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Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 09:33 PM
Today I got out in the garage and installed the harness bar and harness. Last week I replaced the seats. The ones that I bought for the car were cool, but the way they sat on the rails made them very hard to see out.
Old Seats:
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Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 09:35 PM
I replaced them with a set of stock seats that I had redone by the same interior shop that did the rest of the interior.
New Seats:
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Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 09:37 PM
Learned the hard way... pay to have interior matched to the seats. Find out seats suck for daily driver. Pay to have stock seats matched to rest of interior.... 
Here's the driver's seat with the harness:
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Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 09:39 PM
I also removed the 22mm torsion bars from the front end and reinstalled stock 4 cylinder torsion bars in an attempt to cure my understeer problem. I get to find out next weekend at the PCA AX.
I installed my NOS right hand mirror.
Mirror Pict:
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Posted by: mcbain77 Mar 19 2006, 09:45 PM
what are you doing with the "old" seats . . . 
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 09:46 PM
Already sold locally. Sorry....
Posted by: mcbain77 Mar 19 2006, 09:48 PM
i must say that regardless of the comfort level, the piping on the seats really completes the look. Excellent taste.
Posted by: KaptKaos Mar 19 2006, 09:49 PM
What kind of steering wheel is that?
Posted by: iamchappy Mar 19 2006, 09:50 PM
Your seats look soooooo nice. They remind me of Tron.
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 09:52 PM
| QUOTE (KaptKaos @ Mar 19 2006, 09:49 PM) |
| What kind of steering wheel is that? |
That is a NOS 914 /6 leather wheel. The center is from a 68 912, but its the same center used on the 914/6 GT. It keeps me from honking at pylons when autocrossing.
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 09:53 PM
| QUOTE (iamchappy @ Mar 19 2006, 09:50 PM) |
| Your seats look soooooo nice. They remind me of Tron. |
I like 'em.
Posted by: Aaron Cox Mar 19 2006, 09:58 PM
| QUOTE (ClayPerrine @ Mar 19 2006, 08:46 PM) |
| Already sold locally. Sorry.... |
man.....
looks good regardless
Posted by: KaptKaos Mar 19 2006, 10:01 PM
| QUOTE (ClayPerrine @ Mar 19 2006, 07:52 PM) | ||
That is a NOS 914 /6 leather wheel. The center is from a 68 912, but its the same center used on the 914/6 GT. It keeps me from honking at pylons when autocrossing. |
You telling me that I can use an early 911/912 horn button with my stock wheel? If so, that's awesome and I am now looking for a horn button!!!
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 10:04 PM
| QUOTE (KaptKaos @ Mar 19 2006, 10:01 PM) | ||||
You telling me that I can use an early 911/912 horn button with my stock wheel? If so, that's awesome and I am now looking for a horn button!!! |
The three prong back is for the early wheel with the insert contact to coonect the horn button. If you get one and want to use it on the later cars with the wire to connect the horn button, you will have to change the three prong back for one with the little tab for the wire. Otherwise they are the same.
I didn't have to change it, as I am using the 911 column, and the insert contact.
I still need to clean it up and polish the rim.
Posted by: Aaron Cox Mar 19 2006, 10:04 PM
| QUOTE (KaptKaos @ Mar 19 2006, 09:01 PM) | ||||
You telling me that I can use an early 911/912 horn button with my stock wheel? If so, that's awesome and I am now looking for a horn button!!! |
bring money LOL!!!
an original 914GT didnt have "wings" on the center horn button, like early 911/912 ones that had the "winglets" on em....
hard to 'splain w/o pics
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 10:08 PM
| QUOTE (iamchappy @ Mar 19 2006, 09:50 PM) |
| Your seats look soooooo nice. They remind me of Tron. |
Thanks again... Betty is sitting here looking at this thread, and she is busy harassing me about my interior looking like tron. Now I am going to hear about it for the next few weeks!!!
If I ever see you, I am going to
and 
and 
you!!!!!Posted by: mcbain77 Mar 19 2006, 10:13 PM
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Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 10:14 PM
Better pict of the dash and steering wheel...
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Posted by: Aaron Cox Mar 19 2006, 10:14 PM
ROFL!!!!
piping is for the ricers...
looks good regardless of what i think.
(btw - do you have to scoot the seat further forward to reach the pedals? LOL )
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 10:16 PM
| QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Mar 19 2006, 10:14 PM) |
| (btw - do you have to scoot the seat further forward to reach the pedals? LOL ) |
Yep.. all the way against the front stop. Makes it easy to find the correct adjustment point, and I get extra storage space behind the driver's seat.
Tall people have LESS storage space inside a 914.
Posted by: Aaron Cox Mar 19 2006, 10:19 PM
| QUOTE (ClayPerrine @ Mar 19 2006, 09:16 PM) | ||
Yep.. all the way against the front stop. Makes it easy to find the correct adjustment point, and I get extra storage space behind the driver's seat. Tall people have LESS storage space inside a 914. |
we have plenty of room under our knees.....
