my 70 914 Options

[agent9]

I am new to the forum, and in the one post i have made i got several requests for images and details on my car.

so first a quick history....i purchased the car nearly two years ago, love porsche but was actually looking for a ghia. saw a 914 on craigslist, went and test drove it, and while it was not the car for me me search for a ghia was over, and it was on to the 914.

i purchased my 1970 914/4 from a kid who got it from his father who had it "restored". i was told the original 1.7L engine had been rebuilt about 20k miles ago. i did a compression test and saw that there was a big problem, ranges were all over from 100 to 145. but the car was pretty, no rust, nice interior, gorgeous new paint in that 914 off white color. so i elected to buy the car, and got a really good deal on it because of the state of the engine. i drove it on and off and fiddled with the engine a bit over the next 6 months or so, before i lost all compression on one cylinder. this was all the plan, and when that went i ordered a 2.0L engine from motor importers (1.7 block with 2L heads). I know people have mixed feelings about them, but i had a wonderful experience and have had no complaints about the engine.

the 1.7, and now the 2.0 engine has dual weber IDF 40s and the 4 tip exhaust. I also replaced the fuel gauge with a later model gauge that included a heat gauge, and added a heat sender to the engine, but have not gotten around to getting the wiring right in the dash (the wiring is a nightmare under there, shotty restoration. I also added a new stereo using all blapunkt and some of those custom fiberglass replacement speaker boxes and sub box its a little modern for the look but it sounds great. the thing sounds and runs great, and has about 1000 miles on the new engine now. I did loose a CV joint over the weekend, so its grounded in front of my garage until i get the new CV joint hopefully mid week.

a couple people asked about VIN and the various badges so i have included pics of those. if there is any reason i should not post those please let me know so i can kill em.

so here are the pics....

some classic beauty shots with the roof on
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and the roof comes off
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you can see my lovely crutches there
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interior shot
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(you can see my other boxer, a 1972 BMW r60/5 toaster motorcycle int he background, its a little banged up right now and the reason why im on crutches with titanium from my knee to ankle, i cant wait to be more mobile so i can pull
the engine and start fixing / restoring that bike)
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interior shot. interior is pretty good, has a few tears, but not enough to warrent a new interior quite yet. the dash is in amazing shape, i have one small crack to the left of the steering wheel, but you have to really look for it to see it. i keep that ugly carpet thing on to protect the dash. you can also see the not so suble sub on the floor. you can also see where i broke one of the fiberglass speaker cases when installing it (doh). i really need to clean up the speaker wiring.
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engine
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here is one of the few places you can see the original color.
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here is the door badge
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the other door badge
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the vin
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so my current todo list in order of importance is:
- CV joint obviously
- valves, carb sync, and timing....its running well, but havent had it done since the engine had about 250 miles on it, it currently has around 1000
- getting the fuel gauge and temperature gauge working...i think i need a new fuel sender
- dealing with some recently discovered rust inside that center channel where the transmission linking runs through. havent seen any rust on this car except itty bitty surface rust spots, usually near trim. if anyone has tips on this it would be great. there are no holes, but that area obviously had some moisture in it for a while.
- fixing the transmission linkage alignment. i can drive it fine, but sometimes its tricky to get into 4th gear, and bites on 2nd if your not at just the right RPM
- removing trim and cleaning up some small surface rust spots as well as some small nicks here and there in the paint
- replacing the major door and roof seals, they are ok, but not perfect especially the big expensive one that goes between the roof and windshield
- maybe re installing the heating system, but living in socal, its really not that necessary. its just sitting in the trunk now, all powder coated and pretty.
- fixing the fog lights, and getting the interior light to function when door is open. the switch is there, but obviously has a problem...since its not working
- getting the 5 rims polished. when the car was "restored" they painted them chrome. they look pretty good considering, but i see others with polished rims and they look sooooo good.
- more...im sure....that im forgetting.

so i hope you enjoy the pics, im pretty proud of the car, and what i have done with it so far. sure is pretty.

and thanks again for the advice i have already received on here!