Optimusglen's build off challenge, 6-cylinders of goodness. Ready for my next cross-country trip. Options

[914time]

Great work! Good call on bringing the gas tank in for cleaning, too. My dad ran out to C & C on Saturday for a few minutes to pass out All Porsche Show flyers. He thought he saw about 4-6 914s there...pretty impressive as you would have maybe seen 1 a few years back.

He's feverishly trying to get his 74LE back together in time for the All Porsche Show Sunday, June 26th at Central Park in Roseville, MN (shameless plug). All you MN, ND, SD, WI, IA (and beyond) guys NEED to bring your 914s. It is a no pressure show with 150+ Porsches on hand. It is a great time and the largest Porsche event around.

[Optimusglen]

For sure! If mine was anywhere near ready to drive I'd push to get it ready, but I still have to drop the engine and rebuild some things. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I'll be there though!

[Optimusglen]

I picked up the tank from getting refurbed. I went to Gas Tank Renu USA to have it done, they patched a couple holes that were hidden, cleaned/blasted the inside, and coated it inside and out. Nationwide lifetime warranty too. In the end it was $275, and it'll be great to know the entire fuel system will be new or as new.

Picture using my potato phone, but you get the idea. It's clean inside (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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[mbseto]

Radio delete panel complete

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This is awesome. Nice touch.

[RickS]

To have your ash tray match your dash, buy Forever Black. It is a black dye product with a foam tipped applicator. Used it on mine and looks great. I also use it on any other rubber or plastic trim parts which I want to restore back to black. Think Amazon has it.

Great thread and great skills.

[Optimusglen]

To have your ash tray match your dash, buy Forever Black. It is a black dye product with a foam tipped applicator. Used it on mine and looks great. I also use it on any other rubber or plastic trim parts which I want to restore back to black. Think Amazon has it.

Great thread and great skills.

Thank you, I'll have to give that a try.

I had this in a seperate thread on here, but since it has to do with my project I'll put it here too. A co-worker of mine found out I had a 914 project and mentioned to me that he had a 914 several years ago. He went on to say that he still had a manual for it and had been trying to find a good use for it. If I wanted it I could have it for free. Of course I accepted and the next day came into work and to my surprise this was on my chair...

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[914-300Hemi]

To have your ash tray match your dash, buy Forever Black. It is a black dye product with a foam tipped applicator. Used it on mine and looks great. I also use it on any other rubber or plastic trim parts which I want to restore back to black. Think Amazon has it.

Great thread and great skills.

Thank you, I'll have to give that a try.

I had this in a seperate thread on here, but since it has to do with my project I'll put it here too. A co-worker of mine found out I had a 914 project and mentioned to me that he had a 914 several years ago. He went on to say that he still had a manual for it and had been trying to find a good use for it. If I wanted it I could have it for free. Of course I accepted and the next day came into work and to my surprise this was on my chair...

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Very cool gift.

[Optimusglen]

Big day today, i have most of the week off so i decided to dig in.

Dropped the engine, removed the heat exchangers and exhaust, separated the trans, and got the engine on the stand.

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[914time]

Awesome! Keep the updates and progress coming

[Optimusglen]

I finished up a drawing of the end product for this stage anyway.

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If anyone is interested in seeing my other car art, or if you want a print of yours, check out my post in the member vendors section.
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=281607

[Optimusglen]

Small update.

I finished where the rust left off with the heat exchangers. I'll be running the exhaust as budget headers.
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Engine is down to the long block. This week I'll be pulling the jugs off and doing a lot of cleaning and inspecting. Gasket kit is in but it only has the head gaskets for the 1.7, I'll need to measure and get new ones.
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I got sick of the amount of clutter in my garage, so I purchased a new roller cart for my tool box. Getting things more organized always helps with the morale of working in the garage.
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I know it still looks like a rats nest compared to many of you, but at least I know where everything is now.

Bonus, you can see one of the pictures from my trip to Birmingham for the Porsche Sport Driving School that I won, some of you might remember that post from a few years back.

