Had a discussion with James Patrick today about a future mod.....Not my car but it has something I want.
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Flight 41 AZ PCA concours today in Scottsdale. Beautiful weather and several nice 914's. Took my '73 bahia red example. A real 959 was just behind me... think my voltage regulator crapped out on the way home- gauge was pegged. Noticed gauge was jumping around a lot on the way down in the early morning...

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Good times today.
Nice to meet you.

I don't know if you've heard from AZ PCA but you won a trophy.
Congrats!

Had a minor oil leak fixed at Patrick's Motorsports. Great shop, great guys.

yesterday showed it at the HHI Concours car club showcase.

i was so busy answering questions and talking to people about the car i didnt even take a picture! i me a couple members there so if anyone took pictures of my car pleas post them.
I met 3 professional restorers including the director of the Atlanta PCNA Classics restoration shop that said they had never seen an original Copper Metallic car!

Got her back on the road after some maintenance. Replaced 3 stripped exhaust studs with EZLocks. Replace pushrod tube seals on right side. Adjusted valves (so nice to do this with the heat exchangers removed). Ceramic coated the Bursch exhaust and powder coated the heater pipes. Removed rear valence to show off said ceramic coated exhaust and hopefully help reduce hot air around rear mounted oil cooler. Lowered oil cooler 2” and rerouted oil lines below heat exchangers. Changed transmission oil. All cleaned up and ready for the PHX driving season.

Thought I fried the voltage regulator on the way back from a concours on Saturday. Took the one out of the '71 and tried it in the '73. Seems to be fine now- voltmeter now acting normally...

Sure nice to have a "spare." The replacement should arrive from Pelican on Wednesday.

Something similar in nature - years ago, I ran into an intermittent 'stumbling' in my '71 while on the highway. I thought it was an electrical component or connection going bad, but after testing the components, ohming-out all the wiring, replacing relays, etc, I decided to check the fuses and contacts on the relay board. I found one fuse that had fatigued and cracked real close to the end - barely making contact. When I pulled it out, it fell into two pieces. Replaced the fuse with a new one and it solved the problem.

Replaced all the hard and soft brake lines with new ones from PMBPerformance. Also changed out the 17mm MC to a new 19mm from 914rubber.

And for the final, put on the larger calipers and new drilled rotors I bought from @chi-town a few weeks ago.

Once I get the rear calipers back from PMB, the brake system will be complete and all nice and new.

Made our own little bench bleeder out of the old brake lines as well.

Stoked on this! I'll be posting a full write up on my website if anyone is interested in the details.

This weekend I brought the 914 over to winter storage. It's been a good season with it, hope that next season brings as much enjoyment.



Bonus, in the background you can see my new daily driver, a 2009 Cayenne S.

I think the 914 and the 957 are about equal in percentage of Volkswagen.

Painted the last of the ceiling tile today, maybe be able to finish the tile tomorrow. Then I can get Carerror off the back porch.

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These came today, another part for my narrow body GT homage.

Geze muffler clamp straps.

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I know, my muffler is going to need new hi-temp paint....

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Took possession of a 'new-to-me' Bowlsby F.I. harness. It's really nice and will spruce up the engine bay when it's time to wire things up.

Also, whilst rooting around in the garage, I ran across a large box marked '1.7L F.I. parts' with a date of 2010. Opened it up and found all the D-Jet components - all nice & clean/repainted, ready to install on the new 1911 long block.

Intake tubes are still nice & shiny after all this time

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I had forgotten that I had prepped the parts almost 9 years ago (my how time flies)

Now I need to find the box with all the powder-coated tins ...

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Test fit my "custom" oil pressure gauge sensor, utilizing an OG ambient temp sensor bracket and VW flex brake hose on my new 1911 motor.

Nice. What gauge are you connecting it to?

Not quite sure. VDO cockpit or the one that Dr. 914 sells or maybe have NHW speedo build one to look stock(ish). Any suggestions?

Restoration is almost complete but still shaking out the gremlins.

...my wife donated the old area rugs . Porsche’s like sleeping on rugs

No - was hoping you could tell me ... I just happen to have a couple of spare 911 pressure senders and like how you did your set up.

I have a couple options. I remember getting a triple gauge unit from Kapt Kaos a decade or so ago ... will have to look for it to see if it indeed has a pressure gauge. If so, it will need some LED strip lighting to match the gauges that Timothy ( @timothy_nd28 ) did up for our '71's original dash gauges.

