A Texas Sized Project - 1975 2.0L, 12/8/20 - Wiring & Interior Update Options

[aggiezig]

Spent the evening with Jay @ H&H in Plano. Great guy and really enjoyed touring the shop and learning the family history. The engine is in good hands now!

[aggiezig]

Pulled the 'teener out to load up and move from the storage unit to my uncle's shop. Here are some pics:

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Also lifted the car up and placed on my body stand. The stand itself is sturdy, but the cheesy pneumatic wheels will need to be swapped.

Straps around motor mounts:
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Lifting from front & rear:
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Tucked away next to the '56 oval project (for sale)
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Also, found a "parts car" I am planning to pick up on Saturday. It's a 72 and has 2.0L fuchs, chrome bumpers, some missing interior pieces, transmission, and lots of other goodies. I will probably take patch panels from this car instead of buying new $$ from restoration design.

More to come!

[aggiezig]

Picked up the parts car this afternoon. It's a '72 roller with no motor, no transmission. The engine compartment and hell hole are very clean, but the floors have some holes.

I'll be stealing the fuchs, bumpers, and targa top along with some other small pieces. Then I'll probably post what's left for a few hundred. If it doesn't sell, I'll take anything of value off and scrap the rest.

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[porschetub]

Looks like a good sound base for a resto,not as rotten as many I have seen on here.
That parts car will come in handy it will save you having to weld your dash frame back together,god nows why the PO did that ?
Place a WTB for the g/box breather,its function is to vent the oil as it foams up which is important.
Keep up the good work (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)

[aggiezig]

Quick update for you guys. I pulled the front suspension and got the brakes off of the rear. I need to do some searching to figure out the best way to remove the stub axle assemblies out of the trailing arms.

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Took some pics of some of the parts I stole off of my parts car so far:

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P/O cut part of the exhaust pipe / flange off of these... wondering if they are worth anything or can be repaired?

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Also hoping this top is the same style / will fit my '75, need to do some more research as well:

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Will be tearing into the interior soon to remove all the bits I want to keep:

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Also got some bad news on my engine parts... The shop called to say that the crankshaft and cam I supplied were not useable. Apparently the crank has already been turned .020" under and he did not want to turn again? He also said the heads will need a valve job & new springs. As a result... my estimate has now jumped to $6500-7000 to source those missing parts and build the engine. I'm having a real hard time swallowing this one and not quite sure what the course of action will be at this point.

I'm hoping to get my parts car moved out of storage this weekend so that I can start cannibalizing more and get the shell on the chopping block. Will keep you all posted.

[aggiezig]

Got the parts car moved out of my storage unit and my uncle is letting me park it in a square of his shop driveway. I spent a good 3 hours pulling parts with a buddy and my Dad last weekend.

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Also got the trailing arms out and suspension completely disassembled:
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Dad helping out:
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Our homemade bearing driver tool:
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Ended up using a 1.5" piece of metal pipe to get these out of the arms:
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Ready to head to the powdercoater tomorrow:
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[Larmo63]

There are some parts that you intend to powder coat that need to be carefully masked so they don't get powder coat on them.

Make sure that you know this and which areas need to be protected.

[aggiezig]

Picked up some shiny clean parts today...

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[aggiezig]

I was inspired by the octagon / rotisserie that Restoration Design has created in this thread so I decided to go ahead and build one for my project. This will be very helpful when media blasting, epoxy priming, painting, reassembly, etc. All in all, I have around $300 invested including steel, casters, hardware, paint, and some wire / cutting discs.

I had a hard time coming across the CAD plans for this stand but finally found them in the above thread. For anyone looking for these plans... download this PDF of all four images combined together.

Here's all of the required metal:
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Marked up for cuts:
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Dad helped out with some smart ways to square it all up:
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Using the bottom hoop as a template for the top:
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I started to prep the angle iron for the brackets for the 8 connecting bars but that's about where we stopped tonight.
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Hopefully we will finish up the stand this week and possibly get the car mounted in the stand this weekend. I may deviate slightly from the RD drawings as I do not want to re-mount my clean, powder-coated suspension crossmember under the car. I will likely use a piece of 1-1/4" square tubing that's left over and extend the height of the front "pick-ups" off of the hoop.

If all goes to plan... I'm scheduling a media blaster to come out in two weekends. Would be nice to have everything blasted and epoxy-primed before the holidays.

[Cairo94507]

Nice project and you are making good time too. I like your dad is helping out. Have fun. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[aggiezig]

Thanks, Cairo. I definitely appreciate his help.


