Yikes! Been forever and a decade since I have updated!

The glasspack is on, and fun.

I have liquidated nearly all of my 2056 screamer parts. Currently the carbs, heads, cam and lifters are on ebay.

I have installed a rear stock bar... phenomenal difference in handling!

Past friday I had 930 tierods installed, new Fuzion 195/55/15 tiars all around and a 4-wheel alignment. Better handling!

WCC06 is in 6 months, so my plans are changing for the car.

Within the next month or two I will:
-Increase displacement from 1.8L to 1911 with a 96mm P&C kit, bump the compression.
-Install a lightened flywheel (12 or 13 lbs).
-Install new chromoly pushrods.
-Install a pair of refurbed stock 2.0 heads.
-This should make for a sweet fast-revving 1911cc, still usable with my L-Jet (read: low investment cost, good power gains).
-Re-do my door panels with some GT look... smooth with only window winder and door latch.
-Weld in rear-trunk hinge console to have a closing trunk.

Within the next three to four months I will:
-Do some bodywork (new panels, fill some holes).
-Remove the wheel-well fender lips (clean-shaven).
-Change the wheel well openings from square-ish to round... who the hell makes square wheels? No need for flares (yet).
-New front and rear trunk seals ($KA-CHING$)
-Shave 200lbs by gutting my rubber bumpers, fabbing some custom aluminum mounts with a series of rivets, bolts, washers, and aluminum sheetmetal.
-PAINT IT A PRIMARY MATCHING COLOR. Contemplating a "Stripe" clone, but 2 of them with some metallic blue?

Within the next five months:
-New windshield.
-Wash it.

Alright! Finally got the glasspack on. It definitely makes a difference in the car sound-wise. I can actually hear the bass on my stereo now, and I don't have to turn it up as loud. Feels like I even picked up a bit of mid-range torque. Outside the car thought -- wow. I thought it'd be loud but DAMN... if my car were YELLOW I'd re-name it to the 'rumble bee'. I got some cheapie $5 glass-pack made by flowtech. As skline says this muffler will probably be a 10k-mile muffler at most. That means I can cut it off and weld another one on in... a year? heheh.

Probably this week after work some time I can get my T-fitting in. I'm back to the morning shift since the person who covers our front office is out on family leave. Maybe thursday afternoon when I can get the car up on jack stands, get under there, and get around there. Next week I want to put in my new pushrod tube seals and valve cover gaskets. Maybe get some heater parts by then too.

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MOAR PICSHORES PLEAZTHE.

Talked to Ron today about getting necessary heater parts. I was a tad bored this morning so I photochopped my paint scheme. It'll be metallic blue all one color, then probably get vinyl graphics for the front and rear hoods to make it green over the blue (yellow?) with my car's number on there, 122. By that time I should have the F/G hoods front and rear, and F/G bumpers front and rear. I'm still not sure if the bumpers should be black or body-matched in color. Maybe black front and rear? I think the green down the middle is a good color idea. If I don't like it, I can always take the vinyl off, right?

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So much for putting the 914 on the back-burner.

This past Saturday Aaron and I made a trip to Joe Sharp's humble abode where /L (Linda) and one914racer (Thomas) had just finished hacking a car to smithereens. I was able to get the two panels I need. The rear-driver's side fender with wheel well, and the front passenger's side sheet near the cowling and doorjamb. Now I just need to get them welded on.

When welding those up, I'll probably put my glass pack on. I aim to have the car completely primered up by mid-September/mid-October. I think I know what color scheme I want, as well. Blue fenders and doors with green down the center of the front hood, roof and rear hood. Metallic, of course. When the car is one color of matching primer I will have to photoshop different color schemes. Before I primer though, I'll need the front and rear fiberglass hoods and bumpers, which shouldn't cost too terribly much.

I'm also looking for a second job to support the addic-- er, restoration project. Time at Jay's shop has been marginal the last couple of weeks, mostly just coming by to chat or shoot the shit, or work on my own car. Not to mention the cost of living isn't going down. That would hopefully give me weekends for the car and mornings or evenings for the teener... Maybe throw some college time in there as well.

Lately the starter's been on the fritz. Solenoid issues. I hop on under there with a 28mm wrench and tap the two poles on the starter and it cranks right over. I'll re-wire the override starter switch I have tomorrow evening methinks. I need a floor jack for my car, maybe a bottle jack if it's short enough. And while I'm addressing electrical problems, maybe I should consider a new alternator??

Also I listed my fuchs on the club board here if anyone is interested. I think it's a good deal for some decent fakes. I need the cash

Updates later.

I haven't done much to the teener lately, and frankly I'm not too motivated to at the moment. The last major change I made was installing a 22mm front swaybar. The car now handles like a dream! Next Auto-X session I'll really get to play with her and see the improvement in times.

