Picked this one up from Jeff on the site. Color changed car, cool color though. I think it's a factory color? I had a 1968 911L that I swear was exactly the same color as this.
1974 2.0 with really little dual carbs.
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This car hasn't been on the road since 1998. It needs a lot, brakes, engine/trans pulled, hell hole etc. But hey, it's what I can afford and overall in good shape. I can't wait to get started.
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"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"
Dan, I knew it wouldn't take too long. Keep us updated.
T.C.
What carbs are on there and what are your plans for the carbs?
JOEM here is looking for some small carbs for a 1.7....
He may go to FI, but like all of us he is looking for the cheapest route to driving his car...
Rich
Welcome back, Dan (not that you really ever left). Looking forward to watching the progress!
Sweet!
There is a guy here in PDX parting out a 944...
If you can make arrangements, I can bring the roof up this Sunday
Hey dan here are some piics of the flares I asked you about
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74 2.0 L nice car!
How long were you teenerless Dan? Couldn't have been more than a couple of months?
Welcome to the fourbanger club! , just don't forget to much about the sixes , I'm gonna need your help.
I was out of a 914 for about a month total. Doing a bunch of side Porsche jobs and getting a good deal from Jeff H(Sixnotfour) allowed me to obtain said 914.
The carbs are pretty much brand new and are 34's I believe. Little small for a 2.0. I will go back to FI at some point but would certianly entertain swapping around carbs for someone if these will work better or even just sell them. They seem to run great so I think it'd be a bolt on, tune and go affair.
Still gotta finish up the Duc 914-6 project. We've been out of town for a couple of days so time to get back to work this weekend. More pics to follow!
BTW - Thanks Jeff, I teased him about not being able to get deliver or me pick up the car on 9-14. He called I think around 10:45PM saying he was on his way. Hah! Too funny! He made it with I think 25 minutes to spare. It was cool!
Congrats Dan ! Looking forward to following this project.
you mentioned a gauge package ?
BTW did I give you the correct Title ?
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Jeff, yup, got it all transfered over on Wednesday.
Well, money would say leave the car mostly alone. I have a set of dual Solex 40's from a 912 with correct manifolds. The little ICT's are gone. If I can actually refrian for just a moment Put things back together I can just drive it for a while and actually enjoy the car.
Once Duc's 914 is out of the garage, I'll get cranking on this one and post pics.
Tony - The engine in the picture above is Duc's 3.2 for his yellow 914 in another thread.
I keep eyeballing the Rover 3.5/215 V8 thread. Dangit! Gotta stop doing that.
I love that color. I am glad you are back in the game Dan!
Power plant out...
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Sweet custom battery tray and hell hole repair. Lots of tar and glob welding.
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Assume the position!
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Out with the previous fix...
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Cut out a bunch of the long, just kept and kept cutting out the rust. Pretty much a see-through frame system now.
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Look, you can see right through!
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Got all soft stuff cut out. This week starts up the
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Dan, your a real cut up . good work .
Thanks! It won't take me long to get this all squared away. I already have an Engman inner long kit I'll install at the same time as well.
First things first, I gotta get my tank exchanged on the welder. The Duc project used up the last little bit that was in there. More progress photos to come this week hopefully.
Dan, when you're cutting small sections of the longs out, do you use the door braces?
-- Rob
Using 2 different gauge steels, this one is for a patch in the floor pan.
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It'll go somewhere around..... here.
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It may not be pretty, but all the cancer around here is gone and it's really strong now.
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I still have much to do inside the engine/hell hole area. My welds got a little bloby, got tired. Might grind out a little of it.... eh, probably not. It's sealed and strong.
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Good work Dan!
I am beginning to think that all 914's get purchased below the 20k price (and even then some), go home, go on jackstands, get welded on and then driven.
Oh my freakin rust-o-messy-rust-flakes! All done!
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The easy side.
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The Engman kit is installed as well. I personally think ALL 914's should have this kit installed that are to remain open top cars or cars that will not have full roll cages.
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Nice work Dan. Hope to see that car next year over at the AX's.
Tom
lookin mighty fine danny boy!!!!
when your ready...i am rolling harlot to your shop for some flares
There is a lot that was done this weekend. Brakes are all working (car sat for 10 years), engine/trans hung. I wound up picking up a FI setup from Rich locally so I am setting the 914 back up for that. Front/rear valances on.
