Cairo's 6 Options

[Cairo94507]

My recollection is the turbo valve covers will not go on and off w/o machining them as the ribs add to much size/thickness to them to remove w/o lowering the engine down.

I have no experience with non-OEM valve covers.

The other way to do this, as Scotty kind of commented on, is to just machine down the part of the valve cover which would hit during removal. I have seen them both ways and either works as long as the valve covers are media blasted and look nice.

[Cairo94507]

So I was able to source a beautiful Blaupunkt Frankfurt (thanks very much T.C.) and an NOS dash plate (thanks again Jeff) for my car. Had the radio restored at German Car Radio Repair in North Hollywood, CA (thank you Herman) and also bought the cable to stream from my iPhone, should I feel the need. This is exactly the radio I wanted in my car and I am very pleased to have it.

[scotty b]

Things have slowed a bit as I try to finish up a 911 that is nearing the end but I have been trying to spend a little time in the evenings on Michael's car. Sandblasted the doors last week with some other stuff I had to get done and they both turned out a little surprising. Fixed the passengers door, but the drivers ended up being bad enough I'm going to pull another one I have, and see how it is. Steering wheel is ready to go out to Dallas Custom as soon as the paint sets up good

[Cairo94507]

Nice to see some new shots. Let me know when the wheel ships and I will call them. Thanks Scotty.

[Cairo94507]

OK so I got some photos from Palo Alto Speedometer. I have asked them for all new sending units matched to the gauges used so everything works as it should. The only unresolved issue, and we may have it resolved but have not tested it yet, is I switched to a later electronic speedometer to add the 6th digit in the odometer since my car has about 89K original documented miles on it and I do not want it to roll over to 0 in 11K miles. I want to keep the actual real mileage recorded. Hartmut told me that VDO makes a converter to go from mechanical to electric pulses to drive the speedo. Apparently I would leave the stock speedo cable going from the transaxle to the gauge area in the dash and then connect the converter so it resides near the actual gauge for a good signal and to keep it out of the elements. If that works, and I really hope it does, we are good with the gauges. Sorry, I can't find the picture of the speedometer right now. When I do, I will post it. All of these will have the "silver dots" in the center like stock. Hartmut is great to work with and I think these are going to be perfect for my car:

[Cairo94507]

Here is the triple gauge rendering. It has gone out for the actual gauge face to be made.

[Cairo94507]

OK- Here is the speedo face, nothing to see here really. The tachometer pictured is an earlier version and the redline needed to be corrected to reflect the actual 3,2 redline. That has been corrected as you can see above.

[db9146]

I like the gauges a lot. Is the size of the font on the final tach face smaller? It looks much better to my eyes than the first before the redline correction.

[Cairo94507]

Thanks - I think it may just be the lighting or the angle of the photo. Otherwise it should be the same.

[JeffBowlsby]

Should it not be spelled "OEL"?

[JmuRiz]

So I was able to source a beautiful Blaupunkt Frankfurt (thanks very much T.C.) and an NOS dash plate (thanks again Jeff) for my car. Had the radio restored at German Car Radio Repair in North Hollywood, CA (thank you Herman) and also bought the cable to stream from my iPhone, should I feel the need. This is exactly the radio I wanted in my car and I am very pleased to have it.

What aux cable did you use? I need one for my old radio too.

BTW the radio and gauges are clues to how nice this car will be when complete.

[Cairo94507]

Hi Jeff- The other 914 gauges I have show it "oil" so that is what I went with. Now if we were in Germany.......and it was the 5th Wednesday of the month......

[Cairo94507]

Nathan - Thanks for the compliment. Here is the link to the radio repair shop that did the work. I think the cord to stream from my iPhone was about $70 or so. The radio went straight to Scotty so I can't even go look at it and tell you who made the cord. https://plus.google.com/1093800453918053714...gl=us&hl=en

[stevegm]

What was the final decision on the color (not to restart that debate)? I thought about this thread today. I finally got a chance to get under a '71 I bought a while back (pretty rough; almost a parts car). I thought it was Bahia red, but it was a repaint. It appears to actually have been gold metallic originally. Very cool color.

[mepstein]

I'll tell you for a $100. LOL

[Cairo94507]

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[stevegm]

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Sorry. I just couldn't find what you decided in the thread. You should paint it whatever color you like. It has been a long road and it is a great build. Enjoy it.

[Cairo94507]

So here is my steering wheel via Dallas Customs. Great service and quick turn-around time. Double wrapped the rim and single=wrapped the spokes. Thankfully, Mark (mepstein) reminded me about not double wrapping the spokes - thanks for looking out for me bud.

[EdwardBlume]

Dang.... that's a nice wheel. How much to get that done?

[mepstein]

horn pad or hockey puck?