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 |
Mar 10 2019, 04:24 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 next issue was to add the new clutch, pressure plate, starter, and a side-shifter trans in place of the stock tail-shifter as another step to make the car a little more fun to drive.
I reached out to Kennedy Engineering and got one of their 228mm Stage 1 bus kits (flywheel, disc, pressure plate) and a new throw-out bearing and transmission input shaft seal while I was in there. This package is supposed to be able to handle up to 300HP with a pedal pressure similar to that of the stock. When I first bolted up the flywheel, I noticed that I couldn't turn the engine over with a wrench so I then backed off the torque on the bolts to hand tight, and I could turn the engine again but heard something dragging.... Just so you know, there is a spacer that goes in between the flywheel and crankshaft (if you look at the manual, you'll see it there but I didn't want to cause questions/concerns here by not showing it). So I called Kennedy and shipped it back out for "a little bit more machining". While it was out, I got a second set of factory -6 engine sheet metal powder coated. I have the gun and oven to do smaller pieces but the longest piece across the front of the engine is too long to fit in my shop oven so I found someone locally. It looked nice pulling it all together for the first time. When I got it back, it went on without a hitch so I was then able to bolt up the side-shifter trans that I had cleaned up some and the new starter so that I could finish the engine wiring harness. It took me a long time to get all of this pulled together, having never done this before. I learned A LOT reading through the threads here and that really helped, along with bolstering my confidence just enough to try this. As with documenting any project like this in hind-sight, there is a lot I'm skipping over....too many little details to bore you with. If you look just behind the rain hat on the left, you'll see the 45degree elbow for the fuel line. The fuel circulates from the tank, through the fuel rail on the #1 bank from the rear (see 90 degree elbow behind the rain hat on the right in the pic), across the top of the fan housing to the driver's side bank, past those injections, through the elbow you see on the left in the pic, and then into the PMO regulator mounted at the back of the engine compartment above the engine/trans mating surface, and finally to the return line to the tank. The regulator is set at 43-44 PSI. Attached image(s) |
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