Posted on the forum here. I think the teener will be put on the back-burner for a while. I'm trying to get things going smoothly with MxMark to buy his 944. I'd like to have a much more reliable P-car to get around and such, then have the teener for fun stuff. Especially with the new engine planned. As tight as cash has been lately, I doubt spending on the teener will go up. The brake lines, glass pack and T fitting will probably be the last 'fixes' to the car for some time, while I either save for a new hood, fenders and everything needed to finish the engine and do the body work. It shouldn't cost too much to fix my front fender and rear fender. F/G isn't really an option just yet. Only the hoods are and they're not cheap.

After this last accident, I don't really want to drop another dime on this car. It would almost be money wasted since I can't afford Collision & Comprehensive insurance. Especially with this latest accident. Or maybe it's time to liquidate a LOT of un-needed stuff to evilBay and the classiffieds.

Parts coming:
I have a new glass pack coming that will go in place of the crappy muffler on my bursche exhaust as soon as it can be done. I also have a pair of front SS braided brake lines coming to replace my weeping (seeping) stock rubber lines. At the same time I install those I will install my "T" fitting for front/rear bias balancing.

I picked up my heads yesterday. Wow, Ollie's did a fabulous job. Most independant Porsche shops in SoCal use them but they're kind of expensive. Worth every penny I'd say. I doubt I'll be able to snag some pictures since I don't have a digital camera. Maybe that will be my next computer item (or a 3200 Athalon XP CPU). The rap sheet for the heads include:
-Hot-Tanked
-Valve job (48in x 38ex)
-Stainless valves (intake)
-New valve seats
-Port & Polish
-Port-Match for intake manifolds
-All chambers matched to 56cc's
-Repeaired spark-plug holes

Since I was nearby I headed down to Skline's Garage (still trying to get him a 30-minute spot on the Discovery channel). Robert was there preparing to install a new front sway bar. I believe he didn't have the reinforcement flanges from Engman so he'll be installing this friday instead. Elliot also stopped by to pick up Robert's old front spoiler and hung around for a while. Lisa and I made a 1hr lunch-run (where's In 'N Out? ) and when we got back Robert & Scott were lowering his car. After he was all done Scott helped me lower the front end on mine as well. Now it doesn't feel like a 4x4 truck I think it may be too low as I actually SCRAPED my front spoiler for once. It came down about 3.5in, maybe raise it back up an inch, half an inch at least.

While at Scott's I bought from him the 2.0L tin that I needed for the heads. Now all I have left for this new engine are some Oil lines to run to the front of the car (going to use my cooler I think, or for another day), Cam & Lifters, and Oil Relief Pistons. Then I save up the $250 or so to take my engine internals to Rimco and have them balanced, counter-weighted, and my flywheel trimmed down to 12 pounds (per Scott's reccommendation). He says at 14lbs there won't be a noticeable difference in the engine's revving up or down, at 11lbs it's fast enough to shear fan bolts, 12lbs is just right.

Off to work!

I've got all my important stuff into the apartment now (including internet connection and wireless).

This past Monday I installed my new rotors and pads. I've been breaking them in all week (0-60 quickly). I've noticed some front-wheel squealing coming back again, that's will all new front wheel bearing parts too :\ I'm thinking that because I'm missing those little steel spring cross-shaped clips up front (they broke and went away?) it's allowing the pads to move around a bit. I'll have to call Walter's this upcoming monday and see if they have 2 for the front and 2 for the rear in stock. Maybe that'll stop it. That's exactly why I changed everything before (bad squealing front and rear).

Today... already 2PM and I planned on re-attaching my rear valence which I took off to fit an older Monza exhaust on. Now I have a Bursche and want the thing on there mostly to clear space at my parents' house. I still have 5 wheels and a busted door over there I should get rid of I'll also be chopping the headrest off of my Passenger seat and re-installing that. The 911SC seats were fancy and all. Mainly I installed them because plenty of people said it was impossible to do it well. Couple dollar's worth of metal and welding and I had 2 fancy seat-rail adapters. After they're re-installed I'll just have to get my seats re-covered in cloth. I doubt I'll have the fundage available for Dr. Evil to do it before his cut-off date.

This Monday I get the tall-intakes and P&Cs from Steve. (Where's the fishy icon?). I'll be glad once I have everything needed for the top-end to be complete. Drop the intakes off at Ollie's to be portmatched... then the rest of the bottom-end... Assembly time doesn't seem too far away now. Possibly middle of next month.

Now back to more while I wait for the roommates to get back.

