My '74 914 Project Begins! Options

[designerguy90]

Hello all!

So my 914 refresh begins! As my car sits, it’s a ’74 1.8, which is somewhat cosmetically challenged (I know the pictures look good, and the car looks pretty good in person, but I am my father’s son and am anal about how my car looks, nothing short of perfection satisfies me).

My current project list includes(and none of these are in “order”):
-Brad Mayeur long kit
-new rocker covers
-dynamat for the firewall
-scuffing, sanding, fixing dents and repainting panels
-hunting for and fixing rust
-replacing battery tray (and fixing the trunk hinge while the engine is dropped, as well as rust hunting and fixing in the engine bay)
-replacing vinyl on sail panels
-refinish wheels
-clean and refinish wheel wells where necessary
-repaint/clean engine tin
-removing wart markers
-miscellaneous problems/projects that pop up along the way
-roll bar and harness bar (I want to autoX)

Currently, I’m planning on doing something fun with the car and giving it a subtle Gulf Oil theme. I have Gulf logos that are going on my front fenders in between where the door and front wheel arch is. I am also toying with either color matching the Fuchs centers Olympic blue, or painting the centers orange, as well as the bumpers, rocker covers and valances. Any thoughts on the paint, or other suggestions as I tear into the car? I am going to do this in quick bursts, so that I can have a car to drive, in between goals in repairing it. Eventually, the goal for the car is a 6 conversion, so I am going to be taking upgrades for that into account as I move forward as well.

-Alex

[designerguy90]

Hello all! This last week has been a bit crazy for me, so I got varied amounts of work done. The day I was going to weld, we had a generator put in at home so the power was off for about 5 hours, which gave me time to refinish my fuchs, they look pretty good I think.

I did a bit more prepwork on the longs that day as well, and this morning, I was able to set aside some time to attach the 914ltd long kit. It only took about an hour and a half to weld the pieces on, but it was the prepwork that ate all the time on it. I alternated between sides while welding, as to not warp the car any, I do have some welding to finish, the bottoms of the longs where the joint is needs to be finished, so that is what I will be doing next. I have to say, installing this kit was so easy, Brad really knocked it out of the park creating something so simple, but effective for someone with limited welding skills(its been a while since I've welded) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)