recommissioned., australian 914 Options

[wonkipop]

after 16 years of storage its back up and running.

had this for 31 years.
picked it up in chicago when i lived there back in late 80s/early 90s.
off the first owner.
brought it back to aus with me.

its largely original. 40k miles.
where its not original is i had to convert it to rhd. did that back in 92-93.
thats another story if anyone is interested.
rest of it is showroom stock and untouched.
just finished doing a clay bar deep clean on the phoenix red.
got to the end of today and i was back in 1974.

got inspired by 50th hoo hah. been at it since october last year.
co-vid lockdown got me some extra "vacation" time on the project.

keep on 914-ing all of you.

don't know if this image will work but giving it a try.

[wonkipop]

@ phillstek

coffees just as good in sydney from what i hear.
and was last time i was there two decades ago.

love sydney's harbour and clear pacific sky. its beautiful.
i hear its a traffic nightmare these days. so is melbourne. though i enjoy driving in the lockdown. its a sunday in the late 1970s.

you can get real bad coffee in melbourne don't worry, from joints that look the look, walk the walk, but don't do the talk. its a myth. a myth from the 60s and 70s when only melbourne had real coffee.

best coffee i've had was in brisbane about 10 years ago. they try very hard to get it right.

we had to treat inside the fuel tank when he had it out for this work.
can see potential for issues as you say.
have a second filter installed after the fuel pump, only customization of the stock 1.8 engine bay. i'm looking after the injectors having managed to get a set of unopened boschs from a guy in colorado. one of the fun jobs this time around was to exactly duplicate mad tangle of vacuum hose lines etc that greets eyeballs when you flp the lid on the L jetronic. a six looks like a work of majestic mechanical art in contrast.

but i love the proto electro tech of the L jetronic. its why i went after the 1.8 back in the day. everyone thought i was mad not wanting a six or wanting to convert it to a six.
still get it said to me. "you should put a six in that". or "you know what would be good - a leyland p76 v8".

i'm a geek. i like the 1.8 for the same reason i love the lunar module. its a piece of industrial archeology. numero uno of all modern fuel injection. it makes me smile whenever i look at the part number stamped on the air flow meter. bosch xyz uvw (whatever) 001. and catch a glimpse of the computer. its probably got about as much ram as a toaster or a.i. as a head temp. sensor in a modern car.