I stripped both rear calipers off (one at a time) to clean up on the outer side of the seals. Replaced the pad seperator springs, genuine ones available from porsche.

Adjusted the pads to 0.2mm clearance. bled up nicely. pedal now goes to the floor and the sodding brake light flashes on the gauge. left it!

moved onto the rattle in the passenger door. found it and found that the window mech had popped off one of the channels. sorted that too.

also found a flaky patch of paint under the door. that's been primed and ready for colour.

Still have no brakes though. ah well back to it another day.

It's in! Took about 2 hours with a bit of cussing, scrapes and dirty up to my elbows. That felt good!!!

@chaznaster - Congratulations!

I snuck my BIL into the infield at the Daytona 24 in the early '70's in the front trunk, after taking out the spare of course... so it can be done!

Worked on the loose ends now that the engine is back in. Today I got the cables all situated, shift linkage back in place, axles bolted on (with new schnoor washers), replaced the oil filter and started filling with oil.

Just have a few bits left. Will install a new 12pin connector for relay board (mine was MIA and a super mess, including a terminal block screwed to the side of the relay board with jumper wires soldered to the board ). Then connect the throttle cable and fuel line and that should do it for now.

Hope to have her rolling this weekend.

Love the Malaga red and the Mahale wheels!

Got all the topside wiring done and put the battery back in. Thought I might have messed something up when the engine was out as the starter solenoid was clicking but the starter not turning. Ends up I forgot to wire the heavy cable from the battery to the starter. Once that was sorted, she started right up! Tomorrow is going to be a driving day - the first of the summer.

finally got out for a drive.
between the weather, 1000km + work trip up country on a remote job, hangovers, etc i got to rebond with "the jaffa" (google it) this weekend for 2 hours.
a mid winters day that was sunny and almost t-shirt-able.
bring on global warming!

i got to say i love this car after 30+ years and having been trapped in my audi A3 sportback for 5 days going up country for over 1000k, the audi is comfortable, sort of, but boring as all hell and the 914, well you got to drive it rather than sit in it.

fingers crossed i did not cop another speeding ticket for going 4kmh over our ridiculous inner city post covid revenue raising idiotic inconsistent speed zones.

i never would have thought australia would descend to its current levels of stoopidity.
fortunately i can still drive my 14 to relieve the migraine of existence in north antarctica.



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Don't feel too alone there, here in the states we are well in the running for "most stoopid" group

On the return trip from WCR....
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Oh...wait.... no, we were not going 140 MPH! But my GPS speedo was (apparently).

We bled all four calipers and reset the gaps on the rears. Fitted the new spreader plates to get proper reopening of the pads all around. did it all with the ignition off.

Took it for a drive to get an ice cream at the beach and the blimmin red brake light was flashing. need to press it again

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where i get into trouble is i still have a mph speedo in the 14.
but its metric down here since circa 1975.
it used to be easy until the last few years.
3 common speed limits. all easily convertible in my mind to kph.
60kph = 35 mph. 80 = 50 100 = 60.
but now we have
30kph 40kph 50kph 60kph 70kph 80 kph 100 kph 110 kph.
all this has happened in late stages of covid lockdown while driving and leaving home for most was verbotten. they went around screwing up new signs everywhere. and they are still doing it. combine that with revision of definition of speeding from 10% over to 2% for urban speed limits (30-80) and 3% for highway (100-110) and you can see the problem.

i'm fairly certain some of the zones are cynically positioned to enhance revenue collection as the state finances are worse than a mess after the bumbled covid lockdowns. some of them have nothing to do with road safety given where the roads are and the condition and design of the streets. its just done to trap you. nuts.

i noticed it going up country too. hadn't been where i went since 4 years ago.
lots of variable speed limits imposed on sections of open highway. you had to pay attention to the signs. and sure enough there would be a camera car positioned strategically. apparently zones were situated where there had been bushfire damage to the roads after the big fires 3 years back. except the road had been repaired.
but the zones were still there.

Got it out of the garage and drove it. Nothing fell off and had no strange noises. Seems I got the wiring in the 14 and 12 pin relay board connectors right, as well as the fasteners holding the engine and transmission in.

Made it about 10min when it started raining. This car is not rain-ready. Drove home and parked it. Will try again tomorrow.

While I was not driving, installed new pedal rubber covers. Also installed new rubber rings around the instruments. They would fall out over bumps which, while amusing the first few times, got old really fast. The old rings pretty much fell apart as I pulled them off.

Drove the 73 and 75

drove up to Greenville Sc on the invite from some other porsche enthusiasts i met at Werks Reunion Amelia Island this year,
they had my car in the coffee shop for display for the day, it’s a cool old building, awesome coffee etc . Junto Coffee in Taylor’s, SC. here are a couple pro pictures sent back to me , car was well received .

and a couple of my own,

Nice drive up to the WCR, but the drive back from Tahoe was a mess. Construction and accidents everywhere. Drove through 97 degree heat on the I5 south. Almost got ran over by a semi that was trying to dodge another semi that was stopped in the slow lane. I luckily squeezed between two cars next to me, so he could have my lane. My car ran awesome and cool all the way back. I wish I could say the same for me. I downed tons of water with multiple pit stops. Note to self…. Fix AC before next event.

