Aussie 914 Restoration Options

[barrym]

First time post of lurking here for a while.

I bought a '75 914 a couple of weeks ago that had already been partly pulled apart to restore- its mostly complete but needs to be further pulled down to repair the rust & make mods to it for my intended purpose.

it already came as right hand drive and has an amazingly good condition dash board. I have no history with the car so cant tell who or when the conversion was done. I don't even know if it was a US or European import, or if it was an aussie delivered car ... how can I tell ???
it has a scallop out of the right hand side chassis rail for the handbrake, but not the left hand side ...
it used to be viper green and has had a poor respray in red - it's going back to viper green (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
I have some garage space with a couple of chaps who has worked on 14's before which is a HUGE help to me, very lucky as i'm new to Porsche having owned lotus's for years (and still do). the plan is to restore it for partial road use but mostly track & tarmac rally. in the short term I plan to drop a 3.0 Subaru engine in while I build up funds & parts for a 2.7 Porsche engine.
Its been in dry storage for at least 11 years than I know of, and possibly more before that.
anyway, am documenting my rebuild thread here.

I've made a start on removing the hacked up loom & vacuuming all the loose rust out. Its better than expected (as I bought the car only from pictures)
it needs;
new hell holes
back of floorpan & bottom of firewall
boot

and that's about it - the rest of it looks (at this stage) like only surface rust - the suspension consoles are solid as is the majority of the front boot - again, only surface rust there ...

the windscreen will come out next to get access to pull out the dash so I can continue to remove the loom.
i'll be making up a new loom for it.

question though - how do I remove the left hand seat ? the lever at the side does nothing - possibly broken ? and there is no handle at the front to slide the seat forwards to get at the rear bolts ... stumped on this one ...