Very informative, thank you for sharing. Most if not all of this 50+ years old technology is quite simple, but having the thread is helpful.

-drove 400 miles ,8 hours on thursday to Chattanooga TN, shows at the Car Club Showcase, went to Mecum auction today, saw some awesome Ferrraris and other amazing rare cars, heading home tomorrow, back to SC tomorrow.
met porsche racer Brian Redman, Photog ,
producer and 914 owner Jeff Swart, and car guy tv personality Wayne Carrini while he was taking pictures of my car and may very cool and interesting people.
another 1000 miles logged on the 914!

very cool! i’d like to see how you replicated the front clamp that is used to mout it on the frame!

Phil

The great thing about pics; I found that the boot wasn’t covering the front socket completely. I’d have missed that otherwise.

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More work on the 2270 RAT eng. And clean the shop and tools after the rebuild. Off to Georges on Tues for test run in then off to PMB Performance to have it installed in the Blue 74 car

Best Bob B

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So I was not happy with the action of the Gurney flap on the rear wing. It was heavy and slow. I had noticed a little flop as it pivoted so I pulled it apart to check it out but that's when Derek White's disease got me and took apart the frame to install a brace in the trailing end of the wing. While I had it apart I decided to flip the hinge I had installed it with the pivot up. Looks much cleaner with the pivot down.

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I love posting on this thread, it always seems to generate new viewers on my build thread over in the Paddock, which has almost reached 62,000 viewers.

Put a set of new 914Rubber visors in the BB we just got to replace the old, sagging, crunchy set that it came with. They look great and more importantly don't sag down into my field of vision. I bought 2 sets of them in a GB more than two years ago to put in my previous cars, but thankfully never put them in. Then I put them in my stockpile of parts and promptly forgot I had them....I've got to go through everything and put together an inventory.

Also, finally started going through the stash of parts that came with the car and found a set of four NOS 2.0 injectors....like finding gold!

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Marks startup video. We rebuilt this 2270 RAT Eng. built by Jake in 2005 that went bad after a several year run. Oiling problem took out a main bearing. We did a full rebuild on heads, Align Bore, Rebuilt rods. Balanced, Clutch. Flywheel machined. New pressure Plate, Everything. The Machinist, George. Said it needed. And there you have it. They put in on there test setup and great oil pressure and George says it sounds go to go to PMB Performance tomorrow. To be installed in. Our 1974 two-liter body with no rust. CA car blue plates

Best Bob Burton

https://youtu.be/gxArcFBDGGQ

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Been having a tidy up of my wiring on the loom Perry made me ,somewhat untidy on the CDI and wiring that joins in to the same area from dizzy ,used Deutsch plugs when I installed and pleased to see they were dry inside as without the rain tray its a bit of a "wet area" .
Removed my custom battery box and carved a bit of weight of it as I made it out of pretty heavy plate which was what I had @ the time ,sanded it back and used original silver and a thick goat of clear as it was only primed with zinc primer back then.
I designed the tray to fit various sizes of small AGM batteries ,currently running a Katana sports battery,270CCA and really packs a punch ,plenty for my needs.
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Was going to refit that today but my carb kits came in from Germany today so will start pulling carbs and striping them for ultrasonic clean @ my mates motorbike resto shop .
Had the carbs apart when I first reconed them before 2.2T when in to my roller ...had forgotten how many parts in these carbs looking @ the new kits .
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All forward steps as they say but carbs are tricky,cheers.

Submitted application and was approved to display my car at PCA unStock 2023.
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Getting the clone 6 ready… 69 911S 2.0 motor with S cams and estimated at ~200hp and 8K RPM when done .

All balanced and reassembly in progress.

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Just finished another batch of bumpers...

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Installed a spare/cleaned up throttle body. I did the clean up awhile back but finally got around to lubing the shaft, putting loc-tite on the plate screws, and installing a new TPS board I had from 914 rubber. Got everything installed and fired right up. Idle seems better and ran great. Need to do a longer drive to see if there was any improvement my hot idle/stumble situation.

We had a break in the rain, so I got her out for a nice ride.

More important, I picked up some used pallet racking and can see the light for organizing all of my 914 junk, I mean valuable parts.

Found that steering column shaft to turn down and use for the shift console mod. So adding an ear to the console

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Purpose of an additional ear?

I’m building a version of this.

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Car wouldn’t start. Checked the fuel tank and couldn’t see any liquid. I guess I was lucky to drive home. Started right up when I added fuel.

that happened to me last week, different car, but my daughter borrowed the '04 jaguar, drove to work came home parked the car, i went to take it to run some errands the next day, didnt start, checked and fuel light was on, added fuel , good to go, not sure how she got home must have been running of fumes and the lsight incline of the driveway was enough after parking to not be able to get what was left in the tank i guess. - it happens

Time to check that fuel sending unit and or gauge.
Hi billy. Hope to see you again sometime soon..

@slivel I was approved as well, look forward to seeing you there!
I guess it's time to actually wash it

Hole is marked but no bit that size. Break time


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Well heck it is aluminum Can you say uni-bit and a rat tail. Darn, now I have to man up and weld this with a mig. Never welded aluminum before and this is a very important part.

Since the stresses on these ears are less, I wonder if I could weld along the back but only half in front to avoid disaster. I marked that in red. Any thoughts on this.

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I would think that should be fine. I would use TIG vs MIG though.

Thank you. All I have is access to a MIG.