Wait.. Why would you fix the AC? I thought all 914 owners in California were required to remove the top and rip out any air conditioning in the car.

Yes, when I was younger. Now that I'm 62, I thought I was going to die of heat stroke. I had the top on and the windows half way down doing between 80-100 when there was no traffic or construction. The Electric AC works in my car, but creeps up to 100 amps and blows the circuit breaker. It should stay at 60 amps. We installed the same system in Keith's car and his works fine.

Brought these back from Germany after many years of searching

Opportunity to acquire arose during fab 3 week road trip to Albania boarder and back

Buried them in the dirty clothes in the back of the Sprinter Camper, no checks & no import duty. Sorry, not sorry

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I'm posting while sitting in a new race car (bomber seat) chair that I just finished. I never felt the urge to build a race car chair from my Sparco but as soon as I saw this kit my thoughts went right there. While I was searching this out I ran into a chair that totally resembles an early Speedster seat. So that seat became my new goal for the race car.

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Now that this is done I can start the other 2.

Received my new gear lever, the old one split in half and started going sideways…



Thanks @Autoatlanta

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Just FYI. The two pieces are epoxied together. So save the old one.
A small torch where the tube and the cast piece join together
and they will come apart. I use JB Weld to join the two, just make sure the parts are clean

Thanks! I can see the welding in the new old part.
Is it a common failure in 914’s’?? Its a bit scary…

It has happened to me. Not sure how common it is.

Pretty common is my belief; happened to my car before the restoration.

Today we took Elwood (the Factory Six) to Park Place Porsche in Dallas for the Porsche 75th anniversary celebration.

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Took it to an early cars and coffee and then headed to the local Porsche dealership for the 75th anniversary party. The 914 was the oldest car on the lot. There was another 1970 911 but nothing newer. Free lunch and a good time…

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Pulled the wire for a CHT sensor. Fabbed and painted a DIY mount for the gauge. Plan to finish tomorrow with the install and getting the wires hooked up.

That car is spectacular!

@clayperrine - Wow, wow wow.

@ClayPerrine

Beautiful. Hope you two had fun

Finished CHT sensor and gauge install. It works great with temps around 310 after an hour of driving. That's right in the range from Jeff Bowlsby's CHT article.

I think removing the mouse nests from the cylinders might have helped a bit ...

Mounted it with a DIY mount until I can figure out where it will live long-term.

Sorry… for the triple post!

Sorry for the triple post!

Started cleaning the undercarriage with degreaser, steamer, brake clean, green.

Will take a few hours to do the entire car

Also had the dent Dr. over for a day doing magic…

it today but saturday went doen to Jax Florida and joined that group at the former Brumos now Fields Porsche for a huge 75th celebration!!! wow i’ve never seen so many GT 2,3,4’s at one time at one place not even at Werks! music food and fun. we had a few 914’s and a beautiful mint 924S, a rainbow of porsche colors.

AND this beautiful red ‘76 914 that has only 8,900 documented original
miles!!! a california car now in jax area.

Phil

that right there is a LOT of work, i did my engine compartment 2 years ago, and the rear trunk floor too at that time, that old zbart crap they sprayed on was horrible- im going to do the floor pan this summer, and thinking about taking it up to Charlotte and have the cryo blasting dry ice blast or what ever itis , done, that is kind of the last frontier of my restoration.
i found that brake cleaner for some of the stubborn spots will take that off without taking off my paint, but it can if your not careful, i wouldnt do it othewise but on the floors and inner rockers im going to get that all cleaned up enough to re-paint and might do the tinted bed liner or lizard skin im not sure yet.

If available in your area I'd highly recommend dry ice cleaning. I took off 52+ years of old Ziebart, etc from my '71 and the silver paint underneath looked amazing considering...

resealed transaxle, (re)heli-coiled speedo bolt, added double o-ring speedo and bronze shifter bushing . . .guess I could reseal the other 2 transaxles I have and move them on. . .

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The dry ice method appears to be the easy button for sure, but being a CSOB I am trying to do it in house. Does brake cleaner cut through the old undercoating?

The RAT Engen came back from PMB for me and Mark Sonners to take down to find out why it has a tick in it. Sounded like an exhaust leak but it had low oil pressure so we will find out. This was a Jake build not just RAT parts.

Best Bob B Burton
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Betty and Elwood, both lookin' good!

Looks great.. runs like .

Cylinder #5 is not firing. Changed the plug, and wire, no joy. Took the gas torch and fed acetylene into the #5 venturi on the car. The miss went away.

I think I have a blocked passage in the left carb. I have to pull the top after work today and see if I can clear it out.

Did I ever say how much I dislike carbs....

Is she not firing at idle only? or under acceleration or crusising?

Got my carburetors idle jet unclogged, new 3,1/4” trumpets, and filters, new brake pads, rotors serviced, new front bearings installed, new rear springs, and finally replaced the shift lever that broke, reviewed the valve springs sitting, some minor electrical things and some major oil leaks, and my oil temp meter works perfect now!
Oh, and installed my AN6 fittings for the Carbs

Finally I drove the car today and is completely a new car. Just needs jetting now, we will find a dynamometer for that.

Now it needs a lot of cleanup underneath as you can see, the oil leak in the head gasket was severe…

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