The white 74 - restoration/ 6 conversion, ? - 2056 - 2.7 w/CIS - 2.7 w/dual carbs - finally a 3.2 |
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The white 74 - restoration/ 6 conversion, ? - 2056 - 2.7 w/CIS - 2.7 w/dual carbs - finally a 3.2 |
JStroud |
Jul 10 2012, 08:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,463 Joined: 15-January 11 From: Galt, California Member No.: 12,594 Region Association: Northern California |
I started a restoration thread for theYellow 75
And the New car thread when I bought the white 74. But since the yellow project has been put on hold, I guess I need a white 74 restoration thread, So here we go... Here are some pictures of the car when I first bought it last November. At least the lights all work! That doesn't look good The first month it spent on jackstands while I worked on the engine and brakes to get it driveable and able to be registered. Put in some new used seats, a dash mat, some carpet pieces and floor mats, a stereo and speakers, a new steering wheel, and fixed the odometer. After months of driving/working/driving/working, replaced the AAR - twice, the MPS - 3 times, decel valve -once, McMark adjusted my valves, sealed the tranny, replaced the cracked windshield, and drilled/taped and plugged 3 leaking galley plugs, that was a long day, ya McMark (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) . Well I finally got it looking and running fairly well, been driving the piss out of it, almost 8K miles since december. Drove it to WCR (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) My car on Laguna Seca Drove it in an autocross school, and two AX races. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) But now it's time for big changes, I had built (McMark) this 2056 for the yellow car. And it's been sitting on my workbench since December waiting for the yellow car to be ready. The yellow car's going to be a while..... So I decided to put it in the white car instead, but not only that, the D-jet system on the car now has been a pain (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) to sort out and its taken 3 complete systems to finally get it running this good, still needs a better MPS. So I pulled the trigger and bought a crankfire-Microsquirt FI system from McMark at Original Customs. Here's part of it No more distributor, no more obsolete FI parts, and tuning with my laptop how cool is that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) Thats almost caught up....more to come Jeff |
Madswede |
Aug 2 2012, 09:21 AM
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Flat Out Driver Group: Members Posts: 853 Joined: 13-September 06 From: Rio Rancho NM Member No.: 6,831 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) I had Dunlop Direzza's on my car (five years ago when it was running) and used them for daily driving/street. 'course it wasn't running on all four cylinders but that's beside the point. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
Since I was commuting ~200 miles a day, I didn't take the 914 very often, but when I did I was very happy with them. Stuck very well once warmed up, and there are quite a few twists and turns on NM-4 between Los Alamos and Rio Rancho. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) EDIT: I should add that I didn't notice any issues when wet, but then it hardly ever rains here. Also, the wear was better than expected, but again I wasn't driving on them for all that long, maybe a year or two. For comparison, when I was driving the 968 as a DD/commuter and really racking up the miles, I was going through Continental Sport-Contact tires at a rate of a pair every year (or, on average, a full set every two years). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) That was doing 20-30k miles a year, though. YMMV. |
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