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Members with 74 1.8, information needed for history of cars |
wonkipop |
Nov 25 2021, 04:35 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,253 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
@StarBear & @wonkipop want to hear from members who own 1974 1.8s.
to assist with a topic in originality section of the website. Cars need to be reasonably original with L jet fuel injection system intact. If you have the time and can help us with some information it would be great. information. 1. Vin Date - month and year (no need to post vin numbers if you don't want to). thats the date on the driver door sticker. 2. Karmann plate #. or if you have already done the maths, the day and week of the year the car began production. 3. Image of engine bay emission sticker (lhs above the air cleaner - white with red letters). sticker should say whether it is an EC-A or an EC-B engine and whether it is california + EPA or only EPA. 4. image of engine tune up sticker. this is the small white sticker that is on LHS engine tin just below fan shroud. most of them are gone by now, but some engines still have them. 5. image of the throttle body. image of the distributor. we are looking at the vacuum hose set up between the distributor and the throttle body. ----- (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
wonkipop |
Dec 1 2021, 05:05 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,253 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
i think i have worked out this emission sticker thing.
even though most (all so far) EC-B say conforms to california, they do not appear to send the EC-B to california. all the EC-B i can find on internet in good condition with extensive documentation show they were sold new in states other than california. this agrees with wonki, @Van B and @StarBear EC-B cars. known sold new on east coast. EC-B have the vac advance hooked up. EC-A are sent to california and have the vac advance disconnected and port plugged on throttle body. EO-7-5 proves that. stipulated in description of distributor. tune stickers show it too. (thanks to L-JET914 for that priceless CARB document). BUT. brand new 74 MY base 914s are late to the showrooms and in short supply? it appears all a dealer would have to do is disconnect the vac advance on a EC-B car and plug the port and they have an EC-A CARB approved car. it might have been handy for stocks of 914 available in the USA at that time if they were short on cars to sell in california. just send them down there if they had to. how they handled the sticker in legal terms i don't know. ----- i'm beginning to think that the mythical 49 state car is one without vacuum retard. a member here Pete000 has one with a TB that has no vac idle port. nihil44's is the same. i got a hunch that is the EC-B without cal conforming parts. you have to have vac retard for CARB. it can't be sent there for sale under any circumstances. not without swapping out the throttle body. so the stickers make it clear, its to be moved around in stock for the 49 states only. |
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