That's a great pic!
So awesome to see your 914 lookin better than ever. WoW
Go Giants!!(?) Any plans to at least roll around with an SF baseball cap or one sticker? Your 914 at least will always be wearing their colors now

Not a baseball fan in the least bit, LOL

So you will never see me rolling around with a SF baseball cap on.

Maybe one of these though..
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...atchlink:top:en

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From the parade today

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Mmmm Loving it

Looks awesome! I think your rocker needs to be orange. I'm jealous of your paint job. My car looks like shit! Very soon I will know how many shades of white you can have on one's car...

REEEEEEEEALLY NICE!!!!

Congrats Andrew, she's looking really nice!!!

I'm with Mike, bring that rocker panel into the fold.

So cool to see some visual beauty bringing this girl out. There's a lot under the skin that most people don't know about. She's really shining.

Here's my meager addition. Sure was exciting to see it in action with all the other cool cars...





Yes Andrew, you now have a COOL CAR!

Looks pretty modern for an old car parade....

At least they didn't turn you away this time.

Paint looks great!! The rockers match the nose. Its a different look and I like it!

I like the black on the rockers. I would either paint a black stripe on the rear quarter along the bottom to match the rocker. Or go all orange as said above.

Please don't get me wrong. I love your car. You've done a great job on it. I just don't love that transition from rocker to rear wheel paint wise. I like the vent there

No worries on the rocker guys, its either going orange or im painting a continuance of the rocker on the fender. Just one of those things i didnt get to

I actually like the rocker 'combo' black and orange. Something different and unique. Jamie's got the right idea, if you decide to try something. I'd be happy to hook you up with a black vinyl 'stripe' if you wanna try the black bit in my Photoshop mockup.

Regardless, it's lookin' really great!

Car looks amazing! I didnt know if I was going to like it in the progress stages... but now that I see it out and on the road, its a winner! The body lines enhance the look of your car and it is very unique! Congrats and hopefully I will be joining the "Driveable" of the jackstands club soon!

Thomas

Andrew, this is awesome! I didn't realize you had the mechanics all in order to start driving it. You have really created something pretty unique and striking. I like the photoshop black on the fenders to continue the black continuity. My favorite part of your car, at least from the pictures, is how those back tires just stuff those rear fenders...looks mean.

So what's next on the agenda with your car?

PS Are you happy with the vent kit in your rear stock calipers? I've converted my front to vent rotors and bigger brakes and can't decide on what to do with the back.

The car looks great Andrew. I think you should drive it over to the disco bay tranny clinic this weekend to show it off a little.

Andrew the car looks awesome! Cograts on making the parade deadline.
I know that you sanded and buffed your heart out to show a quality car.

Chris

He worked hard... No doubt.

Here are just a few of the build picts. I have a couple hundred more somewhere. Many of these have already been posted, but here they are in one place.

http://s719.photobucket.com/albums/ww198/dan10101/9148/

Boy those are old pics dad!


Heres a friend of mines touchup from facebook, looks like facebook made the photo a little small, I'll have him email me the high res.

PS, the fit of the tires front to rear is SNUG


The fronts rub while turning, Its wearing down the inside lip of the fender (Which Im OK with as long as it doesnt crack the fender).

Im going to raise it up 1/2 in after the show.

The vent kit on the back. I am overall not happy with my brakes, but thats due to pedal feel. The vented rear's stocks are fine IMHO. If I needed some more brake back there I'd vent the stock front 914 calipers. Which I might do depending... For now my handbrake isnt even hooked up.


I havent done any hard braking either as my carb likes to die under braking...

Looks Great,

I like the Orange on the fender the way it follows the line of the door and curves forward, gives it some style ,

A few photos from the car show. The link below is for those interested in other than orange 914 pictures Lots of traffic around the little go cart. Fun talking to the people. We finally had to open the lid and show the dirty engine, everyone wanted to see it.










http://s719.photobucket.com/albums/ww198/d...%20Show%202011/

That car really looks nice. I'm jealous!

I like your engine better



First post has been updated as well as the second post with my favorite pics.

You need to come to Discovery Bay tomorrow!

I have the awards show at Graffiti tomorrow.. I cant really make it till later and Im not sure if I feel comfortable driving the car that far with the little issues that I've been having...

