Thanks! No, its north georgia. Back up there for a while. Richard B Russell Scenic Highway. Somewhere down there in the background there is a mad man at work.

I installed a splendid new fuse panel from Jwest, made plans to reverse my incorrectly (by yours truly) ring gear in the transmission, and bolted up new front and rear valences after Shutzing them. Progress, citizen!

jump started it at work And i was leaving early
must rewire back up lights ??? for some reason they stay on ign off

Took some centercaps, stripped the paint off em, polished some parts, and then painted them again!
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Got my 1911 w/ L-jet running!!!!!! This is a pretty big improvement over my tired 1.8L. This motor has lots of torque and pulls and pulls smooth through the entire RPM range! I love it!

Dr. Evil Trans shifts smooth too! Thanks Mike!.

Also thanks to everyone who helped me troubleshoot my F.I. Especially tim_nd!

Another 914 is on the road for years to come.

Cut out a section of a trunk floor from a front clip while at the G&R (thanks Ron), blasted some dirt and surface rust off of it, and set it aside until we start working on the front suspension rebuild. We'll see if Milt is game for more on the 'BB'

Blasted and painted set of long lug bolts

Also, bought a brand new set of E-brake cables


Preparing for surgery on my clutch-side knee (5/23) ...

Good luck with that surgery Mark!
I made some fiberglass rain hats, after seeing the price for them from various vendors. I used a meatloaf pan. My mom was not pleased.... They will remain that bare amber fiberglass. I love the look.
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I also fab'd up the turn signal dividers and light sockets to make the euro front lenses work as they should.

The center caps turned out great, want to share how you masked/painted them???

Love the look

Since the site was down I find myself driving my car more and more to help with the addiction. I carpeted the rear trunk, Re-timed and added the 270ohms resistor to my CHT.

Pulled the flywheel off the engine and lifted the engin onto the counter

Sure. I just used some etching primer followed by some engine enamel, no masking. then after about an hour after the last coat I scratched off the raised portions with a piece of plastic (can't scratch the cap).

Another method I heard of was using a cue-tip dipped in paint thinner to remove the paint while it was still wet, but I didn't have any. My way worked well enough, and passes the visual test for a racecar at least.

Replaced Rear Shock Springs, Stainless Brake Lines, and Bleeders. Got 100 lb. springs from AA which were on sale plus free shipping. Got them in one day! AA gives great customer service. Raised rear up almost one inch which it needed bad.

Getting a little nervous about everything being in boxes, bagges, and totes.

I stopped in at Pelican to pick up some of those rubber bellows thingies that go onto the ends of my new the eeee-brake cables ... they were back-ordered

The end.

I decided to check my new ramps on my trailer today, backed the 914 out of the garage....... Huge oil puddle ( hasn't been leaking at all), drove it up the ramps, ramps worked great, checked under car while half way on trailer, oil was coming out of the bottom of the fan housing....

So today I parked my 914, and will be pulling the motor this Sunday, instead of autocrossing that I already registered for

On the bright side I have a new 2056 sitting on my work bench, and McMark is putting together my new microsquirt FI system, but that's a whole other thread...coming soon.

So for now its back to driving the boxster.

Jeff

That rotisserie is AWESOME!

and I dig the door / spacer braces!

I didn't want the body guys to weld anything to the chassis so they made brackets that bolt into the door jamb and upper door bolts. They used the 75' bumper shock mounts to make brakets to bolt to the front and rear.

I power washed it once i got everything off of it...I rotated to on it's side to get all the water out...just had a big grin on my face watching in sit there rotated 90 degrees from the ground.

I installed my hot-spark ignition, no more points, I hope. will time it tomorrow.

What started as a starter swap, ended in pulling the rocker panels off. Something I've never done, and somethings that didn't look like it had in a LONG time. Didn't want to see this:

So I cut it open, cleaned everything up:

and then welded up the patch panel:


The passenger side was perfectly clean, which really didn't make sense, but there was twice as much dirt in the driver side, which probably was the cause of the cancer. the 914 lives to drive another day it would seem.

Added some new shoes to the 914-6 build. Nitto-Gen tires 205/50/15's with some custom painted & polished FUCHS. I also wired in the tail lights and locked in the rear wire harness in the proper position.
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I power washed it once i got everything off of it...I rotated to on it's side to get all the water out...just had a big grin on my face watching in sit there rotated 90 degrees from the ground.

I put some 1" spacers on my front wheels to fill out my new flares. Then took it for a drive into town to pick up some chinese for dinner. It was a good little drive

Drove it. That is one fast 914!

