Hey TC 914-8,

I've gone to the single rubber gasket on my SBC too.....but is there REALLY a Chevy that DOESN'T LEAK? My achilles heal seems to be the damned 2-piece main seal.

Best,
Terry

Working on the front brakes ... installing Wilwood Superlite II 4 piston calipers and 309mm x 32mm rotors.

It's a bit more than a "bolt-on".

sixnotfour fabricated custom rotor hats.

I'm close to getting the custom adapters finished.

There is some interference with the BBS e50 16 x 8 front wheels (bolts that hold the hoops to the center)

Stay tuned!

Cheers,

Eddie

rebilt carb and changed fuel filter

I'm gonna get the v8 bolted into the car this weekend if it kills me. It just might.

New c.h.t. and injection points plate, reset timing. Smoooooth!!!!

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Installed new front bushings. Still need to fine tune them but they are on the car now

Went to get the car out of the garage and loaded on the trailer. Starter her up and had a miss. Well 3 hours later I think I have it fixed, but we'll see tomorrow morning.

Great way to start the year, heading down to the Marina for their first event of the year.

WOOT!

I just the out of the LE. Christine gets her turn tomorrow. Okay fine, for all you people that think I never work on my cars and just drive them I did INSTALL new front euro lenses on the front of the LE today.

Changed oil in it today and lubed the speedometer cable.

Played musical 914's & trailers
Started by pulling my trailer around the barn to the front. I loaded my Creamsicle in the trailer to paint the trunks. I can't get my barn warm enough to paint. I am doing the front & back trunks. So there is enough room to spray from the front & back. It took a little doing getting it in the trailer. I was by myself & while I got a new winch for xmas. I didn't have everything I needed to install it. So I said to myself hey I'll just start it & drive it up. So I dig around to find my keys for it. I find them & go out to start it. Oh yeah I don't have my pedal assembly in. I'm not ready to put it back in either. So it was back to thinking about how to get it in. I went ahead & started my LE to let it warm up. I decided to start it in 1st & drive it up. I turned it off a couple times on the way up. I didn't want to chance running into the front of the trailer. I don't have my ebrake hooked up either . I managed to load it without screwing anything up though .

Next I moved my wrecked 74 into the bay in the barn. I'll start tearing into it soon.

Next I backed my trailer up parallel to the front of my barn. It is nice & close to go out to work on it. Plus easy to get power to it.

After that I got all my lights turned on in the trailer & hooked up some heat. Did a little work sanding the rear trunk & put one more coat of primer down. I am going to practice painting some tomorrow. If all goes well with that. I will shoot both trunks on monday

9 months full time restoration , around 1500 hours so far. . my goal was the have it done in one year. . and I spent the last day of 2011 stuffing the engine. . it's getting close. .

Washed both 914s and took each of them for a short drive. Both in garage so I can wax them tomorrow, maybe..

I found out why my alternator wasn't charging completely and fixed it Then I took it for a nice long drive.

WOW!!!! that is beautiful... very nice work.

i finally finished my engman stiffiner kit install. painted the interior and got everything put back together. now im ready for carpet.


today i started build and early set of doors. im making them to use late window regulators. im gonna repaint them olympic blue. and put new rubber and felt. right now i have one late door and one early.....the ratteling is driving me crazy.

Bought an LED third brake light which I will tuck under the center of the targa bar so it's invisible until activated - then it will obnoxiously pulse 4 flashes and then go to solid red when the brakes are applied. It should definitely gets the attention of cell phone yacking, latte swilling, soccer moms in their SUVs. Saw the same deal on the back of a motor cycle cop's bike and it really stands out. Not period but if it saves me from being rear ended, then its cool - besides, I don't have to look at it. Knight Rider Sequential 12 LED Light Bar with Flashing Brake Alert - RED - they have a video of it too - http://www.customdynamics.com/knight_rider_led_light_bar.htm

Drove it!

Well, yesterday, I was able to very effectively bleed the brakes with speed-bleeders in the rear and using a mity-vac on the fronts. Used Pentosin Dot4. Worked very well and I got a good firm brake pedal.

After I put the wheels back on and was ready to take the car off the jack-stands, I noticed some brake-fluid on the ground. Searching like crazy to find the leak, and dang, it turns out its weeping out of the rear-right rubber break-line! Not the connection, but along the rubber line itself! This thing must be ready to pop. Ordered new lines today, and looking forward (not!) to redoing the bleed.... again.

fteixeira

That's why i like the rubber OEM lines!!! They let you know they are about to fail.