Last but not least, a member here was selling a drilled 5-lug swap with (Compomotive) Fuchs. It all needs to be cleaned up and refinished, but everything else on this project is the same way apart from the steering wheel. So I jumped on it and it should all be headed my way soon.
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The wheels are 15x6 and 15x7 staggered. It'll be tight in the back, but I was going to have to roll the fenders anyway so I'm not worried. They aren't real/original Fuchs, so they're not ideal, but it will be easier to upgrade later on now that I'll actually be running 5x130.

Fortunately enough, even though they are not original they don't suffer from the replica issues where a company will use an original forged wheel to make their tool, but then cast the wheels instead of forging, which makes a replica much weaker. These are designed to be cast. The only thing that bugs me is the pedal shape, it's much narrower where it meets the center. I think it'll be fine if I do all black centers, but if I try to finish these as an RSR style wheel, they might look odd... We'll see.


OH, one other bit of news. I discovered that my brother in-law that lives 5 minutes away from me owns a sand blasting cabinet. #winning

[rudedude]

Looking good Glen!

[Optimusglen]

Engine is mostly apart, have not cracked the case open, and clutch/flywheel are still in place.

Everything went smoothly. Lots of dirt and oil but nothing scary.
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Cleaned up one piston so far, didn't take a whole lot of effort.
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I forgot to write it down on that napkin, but the cylinder bore is 95.872mm. All measurements are approximate, taken with a standard caliper. So I think it's safe to assume they are 96mm cylinders.

Lifters look wonderful, no pitting or scoring.
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Cam looks pretty good too!
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Some oil staining on this lobe, but no pitting and it's very smooth, by touch you cannot tell it's there.
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Cylinder bores are clean, I can't see the cross hatching though.
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Is this something I need to have bored?


Questions:
-I seem to remember a bulletin from Porsche or VW effectively saying not to use the cylinder base metal gaskets. Can anyone confirm?

-Do I need to have any work done on the cylinders to replace the cross hatching, or is that only if I replace rings?

[Tbrown4x4]

No head gaskets. You still need to seal the cylinders to the case. Use sealer. You may need spacers, depending on what you need for CR. Not sure if you stack spacers AND gaskets. I assume sealer trumps any gasket.

[Optimusglen]

No head gaskets. You still need to seal the cylinders to the case. Use sealer. You may need spacers, depending on what you need for CR. Not sure if you stack spacers AND gaskets. I assume sealer trumps any gasket.

Thanks!

Since the engine was running fine before, I'll skip the spacers at the base. The ring that was in there was paper thin and had zero sealant. I think I'll leave that ring out, and use a sealant instead.

[Optimusglen]

Got a few things in the mail today.

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[Optimusglen]

Lots of cleaning today. Since the case is open to the elements via the cylinder holes I can't really use more conventional cleaning methods.

So i have to do it the hard way, with paper towells and a small brush.

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Started cleaning and stripping the wheels, but I'm thinking they were powdercoated. Two full installments of stripper but only a little black has come off each time.

[Optimusglen]

More progress today. Finished rebuilding one of the carbs.

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[injunmort]

great job on cleaning. i used the aluminum sealing rings in the head/cylinder interface, no sealant. car runs fine. i did not pull cylinders because i did not want to upset ring land. if it were mine, the bores look good, i would re-ring it and reassemble. only because you pulled the cylinders.

[Optimusglen]

So I did a test wheel in the RSR paint scheme just to see if it would look weird because of the petal shape. Turned out better than expected so I will be doing all 4.

Stripped the paint off the wheels. Maybe it was powdercoat, it took 4 passes with paint stripper and on the final pass I had to use a brass brush as well. But, I got it all off. Cleanup using fine "0" 3M steel wool and to get that brushed look on the lips. The insides were textured from the factory and it looked nice so I left them.

There is a method for painting just the inside of the Fuchs that works well. You seal off the back side with tape (packing tape, or something with a good solid bond, i.e. not painters tape) place the wheel over a bucket that will fit snugly inside the wheel, then carefully fill each of the 5 valleys until paint reaches the desired level. Finally, you puncture the tape with a blade and let the paint drain out into the bucket.

I didn't use this method. Mostly because I didn't have pour-able paint, but also because I didn't have a bucket that would fit well that wasn't currently being used to store used engine oil. What I did have is a roll of painters tape, a spray can of ceramic semi-gloss high temp black, and more patience than your average bear.

Masking.
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And done!
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