Doesnt mean I dont want to be there... I REALLY want to pop in and say hi...

Did you win? Congrats!

I could have put in a flipped H for you today. I only opened mine for inspection and swapped the tail cone. That little girl could have helped you too.

Tomorrow is judging.

Most likely no. There are so many NICE NICE NICE show cars out there.. If they like the odd and different... I have a good chance..

Im guessing I have a 1% chance at an award.

Very sweet. Congrats Andyrew, you have rocked it yet again.

Take this with a grain of salt: The rockers.... dude, what you going to do wit the rockers? It seems like the flow is interrupted by the fender. Body color? Blacken bottom edge of fender to continue the stripe that's in front and behind that spot?
Not picking on it - amazing as is, just thinking out loud.

Installed a WINK mirror today! Under $20 shipped to me from ebay. Really happy with it!

Now I just need to get some black vynal to put on the window to replace my visors.

Im really happy I didnt put the stock mirror back in, this one looks great!!

I have a couple of other neat little additions that i'll be putting in soon so stay tuned

Well since no one can stay in front of me Id like to be able to see everyone who's behind me

OH MAN! I had a Wink mirror in my first 914 (33 years ago). It was awesome and I wondered what ever happened to them.

I got that and my 'Porsche' bolder tint and front air dam from Anything Limited which used to be in West L.A. Those were the days....

I'm on my 3rd wink mirror. Do yourself a favor. Mount some aluminum L channel to the front bottom of the mirror. If you leave the car parked in the sun, the mirror will soften and sag in the middle. Took about 6 months but has 3/4 sag in it. I screwed L channel on my new one. 12 months and no sag.

Oh, and bend the L channel to hold the right (passenger) side adjustment screw. This will stop it from breaking the embossed bolt off.

Good advice Mike! I'll get to that sometime, as of right now the car is never parked in the sun (I park it in a warehouse at work).

Good advice Mike! I'll get to that sometime, as of right now the car is never parked in the sun (I park it in a warehouse at work).

Hey what size tires are on the rear?

285 40 18's

Like

I take that back 285 35 18's.

City of Modesto gave me a 1/2" piece of wood in my tire from their tree trimming (And crappy cleaning up) so now I have to replace it...


Yay..

Sigh...


$200 later, I just ordered a new one.. American tire couldnt fix it, they did offer to prorate it for me for a new tire, but they couldnt get the same tire and I know the Sumitomo tires run very tall... I have a phone call into City of Modesto to see if they will do anything for me.

I received a pleasant phone call from the city of modesto saying they would like to see the tire and are going to call me tomorrow to look at the tire!

There is hope!

Glad you didn't sell her. Looking great now. Keep up the good work. =)

Had a couple of cooling related issues. First off the autozone chrome water inlet on the intake manifold has been corroding away on the inside and finally corroded so far that it created a leak. Pretty bad.. So I drained and flushed the system and installed a factory cast piece that looks like it wont ever have that problem. Took a couple of tries to get all the air out of the system but I did it.

Another issue I had was I had a pusher and a puller 12 or 14" fans (cant remember) and the pusher's connections broke and caused for fraying of wires and a contained electrical fire. I removed the pusher and have been running just a puller, however I wired it backwards on accident and I also decided that one fan just isnt enough. So while dad was picking up some bolts at pick and pull for my honda he picked up a Lincoln Mark VIII radiator fan. 18" of fan glory that fits the radiator PERFECT. MY OH MY does this thing suck air. Absolutely dwarfs the old fan and supposedly pulls 4k CFM. I have it running on just the LOW setting and will setup a separate switch for the HIGH setting (its a 2 stage fan). The only thing I think I have left to do for the radiator is setup a duct to force the air out the wheel wells as I think there is some turbulence currently and I dont think its as efficient as it could be.

that is one bitchen 914 - i must say - just what a pair of newly weds need : )

What size inlet hole did you cut? Mine seems much smaller than modern renegade conversions, and I wonder if this is causing my 200 degree freeway temps.

Mine is the entire width of the front trunk, from fog lamp gril to fog lamp grill. The key is to have twice as much on the air exit. That way it creates a low pressure zone. My rotary stays at 180 and slowly creeps to 200 if I'm not moving.