Is this your engine, or are you the engine builder?

Rich

After you fix it again, which I am sure you will (clean)
Might I suggest you install a fuel shut off in prior to the carbs.
then when parked, shut off the fuel and let the carbs suck all the fuel out till the car dies.

Works really great on a 356, keeps the carbs from gumming up.
Starting does require a bit more cranking...but yah...

Matt, working with Mark at Exotech in Plaistow nh, just installed an easily reversible ITB solution with a dedicated brain onto his 914/6 race car.
when air cleaners are on....its hard to tell.
Starts and runs perfectly now, versus carbs...which don't always do that.
If you want to see it, I will find the thread he posted, I think its on the PP forum, possibly in the 911 engine forum...one of the threads on ITB.
I will follow suit, just wanted to see how easy and simple it was to tune.
they did tune it at a track, but now they know how to tune it
found it
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/911-engine-...sion-kit-2.html
Matt Romanowski is the poster.


Rich

Drove the hell out of the 74 on Friday. Took it down to Cruising Grand, in Escondido CA for a bit as well.
Purchased new rear springs and bilstein shocks for the 75. Will be putting those in over the next couple of weeks.

Still 914-less, I did however show the wife some on Craigslist over the weekend, there is a green '72 1.7 in Reno that I am interested it, no idea of the true condition of it since only a few outside pics.

Take your time and find the right one, it's looking for you

Replaced both front engine mounts... Three seasons of 5000rpm launches had taken their toll!

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Hi Clay,

Stunning 914! What's this color? I love it . . . is it metallic?

-M

It is a 2006 Boxster blue. Rusty painted it that color before I bought it from him. We love the color, but it is not the original color, so when we have the rust repairs done, we are going to take it back to the factory color. The original metallic blue is a bit lighter.

This Eng was in Oscars blue 914 with the big Frog lights on it and flairs on it. Going into the 74 blue 2.0 that I had inside my shop for 12 years.

Mark Sonners and I are doing the work on this used RAT built eng. Trying to find out why there was oil starvation and the ticking sound. Who knows what the hell the ticking sounds is from. We are taking it down very slowly looking for witness marks. Some stuff doesn't look exactly right there's no wire to the thermostat flaps. We will post pictures and ask questions as we have a RAT Jake DVD

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After driving her for about 9K miles I decided to open up the front GT oil cooler opening more like a standard GT opening to allow more air flow. Previously I just had the GT valance opening and the bumper was stock; it blocked about 1/3 of the top of the round body openings I use for air to enter the cooler. In traffic and at slow speeds the temperature would creep to about 200 degrees.

So I bit the bullet and sourced another bumper from @DRPHIL914 and had it shipped to Ben McFarland @MB911 along with a template for the opening I wanted on the bumper. Ben did a terrific job and at my request shipped it to Ogden Chrome for the chrome work after I called and spoke with them and they gave me a "as much as $1,500" quote for their chrome work. OUCH! But I wanted it to be nice so I said OK.

Ogden received the bumper and emailed me the work would be $2,700!!!! OK, I love my car, but $2,700 for a front bumper that is in pretty good condition to start with is just other world crazy. I had them ship it to me.

The bumper is now en-route to another chrome shop that saw a bunch of pictures I sent and gave a much more reasonable quote and promised a triple-chrome show finish. We shall see how it comes out.

For now, here is a picture of that modified bumper mounted to my car to check fitment before it went to chrome:
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Sounds like Odgen Chrome has being doing too much work for Bitchin Rides

Not sure but I bet the cost of chrome in highly regulated states will go up until they just stop doing it.

Got with it and did some relay boards. Lots of nit picking

He did a real nice job. I did one of these and it was not easy to get it right.

@Shivers I agree; Ben is one heck of a fabricator.

@Cairo94507
wow that looks great! good work from Ben on that, and it will clean up nicely. that alignment and gapping above and below look really good, glad it stayed true and straight thru all the shipping etc.
I had a similar one to this that needed about the same amount of work and it cost me $750 for the triple chrome that was 4 -5 years ago, so i guess $1000-$1500 wouldn't be bad, mine was done by Tri-City Plating in Elizabethton TN . Who ever Oscar was using back when he was doing a bunch of bumpers was doing some nice work too, not sure who that was but maybe check with him and see if they are still doing this work.

