Nice!

drove the crap out of my car

Big thanks to @mgphoto for helping me with a clutch adjustment.

The weekend couldn't start any better

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Stefano has a really beautiful car, he needs encouragement to show it off more.

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Took my biggest supporter out for her birthday, 914 style!

914 getting some love at the new car show in Kansas City last week. Three teeners in the classic car display put together by the Kansas City Automotive Museum.

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All smokey here today due to the Mosquito Fire, so my car remains in the garage, under a cover. Hoping that Sunday brings rain as predicted to stop this mess. Fortunately, our land is nice and clear after doing tree and brush work for the past 8 months. I always wonder, with all of the homeless people "camping" all over the forested areas around us how many of these fires are started by them? They are all over and the Placer County Sheriff's Department does nothing.

In town there was an old van parked across from a bank on a 1-block side street. Covered with a tarp and garbage in the street and thrown about the adjacent landscape- all around the van. I called the Sheriff after the van had been there 72 hours and they said they will do nothing. They also said that the garbage was the van owner's personal property and not garbage. I said, "Why is it strewn about the street and landscape then?" The Dispatcher got all upset and said she will not send a deputy. Talk about stupid.

I called the CHP since this is right off Highway 49 which runs through town and they said they would respond and address the issue. 2 days later then van was gone. Thank you CHP. I still believe the Sheriff should have done their job as this was not on the Highway, but a side street.

Sorry, but if you allow them to take root, I fear we will end up looking like SF, Berkeley, Oakland, LA, etc.

8 hr's labor cleaning/sanding this side of the hood. Looks so nice that I don't want to shoot it now!

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I totally get it; very nice job.

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I washed, scaped, and persuaded the PO's Plasti Dip paint off. It took a few hours. Now I have a red car that looks much happier.

Took her to the Aircooled event in NJ, it was a bust for me, but a great shakedown for my new '75. Took a year+ to build a 2056 and get everything together (PO had dis assembled much of the car including engine/trans/brakes/interior/.... Just made it home after 770 miles, the only incident was on the way home I was hearing something rattling that kept getting worse, I was getting bounced around on the Pennsylvania highways and had to pull over. The drivers front caliper was about to fall off, being held on with one finger loose bolt. Lucky for me I pulled into the Lowes parking lot, bought a couple tools and a 12x 1.5 bolt and I was on my way. MPG when home averaged 31, I would say my average speed was in the 75 +/- range.

Major victory for me

That's a great trip and outcome. Great mileage too.

Pulled our sept 1974 (75) Palma 1.8 car out of storage… going to strip her down and stick our 2.0 911S motor in it one day…. Will post pics once the longs are exposed.

Finally a break in the house projects that have been going non-stop.
Pulled the car out for a good wash to start getting her pretty for all the pinky lifters at Luft in a couple weeks, managed to snap off the freaking passenger seat adjuster handle
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Then got on to swapping the headlights out--I had H4's with LEDs 'retrofit' but was never really super satisfied with them, bought a set of Holley "RetroBright" LED lights and they seem pretty dang nice:
Side by side comparison to the old H4's with the LED bulbs in them
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Then threw on a displacement badge for kicks, only badge on the whole car,
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I've been looking too and came across that. Can you say more? Looks to be best price ordering direct from Eastwood.com.

Solution is clearcoat!

Just looked these up on the Holley website....$199.95 EACH! Suggested retail $223 EACH! Dad gummit that's pricey!


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@eric9144

Can we see a comparison of the light each throws ? @eric9144

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act...t&id=852062

They're already swapped out so no side by side. I will say that the beam pattern seemed to be more focused and level compared to the retro fit bulb in the H4 housing. I also don't seem to have any issues with the High/Low beam switching and the Spoke LED driving lights, it all works as it should without any hacks.

In terms of cost, yeah... I thought I was getting two for that price originally and had to begrudgingly order the second one when a single lamp showed up

I have Vintage Car LED headlights in my car and they are very nice and look very (European) stock. https://vintagecarleds.com/shop/7-inch/vcm3...-headlight-kit/

Spent money: Elephant Racing poly-bronze front suspension bushes (to match the rear trailing arm bushes) and monoball top strut mounts, plus Racetech tachometer to replace the lazy original. Time to get serious...

Thank you, recently I read through most of your build thread, about 30%. WOW, great story and I'm glad you didn't go with gray, Irish Green is one of my favorites.

3.8?? how can you hold onto her.

Great looking ride

Time for a new muffler! The European Racing Stinger was only fun for a few days…

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Scraped off more of the side stripes with Porsche in a funky and hideous early 70's typestyle using a hairdryer and a plastic scraper. Of course that method also loosens any putty in the area and comes off as well. It was all going to get redone anyway, so no big loss.

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Fun with Carbs....replacing o-rings, gaskets, floats, etc.


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...and modified the throttle stop plate to accommodate the switch from Hex Bar to Chris's pulley setup.

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one of the last pieces to the restoration. There's other bits to do but, this is a big one for me. The rest are all minor things.

Drove to work again. The drought here is pretty bad for everything else, but I've
been driving the car 2-3 days a week, more than 2000 miles already this season.

Finished rebuilding and installing the transaxle. Shifts much better overall. 1st and reverse are still hard to get into I think it is shifter adjustment.

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Abe @Abes914 came this morning and we installed a set of minilites with 195x60 15 rims, installed under pan cover with new seal, fixed some bent and painted his rear valance and installed it.

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This is the cleanest transmission I've ever seen!

Do you also use the Tangerine firewall bushing with the Tangerine shift rod linkage ?
@914e

Very nice! What paint did you use on the transaxle housing?

John

@ndfrigi Love the new look.

Thank you Michael! @Cairo94507 That is Abe’s car and I only helped him do
some work on his car. That’s him driving his 75 with backdated bumpers.

@Abes914 - Love the look.

Nice ! Abe’s gonna be rolling to events in a 914

I picked up this fiberglass aftermarket LE spoiler at Okteenerfest from Rick aka rix914parts , but there wasn’t time or tools while there to mount it , so unfortunately the front end looked a bit off , as some may have noticed . i had to remove the stock one , due to tow bar, and i didnt want to cut holes in that one , and the LE does work with the tow bar, and i decided to mount the Hella lights as well. Took all day to do this task, and i’m not done the lights are not wired yet, that’s a job for another day, but i think i’m ready for the Hilton Head Concours car club show case in November.
The valance took a lot of prep work but in the end it came out nice.

@jim_hoyland I had used the Tangerine firewall bushing however the firewall sheetmetal and the sheet metal ring that the boot connects to are slightly off center from each other and caused me binding. So I had to go back the the plastic bushing

@jc73-914 I used the Eastwood Alumablast.

I finished mocking up the linkage for the Gurney Flap on the rear wing.

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The hardware for the hinge arrived yesterday so I'm about ready to install the hinge.
Almost 42,000 viewers have visited my build thread.

Playing around with plating some parts. Zinc is straight forward, but getting the dichromate solution correct is a little challenging.
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Dan

Back home from MN, so drove it for the first time since last May...

Do you have a favorite?

I dropped the engine.

Finally!!!!Drove it down PCH to Corona del Mar today

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