Project sees the light of day for the first time........, Sunlight does it justice! Options

[turboman808]

Car looks really good. Think we should trade when your done (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Boojum]

Seriously, "stunning" dosen't have enough weight to descrbe your car. I've been thinking that silver would work well on a 914, woah, couldn't be more right! Love the wheels, too!

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[Mueller]

very nice.....i'm more than jealous (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[markb]

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[pfierb]

And you west coast people thought that the east coast didn't exist!!!!
What a beautiful car.

[JPB]

To me, any car which has rounded edges must be silver if at all possible and this is the reason. This to me this is the best color and a work of art!!! I'd put the Porsche stikers on the sides because they would look AWSOME!!!! Foragin, moragain, good damn job bro!!


(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) I stand fully erect at this marvelous wonder!! Thnk black trim, blaaaaack triiiim.

[JPB]

Crap at a second look, center oval exhaust? You are such a man whore!!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) Next thing your gonna say it has 1000Hps.

[VegasRacer]

Lookin' Good. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


Lookin' Reeeel Good! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool_shades.gif)

[IanStott]

If I am ever lucky enough to see your car close up I promise to bring a napkin so mt drooooolll won't leave a wet spot! What a nice job you have done. Maybe if you are techyyy enough, I'm surely not I can't even post a pic, maybe you could make a post with sound so we can hear your exhaust.

Ian Stott
Moncton

[bob174]

You know what would also look sweet--aren't there clear front turn signal lenses? Italian or something? I thought I saw them somewhere... Nice ride.

[East coaster]

I took a couple shots of the muffler for those who requested more info.

The first shot shows the addition to the rear of the muff. It's a piece of 3 1/2" tube slit down the middle to create a 18" length of clam shell to weld onto the original muffler body. I cut away the area of the original muffler where the clam shell mates, adding back to the area I had to remove to clear the tranny.



This shot shows the chunk I had to remove on the backside for clearance. I left a decent amount of space between muff and tranny, hopefully enough not to cook the tranny? also in this pic is the muffler mount. I used an original 914 muff mount and cut and welded two extra muffler flanges I ordered to it. This created an independant mount so if I play with different mufflers later I won't have to re-fab a mount.

[East coaster]

Here's a better shot of the mount:



Lookin' down the barrel of a gun........



I actually opened up the baffling and improved the flow a little while doing this. I would expect the original muff was designed ofr a smaller displacement than a 3.6, so I thought I make it breath a little easier. Hopefully, it doesn't sound too obnoxious!

[East coaster]

One last pic.........this is the throttle linkage I made. You're pretty much on your own in regards to throttle when you flip the intake on a 3.6. It makes it fit nicely in the engine bay, but puts the throttle linkage in a position where it wants to be pulled straight up. Being how I didn't want to run the cable through the roof and over engine bay, I made an aluminum bellcrank (or partial pulley) to change the motion from up/down to front/rear. I then replaced the 3.6 linkages attaching ball joint with a ball from an extra 914 pedal link. This allowed the use of a 914 pedal link ball cup. The ball cup usually threaded onto the pedal end of a 914 throttle cable and the engine end is just a cylindrical stub, so I drilled the ball end and threaded it for two set scress to clamp the cable end in the ball. Add a trick lightening hole riddled cable braket and viola.....

I hooked it all up and it works smooth as buttuh (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif)

[drewvw]

that muffler is awesome, nice ingenuity! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)