New headlights are now installed. Finished hooking up my oil cooler fan. Tomorrow I take my carbs to Jay. Tomorrow I install all of my new brake components. Fiberglass is sexy.
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The H4 replacements I have work very well. I think with the wiring they're set with the high-beams instead of the low-beams. I don't know of a way to tell since they're so bright. Since my car's so low I doubt it'll have an effect on anyone else anyhow. I made the final adjustments with my dad last night. He was adament that I'd get a ticket for them being too bright. "Other people will flash their hi-beams at you and stuff to let you know, or you'll get a fixit-ticket". me: "But dad... my car's so low, I doubt they'd even shine over the guy's bumper in front of me!"
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My car's PO (Jay Ward) used this car three years ago to drive up to Washington for his sister's funeral in the middle of August. To survive the trip and keep the oil temps low, he installed an oil cooler in the trunk/trans area underneath. Last November the lines running from the adapter plate to the oil cooler broke... 4-quarts per minute were leaking out. Removed the adapter and ran it all through winter-time. Re-installed it in March when the temps started getting into the mid 80s. Mid-April I put a fan on the cooler to help circulate airflow over the cooler (better than nothing) and tonight just finished the wiring to a switch (Elliot Cannon's suggestion). I'll see if I can get the car up to temp tomorrow, turn the fan on and see how it affects the cooling. When I drive down to Ollie's to pick up my heads, that will be a perfect time to see if it helps.
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The carburetors I got from Rallyman_1 (Craig) are in excellent shape. I little stained on the outside but they only have maybe 500 miles on them. First thing I did was check how tall the velocity stacks were... about 1.5 inches which will suffice. Second thing was the throttle shafts... no play. Accelerator pump, perfect shape. Jay has all the parts I need to set these carburetors up for my new engine. Now I just need a set of intakes, preferably tall. Taller the better, Ike tells me.
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After last weekend's injury it looks like I can use my wrist again. The pain's almost gone (except when it's cold). Today was the determining factor on whether or not I could use it tomorrow. Looks like I will be able to do my brakes. Then when I get the "T" fitting in I'll slap that sucker on, bleed the brakes again and have 50/50 braking. I spent most of my time on the willow springs track just figuring out how to brake and control the car without spinning ass around front or locking them up. If the T fitting is arrives tomorrow, I'll install it on Tuesday at the shop and see how it goes then.
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I've been corresponding with one of the guys (or the guy) at Rennspd who makes fiberglass parts for 914s... I aim to get fiberglass hoods and bumpers. Preferably before I do the primer paint on my car, but after I get the fenders fixed <_< The red rust spot on the front-right and the dented rear-left look horrible. Screw Maaco and Earl Scheib... time to just and some new fenders on. Problem solved, and hopefully with 0 bondo. Weight-savings would be pretty good. The late-late model heavy rubber & steel bumpers are just that... about 60lbs each i'd wager and too bulky. Take the shocks off and you've probably trimmed 150lbs altogether. Then the front and rear hoods... I'll have to drop out of the local PCA events if I want to get away with it. Just having a 2056 motor throws me from AS class to CS class. Then the weight shavings... Probably CSP or FSS. Too many points! That's before swaybars.

New H4 headlights arrived tonight. Still waiting on my P&Cs from Steve Stromberg. I dont know if they've been delivered yet -- appears someone has been rifling through our mail at my parents' house. They're getting things 2-4 days late and opened. Very peculiar. And if packages are delivered before anyone's home -- who knows.

I did it. I spent a whole hour and a half last night updating my expenditures spreadsheet. The estimated total made me want to cringe. It's like half my yearly income With the extra cash I got this year i still wouldn't accomplish that goal. I haven't even finished figuring in things like new seals, carpet, bodywork, paint etc... Maybe I should just leave the thing looking ugly as hell... or rattle can the bitch evenly and eventually paint it.

Ordered a pair of "T" fittings to replace my proportioning valve. Those Volvo calipers are sounding pretty good about now. "Summer Project" it would be, worth it? I s'pose so. More effort than it's worth? I'll know after it's done

My heads are still down at Ollie's Machine Co. in Santa Ana. Just need a pair of tall intakes to give them so they can port match everything. The bill will be large enough and definitely money well spent. In a couple years I when it comes time to freshen up... maybe I can throw some 105mm nikkies. That'd be nice. With all the work to the bottom end it should easily last 150k-200k miles. I'd expect so.

Times I wish I were rich...


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My car... or the little blue beater as I've likened it to the porsche that will never die. I've never owned one that has taken as much abuse as this car. Well, I haven't slammed this one into a telephone pole yet, but it did survive a collision.

This blog is a bit belated... I've already sunk hundreds into the car since acquisition (last august) but only lately have I begun moderate updating.

The 2056 is still being pieced together. I'm awaiting the 96mm Pistons and Cylinders (with rings) from Steve Stromberg. Supposedly shipped out Monday, i'm just impatient. My running tally on the engine is as follows:
-Case, Crank, Rods, Bearings, Flywheel: $700
-Heads: $400
-Work to Heads: $1000
-Pistons & Cylinders (with ring set): $390
-Carbs: $450

I still need a cam, lifters, oil pump, oil relief pistons, 2.0 tin, CDI unit + distributor, and the bottom end balanced/counter-weighted. I guesstimate i'll have about $3600 spent for EVERYTHING. Not to mention all the little things i just haven't been able to 'live without'... Trunk shocks, trim pieces, lenses, windshield. My $6000 is almost gone I better throw what's left into an Roth IRA before it's toast.

Work on the 914 this week has been hampered. The last thing I did was install my CAMP914 front shox and a pair of poly-urethane strut bushings from German Parts & Restoration in the front. They made a bit of difference in squishyness of the front end bouncing around. I'm sure that'll go away with all-new bushings, a front sway and new joints.

Before I go on... I have to update my XLS sheet of expenditures. Damnit. I didn't want to cry over my bank account tonight.