I’ve had good luck buying the Porsche switch, it’s all I use anymore. Typically only about 40 bucks

Replaced rear trailing arms last week.
Then new Kumho tires.
Finished today with a fresh allignment.

Ready for Red Rocks now.

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Changed the oil in the SBC 914 and installed Expansion Tank and Charcoal Canister. Hopefully that will get rid of the gas fumes in the car.
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J.P. What size tires are you running on the rear? I have to replace mine and want to explore my options.

Thanks,
Clay

225 - 50 on 16 x 8 Fuchs on all 4 corners.
(245 - 45 also fit.)

I drove mine and decided I want fuel injection. Going to use the Jenvey heritage units that PMB is bringing In.

Playing with exhaust and axles.
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Ben,

Eric @ PMB Performance is doing EFI on my 6 with fresh 3.0 with 3.2 heads.

I will post more pictures soon. It requires mounting a drive on the cam like the MFI units used. Wiring loom work and a bunch of other things.

I want it to start all the time. Anywhere, just like my 86 3.2 in my old Carrera

Bob B

Bob what fuel management is he using?



On what I did last night is drove the car and under hard acceleration I broke either a cv, spline or axle in the driver side. Towed it home. My son thought it was cool though.

It’s been a busy week back with “Harvey” the 914 (named after the town - Harvey, IL - where it was originally sold)…
- Installed a Pertronix II and associated coil (raised the warm and cold/startup idle measurably which was appropriately dealt with)
-Diagnosed a slight hesitation around 3k at cruise as mostly likely being a bad trace in the TPS. Got a new TPS board coming from a fellow 914 World member (thanks @Highland !) and will take care of that asap.
- Replaced the drivers side hot air flapper with an NOS one. The previous “new” one (to me) flapper disintegrated leaving me with a constant flow of heat.
- Corrected the wiring for my Dakota Digital CHT and am now getting good reading (happily, in the 300-325 range) and…
-Tuned up the stereo which is patterned after the similar installation by @bbrock .

Quite a bit for a week of messing around and man…it’s fun to do.

Oh - and LOT'S of driving it.....

" My son thought it was cool" how old is he? is he a candidate for the affliction?

I screwed around…

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In deed!

Yup, took her to a Cars 'n Coffee in Grass Valley. Mostly hot rods but then a few air-cooled guys showed up and we got to chat. They seemed to really like my car. Then my brother and I went to the annual Mel's car show in Auburn. Had to be 200-300 cars all hot rods. I had the only Porsche there. We just parked it and walked the show and saw people looking at my car from time to time. The hot rods were mostly show quality cars. Lots of Gen. 1 Corvettes, and Chevy II Novas and tri-5 Chevys. I have a real soft spot for the '67 Nova and would love to find an original '67 Nova SS in stock trim. It was a great show with all very nice people. The weather was warm but no oppressive.

Did more black oxide on factory tools

I rebuilt the Marelli S112 BX distributor I bought off eBay using a kit acquired from PartsKlassik.

Hopefully it will test as performing in spec!
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looks like its screwed down pretty well, or should i have said thats really "screwed up"?

Looks nasty, keep it going

Well my Bud Mark and I am getting our 74 with the RAT built by Jakes hands ready to get to PMB to finish this car.

This should make a very nice car. Interior BK leather, paint is not bad for over 12 years.
I little touch up and paint the trunk lid and inside eng. Compartment.

Nice California car with blue plates. It was a converted 6 when I got it. It was a roller

Owned by Duc Nguyen before and sold to me from camp 914


Bob B
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Working on the electronics inside the air box. Josh through some changes at me and now I am making them happen. I had the box wired to take the signals on one post and the Arduino board wants them to be single post.

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I Twin turbo'ed mine (Since you can not turbo a 914!) and add a FuelTech 550 (stand alone EMS)
Ready for Okteenerfest 2022!!!

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Looks like a bomb about to go off I like it

That's an amazing feat! Please post some details on this...I've considered this after I'm running and sorted but I might be fine as is. I know the engine is stout enough for massive power and I wanna see some dyno numbers! Sweet build, Pipe!

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The air box is back together with all the changes Josh wanted. I'll probably have to change the direction of some of motors after Josh hooks up the Arduino board but that's just a minor thing.

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Once we get all the testing done I can put all this stuff back in the car.

Replaced tail shifter bushing and shift rod bellows with new ones from 914Rubber. Perfect fits. Old ones (30+ yrs) kinda shot...
Got a nifty sticker also...

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Modified 4 x6 Pyle 3 way speakers to fit URO housings. Used mesh grill behind cover,

Spent the past week swapping out the ECU and AFM on the 3.2 for and intermittent
drivability issue. Narrowed it down to the ECU. thanks to @Mepstein for helping me with a loaner while mine is out being rebuilt. On the road again!!!!

And to build on this - Ingo Schmitz is the go-to guy for 3.2/3.6 ecu’s. He’s mostly on pelican but I have his contact info if you need it. I know there are other people. I’ve had experience with some of them. Ingo keeps getting my business.

Tore our 914-6 engine down to the long block.

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Went for a drive in the 73 Delphi 2.0. Put on the new steering wheel, and a few missing black plastic clips for the drivers arm rest.

Nothing as I watched racing for most of the day, starting with Zandvoort, followed by indycar, and Darlington...

But pretty neat to see all the Porsche police cars taking the F1 drivers on their parade laps before the race, even INCLUDING at least one 914!

Project back online and on page 777

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Yehey! Finally almost done Nacho!

Cracked the case on our 914-6 engine.
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1) Finally have my car back after a looong stay at the shop
2) Successfully did two test drives so far
3) Installed this -

Just needed a new coil, for some reason it failed, and blew up inside, replaced and we are back on the road.
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Just added a first oil change, sparks, checked for a leak on one of the heads and no more oil in the cockpit for us, checked time carburation, and jetting

Novato Cars And Coffee on Sunday

Finished tearing down our engine (i.e. disassembled the heads and removed the pistons from the crank.)
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I'm doing the final preparations for the installation of the Adurino board. Everything is labeled with numbers and the motors have an indicator of direction.
I only post this over here because it is so off the wall and different to the norm.
Thank you for your tolerance but I think that without posting here I would never have reached 41,000 viewers.

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Despite the heat and smoke, (damn fires) we took her to the local Auburn Hot Rod show. They do this on the 2nd Friday night of every month, May to September in Old Town on Lincoln. Given the weather conditions, we still had a great turnout. There were a surprising number of '66 Mustangs and Novas. We also had to blown dragsters show up with Elephant motors and they started those up so people could feel the sheer power of those motors.

I had the only European car there but was given a great parking spot, right next to the grandstand and band. Sorry there are not more pictures, once cars began arriving and people showed up it was crowded.

Vendors provided food and drink. We grabbed a great meal at one of the restaurants on the street where this event is held as we believed we should support them for indulging a bunch of Q-Tips and their toys.

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Cars & Coffee

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@Steve - Great looking car; every time I see it, I love it.

Thanks Michael!! Also glad your enjoying your car. Awesome happy ending!! Kent does amazing work. Your car looks perfect!!

Degreased a bunch of 1.8 and 2.0 tin, getting ready for another build. Mounted an interior rear view mirror with 3M VHB tape. It never stops

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Thanks Oscar!! You must have one running car for Cars & Coffee?

After months or research, I ordered and received an Eastwood 140 MIG welder. It seems to be perfectly optimized for welding sheet metal on a 914.

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Competed in speed hillclimb event - ran two PBs, so I'm happy.