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Aussie 914 Restoration |
barrym |
Oct 26 2014, 04:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 12-October 14 From: Australia Member No.: 18,008 Region Association: None |
First time post of lurking here for a while.
I bought a '75 914 a couple of weeks ago that had already been partly pulled apart to restore- its mostly complete but needs to be further pulled down to repair the rust & make mods to it for my intended purpose. it already came as right hand drive and has an amazingly good condition dash board. I have no history with the car so cant tell who or when the conversion was done. I don't even know if it was a US or European import, or if it was an aussie delivered car ... how can I tell ??? it has a scallop out of the right hand side chassis rail for the handbrake, but not the left hand side ... it used to be viper green and has had a poor respray in red - it's going back to viper green (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I have some garage space with a couple of chaps who has worked on 14's before which is a HUGE help to me, very lucky as i'm new to Porsche having owned lotus's for years (and still do). the plan is to restore it for partial road use but mostly track & tarmac rally. in the short term I plan to drop a 3.0 Subaru engine in while I build up funds & parts for a 2.7 Porsche engine. Its been in dry storage for at least 11 years than I know of, and possibly more before that. anyway, am documenting my rebuild thread here. I've made a start on removing the hacked up loom & vacuuming all the loose rust out. Its better than expected (as I bought the car only from pictures) it needs; new hell holes back of floorpan & bottom of firewall boot and that's about it - the rest of it looks (at this stage) like only surface rust - the suspension consoles are solid as is the majority of the front boot - again, only surface rust there ... the windscreen will come out next to get access to pull out the dash so I can continue to remove the loom. i'll be making up a new loom for it. question though - how do I remove the left hand seat ? the lever at the side does nothing - possibly broken ? and there is no handle at the front to slide the seat forwards to get at the rear bolts ... stumped on this one ... Attached image(s) |
barrym |
Dec 22 2014, 04:39 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 12-October 14 From: Australia Member No.: 18,008 Region Association: None |
been a few weeks since the last update - but have been busily beavering away on small stuff - but non the less, stuff that needs to be done ...
in no particular order ... the PO welded the dashboard to the scuttle - you can see in the pics the weld marks - I have no idea why they would have done this, the 4 bolts across the top were in place & holding it down ... v odd ... must have been done when it was converted to RHD. painful place to be able to get to as well, ended up getting a chisel & making a bit of a mess of the scuttle ... its out though now & have repaired the scuttle & pained it with epoxy rustkill in matt black. looks much better now : had a weekend away with the lotus guys at a track about 650 kms from home ! great weekend with 65 other lotus' - a huge achievement for Australia given the lotus is not an overly popular car here ... cleaned up the windscreen surround - removed all the black goop holding the screen in place, cleaned, sanded & gave it a couple of coats of primer to keep it in good condition. the bottom of the screen was good condition with only very minor pitting. started installing the bracing kits & have the left hand side installed - went in easily enough - have the rest of it to do now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) there was a lot of surface rust under the middle section, where the various pipes run, that was impossible to get at to clean up - so I cut the top off it, spent about 2 hours with a a few wire wheels & painted in matt black epoxy rustkill - looks good now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) will make up a few straps to weld in place to box the tunnel in place & will cover with a new sheet of steel & will bolt it in place with rivnuts to allow later access also got the bottom of the firewall welded in on the right hand side- whats the best way to re-coat the inner part of the firewall - the void ? cleaned & painted the various parts of the steering column - installed a new VW ignition switch & sourced a new ignition barrel - my car didn't come with a key - so managed to get a working barrel & key from a '73 and will send door locks & boot lock off to get serviced & re-key'd. as a note of interest, and possibly common knowledge, but the '75 onwards ignition barrel cannot be re-keyed - however, the early barrel fits in the late steering column with no modifications. picked up a wrx gearbox for cheap from ebay ($430 AUD) - have ordered a locking spline and made up a cover for the rear of the box from 5mm aluminium plate. still not decided on the best option for driveshafts - not in a big rush to make the decision as am prob 8 months of needing to install a drivetrain ... should be able to get a day or two of work in over the xmas period - would be great to get it to the point of being able to install a roll cage ! Attached image(s) |
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