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[Shivers]

I have one of these but it is just a tub, nothing on it at all. Going to Frankenteener it with my 72'. Sorry I can't help.

Hey dude, I did this chop a few years back for a competition at Freakingnews.com. I was to do an Australian road sign. Did I nail it?

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you left off venomous politicians.

You forgot the drop bears. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Hahaha, I popped this pic into google image search yesterday and it is being used all over the place ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) kinda cool ) and while reading at these sites I read about carnivorous Kuala's. Had I known, hahaha

[Van B]

I'm gonna start calling you Shivers the thread pirate!

[Shivers]

Aaarrrg

[RRietman]

@RRietman

thanks mate. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

2 weeks prior to mine. I’m sure we’ll gather an EC-A car soon.

and in the window for the fume can in the frunk?

@RRietman

- sorry to bug you. where is the charcoal cannister in your car?

pic of can in frunk
thanks
Randy

[wonkipop]

@Shivers
thanks for the can info, looked up the car on member vin.
its not in that critical zone between @Starbear car and a green car i found on internet.
but randy's car is with its vin and k number. i'm just going to work out what that means for a date close to where this can thing happens.

as an aside.

so far all the cars we know about for EC-B are grouped from nov 73 to end of jan 74.

thanks for can photo @RRietman

[Shivers]

Sorry I couldn't help.

@wonkipop

[wonkipop]

Sorry I couldn't help.

@wonkipop

no worries mate. come down to aus one day and check out the wildlife. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[L-Jet914]

Here is the data from my 1974 1.8L L-jet. Stock FI with the exception of Pertronix ignition drop in module. Built 15th week of 1974, Wednesday April 10th, 1974, Karmann factory Osnabrück, 552nd or 52nd car. My car is an EC-A engine code. Now at some point in this car's life, someone decided to cap off the throttle body connection for the ignition retard side and "T" into a closer manifold vacuum source which is shared by the fuel pressure regulator etc. I have no idea why, unless it was easier to connect there instead of running it under the intake manifold back to the throttle body port.

[L-Jet914]

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[Van B]

Oh the guys are gonna be so happy when they see this!

[wonkipop]

STOKED

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mr. b is going to be happy too.

@L-Jet914 - this is your dad's car right. been in the family.
its more than gold. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

and its a 606 engine stencil.
mr. b can get the headache figuring that out.

we got 604, 605, now a 606 and he has a A with a 607 on his website. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[L-Jet914]

STOKED

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mr. b is going to be happy too.

@L-Jet914 - this is your dad's car right. been in the family.
its more than gold. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

My father bought the car new in 1974 from a now defunct dealership called Ely Porsche Audi in Hayward, California, USA. It's been a California car it's entire life. The 914 is still in his name, but I drive, try to maintain and show the vehicle now.

[wonkipop]

STOKED

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mr. b is going to be happy too.

@L-Jet914 - this is your dad's car right. been in the family.
its more than gold. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

My father bought the car new in 1974 from a now defunct dealership called Ely Porsche Audi in Hayward, California, USA. It's been a California car it's entire life. The 914 is still in his name, but I drive, try to maintain and show the vehicle now.

re your observations on retard port.
maybe that is what an A is? rather than somebody having done something to it?
it might have been like that since new?

they do something with the A version which is different to the B and that is what we are trying to figure out.

also lurking out there somewhere will be a EC-B that is not california certified.
mr. b has a sticker for one but no further information. it definitely existed too.

[Van B]

Based on my trials, I would wager that the ECU is different, or at least the program. My car simply would not start in that configuration.

[nihil44]

My contribution. Imported into Aus in 1990. Converted to RHD but otherwise seem pretty original. It had a wack up the left rear quarter and another quarter grafted on and not very well. It didn't have a charcoal canister in the front and so I guess that might have ben dropped off as too hard to replace the line/s to the rear.

VIN 4742908959
Engine # EC005018
Karmann chassis # 47 1 9 642

[wonkipop]

@nihil44

i was waiting for you to come through.
you ripper.
an A with some vital detail? its a mystery.
might need to ask more about that vac set up.

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what this is proving is they are mixing the A in with the B.
as to why? but they are not doing them one after the other.
and they are both california and EPA certified.

[wonkipop]

Based on my trials, I would wager that the ECU is different, or at least the program. My car simply would not start in that configuration.

parts book says ECU is not changed.
but it says there are two different throttle bodies.
thats it. thats the only difference in the parts book.

but its not that easy.
because it seems lurking out there was an non california version.
go figure. germans.

i dunno yet? don't think anyone does.

anyone with a B has the Cap'n Krusty version.
but others swear that there are different ones when it comes to this vac hose hook up.

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[L-Jet914]

I don't why the vacuum T was installed in between with the fuel pressure regulator and decel valve was done to connect the retard side of the vacuum port of my distributor. The port on my throttle body is capped off as pictured. I do know the engine had some major work done to it in the 80s cylinder heads etc. So it now has the configuration of two vacuum t's connected to the manifold vacuum port off the intake plenum giving vacuum to the retard side of the distributor, fuel pressure regulator and the decel valve, instead of just the decel valve and fuel pressure regulator.

[wonkipop]

@L-Jet914 don't worry as to what or the why yet.
for now the thread has gone..........

[wonkipop]

Based on my trials, I would wager that the ECU is different, or at least the program. My car simply would not start in that configuration.

you are going to have to expand on that theory.
and i know you can! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

all ears.