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...

[rnellums]

What is that item where the dizzy usually sits?

[tscrihfield]

What is that item where the dizzy usually sits?

Well, I will get into that a little later... That is when it is proven. I have designed a trigger style dizzy with a 32 -1 tooth trigger wheel. For sequential FI....

[BajaXJ92]

What is that item where the dizzy usually sits?

Well, I will get into that a little later... That is when it is proven. I have designed a trigger style dizzy with a 32 -1 tooth trigger wheel. For sequential FI....

Now you've got my attention.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif)

[tscrihfield]

What is that item where the dizzy usually sits?

Well, I will get into that a little later... That is when it is proven. I have designed a trigger style dizzy with a 32 -1 tooth trigger wheel. For sequential FI....

Now you've got my attention.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif)

Okay, to elaborate.... For inquiring minds....

As you may know from reading my earlier posts, I am going to eventually put EFI (Megasquirt MS3X) on my car... I went with the expansion to have Seq FI. The only issue is you need both a crank and cam signal for sequential FI. Now, I know that the dizzy is ran off the crank but it is in time with the cam spinning once to the crank spinning two times... So I am going to have a crank sensor as well as the dizzy that I am making.

So I hollowed out a chinese made version of the Bosch
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And then, I designed and built a trigger wheel... I know that it is not a traditional trigger wheel due to the roll pins but I designed it for this application. (Still has all 32 teeth for now...)
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and installed on the dizzy... Not sure what I am going to do to lock it to the shaft yet but that will come later.
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I am going to run one of these Hall effect sensors...
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I am still in the process of designing the base for them to mount internal of the housing.... You can look them up here.
http://www.allegromicro.com/en/Products/Pa.../0617/index.asp
and I bought them from Digikey...

Well thats the story of it for now... Like I said it is yet to be proven but once it is I am thinking of building a few of them for folks that would want to run them on their FI systems.

Well Hope you enjoy... And remember, If women dont find you handsome they should at least find you handy!

Cheers!