Building Porsche 914 in Europe with some mods, Modified engine, wiring, interior - new project Options

[Pyetookh]

Hello all,
I was on historic motorcycles for years but was waiting for the right moment to switch to classic car instead. I was also searching classifieds for several years choosing the right classic car to buy. The main contenders were BMW 2002 and Porsche 914.

Unfinished project Porsche 914 appeared for sale not far away from my place some half a year ago. So I went there to have a look. Due to the personality of the seller and obvious intention to sell cheaply we agreed on buying price. Project is 75% finished and there are plenty of spare parts (He had a donor car). But some parts are missing too.
1. The main issue here is absolutely no history! The car was restored by professional car mechanic who died and all his pictures, notes, paperwork, receipts, documents are lost, stolen and missing.
2. My other problem is that I´m Central Europe based and my German is poor. So my only source of information is this forum in US. There doesn´t seem to be such enthusiastic fan base of 914s in Germany and it´s not much economical to order work and parts in Northern America for me.
3. I´m brave enough to do any welding or assembly jobs on my car but I don´t have much experience and I´m not very handy.

Despite all this I would be REALLY thankful if I get any support from well experienced guys here because I have all the commitment to bring another Porsche 914 back to the road.

This build will be for modified Porsche 914 – I would like to upgrade certain parts but rules for historic cars are stupidly strict in my country

I will really appreciate your help with the following:
1. There is 2.0 refurbished T2 bus engine in the car. That will be removed and sold as it is. From all the spare parts I have I would like to build 2056cc engine using my 1.7 crankcase and 1.8 heads (will need to source 2.0 crankshaft and rods, the right camshaft, 40 Webbers, 96 cylinders and pistons).
2. Car electrics – One is in the car but seems to be a bit messy. I have a complete spare one but it´s far from being perfect. I would like to remove FI wiring and add central locking, electric windows, DLR, intermittent wipers, electric windscreen washer
3. Car body is sound and recently resprayed. But I don´t like the colour and the rear wheel arches. Therefore it will be converted to GT flares, will be lowered and go on 16” 205/225 wheels. I would like to weld some reinforcement into the tub.
4. Car interior will need to be done from scratch – All the door window and targa roof trim and seals is missing. I want more like Sheel sport seats. Dashboard to be assembled. Foot pedals to be assembled and connected. New carpets installed.
5. I search for reliable and cheap European parts suppliers

So this is my mission and this is my car

Thank you and have a great day everyone

[wonkipop]

if both those cars, the 71 and the 73 (burnt) are euro market cars that never left europe then that explains the front trunk lack of reinforcing. ROW cars never got the semi circular reinforcement. nor did they get side impact bars in the doors as the USA cars did from 73 on (think it was 73).

so yes, 71 not a cut and shut.

but...........still does not explain the karmann tag on the 71 with a 73 onwards paint color and code not available as far as i know in 71. and the odd seemingly out of sequence VIN number in relation to VW production code number.

where the interior comes from now is clear. the 73 interior has been shifted across to the 71. hence the vents in the sides of the dash board front piece.

taking a look at your photos the vin number stamped on the right hand side wheel well looks a bit strange. as if its been welded in/on? bit hard to tell from photos if thats so but does not look quite the way the factory did it. factory put a bit of tape there before shell was painted its final color. then peeled the tape off and stamped the number into the unpainted area. what you have looks a little different to that. but very hard to tell from your photos.

my guess is the VIN is correct probably. but something funny is going on with that VW production number and k plate that i cant think why it is like that.
thinking about it i would suspect the karmann plate and VW production body number as being worth a bit more investigation as the plate certainly would seem not to belong to a 71.