this went missing after the WCC in LA....today I found it...

I will take it over to my supplier to have the Durometer hardness testing done (I really should invest in my own but they are about $1000) and pick up some materials tomorrow. Then I have to cast a internal mold of it. Then split it into two and cast a top and bottom of both halfs. If everything goes well the first one should be ready by Saturday. Being a small item I should make several molds so I can mix a average batch of material to make a few at a time.

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So a couple weeks ago it was noted that the 914 gas pedal was NLA, but a 911 one would fit with some modifcations. I looked online and they are $65 to $85. So having just taken one off the parts car I'm stripping I decided to take a look at it today because it was raining and I couldn't work on the V8 car.

First I washed it with a degreaser and then scrubed it with a soft brush to remove any grease or dirt that would be attached. Then let it dry. The pedals rust from the inside out because Porsche didn't use stainless or plated metal parts inside the rubber it's coated with. It's basicly a strap hinge that angles to the right with a rubber coating. Simple.... (famous last words)

So I spent a rainy day looking for hinge manufactures on line to see if I could match the hinge part. After about the tenth manufactures site I know a lot more about hinges but I couldn't find a match. A lot of them offer custom services but I probably don't want to order 10,000 pieces to sit on for the rest of my life.

The upright part of the pedal is a rubber coated piece of metal. The metal part has stamped ridges in the midle running half the length of the piece and it has formed edges. Both of these features add strength to the part so it dosen't bend when stepped on.

I have some ideas as how to make these but it will take awhile before I can.

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black 74 roller

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Polar Region

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Sad day........last year when I went to Indy for the FFC I hooked up with a couple (Sassy & BBQ) that I had been talking to on line for a couple years. They had met online and got married a few years before.

We met on the Sunday while eveyone else was doing the twisty tour. I drove up to Indy and met them at the Indy track. Sassy's dad was Jim Bryan and he won the Indy 500 in 1958. We spent a very pleasent day together going thru the museum and looking at many of the cars her dad had driven while racing. It was like being with old friends that you don't get to see very often. We even stopped and looked at a 914 that was forsale near the airport.

I talked to Sassy about 2 weeks ago. She and BBQ had just got back from vacation in South Carolina and she was complaining she had a cold for the last week that she couldn't shake.

I just got word that she got sick over the weekend and was taken into hospital and passed away yesterday.

A very nice person who left us far too early.......

Dinner tonight.....roast chicken breast

per-heat oven to 350

place chicken on a tray or pan, season with peper and salt

chop up Roma tomatoes, fresh garlic and crumble feta cheeze into mix

spread mix on top of chicken

bake for 45 min to 1 hr or till tomatoes start to brown

Call kids for supper....opps they went out....throw leftovers in garbage....screw them

Just got back from the farm.....pics of the red car

News tonight....I live in the Murder capital of Canada and the car theft capital too...were number #1

Just bought that other piece of equipment. Figured by the time it gets here I'll have the bugs worked out and need it. Hope the weather warms up so I can use it.

So the left side marker lens and the seal for the side markers came out of their molds today. Both are NLA.

Lets just say I have to redo the casting for the lens and re try the seal. The lens mold looked good at first glance, but the mold has a few irregularities that I want to elliminate before I start producing them forsale.

I might have to make a new master for the seal as the one good one I have is not that great. I'll try casting it again and see if the new equipment makes a difference. If not there is another expensive piece of equipment that I can get to reduce the gases.

The mold for the airbox seals will be finished tonight and the trial seal should be ready 16 hrs later.