Jim's Majik Blue 72, Progress, actual progress! Options

[jcd914]

I am resurrecting/hijacking this thread for my 914 Build Off thread.

I have made very little progress since I bought this 914 and started this thread.

My Build Off thread starts at post number 27 where I have a some background on me and my new Blue 914 and what I plan to accomplish as part of the 914 Build Off.

Thanks for following along!

Jim

I am leaving the original post in this thread so the post that follow make sense.

The original start:

So I went to Long Beach to spend Thanksgiving week with my kids, both my son and daughter now live in LB.
While I was in LB to took a trip up to Santa Clairita and bought Chris' (banger on 914world) Majik Blue Pearl 914 project. Chris has put a lot of work into this car with the engine he built and the paint & body work he had done. He has had an ad posted for awhile and had dropped his asking price too low for me to pass up.

This is going to be the beginnings of my project thread, which looks like it will mostly be reassembling the car after the body/paint work that was done. It is the body and paint work that lead me to buying this from Chris, it is an amazing color blue that changes with the light.

I did not bring a truck and trailer with me on vacation so I will be going back down (prob 2 weeks) to pick-up the car and parts. Empty truck & trailer from N. Cal to S. Cal if anyone needs something transported?

Now I need to sell off much of the 3 other 914s I have to support this project (and appease my wife). Since Chris' car was a complete runner before it came apart for paint/body work, there will soon be ads in the classified for much of my years of collecting.

Here is to new beginnings (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

Jim

[jcd914]

So it has been over 2 years since I posted any progress on my car.
There of course were lots of things that kept from working on that were completely out of my control.
Well that is my story and I am sticking to it.

At any rate I have actually made some progress on it.

A while back I was continuing on the wiring repairs I last posted on.
Cleaned up the harness in the front trunk and straightened out the installation of the stainless fuel lines.

Then I moved on to the wiring harness in the engine compartment.
There I found some very poor repairers and melted wires, quite a mess and not something I wanted to risk coming back to bite me.
I had previously bought a harness but it turned out to be a 70 or 71 harness not 72.

Since I had already fixed the harness in the front trunk and passenger compartment I decide I would do the unthinkable.

I am splicing the rear half of a 75 harness into my 72.
I know there will be some challenges in this but I am OK with wiring.

I cleaned up the rear portion of the 75 harness, repaired a couple tail light wires, rewrapped it and made sure the routing through the engine compartment and to the tail light worked.

The first issue I ran into was after threading the harness through the engine shelf and through the engine compartment and to the tail lights.
When I attempted to put the snorkel through the engine shelf it wouldn't fit.
I assumed it was just stiff and it would take a little extra effort.
After several hours of extra effort over several days I decided there was something else going on.
I did some looking around and figured out that there are 2 different versions of the snorkels, smaller diameter early version and larger diameter late version.
As best I can tell the change was around 75, I have seen pictures of 74's with the early smaller snorkel and the larger snorkel I have was from a 75 2.0L.
My first thought was to open the whole in the engine shelf but there is not room, I found a picture of a 75/76 and the snorkel goes through the engine shelf a few inches over where the shelf is wider.

So I bought a new snorkel from 914rubber and pulled the rear harness half back out of the car, removed the original snorkel and installed the new one.
I then reinstalled the rear half harness, routed it through the engine compartment and to the tail lights.
Threaded into the passenger compartment and installed the snorkel through the engine shelf and into the firewall.

Now I can proceed with splicing the 75 rear half into the 72 front half.
Jim