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, 06:05 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 |
Once I had the stock engine out, there were a number of "while I'm in there" things to take care of. I had been making a list since I got the car.
As I continued chasing the crunchy wires in the engine compartment to the light, I decided to continue working on back through the harness in the trunk to check that wiring. I pulled it loose and find some issues here and there so I got some of the fabric harness tape from 914Rubber and dug in. I pulled it all loose and examined the wires and decided to make some repairs using part of another trunk wiring harness I had from a parts car. I carefully cleaned the wires and then carefully started to wrap it back up. When I finished, I was pretty happy with the results but then looking at the trunk, I really couldn't see putting the fresh harness back into that trunk. Here's some of what I saw from the PO: At some point, the PO decided to spray part of the engine compartment with black spray paint.....oh yea, and the 2" washer and bolt in the firewall, there were four of them, hardware-store grade, mounted in the firewall for a 5 pt. harness system. And the bolt holes weren't even in a straight line horizontally across the firewall. He had also added some Crane High Energy/Mallory ignition system and had wires and components mounted on both sides of the fan on the firewall... Over on the battery side, the stock ground stud had been wrung off and so another 3/8" hole had been drilled so that the ground cable could be bolted to the firewall. And then there's the trunk....lots of holes from various mounting of a rear sway bar and the holes in the rear panel for the "Porsche" reflector. |
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