Just carry a belt with you and put it back on. I marked my flywheel with the proper marks, including the FE mark, so it is all at the back end.

Even if the MFI timing is off 180 degrees, the car will still run and drive. It will not run well, but it will run.

Never had to deal with the belt yet. How frequent do they need to be changed? Is it that common for them to break?

You can always go back in time to get an original windshield, then readily in stock for a lot cheaper with a flux capacitor. or even go back to avoid driving behind that truck that sent that piece of gravel flying toward it. flux capacitor saves money.

Oh yeah - you can also go back to 1973 and load up on 914s for about $5K a pop, store them and drive-release them over time! You'll always have a brand new one!

I see you painted your top white. I want to get a second top and do the same. And advice? Prep? Grade of sandpaper you used? Application?

Like any timing belt, about every 60K miles. They don't have that much of a load on them, so they don't break often. But they do dry rot when not used. I always carry a spare on trips so it doesn't happen.

Do you have a cover over the belt? If not, you need to fabricate one. The crap thrown up by the right rear wheel will make the belt deteriorate faster.

60K miles will be a life time for me in that car. The belt does have a cover on it. Because I am a retail manager and it is the holiday season, I took it to a shop for repairs. It was 250 for the new belt and install and a quick fix on my oil gauge. I guess it is better than having a car broken in my garage for weeks. Drove it home tonight running good. I hate paying for repairs I could figure out with enough time, but there needs to be a balance of work and time with the kids.

This top had to be one of the first sanded tops done. Ex racer Ted Tidwell had it sanded and painted white as the original owner in 70-72. He did it so the Georgia heat wasn't as bad in the summer on a car without A/C. On my wife's bumblebee the body shop sanded it then filled and imperfections before finishing then painting. She also has the original one. I perfer the smooth tops on cars without sails and textured on cars with sails.

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Picked this up Cyber deal $70 off not bad for Canada! Just Need to learn how to weld now! lol


http://www.princessauto.com/pal/product/81...ire-Feed-Welder

Let's see...

Got up. Had some coffee and breakfast. Watched a bit of the Today show.
Had some wine, did a little shopping for my nieces.
Thought about how I wanted to re-arrange my office which is a total mess right now.
Thought about all the yard work (LOTS of it) I have to do , which depressed me , so I had another glass of wine. (<-- beer substitute)
Bought a very nice LE Creamsicle.
Went to my friend's Lebanese grocery to buy some khubz, zaitoon, zatar, tahini, batlewah, fool, some shisha for my argileh and other items that most on here won't be able to pronounce, so I won't bother. But yeah, yum.
Now planning on having with a girl who's in town for the evening, hoping it will turn into ...unless I end up getting called into work right before dinner. Which is likely.

Yes, this requires more info and pictures. You can not post this without more details and photos. You must have missed that in the forum rules. Please don't make me report you tou an admin.


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I just finished reading other threads and can guess what car this might be. Very nice!!!!

No pics available yet because I won't receive it until next week or so. (Hint).

PS - Someone buy my car please. I really need the money now! lol

Go back and rust treat my longs would ya?

Sanded down my targa top. Taking it to LineX in the morning.

We have pics of the car, but not the girl.

I drove the piss outa of it.

Haha! Well as suspected, I did get called into work. But she's coming back Saturday for a photo shoot and Sunday she's coming to watch me DJ. So we'll see this weekend.

last few days iv been fixing up my rear valance. covered up the factory cutout and made it dual out so i can run glass packs right off the bus headers and welded my cookie cutter tips on the ends. That all came out very nice until i mounted up the bumper. aparantly i didnt shape the body contour to match the bumper nice so there is quite a gap. well i shaved the bumper spacer in half and ground down the rubber top a bit so i could push the whole thing in a little. got it lookin as good as possible.

Got my targa top back from Line-X today. It looks great. A big thank you to Scotty B, PanelBilly, and Patssle who offered advice and expertise!

Also replaced my Rear Targa Seal with a new one from 914Rubber!

Pictures, and more details please.

My targa top was flaking and peeling from 40 years of use. (See last picture) Scotty B said to sand down the targa top smooth with 80 grit sandpaper which took about two hours. The cost of Line-X application which included fade resistant coating was $175.

Now I got to replace my sail vinyl because it looks faded next to my new top!

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Selling parts off of it

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Brother are you doing this with the motor in?

yea, just remove the right rear tire for access at the firewall. Rotary13? (did I get that right) has a video on that part of the install.

It's Rotary'14 ...




Bought my brother a shelf unit and helped him organize a portion of his side of the shop ...

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Looking better, but there's much more to do

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Taking a break from uh, 914s - started work on my '66 912 Salt-Flat racer

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Need to drop the drive train for an engine swap and tranny reseal. Pulled the generator, carbs, oil cooler and doghouse off so I don't have to raise the car too much.

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... and then a brake upgrade - new dual circuit master cylinder and calipers.

Mounted the Black Friday calipers I scored from Eric and installed rear wheel brgs.
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Thanks Eric!

yeah I think I shoot it...lol

... Later that same evening (well, actually, early the next morning)

This booger was rusted onto the front head pipes. Didn't want to cut it off, so I've been spraying it with PB for a couple days ... and with a little persuasion from the other tools you see here, finally get it loose

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A nice big pile of tin stuff to clean up ... I'll let my nephew deal with this when he comes back up for Christmas break

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All ready to unbolt and drop this greasy turd

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Mark,
Nice looking 57 wagon! 292 or 312?
Tom

Man-o-man, that's a clean undercarriage, collins



Tom, it's a 312 T-bird motor. My brother has the front end apart now, contemplating a power steering and disc brake conversion. I'll post a pic of the matching 'Westerner' travel trailer that he's currently working on.

Thanks, hope to christen it with road grime before too long!
Tom

Looking good Tom.

I clay-bar'd mine and gave it a wax. Ferg would be proud.

Took a break from working on my long term project to fit a weltmeister sway bar to my driver.
Pretty straight forward install but hate having imperial threads on a german car.
Have to say i am really impressed by the change in handling with the new bar.
Engine bay is pretty well finished though i may make some airboxes for the throttle bodies one day.

Pic of engine bay with the nest of wires

Just finished spinning up the SHO motor to test oil pressure before starting it the first time (next Saturday).

Video here.

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Picked up some dry ice from Fredmeyer and used it to help freeze the tar on the interior floor then scraped and pounded the crap out of it. think I need to get a few of these to remove it!

Installed speed bleeders on my brake calipers and flushed out old brake fluid with new. Speed bleeders made the job easy.

I guess I was just lucky? Hit the tar with a heat gun and it came off in large sheets with minimal effort.

Got the car back from the painters, fitted the doors and hood and started putting Mike's seal kit to work. Will put a pic up tonight. It's great to be able to put the car back together again.

Really thought heat would make a bigger mess?

Brought out the big guns and did some cutting and some fitting of the F/G fenders ! Rears I bought off Pelican fit great, fronts picked up off a person on this forum fit like shit, seems like mold was warped edges are warped away from the body panels.












Oh ya this is a photo from last night using the dry ice!

Got my 6-conversion flywheel, one step closer to having all the parts needed to start working on it!

Today I drove really fast and passed every car on the way to work

Installed shorter velocity stacks. The old ones hit the top of the air cleaner. Also installed the SVDA 034 accuspark distributor with the electronic ignition. Cheap at $90 from the UK.

Ordered the headlights. Thinking about fabbing up the brackets.

I was wondering the same thing.

I sold 1306 and frankly I am ill !

I sold Beauty in March and, "There is no substatute." I thought my Bug would work but like a 911 it wants to go sideways when pushed.