Yes it's been so nice out I'm so jealous you got to go for burn in the teener, I still need to go for a spin in a 914!







I sprayed the first coat of epoxy primer on the car.

No car stuff again

Also took a break from 'stucco bustin' to finish up a solar-powered, 55 gallon, water heater experiment.

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Theory: A solar panel powers a water pump that circulates water from the tank, through a solar pool heater and back into tank. I hope to know how well it works by tomorrow afternoon
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As posted elsewhere but I thought the pics might be relevant/appreciated in here....

Ok so I've been a bit slack on my subaru conversion due to a crazy work schedule.
This weekend I've finally managed to get the engine in the cradle and mount it up to the car (Thanks Ian @ Coldwater and Todd @ subarugears for some excellently fabricated parts and my friend Mark for his help).


Ian

Looks good

Are your tranny mounts still loose?

I fixed my broken clutch tube mounts and fabricated a patch for the bulkhead around the tube.

Painted and installed my rear spoiler. Not sure if i like it in black, I may remove it and paint red.

Opinions welcome.

Paul, I think it looks good but maybe a little busy from the rear. Maybe better from the other angles. You could always paint one side to match the car, leave the other black.. I think Boxster/Cayman spoilers are like that.. and some with extended spoilers have the mixed painted it as such also.

And whats this for?

Looks like it in that pic. Definitely not now. It's even standing on its on 4 wheels for first time in over a year!

I'm just a solar geek, Bob. If I can get the sun to power something, I'll play around with it.

This will provide us with 55 gallons of hot water should we loose our natural gas supply due to an earthquake or other disturbance. I'm planning to construct a smaller system for my 914 trailer (15 ~ 30 gallons).

EDIT: The solar panel produces 5.91 Amps @ 24vDC, the pump draws 3.5 Amps. When the sun finally broke through the clouds, the pump started pumping

Tomorrow I'll Teflon tape all the fittings and plumb the solar pool heater connections. Then I'll measure the water temperature at the end of the day to see if my theory ... uh, holds water

Do you have a link to the build thread? What engine and tranny system are you running looks like wrx or sti 05+ engine and tranny 5 or 6spd?

Got home early today, took the white car for a spin
Then put it in the garage up on jackstands, time to pull the suspension and start installing the new elephant racing bushings.

Made a deal today to buy a 2003 Subaru 3.0 6cyl engine for the black car,
Pick it up on Friday

Jeff

Installed new rear trunk seals from 914Rubber.
Fitted great. Easy to work with.

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Well spotted. It's an 05 spec c engine with a 98 STI RA 5 speed trans.

No build thread yet but if you look at the pics it will take you to a photobucket account with some more pics (I'd link it but i'm at work with odd restrictions on internet)

Today I finally got of my ass and pulled my baby out of the garage. I gave it a good wash, cleaned all the vinyl, polished the stainless steel and aluminum. While I was at it, I drained the oil and gearbox fluid, changed the filters, and metered in new fluids. And then I took an hour to pop the valve covers and adjust the valves merely because it was a lovely spring evening and I felt like sitting outside. I drained the bowls on the carbs and ran through fresh gas.

I love that it starts on the first try after seven months.

Finally, I pumped up the tires and went for a short ride around Sauvie Island. I love listening to my aircooled engine with nicely adjusted valves. It's comforting.
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On my BMW R75/5!

Friday, Scott (our mason), tore all the bricks of the front porsche porch pilasters and poured additional foundation under them (apparently we didn't have very good building codes 100 years ago)

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These things hold up the front porch roof's posts and beams, so repairing them was the first step in this particular remodel project. We had the insides filled with concrete a couple of months ago (yes, they were originally hollow and the OEM mortar was turning into powder)

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Saturday, I finished up my experimental solar water heater. Fabricated an adjustable mount for the solar heater (collector) and the pump, and cleaned up the plumbing a little.

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Will try a full day test with a full tank on Sunday.

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Porsche (VW) content:

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Hopefully, I can break away and get over to the shop for a while tomorrow too ... I miss the smell of hi-test fuel, oil and grease

Making room for it in the trailer. Will get it loaded tomorrow.

Finally, after nearly a year of waiting!!

Wow ... looks like candy

I need one those back seals too!

Yes...I like

Just the jams and underside...the parts now get hung and the body painted this week.

Wish I had a rotisserie, and a heated shop I started epoxy painted when the weather was nice and warm now I might have to wait a month or two for it to get that nice and warm again!

But I have lots of other stuff to do like chop, weld front trunk channels, upper wheel house, engine tray, batt tray, and redo fuel and gas lines on engine.

pretty routine & mundane compared to what some of you are doing..... a friggen' oil and filter change.........

Pressed out old bearings, pressed in new bearings, hub, and changed bushings.
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I detailed it, wax, and replace my rear tires from 225-50x16 to 245x50x16
not a big difference, but i needed new tires. fronts have less than 2000 miles on them.
then took it to see an old friend.
I am ready for Hershey

Just got car back in time to drive this last weekend. First nice Spring weekend in Ohio. I had an oil cooler installed by Auto Assets in Powell, Ohio, just north of Columbus. Great shop owned by Chip Vance. Chip races a 914-6. The body shop next door, Yoke's Body Shop, is owned by Paul Yoakum. They cut the hole in the bumper and modified the lower valance to match up with the flares.

