Upgraded my ‘87 Carrera fog lights to LED arrays designed by Spoke.



Installation was straight forward. Instructions and pics can be found on his website, SpokeworksLED.com.

My original H5 low beams now beg for an upgrade!

@Gatornapper - SEM trim black

Started making rain hats for my twin webers. I will hopefully finish the structure tomorrow

Mark Whitesell called me from 914 Rubber this morning to inform me that my newly upholstered early tan door panels are finished and ready to ship

I received the tan seat & backpad upholstery a couple weeks ago, so Ill have everything to convert from black to tan soon. He's supposed to send me some pix of the fabric to convert center gauge consoles they;re working on too. I'm thinking about installing a center console in 'HOWARD', even though it wasn't original equipment ... might as well make it tan too

Drove it to work today, nice weather in South AZ Click to view attachment

Today put the type back on the rear panel... It's a 914 again

I transfered it from the original panel...

Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment

I received my 914 Rubber group buy LED headlights. Installed them. WAAAAYYY brighter than the incandescent ones I had. I cant wait till nightfall to test them out!Click to view attachmentClick to view attachment

Ditto Steve. Ditto. Every day.

Thanks Brian! But already have the paint and think it's real close to SEM trim black, and going with it for now......

GN

Installed a new thermostat from awesome powdercoat and fixed a non-op marker light! Running much better now!

Mark -

Please post pics of this when installed.....can't wait to see.....one of the last things I hope to do to mine once I have it back in Malaga Red......

GN

Drove it

Added some soft floor to the garage for it to rest on.

drove to work, trying to enjoy it as my driving season it coming to an end soon in S. AZ. Extreme heat coming up sometime soon will park it for the summer and use the jet ski instead.

Must be nice to get to drive a Jet ski to work

Ride the Salt River to work?

Installed new rubber trailing arm bushings from 914rubber. Big thanks to @76-914 for loaning me the tools to help with pressing the bushings into the arm.

Hehehe, yeah that would be cool wish I could

Click to view attachment

Drove the '73 to warm up and drain oil- gonna need a R&R of the engine. Has developed a big oil leak I've traced to the oil cooler. Will do a couple other things while I have it out.

I'd like to get one of those 'car condos', but it'd be a 90 mile trip from the mountains down to the PHX metropolis - Maybe they'll build one up at the 5,000 ft. elevation in the near future? ... if not, guess I'll have to think about having a single 'car condo' unit built at my place


Picked up my new 1911 long block from European Motor Works yesterday ... but it's gonna be a while before I can fully dress it out and get it in the car ... too many other irons in the fire right now ...

Poster picture...sans the Ford Truck

Oscar

Build your own. They sold out FAST here in the valley. There are a lot of car guys in them-thar hills. I'm betting it would be a profitable project.

I posted some pics of AR-14 IN THE PADDOCK.
Heres one.

Click to view attachment

Moved her outback to clean the floor in the shop. Yep, thats out there in left field somewhere. Excuse me, cause it's only my opinion. BUT Thats Falcon BADDASS…












ye

Looks like a fancy-schmancy lawn mower

JK

Car condo is a great idea- couldn't build a shop at my house (thanks to HOA) and it is a great social outlet as well. What's not to like about 50 some gearheads in the same area?? Even though I'm a Porsche and foreign car guy it is fun to see a lot of other interesting cars and projects, like a chopped '54 Ford wagon and 500+ cubic inch blown Ford pickup with wheelie bars!!
And TWO real '73 Carrera RS's across from one another???
We are sorta doing our social distancing...

Rattle-canned some of the intake parts that I hope to install this weekend and get this 914 running and on the road....

Click to view attachment Click to view attachmentClick to view attachmentClick to view attachment[attachmentid=740
465]

What brand of car is that Joe?

Finished up the engine. Now on to the transmission
Click to view attachment

Received my new 914 Rubber tan door panels


Bob ( @rasam ) came by to P/U the last front trunk/suspension clip I had here


... now, back to the laundry room remodel project

Pics Mark...please.....pics.....

About 50 miles of near perfect driving yesterday......running so well I cannot imagine it with a D-jet having anywhere near 3/4 the power......way more than I ever imagined a little 2.0 could provide.......especially with the wrong cam (original) in it......

GN

Of what, precisely? ... door panels, frunk floor clip or the laundry room?

