Another 914 goes under the knife, UPDATE: IT'S ALIVE....FINALLY Options

[rick 918-S]

Ready to go home! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif)

[r_towle]

My turn? A nice 356 custom rod...

[rick 918-S]

My turn? A nice 356 custom rod...

356? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Ahhh ya! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) The 911 will be gone by the first.

[rick 918-S]

My turn? A nice 356 custom rod...

356? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Ahhh ya! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) The 911 will be gone by the first. Chopped, sectioned and lowered... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif)

[r_towle]

My turn? A nice 356 custom rod...

356? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Ahhh ya! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) The 911 will be gone by the first. Chopped, sectioned and lowered... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif)

Free design.
Just as long as it gets a 911 rear suspension....possibly front also....not sure it needs that, but the trunk it tiny.

It's a 65 sc....cut what you want.....

I need to send you a few pics....it's a project for sure.

[euro911]

Ready to go home! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif)

Very nice job, Rick (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)

[mrgreenjeans]

Ben

VERY nice car.

We have had our two cars together , but it has been awhile.
A Nord Stern event almost 20 years ago, right after my '74 - two litre was repainted it's one and only time.

So, its been a number of years and I anxiously await to see it back on the road and in the show field.

Do you plan to have it at the All Porsche Show in Roseville this summer ?

Hope to get the opportunity to view it up close and personal once again........ nice history on it thru Carousel and then S/F and back again to it's home turf.

Rick, WHAT an exceptional job. VERY nice work..... Thanks for your diligence. And helping Ben keep it looking great for what we all hope, is a very long time.

[vintage914racer]

Ben

VERY nice car.

We have had our two cars together , but it has been awhile.
A Nord Stern event almost 20 years ago, right after my '74 - two litre was repainted it's one and only time.

So, its been a number of years and I anxiously await to see it back on the road and in the show field.

Do you plan to have it at the All Porsche Show in Roseville this summer ?

Hope to get the opportunity to view it up close and personal once again........ nice history on it thru Carousel and then S/F and back again to it's home turf.

Rick, WHAT an exceptional job. VERY nice work..... Thanks for your diligence. And helping Ben keep it looking great for what we all hope, is a very long time.

Not sure if I'll make the all Porsche show. Baby #2 is due in mid-June and her arrival will certainly impact my ability to get the car put back together. My intent is to get it road ready ahead of time but you know how that goes. If it isn't ready perhaps I'll bring the 914 track car.

[vintage914racer]

Many thanks to Rick for taking on this project. After seeing his work I don't think the job could've been any better. He is a true artisan that really cares about the work that he does. If you need work of this nature done to your car and he had the bandwidth I would highly recommend him.

Now that I have the car home I've been slowly piecing it together. Between my 2 year old, pregnant wife and disastrous weekend at the track in my other 914 I haven't been too productive.

I did get new sail panel vinyl put on and reinstalled the aluminum targa bar trim.






I also started installing new vinyl on the floor pan and rear firewall.

[vintage914racer]

The stock steering wheel is pretty ratty, and I had a prototipo on my shelf, so I installed that.



I also got a start on installing the vinyl interior strips.

[gms]

The stock steering wheel is pretty ratty, and I had a prototipo on my shelf, so I installed that.



I also got a start on installing the vinyl interior strips.

The prototipo is definitely a great upgrade especially since you probably have something similar in your racer. looks great!

[rick 918-S]

Did the shift rod arrive ok? I marked the orientation for you.



This photo was taken before I treated the tunnel and painted the tunnel.

[vintage914racer]

Did the shift rod arrive ok? I marked the orientation for you.



This photo was taken before I treated the tunnel and painted the tunnel.

It showed yesterday. With any luck I'll be able to put it back in tonight.

[vintage914racer]

Not a lot of progress lately because we welcomed our second child last week.



There has been one other development. It turns out the engine that was in the car is a 1968 911s motor. Given these are rare and worth some dough, I'm tossing around the notion of selling it, putting a different engine in the car and pocketing some cash.

[rick 918-S]

OMG! Congratulations!!!!

