Photos of my car Options

[Ron914]

Hello 914 World,
I can finally share some photos of what I was told is a survivor 1976 914 when I bought it. I have been on a 3 year journey with this car that started March 22 .Thanks to all those that assisted me finally being able to post photos @burton73 , @SirAndy to name a couple . It seemed harder than it was and now that I have it figured out it really is quite easy.
I know there have been several posts on this but I wanted to try to share what I learned for Apple products , I still have a lot to learn like posting videos and @Superhawk996 advised I need to post to Youtube first so that will be something for a later date

My problem was 99% of the photos I took were with my (iPhone) and being an old fart I had the camera settings on HEIC (high efficiency image capture ) .

I needed to change the format/sizing as you cannot post an HEIC photo on this site so you need to change to a (jpeg). I thought I would have to retake them all but you don't .

I had already made a 914 world photo file on my desktop (Mac) and only needed air drop photos to desktop and open in my downloads file.

Open the photo you want and it should open in (Preview is an icon on my toolbar)

Now in preview you will see a drop-down menu on the top left , now select export and a small box opens . Move the cursor to resize to 1 MB or smaller and save in the 914 world photos file . I thought I would have to retake them all but you don't .

Here aar a few photos of this car for review. I have hundreds as I took photos of everything I worked on . The frunk & trunk and the day I brought it home.

[ClayPerrine]

Ron,

This is a very nice car. But I do have a couple of suggestions.

1. Replace the plastic fuel lines in the car with a stainless steel kit from Tangerine racing. https://tangerineracing.com/shop/ols/produc...-fuel-line-sets The lines are 50 years old, and like all plastic, they have become brittle with age. 30 plus PSI pressure in old brittle plastic lines in a hot engine compartment can lead to a major engine fire. I know. It happened to Betty and I. Your car is too nice for this to happen. We even did this to the factory six we have, and it is being taken to absolutely bone stock, OEM configuration.

2. LED lighting. Replace all the external lighting with LEDs. Not the junk you can buy from FLAPS. Get the spokeworks LED boards. https://www.spokeworksled.com/914-led-solutions They are easily reversible, require no modification to the lights, and make the car way more visible after dark. Then get a set of LED headlight bulbs from 914rubber.com https://914rubber.com/led-headlight-bulb-set. They make seeing where you are going at night much easier.


These items will save your car and make it much more enjoyable to drive.

[Ron914]

Ron,

This is a very nice car. But I do have a couple of suggestions.

1. Replace the plastic fuel lines in the car with a stainless steel kit from Tangerine racing. https://tangerineracing.com/shop/ols/produc...-fuel-line-sets The lines are 50 years old, and like all plastic, they have become brittle with age. 30 plus PSI pressure in old brittle plastic lines in a hot engine compartment can lead to a major engine fire. I know. It happened to Betty and I. Your car is too nice for this to happen. We even did this to the factory six we have, and it is being taken to absolutely bone stock, OEM configuration.

2. LED lighting. Replace all the external lighting with LEDs. Not the junk you can buy from FLAPS. Get the spokeworks LED boards. https://www.spokeworksled.com/914-led-solutions They are easily reversible, require no modification to the lights, and make the car way more visible after dark. Then get a set of LED headlight bulbs from 914rubber.com https://914rubber.com/led-headlight-bulb-set. They make seeing where you are going at night much easier.


These items will save your car and make it much more enjoyable to drive.

Hi Clay thank you for checking out my photos . I have long admired your 914 collection ,wish I lived closer so I could check them out . The fuel lines were one of the first things I replaced . Now' the led bulbs sound like a great idea. I drove my car the other morning to a spot where people near me get together to show their cars every Saturday and it was still dark here @5:45am. I noticed driving over there how poor of lighting my car had ,I should have just turned them off and used the street lights.

[ClayPerrine]

Hi Clay thank you for checking out my photos . I have long admired your 914 collection ,wish I lived closer so I could check them out . The fuel lines were one of the first things I replaced . Now' the led bulbs sound like a great idea. I drove my car the other morning to a spot where people near me get together to show their cars every Saturday and it was still dark here @5:45am. I noticed driving over there how poor of lighting my car had ,I should have just turned them off and used the street lights.

Ron,

Betty and I have talked about going to the West Coast Ramble. But they keep having it in Northern California, or Oregon, or Washington. Considering LA is a 3 day drive from here, it hasn't happened yet.

I am glad you put in the stainless lines. Y'all have enough fire issues right now. No need to add another in the form of a burning 914. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

The spokeworks LED light kits can be done in about 2 hours. Even if you have people sitting in lawn chairs ( @betty ) watching, supervising, and telling you how you are doing it wrong. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

You have to have the CIBIE halogen light housings for the headlights to put in the 914Rubber headlight bulbs. There are other vendors on here that offer a complete kit with the housings and the bulbs. I just have experience with the 914Rubber ones.

Hope that helps.