Also tuned it up, new valve covers, etc. Anyway, it runs great. Thermostat kicks in at 180. Never saw anything above that, but it's still not hot out. I am happy to have my baby back!!

Well I just painted my rear coil before installing it on my new shock. Other one is done. The Cruel Mistress is finally on the road to reassembly. After blowing a tranny bearing 4 yrs ago. 5 states away from my present abode. Just a little hellhole repair and a couple minor upgrades. Really nothing for you guys with money and a nice shop. Or enough money to take it to a shop. Lucky for me. My son is a Porsche tech. And manages an independent Porsche shop. Now if I could only get him to work on the car for me It's enough that I got a really good deal on some restoration design stuff though. Maybe this thing will be running by the end of the summer. If I leave the front end alone.

Looking to adding another 044 Bosch fuel pump and am looking for a large amp switched power source. I am thinking of using the relay that would normally run the heater fan or the relay for the rear window defogger. Both are switched circuits with relays. So i played around with the voltage meter to find the terminals off the relay board.

Loaded into the trailer. Ready for the long road east to DeLand, Fl. Leaving tomorrow morning. Will be going on I-10 for atleast 4 days.

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Took Alex for a ride to the splash pad

God Bless you Sir Joe on your trip to Florida! take care!

Noel

Jeremy and I demolished a stucco wall so our mason could complete the brick work on our front porch. After the pilasters were rebuilt, we reinstalled a temporary facade to keep all the nocturnal critters out. Several days later, the brick work is looking better

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The wife is happy with the house progress, so she granted me a few days to goof off


On Kent's (76-914) recommendation, I called BOBCO Metals in downtown LA. They quoted a great price on some 1/8", 2"x2" aluminum angle and 2" flat plate. This stuff will support the new ceiling in my 'PORSCHE' trailer. We got all the side angle supports installed and the ceiling installed the 'V' nose section today.

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Hoping to get the rest of the ceiling installed by this week end.

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Replaced the rear shifter rod bushings as outlined in the Pelican article
http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/9...ift_improve.htm

No more first gear crunch!

I Moved my fuel pump to the front.

Betsy got new Bilstein shocks on the rear to math the Bilstein struts added a few weeks ago.

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She also had her blower motor re-installed today.
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Then she had her driving light grills put back on.

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The she took time out of her busy schedule to pose for a few night shots.

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Picked up dads new lathe for the home workshop
We've been wanting one forever and what better time than his birthday
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Picked up a tub from 70-914nut.
What color is this? All pics taken turn out red, but in person its orange all day long!
Bahia Red? Guess I need to look at the paint tag...

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Nice birthday gift


On Friday, I got to drive the 'BB' out of the shop (to get to at the sheets of 4x8 luan paneling for the trailer), and got to drive it back in several hours later. Ahhh, the upside rewards of owning a [running] 914

Yesterday I bled the brakes and took out a fair amount of air. It's tighter today, but still some softness to go. Ahhh, break-in time.

Also installed angle drive and got speedo working (THANKS RON!), though it's roughly 10% off (too high), as expected. Like that's gonna keep me from getting a ticket at all ...

Oh, and added about another 100 miles, just in town and backroads outside of town.

Went for a nice long drive with some air-cooled friends.

You have a 914? A 914 that runs?

L21 on the paint code (tangerine). Looks like phoenix red was not available in 1970.

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I searched on-line for parts to recondition the fog-lamps. Found replacement lenses and seals at 914rubber.com. Then I took it out of the garage, so I could sweep the floor. Then I drove it around the neighborhood for about 15 minutes and put it back in the garage.

Jeremy and I almost got the trailer ceiling completed yesterday, but ran into a couple of minor snags. One more 4x8 sheet of luan paneling and a few more battens and it should be ready to transport small exotic German automobiles ... (as well as motorcycles, small ponies, illegal aliens, dead bodies, etc.)

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they're not "illegal"....they're "undocumented"

Sheesh. One would think that with all of the enlightened conversation we have here we could all be more sensitive to these wet-backs undocumented persons coming across the border in the dead of night by belly crawling under the darn fences, trampolining over the fence, shooting themselves out of cannons, etc.

Finally installed my new Alpine head unit and speaker pods and speakers.

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What is hanging from your rear view? It looks like a shrunken head with a Mohawk or chicken. Is it an Andy bobble head?

Very nice interior. However the feathered mask (I think) hanging from the rear-view mirror here in CA is a violation of the California Vehicle Code.

Lololololol, I know, it's not there anymore, my wife made me take it off.

BTW! It's one of those Hawaiian warrior helmets.

Oh. Just don't want to give "the man" an excuse to stop you these days when all they seem to want to do is write tickets to the "rich"....you know, those with 914's who work hard and pay their taxes.