New 914 Owner Options

[ClayPerrine]

Fuel lines are gone as well will be replacing it with an steel braided AN line i had lying around in my bucket of spare parts.

That's a bad idea. There is a lot of moving stuff inside the tunnel, and the AN line can move around and get caught in the stuff that moves. Fuel leaks inside the car are really bad.

I suggest getting a set of stainless steel lines from Tangerine racing and installing them. Unlike the factory plastic lines, they are not brittle from age, and they don't move around when properly installed.

[ogdougy]

Making some progress. Engine bay is as good as it gets. I remembered that you cant really see much of the engine bay when you're driving so I calling it good enough here. I did also fix and gusset the firewall lid hinge brackets.
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Finished all the valve clearances, did the appropriate valve train geometry check, and starting the slow assembly. I also got a box of SS Torx screws from McMaster-Carr to replace every single one of those stupid flat head screws that strip at any possible moment.
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Carbs and Distributor are only on there to do a fit check and to make sure my CHT sensor and oil pressure sensor fit without any issue.
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On other fronts. I looked over my gas tank and cleaned it up. Coated the outside of it because I had leftover POR 15. The threads on BOTH feed and return were stripped. Since it's carbureted I welded the return shut and welded a AN fitting to the feed side. Bought a tried and true carter pump that I will be mounting under the tank and will be running all the lines.

[ogdougy]

Got the correct flywheel finally. Had a lot of personal stuff happen but the best therapy is in the garage.

Progress!
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[Cairo94507]

Very nice work; this is obviously not your first rodeo. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[Geezer914]

Very nice work! Welcome to the club.

[DRPHIL914]

very nice and welcome - late welcome i just saw your thread today not sure how i missed its beginning,
nice clean fast work wow!!! it’ll be back on the road in no time at all! at first i thought maybe since you had a suby motor you might go that direction but it’s nice to see you using the original case and completing a more original but performance air cooled car.

Phil

[ogdougy]

very nice and welcome - late welcome i just saw your thread today not sure how i missed its beginning,
nice clean fast work wow!!! it’ll be back on the road in no time at all! at first i thought maybe since you had a suby motor you might go that direction but it’s nice to see you using the original case and completing a more original but performance air cooled car.

Phil

The suby motor may make it's way into this car. But for once in my life I wanted to enjoy a car in its stock(ish) form lol.


And the work continues!!!

Figuring out the PO's wiring mess making new alternator and alternator cables. Even gave the board a little cleaning. Just need to add the ground so the fuel relay will work.
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Putting new transmission side CV joints. All new shift rod bushings are in. PO didnt even have the fire wall bushing in for the shift rod. Also added a relay for the starter.
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I was getting ready to put the other CV join on and noticed a little bit of glisten on the transmission case.
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Very hard to see but i think the output shaft is leaking, so good thing I noticed it before putting a nice new greasy CV joint on (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif). Once thats all done i have new clutch and speedo cable going on. Just want to get everything on so i can start fabing up my exhaust.
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And if you excuse the nasty-ness. Fuel pump routing is done and added new pads for the fuel tank.
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[r_towle]

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Nice work!

[Shivers]

Looks great! I added gussets to my brackets
for the engine lid. I had to cut them back a ways
because they were rubbing on the lid as it closed.
Keep up the great work (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[ogdougy]

Output shaft seals came in and in they went. New CV joint in as well. New clutch line, pully, and speedo cable. Im also in the midst of putting my shift rod back together, which is just a pain in the ass by myself even though i do my best work alone and one handed.

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And now we get to the fun stuff finally. Going to making my own header and i wanted a dual exit exhaust. So trolled through ebay and found these yoshi's off a first gen hayabusa. One of the few motorcycle mufflers that use an actual bolt flange instead of just a slip on.

The OEM exhaust hanger sits a little too low so I will have to make some new ones. They will most likely attache to the transmission mounts. Allowing my to pull it up more and cut into the valence.

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The real challenge will be keeping these little mid pipes that came with them. They contain a little resonator and should help keep and nice exhaust tone but they are pretty long.
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Should see what will happen. Should turn out good.

[Cairo94507]

Great work. It looks like the mufflers are oval. If so, can you clock them so the width is left to right and give you a bit more rear clearance? They look nice and it would be a shame to scrape them up. I bet it will sound good too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[ogdougy]

And we're back.

Had one major set-back. My brand new AMC cylinder heads had one of the spark plug threads messed up from factory. Only found that out when i was getting ready to put the new spark plugs in and start the damn thing up.

So pulled the head and put a Time-sert in there to fix the threads along and put it back in the car.
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Then finished off the rest of the little things i needed to get done.
Trans output shaft seals replaced, shift selector rod seal replaced. Trans shouldnt leak any more (hopefully)

Made new mounting tabs for my oil cooler. PO just had it bolted flat against the trunk. Plumbed up the rest of the oil cooler lines. Headers are done as well.
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Got the Patrick Motorsports Odyssey Battery kit and got rid of the old lead acid. Oil pressure, CHT sensor, oil temp sensor are in. Finished writing the code for those. Just need to finish up my Stepper motor gauge design and then I'll have a analog CHT sensor that doesnt cost an arm and a leg. In the mean time im just going to use little OLED displays just so i have some way to monitor them
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All set up and the car is finally sitting on the ground after a long time. Going to try and fire it up this weekend.
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[Porschef]

Putting new transmission side CV joints. All new shift rod bushings are in. PO didnt even have the fire wall bushing in for the shift rod. Also added a relay for the starter.
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Get yourself a Tangerine Racing firewall bushing. Can’t say enough about how much better your shifting will be. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

How much cussing was involved with the discovery of the plug hole issue? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[burton73]

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[930cabman]

An option may have been to chase the threads while in the car, but all is well that ends well. Keep us posted as to your results with the first firs up. make sure to run the starter without the plugs installed to build oil pressure prior to ignition.

[ogdougy]

An option may have been to chase the threads while in the car, but all is well that ends well. Keep us posted as to your results with the first firs up. make sure to run the starter without the plugs installed to build oil pressure prior to ignition.

Yup, i tried the thread chaser first. Hoping that there was some junk in the threads but it turned out it was the threads themselves that were junk lol.


But got everything set-up and got it start start today with relative ease. Just that one lean pop that scared me but went smoother than expected. Now we are getting to the real excited time because it is getting close to drive time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJzWE9Mi5Lk

[ogdougy]

List of things to come from this weekend:

1. 2 of my push rod tubes and the taco plate leak. Im just going to let them leak until i re-torque the heads and check valve clearance. Fix it then.
2. My pertronix dist i bought i while back (and dont remember from who) was fried. Currently just running 009 dist in the meantime till i get that fixed.
3. I think my ignition switch is bad. It wouldn't stop sending power to the starter at times. So the starter would stay engaged when letting go of the key. (Debugged this by pulling the yellow wire out of the relay board and jumping it by hand and the starter behaved correctly)
4. I lost my ignition coil bracket need a new one.


After that it will be finishing up my sensor harness and start to get the interior back together and fix the rat nest wiring that was in there before.

[Root_Werks]

Great progress! Seems like you'll have this on the road in short order.

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[Justinp71]

Good job!

People will think that has a motorcycle engine in it with those mufflers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ! I like it though...

[Front yard mechanic]

Sounds like z1