1976 914 restoration Options

[munksmotors]

Hello,

A member of this forum named Tom Bliznik insisted that we put the restoration of one of our customers cars on the forum.

The car was stripped down to metal, patched and painted at a body shop that we have known for a long time and trust their work.
We had done something we consider a very important longevity upgrade to his floor pans first. We sanded the floorpans down to metal with a flap wheel and patched any weak areas. We let it sit until a light coat of rust had set in and painted the floor with POR-15. This does an excellent job of preventing future rust, we are BIG fans of POR-15 here at Munk's!

After that we cut out fiberglass cloth and epoxy it in. This is for stiffening the floor pan more than anything and gives the car a more solid feeling to the driver and passenger.

I'm going to post a link to for the "before" pictures at photo bucket since we have so many.

http://s660.photobucket.com/user/Munksmoto...rt=3&page=1

[munksmotors]

Wow, we seem to have some attention to this thread now!

Ok questions first, then pictures.

We used CB Performance for the EFI, "Magna Fuel and Spark EFI system" and their "Manga Spark II Distributor". They had excellent customer service as we installed the system and loaded the latest program.

When we install Epoxy over the POR15 we let the POR15 dry, then sand it to rough up the surface. We first apply a thin layer of epoxy, then lay down pre-cut fiberglass from our templates. The second coat of epoxy is laid down while the fiberglass mat is stippled to remove air bubbles and get good coverage. We have found this method to be very satisfactory with rust prevention, stiffening of the floor pan, and sound deadening. I may look into using POR15 as the fiberglass epoxy, that sounds like it could work quite well.

We had the company "Collision Services" of Waterford MI do the paint. We have known the owner/company for a long time, they have done very good work on several of our customers cars and our own.

And we are located in Waterford MI on M-59 just east of the corner of M-59 and Elizabeth Lake rd.

To start us off we have the re-upholstered seats, the owner has changed the interior color from beige to black. The interior panel that fits behind the seats is currently out getting re-upholstered in a material to match the seats.



A few before and afters of the dashboard. The dash cover was done by Robert Budd of "Classic 9 Leather Shop". Check out his website, he does very nice work and he's active in the local PCA chapter as well. The door panels are the original beige painted black with vinyl paint.

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Here's some shots of our lead technician Larry working on the wiring of the dash.

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And this is one of our younger technicians Dan installing an aftermarket radio and and a hidden windshield antenna.