Get it over to me or Bruce, I'll TIG it for you

Oscar

That would be a tremendous help. Thank you!

I went to the nursing home this morning as I do every morning and the nurse comes in and says to me “I thought after her second test yesterday I wouldn’t see you around. “ “ What test?” Says I. “Didn’t your wife tell you?” “She has covid…” My Mrs can’t remember anything, it was as big a surprise to her today as it was yesterday and the day before. would have been nice of them to tell me, since my wife sees a memory doctor 4 times a week.

Thank you Oscar, I’ll contact you after I’m better.

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My plan was to just clean, reseal, paint sheetmetal, and install new fuel and vacuum lines for now, but that has been foiled! I was not quite clever enough while putting the engine on my new engine stand and broke 4 fins off a head… I’ve looked through some ads and it may be cheaper to get a whole engine than a matching set of heads, and sell off the rest. Oh well. I’m into metal work for now. I’ll worry about it in the spring.

Today I made a pattern for the seats in my race car,. I have been trying to make an imitation of an early Speedster seat. I always liked them the best of all of the Porsche and the seats available to us. Now I have just what I have been lusting for. These will look so bitching some 911 owner will wish his flat 6 was a flat 8.

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The other day I was trying to get some space where I could put the car up on the stands. Not quite enough room to get under the car in the small trailer. Now I will be able to get some stuff done on her bottom.
That list is long, flat bottom, muffers, diffuser, finish the oil cooler and install some sensors.

pulled front wheels to install new brake lines from PMB and bleed the system , flushing out old fluid, , i was going to pull the wheels anyway to get them balanced and found a pretty heavy wear pattern from excessive camber, so after getting new tires and balance will need to re do alignment! -
so also i was glowing to install a new dust shield and found it was rubbing on the back of the rotor, old one didn’t, no matter what i did i could not keep the new one from rubbing - is there a different between early and late dust shields or is this just bent in such a way as to cause rubbing? i could not tell exactly where it was rubbing so the old one went back on, repacked the bearings and reinstalled caliper. new brake lines are in, used a motive bleeder that did a great job!!

oh and i found that while in there my sway bar drop link was loose ans slid off the bar so i was running with once side loose so essentially no from sway bar action. slid it back on the end of the bar and retorqued the bolts, man just shows that we need to reinspect our brakes and suspension regularly!!

Replaced the old headlights with LEDs.
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Happy Halloween!!

Maybe you guys should give the Atkins diet a break.

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Getting the bills ready to press.

Listed it for sale in the classifieds ... I'm done

Finally have air-cooled weather here in the valley of the sun, so I drove them all to warm up the oil!

Did a once a year'ish wash in preparation for the Un-Stock show next weekend
My high tech no water in the engine bay trick, couple magnets and a trash bag
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Its not too early to start flocking your 914's for Christmas!
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I always pull that trunk seal to dry everything out, always amazed how much water sits in the channels
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Took the opportunity with the excellent weather, to head to EASY this morning for a doughnut and cup of joe with a whole bunch of great guys and beautiful cars. That is James' (JamesJ) beautiful White 914 next to my car. Also got a chance to hang out with Chris (tygaboy) Mark (Mark Howard) Greg T. (You can see the front fender of his absolutely stunning 914-6 Willow Green clone stocking on one of the pictures) Robert (BuddyV) HB, Kevin who brought his beautiful blue flared 914-6 with a 3.6 and 915, Eric T. who brought his gold '78 911 SC, Steve who brought his lovely daughter Maddie (Happy Birthday Maddie!) and his Lime Green 911 coupe. So many great cars and people. About 240 miles all in for my car today; she ran perfectly.

Sorry for several pictures of my car; I do love it.

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Oh...do you know who owns the Ivory White car?

That would be JamesJ on our site. Yes, it is beautiful; he has a great eye for detail and it shows in Aces on his car.

That green 914 had a beautiful engine tone when leaving.

@cali914 - If you mean my Irish Green 914-6, thank you very much. It has a 3.2 with Ben McFarland's large tube SS heat exchangers and a stock Dansk 2-in 1-out muffler.

If you mean Greg T's Willow Green flared 914-6, it definitely sounds good. He has a SS 3.2 that loves to rev.

Need to get this back together by Unstock next Sunday
HD renegade axles came loose on the stub axles on my 914-8. One side came completely off and mangled the roll pins. Glad I also checked the other side it was also loose. No shnorr washers anywhere.
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Also getting ready for unStock. New tank, custom cut and sized to fit my strut towers. Old tank with fuel cell had a leaking bladder and since I've retired from racing decided to just go with a steel tank. I cut off the NLA fittings on the stock tank and had AN fittings welded on.

The Fuel Safe bladder used one of their fuel level senders and now I'm back to the stock sender but don't have a pin out on the wires. I have three wires green, brown, and black. Four terminals on the sender. Which goes where? Anyone?

Guessing the terminal with the jumper is chassis ground and the gold terminal is green wire. Brown and black to the other two terminals. Am I close?
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Claude’s buggies sells AN fittings that fit the stock 914 gas tank.
https://www.cbperformance.com/product-p/3289.htm

Claude’s buggies sells AN fittings that fit the stock 914 gas tank.
https://www.cbperformance.com/product-p/3289.htm

Wish I had known that. Could have saved $$$.
Bookmarked that link and will pass the info to my Indy shop. Thanks.

Maybe this will help?
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911...uge-ground.html