Installed the "Becker Europa" which I had on the shelf in the garage for many years. Didn´t work at first until I found a small rupture on the circuit board. Great solid piece from a time past when German engeneering was top. Unfortunately no more but a few AM stations here in Europe.

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Went to the powder coater and plater for the last time for our 75 Palma 2.0. ...I’ve said this four times now and always find something to restore...

Looks great

Can't believe it's been almost 3 months since I've logged in here....busy on other stuff, prepping engine bay to re-install the engine has been laborious, tedious, aggravating, slow. A PO did a half-axx job of spraying the bay with black paint and getting it off for a repaint in original Malaga Red a nightmare. Only media-blasting would get it off.

BUT, in the meantime got my Mahle's powder-coated by a top local shop, and picked them up today. Yes, I'm a happy camper. Excuse me - a happy TEENER!

GN

They look great, how were they cleaned prior to the finish?

I built this:

I got them from KevinW and they had been nicely media-blasted by him.

My PC guy re-blasted them as I had primed them for original paint from Wolfsburg, and he did some minor repair on some blemishes.

GN

nice!!!! man those are my favorite 4-lug fuchs! i had a set but sold them with a project car i now wish i had kept- hindsight is 20/20 , i remind myself of that when i think of selling my current 914. those will look so good on that car.

Phil -

DO NOT EVER SELL YOUR SWEET 914! I promise that if you do, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. With all the BS&T you've put in it, it's worth 10x what you'd ever get out of it. AND THE CAR IS YOU! No other car will be YOU!

Nothing could match its uniqueness and treasure value. I think its one of the best 914s on the planet (but what do I know?).

Ordering tires soon so I can get them on.

Take care,

GN

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I got them from KevinW and they had been nicely media-blasted by him.

My PC guy re-blasted them as I had primed them for original paint from Wolfsburg, and he did some minor repair on some blemishes.

GN

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Can't believe it's been almost 3 months since I've logged in here....busy on other stuff, prepping engine bay to re-install the engine has been laborious, tedious, aggravating, slow. A PO did a half-axx job of spraying the bay with black paint and getting it off for a repaint in original Malaga Red a nightmare. Only media-blasting would get it off.

BUT, in the meantime got my Mahle's powder-coated by a top local shop, and picked them up today. Yes, I'm a happy camper. Excuse me - a happy TEENER!

GN

They look great, how did clean them?
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nice!!!! man those are my favorite 4-lug fuchs! i had a set but sold them with a project car i now wish i had kept- hindsight is 20/20 , i remind myself of that when i think of selling my current 914. those will look so good on that car.
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I got out and actually (Gasp!) put some gas in the tank so it would start (the 4.0). I had a detonation issue that turned out to be a failed coil. So I replaced both with 993 coils, plus new ignitors, caps and rotors. After all that it wouldn't start. Then I found out it was out of gas

Once I got it started, I found the #5 intake wire was shorting out to the engine tin due to a torn boot on the distributor end. I replaced the boot with the one I took off the end of the coil wires during the coil conversion.

I also fixed the oil leak on that side, and cleaned the engine bay of motor oil. Tomorrow I can check it and make sure the leak is gone.

Set up Vollgas!, a website/blog for fun, based on my VW and (mainly) Porsche files. Not a great deal of 914 content yet, but there are a couple of 914 in-car videos and a trip round the Karmann Museum (plus three other Porsche-heavy museums here in Europe...). I'll add more 914 content soon, but for now I'm off for a last drive before our third period of lock-down kicks in tomorrow. Sigh...

www.vwporsche.conline

I would be concerned about using that name. A friend had to change the business name he had because Porsche deemed it was a copyright infringement. He got fined a bunch of money, and had a bench warrant issued for his arrest.

Clay

Cheers, I know Porsche AG can be touchy. However, this is the domain name used to contact Porsche's press office, museum, archives etc, and was passed over by Porsche when registering names. For the last decade we've also used classicporschemag.com and .co.uk, and also registered Classic Porsche and 911 & Porsche World as magazine names, with Porsche's blessing. The problem arises, as far as Porsche is concerned, when names are used to sell parts or services. If there is ever a problem, I have vollgas.online ready to go.

Volkswagen were the worst years ago - they employed no win, no fee lawyers who went after people selling anything VW related, including toys, clothing etc. The lawyers (based in the US, naturally) came after my ex-wife for selling VW models. When she explained that Volkswagen in the UK actually bought models from her to give away as gifts, they suddenly went quiet. Lawyers, don't you just love them?

Got around to assessing the damage 'HOWARD' sustained from the 605 freeway mishap. Surprisingly the damage is a lot less than I expected, although it's going to take some professional help to get back the where I started.


Right front ... hopefully, it's only the strut. Fortunately, I already have a pair of late powder-coated struts I got from Bruce Stone

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Right rear. It's only the quarter panel. What appears to be a crease in the door is just a reflection of the edge of the driveway.

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Left rear. More than likely, bent trailing arm mounts and a crease in the quarter panel. What appears to be a crease in the door is a reflection of an extension cord.

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Also, it will need a new front windshield. The OEM one popped out and got smashed all to hell when it made contact with the retaining wall.