Phil

Wow 2700 is crazy. Glad you found someone else. I have now done over 100 of these GT bumpers so I have it figured out. That said Michaels was 100% custom to his pattern.

Just shipped another bumper out this morning to another client.

Played around with wheels, steel (way I bought it) to Fuchs 2.0 to 5 Lug Fuchs, just fun to experiment I guess.

trying my hand at polishing my rims.
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The engine is running much cooler without the mouse nests on the cylinders. I had tuned the carb to a nice brown color on the plugs but with the cooler temps, they are all covered in soot. I guessed as much as the exhaust smell became much more gassy. Backed off on the jetting and will test when the rains stops and roads are dry.

Undercoating removal….

Went to a Porsche only car show yesterday
3 914s present out of around 80 cars including a singer

Looks good, what removal process?

For now it is a heatgun and plastic razor. The suspension is covered so it will need to come off to address, and then the wheel wells.

The car has just over 40k miles, so trying to keep her original but ensuring that it will last another 50 years

Cut the down pipe in half that PO welded to the heating air supply that was welded to the heat exchangers….
Finally able to drop the alternator, replace with a new one along with new harness from Restoration Design.
Replacing cheese heads slowly with M6 as well as I go.

Need to source a new down pipe and heat supply.

Trying to do 1 thing a week amongst all the other usual time killers.

Looks good, but the cost?

Have you looked into dry ice blasting? easy button as far as I know

I heard the harbor freight vibrating multi tool works well on the interior, probably would work here too? There is a post on pelican about using it.

Is this an L95K example?

I would like to remove the undercoating, but cannot see myself with hand tools

I looked but could not find anyone that focused on undercoating removal.

Our other car is Palma and we removed the undercoating the same way but then had it painted so it was well protected and looks good in the air

- heat gun, plastic razor, and some adhesive remover (goo gone)… not really tools, more like crafting

nice work, I am going to try and tackle that this summer, while its too hot to drive my car, that and then repaint/ recoat. I was thinking primer then a textured colored coating of some kind like lizard skin or similar.

Brought the bahia red '73 home from my off site shop for a local C&C tomorrow morning in north Scottsdale- Scuderia Southwest. Red, white,and blue cars for the 4th.
Will most likely be the only 914 there...


(don't drive them much here in the heat of the summer! Early morning is obviously the best)

Adjusted the headlight covers. Finally figured how to remove the knob on the odometer cable under the dash so I could put it back in the speedometer. Installed 3 small washers behind the Momo horn ring so the turn signals cancel. All is good.

Just arrived home from a trip to Canada where I picked up a pile of parts from Restoration Design! Great folks! Special thanks to Peter, who showed me around, Dave who picked and packed my order, and Noah who handled the paperwork!

Dialed in the idle with a smaller idle jet and adjusted to lean best idle.

You've got some work in front of you Tom!!

More undercoating removed


Also took the Delphi 73 out for a drive

Where did you end up with your idle mixture screws? Twin Webers?

I am at about 1.5 turns out. And the throttle is 1.5 turns in.

Single Weber 32/36 (I know ...). Have a set of 40 IDFs that need a rebuild before I install.

Fitting and preparing the passenger side engine shelf.

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Engine bay needs some TLC before welding in the. We shelf though.

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Cars and coffee in north Scottsdale this AM before the heat really hit... red, white and blue for the 4th...Click to view attachment Click to view attachment

1.5 turns out is the right number as far as I know. I ran a 32/26 for awhile, started good ran good. I didn't see the problem

Spend the last few weekends stripping it down and cleaning it up.

I'm going to sell it. Had it since 1979

My 18 year old son, Nolan, got to drive the Bumblebee in the local San Jose 4th of July parade. He was the driver for a council member. I was out of town with my wife celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary, so Nolan handled the decorations on the car and getting it prepped for the parade.

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Congratulations to you, Nolan and your wife for ghaving such a nice BB. Happy Anniversary too.

Had the car out at a Breakfast Club Rally on Saturday and a Cars and Coffee on Sunday.
A couple of pics from Saturday.

Still without a 914, that being said I will be in the market for one in the near future.

So to earn some 914 funds I have gotten offf my lazy rump and started to make some emblems again. Of course I’d probably be better off getting a part time at In-and-Out than dealing with the frustration I encounter in my garage shop.

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