The car didn't originally come with a center console, but I do have one, so another option would be to install a small pressure gauge (if I know which gauge to get)

I need to fish an additional wire from the engine bay to the dash for an oil temperature gauge too. The car didn't come with a temp sender either, but I have a Jonsey taco plate and VDO sender earmarked for it

Let me know which route you take

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i got some interesting comments on my badge from Restoration Design . mostly it confuswd people that were not aware that there was an RS version

and many wanted to know what that stood for- Rust Special is what i told them

Thanks, Steve ... I'll match those up with the senders here

https://autoplicity.com/82527-vdo-gauges-vd...BCABEgJhZ_D_BwE
https://autoplicity.com/259409-vdo-gauges-3...e-sending-units
This gauge is about 8mm smaller in diameter than the original console gauges, but it's got a similar appearance. I'm leaning towards it especially since I'm not putting it in a center console. Unless someone messed with it you should be able to find the wire for oil temp. starting with a connection down around the passenger side of the engine shelf and terminating at one of a trio of plastic covered spade connectors in the center tunnel right next to the shift lever. All wiring harnesses had the wires for center consoles, they just didn't connect to anything.

@DRPHIL914

awesome! Im sure people went home wondering about the "RS" and did some research to see if there is one. Or they told their buddy that they saw an RS model, thus starting more rumors.

Pete

Ahhhh ... that's good to know

I don't think anybody's hacked any wiring, I bought the car from the original owner ... I'll look for it all the next time I'm in there.

Love it!

Finished putting together most of the car. Have just a few areas left, but they are the ones I'm most nervous about - the sail panel vinyl and windshield. Got everything ready to go, just need a little courage Will post pics once it's all done.

Edit: Well that was easy! @hansjan - PM me your address and I’ll send you the butyl primer. Didn’t use much at all. We might be able to pass this can around to a bunch of folks I fixed the corner trim piece after seeing this pic

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@Shadowfax
Just to confirm: you did the windshield with 5/16 butyl and clips from Porsche?
Surprised to see antenna hole at passenger side. I eliminated mine, but it was on the drivers side.

Will send my address through PM.
Please advise PayPal email address.
When done I will make the remainder of primer available on this site.

Correct - used the 5/16ths butyl cord and Porsche clips.

Yeah I've seen a few on the passenger side but most seem to be on the drivers side. I guess it was whatever the dealer felt like doing

I finished the ceiling. Now I have to clean up the shop and get Carerror and the NARB into here to get some real mechanical work done. Carerror has been living on the back porch for 5 months.

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The buggy is going in the trailer and the NARB ( Superbeetle) is coming in here.

NARB, trying to see if I can get the phone to post pics correctly.

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I'll have to find another way to do this.

It isn't you, Joe. Something with this site and how it see's my iPhone pic's.. Just click on the picture and it rights itself. Does this to me also and yes, I know the correct position to hold my Phone when taking pic's.

fixed it for you Joe!

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NARB is Super Beetle or Pontoon boat?

Looks a little racy to me

rac·y
/ˈrāsē/
adjective: racy; comparative adjective: racier;
superlative adjective: raciest (of speech, writing, or behavior) lively, entertaining, and typically mildly titillating sexually.

Actually looks great, Joe ... matches the tile floor in my spare bathroom. Are you going to pour a driveway at some point?

Yes Mark, going to pour lots of concrete after I flip the house in HB.

Drove it to the grandkids preschool for transportation week. About 100 kids crawled thru it and seemed to have a good time and hopefully sparking interest in a couple future enthusiasts.

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Reminds me of 'the old days' ...

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That is awesome. That picture sure made me smile.

awesome

NARB, Not A Real Bug. Winner of The None NARP Award at the WRC 2009. Boats name is Fun.

Put a set of PMB restored calipers on Nick's car coming out of hibernation.
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Added a 914 Rubber outer e-brake cable boot to the right side.
Using exterior snap pliers to spread the boot open after warming it in warm water and a applying a little of your favorite poly/moly lube.
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drove it

afternoon cruise no particular place to go

Cool. I love concrete

I want to pour an additional driveway and parking pad on the side of the RV garage in AZ so I can park the trailer off to the side instead of taking up space in the driveway.

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Going to be tough though, need to have some huge boulders removed and need to build two small retaining walls due to the sloping terrain.


Also want to widen the existing slab in front of the Torrance garage and build a double-wide carport over it. The Torrance job will be much easier, just need to dig down 4 inches for the slab, and a few inches deeper for some 4x4 post stirrups ... throw down some rebar or mesh and build simple forms. It's a small area, so I can finish the surface myself.

I have a friend who's going to dig up our back yard to rearrange the sprinklers and level the yard off anyway, so I'll just have him prep the area for the new slab 'while he's in there'

Repaired the rust in the rear trunk area. We're ready to weld the new panel in place this week.

Thanks to the guys at Restoration Design for the sheet metal!

You can check it out here http://www.2002and914.com/?page_id=743 if you're interested in it.

Very excited!

New/reman starter (SR68X) and new battery...and a short test drive. So far, so good!

Put a new starter in to replace the one that almost stranded me in the middle of nowhere Nevada last month.
Made room in the garage to get the blue car out of the rain.
And a short drive in the last of the sun for this year
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Now just gotta clear up some room to build a motor for the red car.

Looks good ...............

Replaced my AAR based on thecabinetmaker’s recommendation and my teener is running so much better. We are so blessed to have this 914 community which helps each other.