The story of a silver -6, ...My '70 914-6 |
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The story of a silver -6, ...My '70 914-6 |
db9146 |
Apr 26 2015, 07:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 953 Joined: 21-December 04 From: Atlanta, GA Member No.: 3,315 Region Association: None |
The first 914 I had was a white '76 2.0L. I didn't know a lot about 914s back then (mid 80's) but I came to love that car, despite our ups and downs. Eventually I had to sell it and buy something more practical (I was buying a house and could only afford one car) but I remember reading an article in VW & Porsche magazine about a 914 conversion to a -6. That one was white as well and I started dreaming about one day having a -6.
Well, about a month ago, I was surfing another Porsche site that I don't visit much at all and just on a lark, typed in 914-6 just to see what would come up. To my surprise, I found a silver 1970 for sale near San Francisco. I finally reached the seller and started a conversation. I then reached out to the board here for a PPI and Matthepcat responded and very graciously offered to take a look for me. Well, things progressed with the seller and not wanting to let it get away, I made arrangement to skip the step 1 visual PPI that Matt offered to do and jump straight to step 2, a professional PPI with a compression check and the whole bit. A few more conversations and it was mine. There was money to wire and forms to FedEx back and forth but on my drive up to the Hershey swap meet a little over a week ago, it all came together. My wonderful wife was working out the transfer at the bank while I was driving up through Virginia. To cut to the chase, it got delivered yesterday. [attachmentid=498 632][attachmentid =498636] I know you guys especially can understand the excitement about this....I'm not bragging at all just very thankful that it has all worked out this way after dreaming about this for 30 years. Attached thumbnail(s) |
db9146 |
Jul 25 2015, 09:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 953 Joined: 21-December 04 From: Atlanta, GA Member No.: 3,315 Region Association: None |
Thanks for the positive comments on the flares. There was a little metal added to make them "right", so more than just pulling them. The rears do give it a more muscular look.
Hi, I think your new wheels are also 7".. Could it be? My Best Harald When I got it, the PO had 6x16s on the front with 205s and 7x16s on the rear with 225s but the tires needed to be replaced and they looked a little like donuts with the sidewalls ballooned out a little too much for my tastes so I pulled another set of wheels I had and put 7x16s on the front with new 205s and 8x16s on the rear with new 225s. If I had 10MM longer studs, I'd put some 7MM spacers on the rear to move them out a touch more with the flares. As far as the shifting, I replaced all of the bushings and springs in the shifter console and the firewall and linkage housing bushings, then spent a good bit of time adjusting, driving, adjusting, driving - until I could get it into 1st consistently w/o nicking anything and make a gentle shift into 2nd so I don't nick reverse. 3rd, 4th, and 5th are okay. I think its as good as its going to get for now until I either rebuild the trans or swap to a sideshifter. My plan is to rebuild a sideshifter I have and install it with a JWest shifter that has the baseplate modified for the hand throttle of the -6. But this will be after Okteenerfest. |
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