My Six Conversion - School Bus Yellow, 1st time conversion project for me |
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My Six Conversion - School Bus Yellow, 1st time conversion project for me |
MikeSpraggi |
May 20 2009, 11:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 781 Joined: 7-February 05 From: Silver Spring, Md Member No.: 3,570 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
So I find this '70 914 on Craigslist for $700. Says it's only a shell. Has flares and 5 bolt 911 pattern on all 4 wheels. I call, make an appointment for 2 days later. Car looks like it has good bones. I asked "what happened to the engine and trans?" The guy says, "Oh, it runs". So I buy it. It's going to be my DE/track car. That was THREE years ago. So to get the original six off the track, I started to "put" the project together.
I had been collecting parts for a six conversion for about 10 years or so. I have just about everything I need, but, this is a LOT of work and a LOT of $$$ if you add it all up. Wife keeps asking, when is it going to be finished ............. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) Here are some pics. As seen on Craigslist in Philly in Feb of 2006. FG bumpers did not come with the car, but a 1.7L engine did. 2 years later after I bought the FG hood and trunk and replica Fuchs |
MikeSpraggi |
Mar 12 2012, 03:46 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 781 Joined: 7-February 05 From: Silver Spring, Md Member No.: 3,570 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Ok, here's the latest update to this project. First DE event of the year for me is March 31, so this is really cutting it close! Don't know if I'll make it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) .
I've stated to fabricate a GT "style" engine lid. Have plenty of lids laying around so here goes. Should be done, no, NEEDS to be done by the end of the week. This is not an attempt at a high quality, GT reproduction, but rather a modest attempt to provide extra cooling to the engine bay. Removed the mesh from a donor lid. Flattened it out, removed the little mounting studs and grinded the area down to smooth. Then took an orbital sander an went over both sides until baby butt smoot. This photo is before I did the smoothing and sanding. I used the mesh to outline the area I needed to cut out. The taped area is slightly smaller than the outline of the mesh so I can have some sheet metal on the lid to fasten the mesh to. Drilled out the spot welds for the bracing and removed. Fired up the air compressor, got the grinder out and preceded to cut the areas out right above the vertical braces that are left being careful not to grind into them. Then took out the hand jigsaw and using the starter cuts I made on either side of the vertical braces, cut along the tape outline. Then evened out and smoothed the cuts. Oh yea, addressed the rust. Where don't these cars rust!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Did a test fit with the donor mesh. After sanding down the lid frame and, did I say removing rust, painted with primer. Should be able to have this finished by the weekend when it needs to go to the car. |
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