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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 30-September 13 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 16,456 Region Association: South East States ![]() |
New to this forum but I've been around 944s, 924Ss, Boxster and Cayman forums for years.
This one is going to take some time. Purchased for $900, non-running but otherwise complete '73 914 2.0. Certainly just beyond a viable restoration car but probably okay for what I plan to do with it. Here's some highlights of the tear down... On the trailer going to the house. Attached thumbnail(s) ![]() |
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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 30-September 13 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 16,456 Region Association: South East States ![]() |
I'm about 4 hours into the rear pan install and it's going fairly well. Lifting the pan into position required a bit of help from my trusty floor jack. As reported in the previous post, I left the rear 6 - 8" of the front pan loose to slide the rear pan over for lapping. Once into position, I used the sheet metal screws to pull the edges and center up against the longs, tunnel and firewalls. As with the front pan, I started spot welding the tunnel edges first and followed the bead welds ever 6" on so. After completing both sides of the tunnel, I proceded along the lapped edge on the drivers side. I'm actually feeling pretty good about my welding skills when I have plenty of light, space and can get close in. Note that this is where you have to be careful of metal tempratures and spread your welds out to let surfaces cool. The last hour or so last night, I went under the drivers long welding from the junction of the two pans back. This is where it gets tough. Trying to keep the hanging pan metal tight and welding upside down. I'm using up a lot of wire (on my 4th spool now) and I think my little welder is starting to bind the wire occasionally. Maybe the tip which I try to keep clean (difficult when upside down) or perhaps the flexible conduit that feeds the wire. The goal is to have the pans completed and primed by the end of this weekend.
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