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Need to get it up in the air to determine the actual the course of action

Dug out a pair of old rusty jack stands and refurbished them ... wire brushed them and applied a coat of rust reformer primer, then a couple days later, applied the finish coat of Dupli-Color DE-1601 Ford Blue.

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Ready to put into action ...

Took Elvira out for the first drive of 2021.

I have seen a bent rear arm with no mount damage. Hope for the best.

@euro911 I have some front struts that were freshly powder coated. You are more than welcome to them for free.

Nacho

Got the rockers and valances off the '71 in anticipation of cryo-cleaning the undercarriage...

Read some about the process- should be interesting... and messy!

Thanks for the generous offer, Nacho, but I'm good. Bought a pair from Bruce Stone a couple years ago.

The wife locked herself out of her daily driver so i had to jump into the 914 to go and "rescue" her. Found her in a nearby bar.

Just had a nice conversation with Steve Wong, SW Chips. I have his custom chip in my DME for my '87 3.2 in my Six. At the time I ordered the chip, the only thing different in my engine, over stock, were the 964 cams. Back then, (pre-MB911 SS heat exchangers and mufflers) we spec'd it for stock 914-6 heat exchangers and muffler. So, now that I have 2,700 miles on it in addition to running Ben's excellent large-tube SS full exhaust, I thought I would talk with Steve to see if sending the chip back for an adjustment in programming was worth it. He said he could definitely make some adjustments to accommodate the exhaust. So maybe this weekend I will pull the DME, remove the chip and ship it back to him. BTW, one of his custom chips is now over $900 and the cost to have my SW custom chip modified is going to be $256, shipping included. Considering the cost of a new chip, probably not bad.

I am not doing this to gain any additional power; this car runs great and is strong. I am doing it so the engine runs as close as possible to perfect.

I have one of his chips in my 3.6L but i have no idea what exactly was done to it as i bought the engine as a complete package from Jerry Woods.

I have one of his chips in the 4.0L. It is extremely custom. It was based on the info I gave him at the time I built the motor. But it needs tweaking. I am considering gutting a dead ECU and installing this:

Megasquirt Pro Module

I can custom tune more than the Motronic, and I can also add things like traction control.

Was she ok?

Drove it for about 2 1/2 hours on some good SoCal twisty mountain roads. Had a blast!

2.0 Rebuild started on bench...

And just like that, the rotisserie became a 2 post lift...

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Today was a fun filled 914 day. Drove the 74 this morning, replaced the pedal assembly on the 75 this afternoon. @bdstone914 the core will be sent back to you on Monday. It looks pretty good.
Out with the old, in with the new!

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Thats a nice looking shark @MB911 , thinking that one was a steal.

I also looked at my 914-6, then went back to work on the 7 series.

Swapped out the old speedo drive housing for the new and improved version from 914 Rubber.

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Well sunny day, dry roads and no salt in Michigan yet so I went for a ride. Only the parking lot at the Metropark had snow.

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Thanks @914forme for the price of a set of my -6 heat exchangers its a fantastic deal.. it does need a hood and a bunch of wiring and accessories in the engine compartment but still likely have less then 6k in this car total done

added a pair of color-matched vitaloni mirrors!

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Really nice looking car well done

Getting ready to install after I get a nice muffler from Ben

i remember the day i installed my shiny-clean SSIs. by the next day they were covered in oil

Drove the '73 today from my shop home. Nice drive, in the 60's and sunny. Oil temp barely made it to 180!

Taking engine sheet metal to powdercoater tomorrow for the '71...

Been wanting a set of these for my Six since Jim put one of his on my car.....I will put them on this weekend. Thanks to @Mike Fitton

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Clean/nice tail lamps always make a great impact

Installed some rear trunk gas struts, these happen to be used units from our Volvo since I put brand new ones on that car.


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Nice work Mike !

That is looking like you are almost done with the drive train work. Very nice.

Got the '71 ready for some undercarriage cryo-cleaning... longitudinals don't look bad for 50 years do they? And I even had to drive it in IA winters the first 4 years. (though I did take the rockers off at least twice every winter to clean them out!)Click to view attachment

Added the excellent Hella Euro rear lenses and they look spectacular. Shout out to @Mike Fitton.

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Finished the first of my winter projects,
Ran new 12ga wiring to the front mounted fuel pump.

Replacing the 16ga wiring I had installed back in the early 80’s when I originally moved the fuel pump to the front.

For years it worked flawlessly but about 2 months ago I had an issue where the fuel pump quit, and I had to ride a flatbed home.

When I got it into the garage I went through the usual litany of tests, suspecting a failure in the harness, relay or relay board.

When I originally did the wiring I had put male/female spade connectors in the wiring running along the tunnel. This would allow me to test the fuel pump or run it to empty the tank etc. all the positive leads tested good, BUT the failure point was the spade connector on the Negative side.

Anyways today I ran a new 12ga wire from the rear through the passenger comp to the fuel pump and instead of going back to the original neg wire in the engine comp, I ran another 12ga brown wire to the ground point near the fuse box.

Tomorrow I will take it for a test ride but I expect to have no more problems with this.

Next I'll be waiting on the FI harness I ordered from Jeff Bowlsby. and when it arrives, that will be my 2nd winter project.

I have had a couple minor electrical issues last year and although each time I suspected the FI harness it turned out to be something else.

So this new FI harness will ease my mind and eliminate a future failure point.