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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 31 2014, 11:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 12-October 14 From: Australia Member No.: 18,008 Region Association: None |
little more progress today;
did a little workshop organising to make some more space - always takes longer than expected :/ removed the floor covering - the tar like stuff - gave it a little heat and it peels off easily enough .. Cut off the handbrake mount points - there were two of them - one on each side as it was converted to right hand drive the left hand one was just left in place. Removed both rear seat mounts as I have secured a pair of sparco rev plus seats. When I pulled out the rear seat mounts I found a bunch of coins under them - quarters & dimes by the look of them ?? - fair well corroded tho ... Removed a bunch of small brackets on the floor & cleaned it all up & gave a spray of weld thru primer. next job is to remove the cross floor brace and cut the top off the tunnel to clean out the surface rust & give it a coat of epoxy. Attached image(s) |
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