My Recent Purchase - 1976 914 Options

[914_Tcup]

Oops...double post

[914_Tcup]

Thank you all for such a nice invite to the 914World.

I got the hang of the pictures. I need to reduce the size of each and will be posting more soon.

The car will run if you do all the right things... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)


The body has not been hit and it fairly solid, outside the parts that are not solid!!! LOL

The passenger's long and the hell-hole area are the main issues.

I plan to replace/repair the entire floor panels, frame stiffiners, outer & inner firewall, etc. After i open up all these areas, then i can truly determine if I follow through on this car, or run away and try to find a better speciman... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I know I want a 914 and thats what I need to start leaning into to make it happen.

Originally, I could not determine which engine I had, because I have a 3-bolt head on the drivers side and a 4-bolt head on the passengers...then, I have the 2.0 tin, but there has been holes cut into the tin for the 4-bolt head. Until I understood the engine code, all we could do was (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

Someone must have pulled the distributor to set the timing and gave up. I had to remove the capicator to rotate the distributor clockwise, as it was running into the cooling tin. I have installed a 32/36 I had sitting around to get it running, but I don't have a secure throttle connection....YeeeHaaa!

After I cleaned up more parts on the car, then more electrical components started to function. Surprisingly the brakes work great. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

The last time I had it running, it was spitting sparks at the ground wire connection to the body. I tighten it up, but need to take it apart and investigate the entire grounding circuit of this car....

Again thanks for the information.