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I welded up holes in the bumpers today and am prepping those for paint. Should have bumpers back on in a few days.
Had to free up ALL e-brake stuff. Ugh, sitting for a decade doesn't help. Works perfect now.
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Looking good Dan! A couple more weekends & you'll be on the road. Be nice to drive a teener again heh? Keep up the good work & thanks again for your help this weekend
Worked on it pretty late last night and got everything all hooked up. Tossed in a battery and the fuel pump actually primed like it should. I worked the key and let it prime a few times, no leaks, another yeah since the first couple of FI pumps did leak. Thanks to Rich D. for letting me come over and snag the one off his parts car, guess we should have just grabbed that one with the original FI stuff anyway.
Battery wound up being way too dead to turn over the engine. I have it at work with me on a charger.
So no more carbs, FI off of Rich's 76' 2.0 parts car. I did buy a new CHT and fuel pressure regulator. Hopefully things like the injectors are still good. I'll wait until after I get the car fired off, but I'll replace all other sensors, the TPS and injector points. Another $300 in parts, but it'll be worth it. I am hoping to keep just above that 30mpg mark.
Oh yeah, off with the rivs and on with the Mahles! Picked up a set of 5 from Rich's parts car as well.
Starting to get excited about driving a teener again! Maybe this weekend?
They are Solex P11-4's and in VERY good shape. They were taken appart and cleaned by an aircraft mechanic but not completely re-assembled. I got most of both back together-preset one of the floats etc. Shafts are tight, NO wear on the throats where the butterflies touch at all. Jetted for a 100hp 912 motor.
I have Brand new K&N's, linkage and manifolds for 2.0 or 1.7-1.8 Type 4. PM me if interested. Need a little finishing up which I could do if you like. I also have a good parts list/diagram.
40mm with 32 vents, 1.1's and .07's I believe? Should be just about right for a 2.0 engine. 1.8 or 1.7 might be a little much.
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Sorry guys, no new pics, I promise soon.
Car runs perfect. Putting the FI back on was a real PITA! Thanks to Rich D. for selling me the FI from his parts car and then bugging him for fuel pumps until we found one that didn't leak.
Also thanks to Jeff H. for letting me borrow his MPS. Geoff is making one for me so you'll have yours back soon.
Put in a new tinted rear window yesterday, painted the bumpers, did more de-rusting etc. The car is pretty much ready to go except for an air cleaner top. It'll be nice to drive a 914 again.
It sounds really good, fires right up.
Oh yeah, put on my CAMP driving lights I have had sitting around for like 3 years.
good news ,
I am going to storage for keys and air cleaner today .
Pics! The running engine in and waiting to drive.
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Those cool CAMP914 driving lights. Notice the touch up under the front bumper area. Cleaned up anything that even hinted it could ever BE rust and slathered it. Heck, I'm so close, the rear wheels are on!
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Bumpers painted, still a little fresh.
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Cool driving light grills painted as well.
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Looking good Dan. I can't wait to see it on the road.
Pretty much done with the 914 now. I went to put the engine lid back on and forgot about the rear latch thingie that was broken. PO used screws, it worked, but I went for welding it back on.
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All bumpers and valances back on. Spent time today putting interior back in.
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Just before the engine lid was re-installed.
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Interior back together finally. Couple of loose ends, the wipers didn't work, driving lights dead etc, etc. Mostly stuff from the car sitting for 10 years. I had forgotten that I haven't driven the car yet. Jeff drove it over and I started working on it the following week. So I have to work out all the bugs that go with a car that's been sitting for a decade still.
Still, it runs and drives great. I won't drive it much until I get my 2.0 ECU from my evil-Bay auction. You can tell it is running a little lean. The AAR doesn't work either. I had to cap it to get the idle down.
Little things. But it's fixed (Rust) and complete again. I'll try to take a money shot later this week.
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Great work it all look nice. Congrats
Dan, great to see it road ready, there's more were that came from, with less rust. think 1.8 for real MPG
You guys kill me. Are you trying to own every 914 out there at some point in your life
Looks very nice Dan
yup, white /yellow/white/green is the sales order
I wish I could afford the sorta lime green car. Now that would be something.
Fatastic Thread!
I learned allot.
