914 WRX Build Options

[waltonsm]

After seeing some recent posts, I decided it was finally time to thank everybody on this forum for years of encouragement and scope creep on my long term project. As with every real project, this will never be done, and there are certainly many things I would do differently a second time around. But I am 80% of the way there, and I am enjoying driving it as much as I am working on it for the last year or so.

I plan to add more photos of my build process over the next few weeks. You may see some of the advice you gave me realized, and probably some bad or good ideas in metal, fiberglass, and wood.

Hopefully I can help someone else out too.

-Steve


Here are some recent photos:





And a few from about 4 years ago:

[RKramden]

@waltonsm
So impressive! I couldn’t begin to imagine the things you have already fabricated.
I am working on an outlaw-ish 914-6 and would love to see any pics or materials used in putting a headlight in the turn signal…thinks

[waltonsm]

@waltonsm
So impressive! I couldn’t begin to imagine the things you have already fabricated.
I am working on an outlaw-ish 914-6 and would love to see any pics or materials used in putting a headlight in the turn signal…thinks

Turns out this is one of the least documented areas for me too. I will have to take more pictures when I get back after Christmas. But to get started, I found the smallest LED projectors I could find, below. One is aimed as a high beam, and one as a low beam in each side. I used a small hole saw to cut holes in the back of the turn signal bucket for them to pass through, and then I drilled holes in the sides to mount the stainless brackets I made.

The brackets were made from .030ish laser cut stainless, and then I bent them on the vise and welded some adjuster nuts/jack screws on. The provide the aiming degree of freedom needed.

I have a dozen ideas on how to redo/improve this in the future, but it is low on my list.

As we know, pictures (of the assembly) are worth everything, so you will have to use your imagination for a few days (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)