fitted the screen trim & wiper arms, they need to be looked at as they are going off the scrre.

put my new wheels on

and heres the first pic of it, still a bit to do but it's getting there

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i fitted the replacement 200 degree oil temp sender to replace the 150 that i put in first.

prepped the inner frunk floor for a blow over to sort the chips i've caused since painting it first.

i got the seat belts down from storage for a first inspection since stripping the car. they were a bit grubby but are washed. one thing i need to figure out is how to refurb the chrome clips as they have a little pitting on them.

I decided to sell my 350 V8 and buy a fresh brand new 383 with 525 HP. It will come dyno tuned and broke in with the Holly FI on it. They say Plug and play. I have plenty of work to get the 930 trans mounted and on and on.

Bob B

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Was out driving yesterday and made my way into the local old papermill site and found some nice backdrops.

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Rec'd more goodies from 914Rubber. Also purchased another set of NEW sail trim. I blasted some parts for fellow member Nacho.

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Oscar

I may have to make a visit to your place to blast some stuff, Oscar ... our auto shop class got shut down ... so no more blast cabinet, brake lathe, tire changer & wheel balancer, etc. (damned LAUSD administrators).

Swapped out my plastic fuel lines for stainless steel lines. Pain doing it without any help.

Exhaust pipes and muffler installed today as well.

Not mine, but I pulled the leaking oil pump from Matt's car.
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Took a photo of my stickers. As you can see, least one is due for replacement. An important maintenance issue, I'll need to get onto it ASAP

I fought this too, trying to get them not to cross over or caught up in the mess of other stuff in the tunnel. I finally got my youngest daughter out to help. she loves going to cars and coffee and riding in the 914 but has not really worked on it with me so at 14 I figured its time to get her involved! we fought it for a while , I finally lubed up the front firewall grommet and when we got that thing to line up and slide thru she was so excited she gave me a high five! but these are a struggle for sure and in the end I don't think I could have done it myself with out bending something.
Glad its done
but OT all I did on my car this weekend was order more parts from 914rubber.com!- got my new rechromed front bumper but was unable to install it - spent the whole weekend helping our son move from apartment to his first house- back to the 914 tonight!!

Yesterday I showed it at the 32nd annual Ed Carroll car show.

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Tom Conway owner of Carquip brought his very cool Vic Elford tribute 911 ralley car.

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Made a muffler coffin for shipping. exhaust flanges bolt right to the side of the box, no bashing around in there..

Great idea with the flanges! You sir are a genius.

Nice, Travis.

I had to pass on it due to the shipping cost (which seem to have really increased lately) ... even with my FedEx business account!

Seems to be rough to ship anything to the state of CA these days, hell I got a quote to ship to NJ and that was only $63.00 for a residential drop.

Here is quotes for the bay area

Greyhound $75.60
USPS Ground $113.40
UPS Ground $121.06
Fedex Ground $138.55
UPS Freight $148.00

UPS Next Day $850.88
Fedex Overnight $1,012.39

Steering and suspension upgrade before Okteenerfest.
Can't wait!!!

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I've been driving mine on the weekends just to keep it's juices flowing. My Karmann Ghia is such an easy car to cruise around in, it's my go to. I musn't ignore my black rocket ship.

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Twin exhaust on my 914-2.7 SIX conversion is so low that it scraps on my steep driveway at home so I fabricated these little 2.5" offsets to raise it a bit.

Not as easy as I had thought..but got them done. A little more deburring and I hope to install soon.

Oscar




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Putting ceiling grid up over her parking spot so I can insulate the roof. R-19 going in above the grid. Pics tomorrow.

Drove Elwood over to Plano to pick up a nice front valence from Rich Johnson.



Still need to tweak the carbs, and some other cosmetic things on him.

Frody sprung an oil leak from the pump. I am going to pull the motor tomorrow and reseal. I think it pulled a stud.

