Colored hoses, Are they still available? Or has anyone tried dying a hose? Options

[TonyA]

Maybe i ma crazy but are these available anywhere, or has anyone ever attempted to bleach and dye a hose?

[wonkipop]

here is my view.

the 914 is an argument between porsche and vw.
from the get go.

short version -
no one ever knew who had a big hand in styling it. until recently. why?
A. Piech had a big hand in engineering it (i think that is generally accepted and thank god because its brilliant in engineering terms --- BRILLIANT), and in family terms he was in a head butt with F A Porsche in the 1960s. A P had tickets on himself back then - and history has proved why he had those tickets on himself. he was up against the owners son. the son v the cousin. in the end you could say Piech won - but that was at the end of their lives.
On top of that the old dad got screwed in a deal with the incoming VW pres. etc.
all shrouded in mystery until recently because for many years the story could never be told because that would mean reciting a family business deal over the dinner table with Nordoff married to one of the sisters etc that went wrong when he died prematurely.
The poor old 914 is shrouded in family tangles right when its ready to come out.

in short its a car produced with a gentleman's agreement that gets launched over an argument.

the way you resolve an argument is you go.......
you do it your way with your cars and we do it our way with our cars.
and they just split it when it came to emissions set up?
amongst many other agreed compromises.......because its kind of semi-hostile.

VW did it their way in the 4s that came out of the karmann factory in osnabruck from the get go?
thats my "controversial" statement.
and porsche did it their way with the 6s, which were plumbed up at their factory in stuttgart.

even the owners manuals are interesting - they are printed by porsche and not by vw. how reliable is the information in them. are they transmitting info correctly. though we do know that it changes in the emissions warranty from 73 to 74.
and i would not be so quick to dismiss that as a misprint.
because porsche are always in charge of printing the owners manual.
so its going to have their version?
until about the time they change their version?

but the 2.0 L 4s might have been under porsche control. the engine was developed after all by porsche, even though it was a VW basis. i can see evidence they are plumbed the porsche way.

its easy to prove how the 74 1.8s were plumbed when the can was in the engine bay.
i have an original car and i know its right.
and it corresponds to other cars. including yours starbear. and the one sitting around in dr. 914s collection and numerous others.

what i would want to see is a rigorous proof of exactly how the earlier 1.7s and 1.8s are plumbed with the front can. my money is on the VW way. its a hunch. you have to follow the hoses through to the front of the car. and you need an original car to do it with.

history is interesting.

i'm going with the idea that porsche wanted it one way and vw the other.
the big hint is in how 911s were plumbed early on. opposite to VW.


who knows which version actually works the best.
but it is interesting that porsche give up on their version with the 911 and go VW.
whereas VW in all their cars never change their tune.
it could be scientific.
or it could just be german pig headeness?
or neither of them were actually right and the fan blown can was just not such a great idea anyway?