Thank you!
Looking good!!
Wife comes home last night and I am tinkering in the garage on the purple car:
Wife “Watcha’ doing?”
“Just tinkering, hey let's take the purple car for a short drive and grab some dinner.” (Really nice out)
“Sure”
We settle in and start off down the neighborhood. I am explaining to her about my super awesome stainless steel heater boxes since all VW based air cooled cars heaters really never work, mine do! Just pulled onto the main drag that goes around the lake as I reach down to pull the little heater lever up I utter those famous little words:
“Watch this!”
No sooner do I pull the little lever up and glorious heat starts to fill the cabin area the car dies.
As I am pushing the car to the shoulder my wife is asking what is the matter with it?
“It’s easy!”
Wound up being a simple fuse, but oh boy I cracked myself up. I couldn’t believe I actually said “Watch this!” and then have the car die.
I thought "Watch this" was supposed to be preceded by "Here, hold my beer".
Classic!
Watch This!
Dam I miss that 914.
It looks great T.C. and glad you wound up with it. Even after all the stiffening I have done to the purple 914 I have now, it's not even close to having the closed roof.
I love the rims!
I have always liked that car but wow those rims make it look amazing.
Can I have them
Hi T.C.
Thanks Jon and Happy Birthday.
I'm hoping the car will be in the Paint Booth before the end of the year.
T.C.
Almost there (I keep saying that). I spent mucho many hours re-keying everything except the glove box and front trunk locks. It was a mess of little tumbler waffers and spare door handles etc everywhere for a couple of days. Jeff never could find the key so I took one I had and modified it a little. Then played musical waffers until I got a perfect match. PITA, but I guess my locks have been keyed as new sort of since the key I have (Worn) is new to the waffers. Got both doors, rear trunk and ignition.
I also got my late (75-76) 2.0FI ECU last night and put that on with an 043MPS. I wasn't really impressed. It isn't running 100% for sure when driving. It also won't idle down. I am thinking I am still running too lean. Smooth lower revs, nothing up top, won't idle down. All the signs are there of running lean with the exception of poping. I could also have gummed up injectors. I spaced getting them cleaned before running the engine.
I'll get pics up. I plan on going home hopefully before dark today and doing some more tuning.
do you want to try a 74' ECU? which 043 did you try? epoxy or no epoxy?
k
The Epoxy one last night. For testing, I still have Jeff H's 049 MPS which IS for a 76' 052 ECU and know it works. I'll probably pop that back in today just to get a baseline. According to the charts on rennlist (D-Jet charts) an 043 should be okay with 74' and up 2.0 ECU's.
Maybe not though?
The epoxied one could be bad?
It ran and drove fine last night, just was really down on power.
uuuhhhhmmmm.....L-JET!!!!!!!!!!
you'd be done 2 weeks ago!
Driving it now! It made the 30.4 mile drive to work this morning. Did rather well. I goofed up on setting the timing so I'll have to go back and tweak that a little.
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I have a set of factory Mahles for it. I just need to source a couple of 205/60/15 tires. I'm pretty much out of play money until Christmas is over so I'll be looking for tire deals.
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I know where that parking lot is
Good to see it out on the road Dan.
many long hours of work and now driving it! way cool Dan!
Glad it's up and driving. Good Job Dan
T.C.
Thanks guys. What you cannot really see in the pictures are the little things still wrong with it. Cracks in the windshield, both little side markers have the mounting tabs broken. Little things.
Drive home last night was good, but bad. Rained like crazy! Hard rain. 914 did well though. Dang lucky I got the wipers working. Heater kept things clear and the fresh air blower kept it from getting too hot. Other than my not having the FI/Timing 100% yet (stop and go was a little anoying) it did well.
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All right Dan. Back in the saddle! Just in time for the soggy season.
Dontcha just love peering through the fog of road spray to see the bumpers and taillights above you?
Brings up a good point. I installed a tinted safety glass for the rear window and man I love it! Really cuts down on the headlights giving the back of my neck a tan.
This weekend I'll be working on shoring up some of the little stuff. Anyone local got some good side markers? Man, I must have tossed a dozen out over my life so far.
Dan,
I just sold my amber side markers off about a week ago. Sorry.
Your car looks great!
Post your needs list and I am sure the PNW folks can hook you up!
Nate
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