The white 74 - restoration/ 6 conversion, ? - 2056 - 2.7 w/CIS - 2.7 w/dual carbs - finally a 3.2 Options

[JStroud]

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

[JStroud]

Oh it gets better....

So I wasn't driving the car much, smoking bad, then Eric called and asked if I wanted to help escort a drive during Porsche Parade, I said sure but just put me at the rear. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

Drove down to my brothers in Capitola, and 2 miles from his house, loud pop, and car starts running like crap and has limited power.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

After a few hours of messing with it ...on the phone with Eric and McMark....decided to have it towed home.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) not a fun weekend.

Got the car home and in the shop decided it was time for a rebuild....hey I got to put 500 miles on it before it blew. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blowup.gif)
And drove it just enough to know a -6 was the engine for me, the 2056 was fun, but the -6 was beyond fun...

Made a deal with Mark to put a carbed 2.7 he had sitting in the shop in my car while I rebuilt mine.

Picked up his motor and pulled the CIS 2.7 out.



Marks 2.7 had been sitting for years, and had dual carbs, so I had to change the fuel pump and fuel line setup. Put some new seals, adjusted the valves, built a wiring harness for it, and did a quick clean out on the carbs.....and put it in.



We got the motor running, but the carbs kept clogging, and wouldn't adjust like they should, so we pulled them for a full rebuild.