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Aussie 914 Restoration |
barrym |
Oct 26 2014, 04:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 12-October 14 From: Australia Member No.: 18,008 Region Association: None |
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 ... Attached image(s) |
barrym |
Oct 28 2014, 03:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 12-October 14 From: Australia Member No.: 18,008 Region Association: None |
A little more work last night was very successful - wont be able to work on it for a few more days so was good to make progress.
Door came off - easy, but geez its heavy - I can see a fibreglass skin in its very near future ! Pulled off sill cover expecting a fair amount of rust given how mud mud & stone fell out when I pulled the cover off - but 10 minutes cleaning revealed an extremely clean sill/rocker ! couple of small spots of surface rust but otherwise extremely good. Finished removing the loom - there is about 3kg of surplus in that I think (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) removed the seat, the pic shows the seat with the broken off tab - I was stuffing around for ages with this poking bits of metal under the seat - all I needed to do was lift the tab up - I think it should have a longer tab on it that's broken off ... removed rear windscreen - as I pulled it out a folded up bit of paper fell out that was wedging it in place ... see pic - I guess I know where it came from now ! started cleaning up the firewall around the engine lid release - bit of rust here, but its quite concentrated to this area - easily cut out & replaced. the left land side scallop in the rocker has been well covered - couldn't see any cracks but will clean it back to bare metal & get a better look. removed the gear shift lever - seems a fair amount of surface rust on the floor pan under there, should I remove the centre tunnel & clean it up ??? and thanks to maddogmortorsport who are shipping me the full chassis strengthening kit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I have a query with Coldwater914 for the sub conversion now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Attached image(s) |
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