Ethan, think about getting some of that Eastwood Internal Frame Coating and spray the entire length inside the longs to stop that rust (and in the center tunnel if needed).

This Stuff

I sprayed my tunnel area, but I still need to inspect and [probably will] spray insides of the longs on the 'BB' before reinstalling the rocker panels.

Pulled the motor, fixed an oil leak, installed new motor mounts, fixed some electrical, bled my brakes, put the motor back in, went for a test drive, cleaned it up, packed it for tomorrows AX school.

Not a bad day.

Jeff

Set timing once again (hope I got it right this time) going for a drive to the city .

Cut, bent, and test fit some seamless tubing for a new clutch cable tube, accelerator linkage tube, and a hand throttle tube inside the center tunnel. Test fit the new SS fuel line from CFR.

spend about 5 hours putting things in totes & boxes and cleaning up the detached garage so I can now walk around without tiptoe'ng through boxes, trailing arms, brake calipers, etc.

Christine has been sitting for a couple of months since she has decided to start only when she feels like it. Seems an electrical gremlin in the ignition switch. Today I uncover her, flip the switch a few times to get the fuel pump all primed up. Turn the key and she fires up immediately, so I took her for a ride. Sure going to be a sad day when I dismantle her into a mere parts car then on to a roller.

Cleared a pile of crap from one side of the rear deck, boxed it, so I could stage
the door panels I am making for the Ghia.
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Gawd..dealing with a new fuse panel and all the popping fuses that are taking place..

Rattle canned my gravel pans and rocker panels.

took my car to the painter last week. waiting for it to be done, so nothing new done..

Lennies914 and I finished up our powder coating projects tonight!!

Here are my freshly "PCed" front suspension A-arms!!

Lennie did his sway bar stuff RED!! Looks good! Sorry no photos of Lennies stuff!

Those came out looking nice. Who's product did you guys use?

... and who's oven did you bake them in

Installed CV's and Half shafts on the 6 conversion...woo hoo!

Lennie and I built an oven from an old hospital incubator and used the Harbor Freight powder.

Lennie did some research and we turned down the pressure and appplied it slower with multiple layers. It seems to be a smoother finish than before!

Bottom portion of inner longs are gone. Some prior PO added an outer clamshell which is decent shape. And some prior PO did alot of patching to weld the floors to the inner longs. So I am rebuilding the bottoms of the inner longs, then an Engman kit will cover everything.

Wow my door's finally close...

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Starting...

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Cutting the crap away...Nothing left inside...

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Bending up a replacement section on my cheapo brake...

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Time to start welding...

Fitted this full mask.......

Picked up back pad from the upholstery lady and install it. She did a great job and only charged $125! My punch list is almost done!

Sort of 914 related ... got my nephew to help install some plywood onto the ladder-type trailer ramps. I'm positive the winch will appreciate this small upgrade, as well as any car attached to it's hook.

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Also got a set of new tries on the tow vehicle

Finally got around to building my mock JWest linkage kit after sourcing a few bug parts.
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Also installed my LED 3rd brake light (Escalade stylie). I don't care for the looks, but it protects my ass from these soccer moms. Plus my car is a dirty, ugly, hack so it fits nicely.

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mark, did you do a write up on your shift linkage? tell us more....

I picked up the final pieces from the body shop that were cleaned and straighten: Passenger rocker, rear SIX valence, fuel filler, and fuel expansion chamber.

They look PURTY! Here is to another weekend of garage time!

Bought the last piece of my JWest Engineering shifter parts, the actual RennShifter:

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Also bought the 911 shift boot and they are extending their previous offer to 914World.com members of a free shift knob. I got the polished shifter and the small round polished knob. They will be making their way to Scotty B's.

My nephew found a 2.0L '6' under a cover whilst helping us clean up around here. At 33 years old, he's finally taken an interest in automotive mechanics.
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We removed the muffler, clutch, flywheel and most of the tin, then hoisted it up onto a stand.
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Disc is worn and glazed but the pp and flywheel look OK, just need a bit of TLC. Rear seal isn't leaking, but we'll probably replace it anyway.
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The plan is to do some general clean up, check and replace any seals as needed, adjust the valves, go through the carbs and finally, blast and paint all the tin. When done, this will be going into my old '67 911.


It's been quite a while since I took a '6' apart ... what tool works on this nut? (nothing in my toolbox seems to work)
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I got lazy at the end with the pics.

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Removed the horrible soundproof material from the firewall. Didn't weigh it, but I bet I shaved twenty pounds!

Worked with Megasquirt tuning on my EZ30 subaru conversion. It was great to drive after working on this for over a year.
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Bob

Nice! Congrats. Pretty car!