Full alignment done at JC’s in Huntington Beach drives so good. Thanks Jim for the shims we didn’t use any but it was nice to have on hand

Picked-up my 7th grade daughter’s (My wife’s flute a 30 yrs old Armstrong Flute) flute after it was serviced/tuned of a 38 yrs. experienced in various instruments. While looking at his repair shop, me and my daughter saw several old porsche posters. Well i asked the technician if I can take a picture of some of the posters. I didn’t edit the picture to show how It is post at his wall.



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Not a 914 but tried out PlastiDip antique gold on Linea Corsas. A lot of masking involved and you have to get the tape off while the paint is still wet. The good news is that if you screw up, it peals right off.
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Looking forward to seeing the pix, Joe. We're just finishing up with that here too, but went with R30 in the ceiling and R13 in the walls of the den & front porch remodel. The den didn't have any insulation, or drywall - only had 1/8" paneling on the walls

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When were finished with the house, I want to insulate and drywall the garage walls - and make room for a couple of cars again

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Looking good...

Who painted it?

Oscar

Hey Oscar! Where did you buy the new sail trim pieces?

Not exactly a mod to my 914 but it is a 914 part put to another use. This is my new 914 desk chair.Click to view attachment

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I bought 3 other sail trim sets that didn't meet my expectations so I paid big $ for these but I'm happy now.
I have bought from them on and off and like 914Rubber " Great packaging and customer service. They even called me with shipping status. Who does that anymore.

I painted it myself Oscar. Finally learned how to block out panels. Sometimes the results were stunning, and other times they weren't. But overall I'm pretty happy with the paint job.

Noticed something today. My last 4 post have me at 246 does this mean Sir Andy has me on lockdown for bad behavior!! .....Paul

Maybe he doesn't, but I will....

I took Elwood out and drove him today. I realized the tires are starting to feel a bit iffy, so I am going to have to get new ones before the trip. So when I finally find the Mahle gas burners for him, somebody will get new tires when I sell the 16x6 fuchs.

That looks awesome

I spent the day fixing a pulled stud for the oil pump on Frody (Betty's car). Pulled the motor, pulled the tin and fan housing, pulled the engine support bar, and the oil pump.

I had to heli-coil the holes in the case for the studs. Found a pump gasket in my stash, but had to print and cut out the pump cover gasket.

It is back together, but I have to fix the power leads on the chassis harness where they attach to the battery and mount the ECU.

Betty cleaned and repainted the front valance for Elwood.

All in all a good day.

Rob (Robnoxious) drove over today to pick up a relay board...however before he got to my house his car wouldn't start at a convenient store he stopped off at near my house.

So I drove over there and we ended up having to push start it and took it to my house where I removed his starter and I installed my known good starter motor. Still wouldn't start until I wiggled the wire going to the solenoid.

Cleaning up the garage right now, hope to work on the 914 tomorrow for a few hours.

Trying to organize as I gave up a local storage unit last month.

Always need more storage.

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Pic for Mark S.

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Grid is up but not tied in yet. Got it located, now I need to square it up and rivet it in place.

This is a test. New phone and a new PC.

drove it been waiting over 2 years to put that emoji in

did a 6 mile loop but started popping and juddering, just about limped onto my drive. likely cause fuel evaporation. looks like i'm going to have to run a return line carbs

and i managed to reset my wiper linkage without taking the air blower out

Looking good, Joe.

Are you concerned about moisture build-up in the attic space between the roof and the insulation? Are you going to vent the attic space?

Nice! I was in the process of doing this to my 993 seats but then they sold.... now I regret not keeping them!

I ordered door braces from Chris Foley. So I hope to keep my door gaps when I repair the longs. Maybe this will help me get motivated.

I also ordered the door braces from Tangerine, but my work got delayed by a few months, I would like to see your progress once you start. Mike Kelly

I will try to document my progress. May take awhile, have many things pulling me away. And this will be my first attempt at this.

started first time to take it out of the garage, after just limping hime the other day.

took out the plugs and the were all sooty so cleaned them, rechecked the gaps and put them back in. the f*#@ing thing would not restart. so after dropping the ratchet on the trunk and chipping the paint i pushed it back inside before i took a hammer to it!!!

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Drove it!



rolled over 238K miles (almost the mean distance to the moon)

Cleaned and painted the fuel tank.