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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 379 Joined: 5-March 17 From: Lafayette, CA Member No.: 20,897 Region Association: Northern California ![]() ![]() |
I’ve been meaning to post about the latest 914 to hit my stable but it did not feel right until now. Unfortunately, we lost our friend Jeff Donnelly (jeffdon) last month at age 59. He will be missed by many. Jeff was a good friend and is the one that got me into the 914 flow. We would hang at the pub and talk about them and other things automotive. After a while, I ended up purchasing his 76 project now known as Smoggy. Unfortunate circumstances has also made me the caretaker of Jeff’s 72, a car he loved. The 72 fell in disrepair a few years back after a string of engine failures. Jeff intended to get it back on the road but life’s turns prevented that from happening. Jeff’s family and friends thought I was the natural choice to bring the car back so a deal was worked out and a new project was in my hands. Working on Smoggy and other 914’s has made me appreciate how each car can have different attributes and drawbacks. The 72, which today got named Foggy, is pretty much rust minimal as far as 914’s go. Really.. I will show some pics soon. Jeff said he did not have to deal with the hellhole, etc and wouldn’t you know it, that is what I confirmed today. There are some bumps and bruises to deal with which I will elaborate on later as I take on those tasks. My plan is to freshen the car mechanically by installing a d-jet 2056 picked up a while back for Smoggy. There will be lots of parts raiding from the Smoggy stash as well as some new purchases. So far, I have gutted the interior and have done extensive cleaning of the underside to assess condition and because I can’t help myself. It had early struts with floppy pinch bolt ball joints so I decided to rip apart the front suspension and use the front struts from smoggy. Sent all that off to the powdercoater while the calipers went to PMB for some Eric magic. A 914 rubber order was placed for all kinds of freshening bits. I plan to put new carpet and maybe do up the seats if they are not passable. Keeping the tailshift for now to control scope creep. I hope to have Foggy back on the road in the next couple months and to take to WCR and maybe Red Rocks Classic. So anyway, that’s what has been going on in San Rafael. We miss you Jeff.
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Your welding and finishing work is looking really nice!
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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 379 Joined: 5-March 17 From: Lafayette, CA Member No.: 20,897 Region Association: Northern California ![]() ![]() |
Your welding and finishing work is looking really nice! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) Thanks Chris, would not be where I am with all this without you. Looking forward to Saturday workshop at the barn! A couple of callouts from the clutch tube job. 1. I moved where the clutch tube exits the firewall over to the left a bit from the factory location. Hope this does not give me problems later. I did do some checking first and think its fine. The riveted plate repair Jeff did had it in this position too. I mocked it up with the /6 mount and assessed clearances there, deciding that it would be better to have the tube come through the mount rather than to the right of it (assuming the /6 will go in eventually). Rationale was that the mount would give extra strength where the tube passes through. Plus I think having the tube so close to all the other pass through holes is a contributing factor to why they fail. Fingers crossed that this does not bite me in the booty. 2. When brazing, make sure you take your time and not get ahead of yourself. It was end of the day after a long session on this job. I had lots of momentum but knew I was tired. Decided to keep plugging away at it. There was a gap with preexisting brass abound around the speedo cable pass through. Some torch flame passed into the tunnel and got closer to backpad wires than I would have liked. No damage was caused but had I paused more to assess what I was about to do, I would have thought to put a wet rag in the tunnel to protect the wires. I got lucky on that one.. |
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