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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 |
Nov 9 2014, 06:25 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 12-October 14 From: Australia Member No.: 18,008 Region Association: None |
a few big days of work this week ...
where do I begin !? I finished fixing the inner / lower firewall with some welded in steel plate. braced the front upper door mount to the seatbelt mount cut out the lateral floor support - while it looked in generally good condition on the outside there was a cornflake box of rust flakes inside it. cut it out as i'm moving it forwards to give some adjustability to the drivers seat. made up a couple of bars to replace the cross mount from 1.2mm SHS - will stitch weld them together. i also am going to drop the floor a couple of inches as i wont fit into the car with a helmet & roll cage ... upon looking at the floor a little closer, at the back, i decided to cut the floor out completely and make up a new floor. the rear of the right hand side floor was pretty poor condition due to the RHD conversion handbrake cable. bent up a new floor from 1.5mm steel - its about in place in the pic, but not yet welded in. there will be two flat bars welded the length of the floor to provide additional support to the seat mounts. the front of the floor drops down 20mm and ramps down to 50mm at the back, with the seats reclined i should get about the right amount of height. bought a pair of cobra seats that fit perfectly (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Attached thumbnail(s) |
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