On its way !

If I had to do it again, I would brace the vertical members on the rotisserie. I suppose it was fine for a short trip, but I was really nervous.

And back at home.

The Ravenna green car is now stripped and the tub should be picked up by my buyer on Wednesday. The conda green tub is ready to roll into the garage.

The body man said he may be ready to take the car back in a couple of weeks, which is much quicker than I thought. Doing two trips may not have been necessary, then, but at least I can now start dealing with a number of things, since the inside is painted.

Michel

All excited, and I started putting the wring through. First thing is to feed the trunk that goes to the rear of the car through the center tunnel, from the very front of the tunnel.
Here I'm feeding it. You don't see my kind daughter on the other side, gently pulling. We put a messenger on the multi-wire plug that goe to the relay board, and that helped a lot.

Main trunk to the rear in place.

Time to go watch some football !

Damn, (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)

It look so nice and clean, why dont you just leave it like that and put it in display in your livingroom ?

Ravenna green car is gone !

Mike Galloway from Ontario came and got it today, with a tow dolly. It was pouring rain.

He showed up at my house when I was still at the office and it was 15 - 20 minutes before I could make it home. House was empty. Mike started preparing the 914 for the tow, as it was in the driveway. A neighbor called the cops ! and they arrived promptly. I was there a few minutes later, showed id, and all was settled. There was a house that was robed a few years ago on my street, thieves showed up with a moving truck.

Oh well.

In any event, had a good time with the Ravenna green teener, even if I did not have it very long. It made two ECRs.

Here's Mike towing it home, I'm taking the picture on my way back to the office.

Made a bit of progress on the wiring: I installed the fuse panel. I can't figure out where the two big red wires that are hanging connect to. Any ideas ?

Oh, and I realized that I fed the wiring bundle that goes to th rear wrong. It should go above the very front part of the center tunnel. Means I have to pull it out and re-feed it.

I'm sure it's not the last time I have to re-do a job.

Really nice work Michel. Keep the pictures coming they are inspiring.

I started a separate thread to find help figuring out what was what with the red wires and got these very good responses:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=...f=2&t=40080&hl=

Then, I was not able to find the appropriate part in my stash, so I decided to make one. I found a piece of hard rubber at one of the good local hardware stores and managed to machine these pieces:

The picture is not the best, but the parts can be seen better here, as installed:

The bracket that's painted green is the one that holds the fuse panel to the tub.

I then started to look at the wiring to the steering column and quickly hit a roadblock when I looked at the wiper stalk connections. I started another thread and quickly resolved the issue, with some generous help.

See:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=...=ST&f=2&t=40446

I put the steel sub-dash in, today. I used contact cement to glue the dash material on, then used a very sharp kitchen nife to open holes in the material (I managed to get the knife back in the kitchen before I got into any trouble). Here's how it looks:

In the previous shot, you may notice a gray splotch in the passenger footwell: I managed to get some work done on the remaining "tub" issues. More on that tomorrow. Also, the switch buttons for the fog lights and the driving ligths are not correct for a 914/6.

I replaced them with what I believe are the correct itmes a few minutes after taking the previous shot. Here's a close-up.

The ignition switch installation is still temporary. The final installation can only be made after the steering column is in.

Awesome work, keep it up! It's guys like you that make guys like me look bad! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)

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You didnt get the factory dash tin facia pieces and 2 eyebrow plastic pieces that fit around steering colum?
Just wondering incase there in a box.

Jeff,

I was wondering about the facia, but no, I don't have the tin pieces. I think I have the eyebrow pieces kicking around somewhere, though. There is quite a gap in the dashboard, and in my simple mind the gap was going to be covered by the "eyebrow pieces". Guess I'm going to have to figure something out.

Please keep the comments coming, your help is invaluable.

In any event, I got a lot of welding done today, and the "tub" issues are now pretty much taken care of. I welded rear swaybar mounts: