Love affair from the start, Build thread... She's a runnin! Options

[tscrihfield]

So .... here is the story. While in high school I received a job offer by a really nice guy to work in a Restoration/Body shop "Bennetts Rod Shop" in West Alexandria Ohio. I took it of course because I was an automotive student at a vocational school and could leave half a day early to go to work! So anyway while i was there I helped build a 1970 914-6 into a GT clone.
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So this car inspired me GREATLY! I had to have one of my own... While working there I also got the opportunity to restore a 356 and do work on an old Nash, Also worked on a 70 VW Bus Limo! That was cool. My main job was fabrication, so I learned a ton while I was there!

In the Spring of 2008 I was getting married so I thought what better present to myself than to buy a 914 to restore. I had just bought a Garage (Just so happened to have a house on the same property...) so I finally had room to work. I bought a 74 sight unseen was told it had 38,000 Org miles and I thought... Well this couldn't go wrong... Little did I know it was a basket case.
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Despite the look from this angle... It was a hunk of junk! Seriously it had rusted the rear suspension out! So this summer after working on the old bodies engine (building a 2.0 based engine) for the past year or so I decided this body just aint gonna do it. So....
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Yup I cut it in half! Tried to salvage what I could from it (which wasn't much) and move on. Then last month I found a nice donor for my new car... I knew that I wanted flares and have every intention on basing it on the car I had once completed. So My parents, Wife and I took a small vacation in Niagra Falls New York and just so happened to be that a 74 914 was for sale near there! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)
Here it is loading on the trailer...
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And My first picture with it... Not many have one of those!!! (Reference to my Shoulder)
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My Awesome Folks always have encouraged even my most wreckless Ideas... Now they are even helping load the car!
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The rig that brought here home!
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Nestled into its new home!
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So now the Saga begins...

[tscrihfield]

So it has been entirely way too long since my last update but I have been up to some things lately and I will try to catch you up as much as I can....
So I bought some wheels for the car back in February, I put my suspension back on for a day or two so I could mount them and see how they look.

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I like them! Cant wait to see it all the way down with the engine in.

Then after the suspension came back off I started with the modification of the front struts. Talking with a friend he had recently modified his Koni fronts to raise the spindles and lower the car. That way the car is not lowered by the torsion bars and the suspension is closer to it's original geometry. So I have BOGEs and thought, Why not....

Because Boges are not made the same way as Koni's I had to take a different route. I started by removing the bottom Mount.

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And then I cut 1.5" out of the top section just above the BOGE logo... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif)

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Then I tack welded the threaded piece of the tube back on the strut itself.

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Tomorrow I plan on stopping by my dads shop to turn down a piece of 4140 to add an 1.5" to the bottom and weld the Ball joint mount to it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)



I would like to get back with my engine as well... I am just playing the sit around and wait game with my Heads...... I hope they make it back from CA. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

As it has been the longest winter in Ohio that I can remember... Now that it is seeming to get warmer, I can get back out in the garage more to work... So I will post more as the weather improves.