Who's restored a 914/4? Not 6, but 4, Let's hear the stories and see the pics please Options

[Gint]

Sure, everyone knows of the /6 owners that have spent all the money, but what about the /4's? I vaguely remember a few folks that have restored 4 cylinder 914's. Have some pics to share? Success/failure stories? I wanted to start a completely new thread for the subject.

[boxstr]

I recently sold a CAMP 914 recovered dash pad to a fellow in Ohio who is having Stoddard Porsche restore a 914-4.

[Joe Bob]

I'm doing the 74 back to stock...all that's diff is the Getty dash and five lug conversion.....for me that's damn near Concour Weenie level.....

[McMark]

I don't know if it counts, cause it's not my car, but there was this one...

[Jeffs9146]

I have lots of photos of my 74 restoration that I have since sold. What kind of photos are you looking for?

[orange914]

i'm not sure there are many PURELY stock and clean 914's left. IMHO it's the perfect car to upgrade. our 73 is stock EXCEPT repaint with blacked out rockers and valances matched to origanal body color, front & rear color keyed spoiler, koni's, s/s and monza exhaust and shortly a 2056 (origanal low mile 1.7 shelved), stock interior. some upgrades i think what SHOULD be added is an electronic ignition, steel fuel lines even a front sway bar and the fatest tire you can fit.

mike

[shelby/914]

I'll just throw out an ugly pix of mine from my paint shop visit yesterday and one when it waved goodby when it went down.







can you say parking lot dings?

[Maltese Falcon]

Did all of the weather stripping rubber to this '74, sorted the suspension, purpose interior and purpose built 2.0 drivetrain. It's a weekend competition car and a solid daily driver. We will sort out the paint last...too many rock chips from track use for now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Maltese Falcon]

Type 4- 2.0 fresh rebuild with very non OE red engine sheet metal. Basically a stock rebuild with euro pistons / cyls.

[Maltese Falcon]

detailing the engine compartment is easy with a lift (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Maltese Falcon]

And the 2.0 back in its place.
Type 4s are already coming into their own>> restorations commanding decent resale prices. There are simply more of them than the sixes, and there are lots of OE and good repro restoration goodies available . After all, 356s and 911s have been restored for as long as I can remember... now it's the 914s turn !
Marty

[cwpeden]

I recieved my 73 2.0 for free. Originally the owner said "Take it I don't want it, it hasn't run for 4 years".

I found all the cracked and frayed vacuum lines were handily fixed with electrical tape. And he said it didn't run, should have run like a hot damn.

Anyhow, thinking I dont need another project lying around the yard I go by his house to have a look. Coming up the road I see 4 bolt Fuchs. have a closer look, they're real Fuchs.

Oooo, a 2.0 perhaps? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Look under, yup 2.0 with SS exchangers! Ok, swaybars in place? Yes. Console intact? Affirmative. Spare tire with Fuchs

This is starting to look attractive. Open the door 2 or 3 inches of water in the car. Hmmm, if the water hasnt leaked out the floors are intact.

I took the car home. Took out the interior and started to clean. You can see the high tide mark on the mats. And how clean the windsheild was.



Well there is a little rust in the firewall and some in the longs and battery tray. The car was free after all. That jutifies a liitle rust repair and engine rebuild.

The engine rebuild was the easy part....





I have a few more..

[cwpeden]

The car had been in an accident, you can see how the rollbar lines up with the windsheild frame.



I had about the same amount of repair done to both sides of the car



Fenders off, undercoat stripped, sandblasted, repaired, primed, rewelded, re-undercoated, and painted. I just threw a 20 footer on it to make all it the same color



I have more detailed pics of reassembly, will post later....

[rick 918-S]

This is interesting. There are some very nice 4's here. It will be fun to see how this will progress.

OK, Who has done the bare shell resto on a 4? Every part new or the best used you could get? All the Marbles in the circle.

There has got to be some examples out there.

[Root_Werks]

I once had a 73 1.7 that somone else spent the $$$ on to restore. It was so nice I replaced all the vacumm hoses and made sure they were the correct cloth braided and color coded ones. No one had ever messed with the car. It was silver too, one I shouldn't have sold. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[VaccaRabite]

My progress thread is on going.
Last night I shimmed the cylinders to my 2056, and got the deck height even at .039 on the 1/2 bank, and .040 on the 3/4 bank. I'll ring the pistons and slap it back together this weekend.

Zach

[tdgray]

I darn near completed the 1.7L restore before I sold it... just needed a few little tweeks and some buttoning up... did not overhaul the engine but did put quite a few new part into it. Basically a stock resto with a few small modifications.

Link is below Sig.

[Porsche Rescue]

Everything you could ever want to see is here. This is the car Craig's dash pad is on. The car started out as one of the nicest arround. Then the rust appeared. I shudder to think of the dent this restoration will make in the bank account. But it is beautiful to behold.
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=65016er

[akellym]

From start to finish, including the $4,700 I paid for the car. I spent $31,640.00 at the body shop and $41,304.39 on parts for total of $72,944.39 to restore mine. That amount is free maintenance or repair bills.
Here's what mine looked like after the stripping
This one's from last years P2O

[faster48]

From start to finish, including the $4,700 I paid for the car. I spent $31,640.00 at the body shop and $41,304.39 on parts for total of $72,944.39 to restore mine. That amount is free maintenance or repair bills.
Here's what mine looked like after the stripping

That's some SERIOUS committment! Beautiful car too.