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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 |
Aug 24 2016, 02:05 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 12-October 14 From: Australia Member No.: 18,008 Region Association: None |
also pulled apart the WRX wiring loom - I have it strung up in the garage and all wires marked where they hook up to and what ISNT needed. I also pulled the engine part of the loom off and cleaned / re-wrapped it with cloth tape. one of the nice things with the Subaru loom is the plugs at the engine - makes it very easy to remove the engine as the harness has 3 or 4 plugs that sit at the side of the engine that snake off into the various engine sensors & injectors etc.
I broke some of my ethos too ... started work on the rear hubs by installing the 930 turbo CV's to the inner side of the suspension arm - fits well ! I also procured an early 911 handbrake (e-brake) setup that needs a little cleaning up before installing ... this'll sit on the shelf for a little while tho. I fabricated a mount for the brake fluid bottle - searched around for a suitable container, but ended up using the Subaru one from the wreck I have and made up a mount for it - easy & cheap solution ! just some time on the lathe & some scrap aluminium. I've prob spent at least 2 days working on the throttle cable mechanism - I still don't like it, too much slop, despite using bearing races, and couldn't get the 'feel' right. it was just too tight. so I bought an '07 corolla ecu, an '07 camry throttle pedal and an IS350 throttle body - all drive by wire and will use this lot for my throttle solution. in the medium term i'll replace the factory wrx ecu (cant be tuned) and corolla ecu with a single standalone ecu - but that's a 2.5k investment I don't NEED to make right now ... it'll also lead me down the 'more power & e85' route ... i'm close now to be able to paint the inside of the front trunk, strip the underside and re-tar it. - that'll be a great milestone to hit and will allow me to move to the middle of the car which is a fairly minor amount of work then to the rear of the car ... LOTS of work here ... onwards on upwards ! Attached image(s) |
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