Jamie's 914-H6 Subaru Swap, Palm Springs California Options

[jamlip]

### EDIT - for the purposes of not filling this forum with multiple posts about the same car, I'm going to continue the recomissioning of this car in this thread. Details begin on page two. ###

Checking in as the new owner of a 1971 914.

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Dragged out of the desert yesterday. Basically a shell, a steering rack, one wheel and a title.

Appears to be in decent shape. Probably needs a floor (rust penetration), definitely needs a front pan (cut up, no idea why) and some repair to the hellhole (small rust hole, but unsure what lies beneath). Rockers, doors and rear trunk appear to be very nice. There is light crash damage to the front left which has been hammered-out. I can't find bondo on it anywhere.

Kind of hesitant to post this as I've always wanted a 914, but unsure if this is the one. Long-time Porsche fan - owned a '72 911T when I was in my mid-20s, and now have a twin-plugged 912 which I restored (from a shell which wasn't a whole lot nicer than this).

Anyway, I have a rough idea of what I want to do with it. In the time being, I need to start hunting down some parts. Lots of parts.

[jamlip]

Little update. Obviously not much happened with the car after my last post. It sat in the yard and I just couldn't find my mojo with it. It's a great shell, but that's it, and it's missing a lot of stuff that would make it a driver.

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A few months ago I decided to sell my '68 912. I had owned it for 13 years after restoring it from bare metal (build thread here, if you're interested). It was an absolutely stunning car but I'd scratched the itch and was looking for a new challenge.

The 912 went to its new owner in Santa Monica few weeks ago, and 12 hours later I was the new owner of a 914 with a blown engine, bought from the brother of a friend in San Diego.

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It's a 73, black with appearance pack. It's a SoCal car and is "rust free" (of course there is no such thing, and I was about to find out this one was hiding a dark secret).

I'd had the Subaru EZ30 sat on a JWK cradle in my garage for months and had even tried to sell it on FB Marketplace with zero success.

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Once the car was home, I set to work with degreaser and a jet wash.

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... also the engine.

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Digging around the car, I was pleased to see the front trunk was un-cut and the front slam is in good shape. The floors, longs and A-pillars are perfect. The hell-hole needs sorting (find me one that doesn't).

When I bought the car, the rear trunk was filled with engine tinware. On removing it, I found some spooky filler work. Being British, I'm aware of what this means. Filler should be a skim-coat at most. If there's more, it's hiding something, and that something is always Not Good.

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1.7 tinware - this will sit in my yard for a year till I take it to the metal recycler...

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Well, here's me cutting out the rear trunk after whiz-wheeling out the filler and discovering the jiggery-pokery that had been going on - the rear trunk had been replaced with a section cut from another car, but instead of doing a nice job of it, this Master Craftsman had tacked the rear slam panel of the donor over the slam panel of the car, then added filler to restore the shape of the sheet metal pressings. Arghhh! So much fucking time and effort to do a totally shitty job. I will never understand it.

So the car had two rear panels. The donor panel was actually poling out an inch below the existing one - I missed this because I bought it from a friend who I love and trust dearly. He hadn't noticed it because it was his brother's car. And his brother hadn't noticed it because he never really got deep into the car... ugh.

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So I've ordered new rear trunk panel.

Back to the fun stuff. Here's the EZ30 aligned in the engine compartment. It sits reassuringly low on the cradle and it looks like I have lots of space to play with.

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My 912 was running MicroSquirt fuel and spark. I love programmable EFI, and my plan with this engine is to put it on MegaSquirt. I'm also going to try not to use the original intake plenum since it's quite large and wickedly heavy, and would require me to cut the air intake into the rear trunk, which I just don't want. I would like to look into the engine bay and see something akin to the format of a Porsche flat six, if you get my gist.

Here's a quick shot to show what I have in mind...

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