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 19 2006, 10:38 PM
| QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Mar 19 2006, 10:19 PM) | ||||
we have plenty of room under our knees..... |
But a sudden application of the brakes and all that :shit: you have stored under your knees ends up under the pedals.
Therefore......... shorter people are safer drivers!!
Posted by: type47fan Mar 19 2006, 11:49 PM
| QUOTE (ClayPerrine @ Mar 19 2006, 09:14 PM) |
| Better pict of the dash and steering wheel... |
. . .a 912 horn button, like yours, sold on evilbay today for $360.00! The winged ones have been selling for between $100 and $200 during the past month. . . .
. . .noticed that your dash clock reads: "9:14". . . .
Posted by: McMark Mar 20 2006, 01:43 AM
And your odometer reads 137322
Which conveniently is
-(1-3)+7 = 9
(3-2) = 1
2 = 2
I'm dumb.
Posted by: Dr. Roger Mar 20 2006, 02:13 AM
wow clay,
i think that a really nice touch on detailing your dash.
but kinda' trippy effect on the seats. LOL.
to each his or her own.
didn't know you have a 6... ?
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 20 2006, 07:43 AM
| QUOTE (type47fan @ Mar 19 2006, 11:49 PM) | ||
. . .a 912 horn button, like yours, sold on evilbay today for $360.00! The winged ones have been selling for between $100 and $200 during the past month. . . . . . .noticed that your dash clock reads: "9:14". . . . |
I paid 20.00 for the whole 912 steering column with the wheel and horn button out of a local wrecking yard.
Oh.. and you missed the white pointer. It points at the 6.
Posted by: tdsmoonchild Mar 20 2006, 07:58 AM
| QUOTE (ClayPerrine @ Mar 20 2006, 07:43 AM) |
| I paid 20.00 for the whole 912 steering column with the wheel and horn button out of a local wrecking yard. |
What local wrecking yard has porsche stuff? I'm in Duncanville.
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 20 2006, 08:05 AM
In Fort Worth there is a wrecking yard that occasionally gets some Porsche stuff. I happened to be there when the 912 came in. But that was years ago.
All Import on Elliot Reeder road.
BTW.. are you coming to Talahina?
Posted by: iamchappy Mar 20 2006, 08:23 AM
Clay ( Tron comment ) wasn't meant to be a dig. I do like your interior. The Tron thing just popped into my head.
Posted by: mcbain77 Mar 20 2006, 08:30 AM
What kind of seats are the "old seats"? Are they 914 sport seats like from Camp? LeMans?
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 20 2006, 09:30 AM
| QUOTE (iamchappy @ Mar 20 2006, 08:23 AM) |
| Clay ( Tron comment ) wasn't meant to be a dig. I do like your interior. The Tron thing just popped into my head. |
You got Betty started. Now she wants me to put glowing lights under the car so I can look like "Tron".
Its not your fault. She does this all the time.
But I do
her!!
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 20 2006, 09:31 AM
| QUOTE (mcbain77 @ Mar 20 2006, 08:30 AM) |
| What kind of seats are the "old seats"? Are they 914 sport seats like from Camp? LeMans? |
They are Koenig 914 seats. They are not for people with wide hips. I am a short, skinny little ba$tard, and I fit snugly in the seats.
If they had fit the tracks better, I would have kept them. But I couldn't see out the right rear sitting in the car.
Posted by: Lawrence Mar 20 2006, 10:08 AM
| QUOTE (ClayPerrine @ Mar 20 2006, 05:30 PM) |
| You got Betty started. Now she wants me to put glowing lights under the car so I can look like "Tron". |
Dude, you'd have to grow like 16 inches to be Tron!
Besides, I think those early 80s Trans-Am seat covers are very retro! If you like them... good for you! Don't listen to what other people say!
(Not that there's anything wrong with that...
)-Rusty
Posted by: ClayPerrine Mar 20 2006, 11:20 AM
| QUOTE (Lawrence @ Mar 20 2006, 10:08 AM) | ||
Dude, you'd have to grow like 16 inches to be Tron! Besides, I think those early 80s Trans-Am seat covers are very retro! If you like them... good for you! Don't listen to what other people say! (Not that there's anything wrong with that... )-Rusty |
Be nice...
Remember, I know where your six and your PURPLE 914 are stored.
Posted by: Lawrence Mar 20 2006, 12:25 PM
You must have mistaken me for someone else... I own an aubergine car!
Posted by: tdsmoonchild Mar 20 2006, 07:10 PM
| QUOTE (ClayPerrine @ Mar 20 2006, 08:05 AM) |
| BTW.. are you coming to Talahina? |
What is Talahina?
Posted by: Joseph Mills Mar 20 2006, 07:54 PM
He means TALIMENA 1...
See the announcement nailed at the top of the garage home page.
Lotsa drivin' in the mountains 
Lotsa 
and 
in the parking lot.
Real cheap too.
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