I ordered a loop carpet kit (WAYYYY PreMature but I don't care )

Also ordered the inner door sill and long repair parts. Have the hell hole parts. Should be dragging the car back home this weekend to start undoing what time and neglect from the PO have done.

Hoping to have it drivable before the end of winter.

i finished welding up my doors.

January 1st- Pull engine and trans....Check!
January 2nd- Completely tear down engine...Check!
January 3rd- Drop of case and heads to machine shop for inspection...Check!

I guess this is the time of the year to get to your local machine shop. He said my stuff will be done in 2 weeks! Full head rebuild and case gone through! Wow, I guess everyone else spent there money on Christmas stuff.

I told the wife this is her present to me. She likes sales so I told her that since I pulled and disassembled the motor it was like getting 20% off. She liked that!

I dropped my gas tank off at the radiator shop to be boiled out, cleaned and lined. It's not too bad for 39 yrs old, but that rust/varnish/gunk is what clogged my filter. Has anybody else done this recently? Just wondering what the going rate (range) is. It's the rubber liquid that dries to a firm rubbery coating.

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hopefully it didn't get into the carb and screw things up too bad.

Started refurbing the tail light socket of a donor fender so that I can cut out a good whole section and graft into my driver's fender. Check out the gnarly braze patch and the ball peen hammer blows I found under loads of filler.

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Installed clutch, mated tranny to engine and installed starter! Trying like hell to install this package into my six conversion this week.

I have been around a long time and that is AMAZING!!!!!!!

Cant wait to see it with paint!

Here is what I started today.

Remove old 4 lug suspension and get new 5 lug suspension finished! I am busy the rest of the week so I will have to wait until next week to put it back together with my 16x6 fuchs for the front and 16x7's for the rear!

worked on the relay board

called vendor, talk theory, made a couple decisions about upcomming resto/build

What gauge metal are you using for that work? I've got some sail panel area work and some rubber seal tracts to do some repairs on.

Wow! Very nice !! Reminds me to get my suspension parts sorted out

Went for a drive and cruised down to the ocean side with some of my beetle friends and did some fishing. Cold weather, but the car was great and had lots of fun !! Really fun cars to drive. I can't wait to tune my suspension up more.

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Very cool

I'm hoping to get out to the garage tonight. Need to finish up petting the new bushing on the front alligned properly.

Last night I went out and turned on my heater only to have my wife ask me to do something else

in my preparation for going to a dry sump system i had to redo my crank case breather set up. i came across this baffled breather box. the picture i took sucks, but its slim and fit nice tight in the firewall hump. which also allowed me to shorten and tidy up my hose routing.

Milt (Zeke) came by the shop and worked some metal magic in the hell hole area.

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Also, started reassembling the distributor for my new 2056

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I drove it! Great weather. And I drove it yesterday and the day before that. I might drive it tomorrow too!

It was actually Tuesday but....

Started to remove the floors:

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And ended up trying to trim my nails with a cutoff wheel:

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cool I need to do the same to my white car.

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Milled a hole in the top chrome targa-strip for my 36 LED 3rd brakelight and installed it on the 914, I think it worked out pretty well.
At least it makes it more visable now.

Later Skip

Removed back pad to send to get recovered.

Installed brand new driver's seat belt that my daughter and son-in-law gave me for Christmas. It is awesome. And it catches when you jerk on it. My old one would not and probably would not catch in accident which is not good!

I also purchased today FI fuel lines for my fuel pump replacement project next week. I have done it before when I could use a lift but I ain't climbing under a car with gas leaking in my eyes. Too old! Been there, done that! I will let my mechanic do it for me.

Took the top off and went on a ~50 mile drive with my granddaughter with a stop at McD's for lunch. She laughed as we drove the twisty, hilly roads and called it a "roller coaster".

Bought parts for it.

Drove out to L.A......my old Hood
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More like what I hope to do today; some new super white LED's for the instrument panel came yesterday maybe I'll get a chance this weekend...last week I installed a Sparco steering wheel that gives a ton of legroom..even if Andy thinks its ugly...

Thanks! I assure you that nobody is more amazed than I am.

That's 18g steel which is pretty close to what I'm measuring as the stock thickness--maybe just a hair thicker. I think stock measures between 18-20g (19?).

That's just beautiful. The LED's will blend in nicely until you hit that pedal. I'm thinking about doing the same thing.

I received my new Koni sport although they probably will not get installed today. Should I have my struts repowdercoated to match my Konis?

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