[euro911]

Looks like you're gonna need one of them 914 Limos then (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Congrats on the new little one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[vintage914racer]

It's hard to believe that it's coming up on a year since I've last updated this thread. I figured I was overdue so here goes.

As noted in my last post, the arrival of my daughter limited the amount of time available to work on the blue car. I made very little progress on it over the summer because the limited garage time I had was allocated to getting my track car ready for the racing season.

In July I brought the race car to the can't miss Hawk vintage races at Road America. This was my daughters first time at the track and my sons second. I treated my son to a ride into Elkhart Lake for the race car concours. You can see him below peeking his head over the door sill.




The race itself was one of the best I've had. I finished first in class and obtained by best lap time ever. They say that your engine always runs best when it's about to let loose. Sure enough I spun two rod bearings when returning to Road America in the fall...on my birthday. After a tear down a few weeks ago it appears that the engine fell victim to the infamous defective Glyco rod bearings. That's a topic for another thread...



With two non-running 914-6s, and a kitchen remodel slated for the spring, the decision was made to take the following race season off and focus efforts on getting the blue car back on the road.

[vintage914racer]

So, back to the blue 914-6. I should have started putting the engine back into the car last fall, but given the engine in the car is from a 1968 911S I had dreams of selling it for big bucks. After a couple bouts on eBay I had a number of offers and and equal amount of flaky buyers who fell through. A couple month ago I decided to simple put the engine back in.

Roughly nine days ago my wife flew down to Florida with the kids to visit her parents. Originally I had a work trip that overlapped with the trip and when that was cancelled it seemed like a great opportunity to stay home and burn some midnight oil working on the car. It's actually worked quite well given the kitchen and family room are torn apart as the remodelers do their magic.

I started by cleaning the decades of grime off of the engine tin and repainting it. I then managed to barely squeeze the engine between the runners of my lift and into position.



Then I figured I should at least tear into the transmission to see how things look and reseal before putting it back into the car.



Surprisingly the internals looked good, the first gear slider and dogteeth were remarkably pointy. In the interest of not sidelining the project more I determined that things looked good enough. I replaced all of the seals and buttoned it up. I do have to say that I've spent a lot of time inside side-shift equipped transmissions and next to none inside tailshifters. As a result, it took me awhile to figure out the best technique to getting the internal shift selector positioned properly.



I then proceeded to install the transmission.



I had it in in no time, but of course I was weary and when I went back to my bench I saw the throwout bearing sitting there. So, out it came, in went the throw out bearing and in went the transmission...again.



It was about now that I remembered that the CV joints were in rough shape and naturally replacement are NLA. At this point cannibalization kicked in. Knowing that I took a year off of racing, and that I wanted to refresh the CV's in the track car anyway, I pulled them off the orange car and put them on the blue car. Hopefully I don't regret this move in the future.



That's about where things sit today. I'm waiting on some gaskets for where the joint attached to the output flanges that are scheduled to arrive on Friday. I'll make quick work of buttoning the halfshafts up then go about connecting the fuel lines and wiring. Oh, I also failed to install the lower oil tank line prior to installing the oil tank so it looks like I'll have to pull the oil tank to get that installed than put the tank back in. I simply don't have small enough hands to make it work.

I hope to spend a couple hours on the car over the weekend. I'll follow up with more progress updates. Hopefully I can have the car on the ground running in two weeks or less.

[rick 918-S]

Had to bump this. Nice to see your back on the road Ben!

[vintage914racer]

After what's been way to long I'm happy to announce that the car is alive finally.

Once I got the engine and running gear installed back into the car I could not get any spark. Admittedly I didn't do a good job documenting where all the wires went when I tore it down. After too much tinkering I decided to bring it to a pro. Turns out a lead from the distributor wasn't connected properly. To make matters worse, the car needed a new CDI box as well. All told, after a new CDI box, points and a minor carb adjustment I'm told it runs like a champ.

I'm planning on picking up the car tomorrow and will post updates thereafter. I still need to figure out why the driver's rear brake is binding. I did remove the dust shields and possibly didn't install them correctly. The car runs upgraded rear calipers and there's a possibility I didn't put the spacers in correctly. I'll post more when I know more.