Papa Smurf winter project thread, ...or...just a shameless excuse to show some pictures Options

[naro914]

So I got to thinking....there are soooo many wires and stuff in a 914 that are not needed for a race car....not to mention the sound deadening 'tar' on the floors. Also, every time I took a picture of the inside of Papa Smurf, I realized how ugly it looked. I decided that one of my 2009/2010 winter projects is to scrape the floors, pull out all the wiring, cut all wire harness tabs, brackets, etc, and take out whatever is not necessary. Sounds easy when you're sitting around with a beer, or at the track.

So, a few weeks ago I started. first picture is as it ended the 2009 track season: see the 'glue' on the firewall, and rust in the doors? You can also barely see how bad the floors look.

[naro914]

believe it or not...I had paint made up and put into spray cans. You can get it at any Keystone Automotive or I'm told Carquest will do it to. Figured it was the interior of a race car. Once seats are in, you won't see much of it anyway....

I am taking out some of the dash too, forgot to mention that. Can't figure out how to get the lower dash out without destroying it because of the roll cage in the way, and the vent ducts are still there. No reason to take the top of the dash off - doesn't weigh much and keeps it clean looking for now.

Putting in an ignition switch and button, guages are up on the dash in one of the pics, need a few switches for cool suit (currently and probably staying as the fog light switch you see left of steering wheel)