1973 914 WRX Conversion Pics Options

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About ready to start putting it together. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

Ed

[fat73]

Hey gang,

More new pics on http://community.webshots.com/user/fat73 of the conversion. I figure we're about a month away from being on the road.

Took the plunge and upgraded to Zimmerman Cad Plated Cross Drilled Rotors. Just finished "rewiring" the guages which were restored by North Hollywood Speedometer adding an oil guage, temp guage, boost guage, recalibrated tach for the WRX, and recalibrated speedo for my tire size and kicked it up a notch to 180. Blue leds.

Decided after talking with Mike at Renegade to completely eliminate all of the individual wires going to the gauges and spent about 16 hours wiring plugs onto the gauges and putting plugs on the wires in the dash. Takes alot of patience and a good wiring diagram. Now to remove the gauges all you do is unplug and go. Nothing to remember, nothing to label. Also took the opportunity to cleanup alot of the wiring. Refaced the dash black using laminate from Home Depot. Bought a busted 8x4 sheet for $20. Takes a while to do but it, looks alot better than the fabric.

Going to put the Rennshift shifter in tomorrow and finish off the interior. Gotta have the rollbar customized so I can use the great seats I bought off this site (Well at least the passenger seat has to go way too forward with the roll bar from autocar installed). Next is beginning the install of stuff in the engine bay, H valve for heat, 928 Fuel pump (already installed stainless steel fuel lines bypassing the originals in the tunnel), marrying the harness from smallcar with the harness from Renegade. Both of those harnesses together cost $1000 but with them it's pretty much plug and play, just mating up Renegades harness with the SmallCar harness, and then plugging the Renegade harness into the stock 15 pin connector, and the smallcar harness onto the engine. There are about 4 extra wires to run to the front for the new gauges, but we had already run 8 into the existing wiring harness through the firewall just in case. Every wire on the car has been inspected and replaced if necessary.

At this point the car is mechanically new except for the 2003 30k mile engine, transmisison, rack and pinion, tie rod ends, brake master cylinder and calipers. Everything else, every bushing, bearing, shocks, springs, Ferodo brakes, Zimmerman rotors, etc is new. Also put in a new ignition switch, fuse block (upgrade) and upgraded to the 924 Electric windshield washer. New carpet, all new cables, new Weltmeister sway bars on front... Fuel tank has been treated with POR15 tank reseal kit. That took about a day and a half to complete. Suspension and brakes are complete short of some torqueing that I still have to do, and bleed the brakes. Installed an adjustable brake proportioning valve, and SS brake lines.

I used some stuff called BQuiet to do the sound deadening in the floor boards and on the interior firewall. It's a foam pad with a rubber mat on top. It's about 1/2 inch thick,easy to manipulate and you don't have to glue it in the floor boards unless you want to. I bought two sheets which was way more than enough to do the interior and it was about $120. Everything else I looked at would have been twice that much.


Gotta have sleep...Ed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yellowsleep[1].gif)