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> Father son, 73 Porsche 914, What to do?
Beesonjohn94
post Oct 25 2015, 08:11 PM
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My father and I bought this white 73 Porsche 914 that has some rust issues but we bought it as a running driving car. It had a leaking Trany, fixed that and some other little thing but nothing major till we had some oil leak on the exhaust and cause quiet a smoke out. So we decided to pull the engine and trans, as well as further inspect the car for rust. The major amount is in the rear trunk, which was fiberglassed over to hide the rust, as well as on the passenger side rear pan all around the jacking donut and this car was equipped with a aftermarket a/c setup so the front trunk pan has a large cut into it. My ideas consist of doing a Subaru swap with renegade hybrids kit and going with a EJ257 motor. My fathers has the idea of taking the car completely down to bare metal and repaint the car. I am willing to live with the paint it has, the car does have some bondo on the passenger side front fender. We do plan on take our stock motor apart and regasketing it at the least, we don't if it's a 2.0 or not but it does have dual weber carbs. So I ask the world for your wisdom and guidance in this project, we have beefing looking at restoration design.com to buy our metal parts from.


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post Oct 25 2015, 08:14 PM
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post Oct 25 2015, 08:26 PM
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post Oct 25 2015, 08:27 PM
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post Oct 25 2015, 08:29 PM
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Here you can see in the fender well where they punched it out to put a/c dryer in.Attached Image
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post Oct 25 2015, 08:30 PM
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post Oct 25 2015, 08:31 PM
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post Oct 25 2015, 08:33 PM
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The car did come with all 5 Fuchs.Attached Image
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post Oct 25 2015, 08:36 PM
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Over the past weekend we did take out all the a/c components and the seats and backrest. As well as the rear trunk lid, and Attached Imagethe rocker panels.
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post Oct 25 2015, 08:54 PM
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well, I hope you can weld. You have some floor pan replacement in your future. Looks like this was an ac car....rd makes a patch panel for that
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post Oct 25 2015, 09:06 PM
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Yes it was a a/c car. Question though, could I utilize this cut out area for a radiator install if I went with a water cooled engine?
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post Oct 25 2015, 09:13 PM
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That rust will be deeper than it looks and your RD shopping list will look a little like this: inner rocker, inner long, floorpan, wheelhouse, engine compartment long, inner firewall, outer firewall, threshold sill...

Ask me how I know...
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post Oct 25 2015, 09:38 PM
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How do you know? From experience I am presuming, we already do have a RD list which consists of the outer rocker panels, rear trunk pan, quarter rear pan, jacking donut and the corner cross member connecting the two pieces. And the front trunk pan is up in the air at the moment.
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