Door panels!

Besides adding Mark’s no leak speedometer bushing, mounted the new headlight surrounds also from Mark

Click to view attachment

Cleaned my wheels today. Fronts weren't too bad but backs were nasty

Click to view attachment

Click to view attachment

Click to view attachment

Found some more restoration parts for the 75 exhaust system.

Yesterday, I continued to put all of the intake/FI components back on the 914. As usual, I THOUGHT I had everything I needed to at least get her running. So after getting the plenum and a few new hoses back on, I put the driver's side runner on. Then I started the passenger's side, and upon opening the gasket package, found it was cracked in half. Doh!

Long story short, after spending roughly 2.5 hours driving back and forth to Auto Atlanta, I was able to get the other runner finished. So, if everything goes without any hiccups, I should get the new fuel injectors, throttle body, and airbox on today, and get her fired up.

Quick shout out to Albert at Auto Atlanta for supplying me with a new gasket so I didn't have to order one. I did not buy the cracked gasket from them, so it wasn't their issue.

Click to view attachment Click to view attachment

Installed the new Lucas injectors, throttle body, airbox, and a few hoses. Still have some blocked off valves that I will have to sort out later, but that's a project for a different day. Good News....it's running pretty smoothly at a consistent 1100 rpm idle.
This intake/fuel injection refresh is probably remedial to most of you, but to a village idiot like me, it was real progress...especially since it cranked right up and is idling well.




Click to view attachment Click to view attachmentClick to view attachment

Nice job. That's the best way to learn about these cars and systems like D-Jet. Enjoy.

Moving at a good pace, Craig. Did you install that 'new' exhaust system?

Took out the seats, backpad, and center console today, and installed a new throttle cable. I got the pedal hooked up, but didn't have time to put the pedal board back or connect to the throttle. Hopefully, I'll get that done in the next day or so, and then go driving!

... @Beatnavy ..Rob...thanks for the encouragement...and you're right, every time I start working on another small project, I learn 5 other things. I also appreciate your advice/help...and the help of many others here whose knowledge and advice have been invaluable.

...and @euro911 ... Mark, thanks to you as well. The exhaust will go on in a few weeks, I've got to get her driving first... then I'll slap it on there....I'm thinking it's gonna sound just like a Scart. By the way, your place is looking great!

Click to view attachment Click to view attachmentClick to view attachmentClick to view attachment

...and a few tunnel pics...you can imagine how difficult this was with the car laying on its side and all




Click to view attachment Click to view attachment

And, yes, those are mouse turds.

Tried a different approach to cable shifter console. Kind of like where it is going.

A couple small hurdles
Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment

Painted / Jammed the rear trunk lid for the 74 yesterday, then I drove the car today, from Valley Center to San Marcos (about 25 miles), to the shop for an oil change and possible clutch cable replacement.
It was a nice, back road drive with lots of good cornering.

Nice day for a drive so decided to go to a local body shop to get an estimate on fixing the various nicks, rust spots, and paint blemishes on my 914 in preparation for a vinyl wrap.

Drive there was all good. Guy took notes and will email me the estimate.

I started the car and pulled out onto the road and then noticed the Alternator light was on.
As I drove the mile or so to a fellow 914ers, I notice the following:

• Tach is not reading correctly - it shows 30-35% of actual engine speed
• Voltmeter not working

At my friend's place I find fuse #8 (or is it #9?) is blown so I swapped it out with a good one from the Low Beams. As soon as I turned the key... BAM. Blown fuse.

So I headed back home and troubleshooting that. Found some posts with similar issues so maybe I'll get it figured out

Click to view attachment

Clean and polish

Installed a new to me MOMO steering wheel. This is my 5th and hopefully last (vintage MOMO wheel) that I have mounted on a quick disconnect mount to make it a quick swap out for the steering wheels. This one is big at 380mm with a very large grip and is the only MOMO Cavallino steering wheel that I have seen with the Porsche Classic logo embossed into it. It was manufactured 8 - 1988.

Click to view attachment

Click to view attachment

I have a couple friends who live in Valley Center ... one being Bruce Meyers ... http://meyersmanx.com/

Getting ready to drop the engine on the '73- got exhaust system, shift linkage etc off today. Undo a few things on the top tomorrow and then it's time to go...