Found a set of NOS Weber 44 IDF carbs - made in Spain. Going on my 2056 build

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built these for my bucket of rust. Someday I might have somthing to attatch them too

A 2.0L mostly stock with a Race cam & KB pistons.
Headers & MSD. Plan on having the heads ported & CR ~10:1.
Race gas only.

I would have gone to 44 IDFs, but we run almost exclusively High altitude (>5000 ft.)

Stu

Curious...what did you do with those ring gaps on the KB's...

But Seriously...

Carb tune and lift install party!!

Count me in!!

me too

Added Helogen fluid to the light bulbs, and more flex to the flux capacitor...


Actually didn't do anything! but bought more sand paper and since it was so hot played in the sprinkler with my son instead... Actually has been hot up here in Vancouver and sanding 6 layers of paint and primer isn't that fun while sweating your off!

patches

Holy Macaroni!Nice job!

I'm glad I don't have body rot issues. I envy you guys who have the skill and patience to cut and weld cars back together.

Finished blasting and priming the tin from a 2L-6 engine today. Hope the hot weather sticks around long enough to spray a couple of good coats of semi-gloss black on them.

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Finally had some cooler weather today and sanded the 6 layers and paintand found this! The guy was right nearly rust free but 4" of bondo WTF? why didn't they hammer out the panel or dent pull it?








They pile of Bondo was like 4-5" high by the time I was done yuk!

Nice clean up job!

Engine in! Now just to hook up the electrics! I might get to take a drive tomorrow!

Jealous it's going to be a while before I'm to that stage... Been working on the body and realized after sanding for a couple of days the guy I bought it off left the spark plugs out.... who does that, now I'm going to have to tear everything down engine wise to make sure it didn't get a bunch of crap in there! . I'm a dumb ass I didn't notice the plugs were out but still who stores a car with the plugs out?

Just suck the cylinders out with a vacuum hose

OK. So, quit whining and get back to work.

Well, I have to let the primer cure ... and gotta take my afternoon nap

After having a few I was thinking I could scope it just need to find someone with a borescope camera! hummm something like this could help!

Did some assembly and painted the SBC engine for my conversion.
Wasn't feeling the Chevy Orange
The car and trans are silver, didn't need anymore...
Black is cool with aluminum heads, but just too corporate for me right now
So went with old school finned valve covers and threw some paint on everything.
Should look good hiding down in the bay...



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I hope you realize that tin will not fit in a 914 engine compartment.

Got everything hooked up, start her up, aaand... a leaky fuel injector. As a bonus the leak is from the injector itself, so no cheap fix for me. anyone have a line on a good used 2.0L injector?
-Ross

Put a period Becker Europa radio in--first time I've had tunes in, well, since I bought my 914 in 1995. I got the Becker from a Canadian off the Samba--fourth try at a radio, and finally got one that worked! The Becker was $80 plus $30 shipping and works like a champ.

Check the diameter of that camera head. I had one of those and the head dia. was too large to fit in a spark plug hole. I ended up buying a more expensive one that had a smaller dia. head, + it can record and upload to a PC

Oh shit

Guess I'll have to stick it in this

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Here 'tis...

What model is that?

I removed both door latches. Soaked them in mineral spirits until they were clean.
A couple dabs of lube on the pivots and they are working like new.

Looks like the passenger door hadn't been touched in 39 years.

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Nice car, Cary!

I normally don't like white teeners but yours looks very classily and awesome!

i was looking at moving the windshield wipers to the passenger side when they are in the parked position. after researching the process and looking at dozens of pictures i realized the PO had the wiper arms flip flopped .... like a 71 and earlier car. after switching the arms back to the proper posts, and adjusting them to proper position, via the haynes book. i regained a ton of visibility.i dont think i will be moving the parked position after all.

details, details, details

Nice colors. Can't wait to see the car.

The Europa (not Europa II), non-stereo. Not sure of model number though.

Only took me four radios to get a working one! (2 Blaupunkts, and one Sapphire before the Becker). Sent one of the Blaupunkts to a shop in CA to be fixed...total goat rope so far. Anyway, don't need it anymore!

My old cassette radio was old and tried looking. The radio worked but the cassette stopped working five years ago. Replaced it today with an AM Blaupunkdt radio. I don't listen to it. I rather hear my Bursch muffler!

Yes--awesome car! (but I always like white teeners!)

i recently sold a becker europa it was from an old benz it almost worked but didnt. still got a good chunk of change for it.
What did i do to to my 914 today? I went to the junk yard and searched for a sway bar that was straight so i could cut it and make it work like the original 914 one. I ended up with a 3/4" bar from a 76 caddilac deville. Should work fine. Ill put flanged bearings in the body and make my own drop links. mini bike shock ends for the bottoms and 4 wheeler tie rod ends for the tops. and make my own adjustable sway bar ends with a slot for adjustment and squared ends to put on the bar. then ill drill and tap the bar so they dont go anywhere. should work out grand.

Tried a bigger with the impact driver and still no movement on the tranny fill plug. Should I try heat?

LS1 conversion coming along. I'm beat, but happy to be making progress!

Have you tried slipping a piece of pipe over the wrench for more leverage? Sometimes I'll do this with the pipe parallel to the ground, and then put a floor jack under the pipe and jack it up. Works ***most*** of the time. Good luck!

Try shooting some PB Blaster on the threads ... let it soak in ... then try it again

bought a set of wheels! and im fitting a spoiler from an 80s camaro. I tried heating it and bending it to fit better but it snapped. so i snapped the other side to match. I fitted the 3 pieces sepeately and then ill bondo them back together. should work out just fine

Really wanted to get rid of the popping on deceleration. Got a new set of copper exhaust gaskets and annealed them, dropped the H/E's, refiled them square, ( threw in a valve adjustment, while I'm in there) chased the head studs, and bolted everything back up. Test run had no popping to be heard

Ran quieter, there definitely was signs of blow by on three of the four removed gaskets.

Time for a

Welded on the rear trunk hinge cups after lining up the hinges. Tack'd them first and then put on the trunk lid and adjusted it. Then took off the trunk lid/hinges and finished welding the hinge cups.. I'll take pics next time I'm out in the garage.

Nice! The flangeless design of the 914 exhaust is the worst (wurst?). Engineer must've eaten some bad spargel that day.

Finally seemed to make some head way today, I was sick of dry sanding and then a day or two later getting some surface rust. So I grabbed some self edging primer and went all out on it.


Some before and after shots, sorry if I got camera happy but everyone always ask's for more shots lol















Putting the teener for bed for the night!

I want to steal your wheels and flares ! ...lol please

Wire brushed and lightly spray painted the shims and mounting hardware for the trailing arms. I am going to get these on this summer! Been over 20 months since the 914 went up in the air on jackstands. I gotta get this done this summer!!
Eric put those nice poly bushings in and added the grease fittings and I have been procastinating. I am ashamed of myself!! Pics later of the trailing arms.
Tom
EDIT: added pics, Eric does nice work!! Thanks again Eric.

I worked on a new umbrella cover for my car today. It took some planning and it took awhile to get it to fit just right and I'm not totally crazy obout the color but it keeps the sun off.

Are you going to start marketing these Elliott?

He's waiting for the cost analysis before announcing the group buy.
Send money now, so he can get tooled up, nice prototype though

I got my cable issues sorted out and took Calypso out for a 60 mile shakedown run. Tomorrow is the 5 hour drive to Granville, OH for the Porsches to Ohio event.