914 Steel Flared Official Story and Build Thread, As long as the $$$ Lasts and the Wife gets a New Merced Options

[hwgunner]

I was searching the internet one day looking for nothing in particular, except Porsche parts, and came across a 1973 914 steel flared roller for sale. Just what I needed. Contacted the seller and asked all my questions. Tried to talk myself out of it and called the seller back the next day. We set up a time for me to make the trip to see the car, and as it turns out, the rest was history. Couldn't go see the car the first time I agreed nor the second. Made a third date and I got the big "NO" from my better half. Needless to say the seller was not too happy but what was I supposed to do? I learned from my mistakes is what I did. Forgot about the car but kept trolling the internet, as I do, between listing things on Ebay. One night I jumped over here after having a good weekend and saw this car in the classifieds. Skipped passed it and then started wondering if it was the one that I had learned my lesson on. Asked a few questions of the new seller and sure enough it was the car I so wanted months earlier. Asked a few more questions of the seller to confirm what I had been told about the car by the first guy and things jived so I made arrangements to send the payment without going to see the car. Next I tried to make arrangements to get the car transported home. This is a whole nother story but I did get the car after about 6 weeks. Then I told the wife I was getting another car, this is not un-common as I buy junkers and sell the parts on ebay, and she hemmed and hawed a bit but finally dropped it. 6 weeks later the car shows up and she says "What's that?" and I remind her that I told her I was getting another car. All's cool at LOOSMotorsports and I got THE car. DA%*, can some one re-size about 25 pics if I emil them. I need help

[hwgunner]

Another Arrival Pic

[G e o r g e]

Another Arrival Pic

i too was looking at buying that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) so i could skip the flare portion of the project.

how are things coming along?

what are your plans for her?

[goodwood73]

Congrats on the new car. Finally going to put one together for yourself instead of parting them out? The Tarrett sway bar and turbo tie rods I got from you are all done. Just need to finish the adapter plates for the V8 to get her on the road. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) Do you still have the taildragger?
Paul

[hwgunner]

Here are a couple of pics from the day I got her. Came with everything you see in the next few pics plus a set of Fuchs 7 & 8 x 15.

[hwgunner]

Check out the Turn Signal covers and take a hard look at the doors

[hwgunner]

All the suspension parts in the trunk came with it. Some of it is 911 and some 914.

[hwgunner]

911 Green Beilsteins up front came on it also. No Calipers though. Kinda funny bit when they went to put the 911 suspension on the front they did not remove the 914 front swaybar. They just put the drop links up and out of the way.

[hwgunner]

Here is one of the rear fenders. It is rough but we will see.

[hwgunner]

This front fender looks good in the pic but there are lots of little scratches in the bondo.

[hwgunner]

Here is a pic of the doors that I refered to earlier. They have been welded over so no windows at all. I have another set of doors that I will probably get painted at the same time as the car so that I can have windows.

[hwgunner]

I have gone over the whole car and there is no rust to speek of. The only place that I have found any is on the fire wall about 4 inches above the seem and it is a hole about the size of a nickle. There is surface rust in several places including on the floors but I am going to take out all the tar and have it blasted and painted the same color as the car.

[hwgunner]

The next few pics are of the Tarett Engineering Sway Bar Nut Plates. I chose to weld them in only to find out that that may not be the best thing to do. A couple of people I spoke with raised the concern of actually creating a problem with very thin spots of sheetmetal at the edges of the welds. I am not grinding them off now.

[hwgunner]

Another

[hwgunner]

And another

[hwgunner]

Last of the nut plates. Stuck the bar in for a dry run and it is perfectly straight through the body. Came out better than I expected because we had to elongate a couple of the holes that were already existing in the body (not factory holes).

[hwgunner]

So now my body guy comes to my house and we sit there and look at this fender again. Looked pretty good to me but he says that he is concerned that there are a couple of very small spots on the but=welds where they did not get it welded. Rust??? He is also concerned with what the metal looks like under the bondo which he says is about 1/4 inch thick or more. I got my hand on my wallett and say no but he says yes. I finally agree that we need to remove the bondo from the fenders.

[hwgunner]

Close-up of bottom rear of fender.

[hwgunner]

Here is the front bottom of the same fender.

[hwgunner]

So he goes to town with the RO sander and goes and goes and goes and goes.