Had a chance to get just a little more work done this week. The "cross bars" are welded and ready to go and the "hoops" are drilled (should have drilled these before welding together...)

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All thats left is to add the caster wheels and actual car mounts. Maybe we'll see the teener in this stand in the next few days?

[aggiezig]

All done... just needs a 914 inside of it!

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[aggiezig]

It was a little bit of a challenge, but my 914 is now firmly mounted in its rotisserie!

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The donor that will give life back to my car:
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All put away, for now:
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[mbseto]

Nice work. I'm kind of fascinated by these octagon rotisseries. I'm wondering if you could make one out of this:
http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/g...CFZIBaQodNGME6g

$180, it would roll real easy, you would need to add minimal work to add brackets...

[aggiezig]

Spent a little time this weekend working on some of the repair panels I cut out of my '72 parts car.

I will use this section to replace the missing rear trunk floor on my car:

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I trimmed it down to what I will need and cleaned up for a closer inspection:

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The typical rear edge where it meets the rear fascia is rusted pretty badly:

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Closer inspection finds some holes:

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I will be trying to fill some of these holes with a little help from a copper spoon. Hopefully I can salvage this piece because a new one from RD is $$$.

I'll also *try* to cut a patch panel out of this to repair where my car was chopped up for A/C. It definitely will need to be straightened and have a few crack seams welded up. It looks like the car was driven over a few too many things:

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There are some bad signs including serious rust under the seam sealer:

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Lastly, I stole the battery box & tray out of the parts car. It's in mostly good shape save some surface rust and twisting I did getting it out. It will only need minor repairs:

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That's it for now. Obviously these pieces will need more work in the future.

[aggiezig]

Well, it's been a month but I was finally able to align the stars and bring my project home to my garage where I can work on it much more frequently.

Here it is all loaded up on the rotisserie with remaining parts from the 72 parts car:
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In transit:
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Finally home!
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O/T - correct me if I'm wrong, but is the aluminum crossmember exclusive to the 911? It came out of the 72 parts car:
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Well, I wasted no time and dug in to start the sheet metal repairs. As I cleaned off the paint, the rust holes kept getting bigger...
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Backside:
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I was able to fill a few small holes with the welder, but there are three main areas that will have to be gutted (under the trunk latch mount, and under the two side support mounts?)

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All holes cut:
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Likely going to have to recreate the bottom 2cm or so of these support braces:
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Here's some rusty porsche for everyone:
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After taking measurements, decided to go ahead and fill in the trim holes so I can run without vinyl & cross-trim:
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Also O/T, but does anyone know what these carpet nail looking things are for around the rear taillights? I'm thinking they need to be pulled and filled:
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Decided to cut into the sail panel and see if there was any rust due to the foam seal inside. I figured there might be as there was some surface rust on the outside of these panels. Surprisingly, it is very clean inside. May not cut open the other side:
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At least I have the right sized patch panel? I'm going to coat the inside with rust-proofing before I seal it back up:
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That's where I'm stopping tonight. I realized I don't have any sheet metal lying around, so I will have to track some down to make patches.

[aggiezig]

Time for a few updates… While I was out of town, my Dad was bored enough to wander into the garage and play around with the teener (much appreciated). He knocked out some patches for the side marker warts and also filled the antenna hole:

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Heat shield now separated from donor panel and ready to be welded onto new rear trunk floor:
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He also discovered what must be years of accumulated rat droppings under the headlight buckets:

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Enough to fill almost 3" deep inside of our 16 gal shop vac.
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Still some left even after lots and lots of vacuuming:

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The insides of these areas under the buckets will have to be treated with master series for sure.

I ordered a (cheap) paintless dent removal tool off amazon to try out on some of the dents on the car. It seems to work pretty well, other than the glue getting stuck to the plastic pullers. Here is a dent we experimented on:

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Glue applied:
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Using the puller:
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Dent is almost gone after one attempt (note it is in fact NOT paintless)
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After pondering over the patches I needed to make, I broke down and ordered a front and rear trunk floor panel from Restoration Design. We've just about got those in place now, so will update with more pictures soon!

[aggiezig]

Playing around with some paint stripper...

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Overall some very clean, very original sheet metal. A few bumps and bruises but no major beating required other than a crease in the front hood.

[VaccaRabite]

Decided not to blast it?
Zach

[aggiezig]

Decided not to blast it?
Zach

I'm weighing up the time / money question. As of now I am planning to strip the "flat" surfaces and blast all of the nooks / crannies / areas not easily stripped. Should cut down the amount of time needed to blast and allows me to make some progress in the meantime. The whole bottom of the car will be blasted (then epoxy and color-match upol raptor liner).