Posted by: Tdskip Oct 28 2021, 08:47 AM

Looks SUPER nice.

Posted by: JmuRiz Oct 28 2021, 08:48 AM

Nice, want to visit NoVA and help with mine....I wasn't planning on tearing mine apart, but that looks sooooo good!

Posted by: mepstein Oct 28 2021, 08:49 AM

Looks great.

Posted by: Root_Werks Oct 28 2021, 08:57 AM

Looks great!

I'll be doing similar I hope someday.

Posted by: gms Oct 28 2021, 08:58 AM

looks like it is on the original assembly line!

Posted by: Jett Oct 28 2021, 09:21 AM

Great work. Where did you get the longer passenger side paper hose?

Posted by: 914Sixer Oct 28 2021, 09:29 AM

URO makes the tubing in (330cm) long pieces. They make it in dark tan for early cars and light for late cars.

Posted by: rhodyguy Oct 28 2021, 10:10 AM

Clean install. Did you paint the car?

Posted by: Dion Oct 28 2021, 10:31 AM

Beautiful. Concourse worthy!

Posted by: NARP74 Oct 28 2021, 10:34 AM

Working in those conditions is always my favorite way to work. Sadly in my case, it's not going to happen. Your pics did show me what I am up against though, thanks for that.

Posted by: Ansbacher Oct 28 2021, 10:59 AM

Fantastic work, bravo! I'm so glad someone finally posted a picture of what the ventilation guts look like. Any chance of adding a few more pics from different angles? I'll be facing this job too someday.

Ansbacher

Posted by: IronHillRestorations Oct 28 2021, 12:08 PM

@http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=378
I painted the secondary surfaces; bottom of the car, wheel houses, trunks, and cabin. I had a body shop do the exterior https://youtu.be/Zsn6niCwAh8

Posted by: barefoot Oct 28 2021, 02:04 PM

Hope you verified that the wipers work OK first

Posted by: willieg Oct 28 2021, 03:02 PM

Just when I am feeling good about the neatness of my frunk, along comes the picture above.

Posted by: IronHillRestorations Oct 28 2021, 03:10 PM

The motor works, I tested it before install. It's a 6 so there's no good options if the motor fails.

Posted by: Cairo94507 Oct 29 2021, 07:41 AM

That looks great Perry.

Posted by: PCH Oct 29 2021, 09:57 AM

Beautiful!!