Orange '74 Resto, shot some PAINT!, My Progress Thread Options

[jonferns]

We've been working on a '74 2.0 that we picked up a year ago in VA. Solid for the most part, floors are nice. Over the past 2 months we have been doing some work on it.

The goal is just a nice driver. It will be the original Phoneix Red (which is more orange than red). It will be powered by a 2.0 FI, if I get can the D-Jet figured out. I'll update this thread weekly or more often, whenever something notable gets done.

Heres what we started with

[jonferns]

The PO had cut out a section of the drivers long and drivers door sill that needed replacement.

In this pic you can see the doorsill cut out, and the following pic is the long cutout

[jonferns]

Voila, fixed



The hell hole, firewall and rear trunk have all been completed as well. I'll take some pics of those tomorrow

[JRust]

Nice looking project! Good looking weld work (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Keep it up

[jonferns]

Closed up the firewall and the hell hole. The welds still need to be cleaned up.

[jonferns]

Also reattached the drivers fender. This is a replacement fender that the PO included with the car, came off of a green car.







Next order of work is a questionable area in the passenger footwell (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

[jonferns]

Found a hole in the passenger footwell, and after cleaning out the seam sealer it became an even bigger hole. So anything questionable was cut out, and a patch was welded in. Also closed up the end of the longitudinal which was open.

These pics are taken from the pass. wheelwell

[jc914]

Keep up the good work and keep us posted

[FourBlades]

Good looking work. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) I had the same holes in my firewall. I would not
worry about grinding the welds too much. You will need to seam seal it, then
cover it up with the upholstrey anyway. I was surprised how much weld bead
is hidden once you put on the seam sealer.

John

[jonferns]

Thanks guys. The welds on the firewall along with the welds in the trunk and in a few other places, I didnt bother grinding perfectly smooth. I still need to go to a local paint supply place to pick up some seam sealer, I've been meaning to do that.

Today I started stripping the pedal cluster area. There was alot of flaky rust, but after cleaning the area up with a wire wheel it seems very solid. This is one place I didnt want to sandblast so I wouldn't have sand stuck up behind the dash. Mostly everywhere else that was rusted on the car we sandblasted.

[i love porsche]

great work! are you doing the welding? it looks good

hopefully you will keep the momentum you have, let me know if i can help at all

[jonferns]

Thanks Aaron. Yes, all the welding is being done by us.

[jonferns]

So I picked up some brushable seam sealer from a local paint/body supply store. I sealed up the trunk, firewall and the entire new fender. Still have to do the hell hole and some spots inside the car. Its slowly coming together (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[jonferns]

Today I fabbed a new sill support triangle for the passenger side longitudinal. I first made a paper template then cut it and bent the edges to replicate the original. After lots of testing and trimming, im happy with the final product, and with the $16.50 that I saved. All thats left to do is drill the 2 holes and then (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

[jc914]

Keep up the great work keep us all posted with nice pictures!!!!!!!

[Spoke]

Nice work.

If you have questions about D-Jet, I just tested mine w/o the engine and found all inputs to the brain to be functional. Test each part separately then it should work when put back together.

The PO's mechanic told me he couldn't get the D-Jet working so they replaced it with single center carb. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)

When the mechanic moved, he gave me the FI parts from my car. I checked everything out and found the vacuum advance unit to be leaking very badly. This seemed to be the only thing I found wrong with it. Got a new one, tested all FI stuff off the engine; put it all on the engine and it fired up and ran well.

[jonferns]

Thanks. I have a 2.0 (from a '76) that will be going. The FI system was taken off the motor, hopefully it doesn't prove too much of a challenge to put together. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bye1.gif)

[Root_Werks]

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[VaccaRabite]

Have you decided if you are going to just cap off the smog injection ports and run it, or are you going to build the engine into something better?

I did not want to rebuild the 2056 I bought, but I am really I did. It was a very good experience, and taught e a TON about how these things work.

Zach

[jonferns]

Hey Zach, for now we are going to cap the smog ports, assemble the D-Jet and run it. Hopefully the D-Jet doesn't prove to be too much of a challenge. The motor is up on a stand right now, and all the tin is cleaned up and on it, i'll get a pic up this weekend. Haven't had much time to work on the car lately with school and work.