Put New Air Cleaners & GT Engine Lid - Going out for a Drive shortly

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It's TWO (2) zip-ties

Yep, you got think about Safety (Back-up)!

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What did I do today? My son and I put the engine-transaxle back in the '73 we're restoring to park next to my original owner '71.

Put the newly redone wheels (thanks to Weidman Wheels) on and put it on the ground for the first time in nearly two years...

Sweet

Made a small adjustment to the FIClick to view attachment

Adjusted valves in order to start my newly purchased semi rebuilt engine that has given me all kind of troubles lately.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=226852

But I wasn't brave enough to turn the key afterward.

Hope it to be run tomorrow.

kkid

I pulled out my 6 speed and prepped for the 5 speed re-installation.

Problems or just didn't work out. I have looked at 2 Audi V8 boxster conversions this weekend.

Bob

Thinking about brushing the snow off the donor car... that's about it...

Replaced pedal bushings with bronze kit.

I have records for this car going back to '74 and they had never been
replaced. The condition was amazingly good for ~44 years. MC probably
never leaked in there, but still, I could have left these alone. The only
issues were caused by removal.

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Mrs. Claus and I took the 'BB' for a drive to some friends' for a Christmas Eve get together. It's the first time she's been in the car in a long time.

She thought it was still that old junk car she bought me for Christmas back in 2006

Punched the go pedal when it was safe to do so, and she said where's the grab handles!

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Took it out for a little spin this evening too

Yeah... I found that when trying to tune TC's carbs. There is a lot of slop in the linkage currently, which makes it basically pointless to try and tune. I need to spend some time with it to see what I can improve.

Anyhow, yesterday I finally decided to start testing my SSIs that I got on Ebay last year. Used two rubber plugs and drilled one for a valve stem. Added water to the pipe, then hooked up my cheapo 12v compressor. Results: only one pipe holds air currently.

The good news is that on the ones that were leaking, the leaks were visible outside of the HE portion. Mostly small cracks around the top of the portion that bolts to the heads. Should be able to file then and fill with a few short welds.

Not today, but this past weekend I got it back!!!

Nice

I put in a new radio antenna. Went from a crappy one that only allowed me to get one, sometimes two radio stations, to a new powered antenna now I get every station I want.

Tell more!

Mounted clutch & pressure plate and started fitting carbs...

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Mighty Purdy!

Actually drove it for the first time in 5 weeks. We had rain, which washed away the salt, so I took her out. Then I swapped out the targa bar pad for the one in the parts car. Immaculate, split free.

Then I went to happy hour at a neighbors home.

So here i am, contemplating some MJ shooooooz yo

thanks

My Teener got a BIG brother.

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Nice Christmas present


Colin (colingreene) and his dad stopped by the shop and grabbed a set of 2L heads.

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Later, a radio bud (Fred) came by and we dropped the motor out of the bug. Need to deal with a leaking rear main seal

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... then we went through about 20 boxes of Honda Mini Trail parts. Sorted and took a mental inventory. Have about 10 or 15 more boxes to go through

Plumbed return for gas lines, installed fuel regulator, plumbed some vacuum hoses and capped off unused ports. Built bracket for clutch and fuel lines. Routed clutch slave line.
Received radiator and put the car on jack stands...again. But this time in preparation to put in the radiator.
Next finish rear brakes and clutch

Drove it down to New Almaden on some cool roads to meet up with a fellow member. Got spotted by matthepcat on my way there... Hi Matt!

Got a check engine light and the car was over boosting, cutting fuel. I think I have a bad wastegate solenoid...

I moved the fuel pump on my 73 to the trunk year's ago. Yesterday I finished running the fuel pump wiring along the harness through the tunnel. The wiring used to be along the A/C lines along the rocker. I removed the A/C as part of my restoration.

Installed my factory air box for the carbs for noise reduction and maybe the look.

Installed new spark plugs, spark plug wires and Bosch coil.

Scraped out some last chunks of asphalt, drilled out the spot-welds for the seat hinge brackets, removed those brackets, wire brushed out the rest from the passenger floorboard and off the firewall. Getting ready for rust remediation and paint.

Installed stainless steel fuel lines from Tangerine Racing. Very nice product! Was a little scary to pull out the old lines to fined that they had been partly replaced with rubber hose. Not only was 40 year old plastic used to clamp on rubber hose, but the hose was not even fuel hose.

Well at least my car has been on jack stands more than the road so the inevitable fire did not happen while I was driving. With the SS lines that problem is solved.

I drove it

And took some pictures.

Not hard to miss your ride Mike!

Good to hear the audi swap in real life.

Got mine running today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMuowXarbp8

Bled the brakes then washed the white car. Drove the Bumblebee around the back roads for a while to keep everything working. Added Brumos decals to make the white car go faster.

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Nice Brumos RJS Sticker!

Shipped some 914 parts and picked up another (used) HF 2000# engine stand from Craigslist

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Reassembled it and stuck a P-201 yoke on it

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Happy New Year guys and girls

Installed the EBL piggyback board in the '7747 and got about half done on the GM<->JimStim wiring. Marked up the EBL wiring diagrams for the transplant.

Cleaned up the wiring for the Painless F5 fan controller; just need to terminate the new 4ga power run under the dashboard and find a 3/4 to 3/8 NPT adapter for the sensor. Maybe then the lights won't dim when the fans spin up...

Spreadsheet work this evening planning out bulkhead connectors (4x22-pin weather pack, 2 front, 2 rear) with tequila and the better half on the sofa.

Installed new 3/8" Aluminum fuel line and installed a conversion firewall shifter bushing.

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Bob, you might want to slide a piece of heat-shrink tubing (or other thin wall rubber tubing) over that tab so it doesn't wear a hole in the aluminum fuel line over time.

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Took mine for a 45 minute run from Shrewsbury to Stewartstown to Red Lion to Glen Rock returned to home. Hadn't run it in two months due to weather and snow. Also it's in the garage with no paved driveway about 300' off the road. Had to wait for the snow to melt then for the soft ground to refreeze so I could get it out. Tomorrow another big snow in the forcast so today was the time to go. Also ran the 69 Chevy Truck to get both up to full temperature and driven for several miles in order to heat up, pump engine oil, tranny, and rear. Good for them not to sit too long.

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All's good.

Doug

Too cold today to go bicycling because I am nursing a sore throat. So I drove the 914 to the gym for cardio workout. Stopped and got a small ice cream cone afterward. Rain tomorrow.

Beat up the cars today chasing down other Porsches on the annual New Years Day drive. Porsche of Livermore catered breakfast for 150 drivers and guest. Huge turn out and great road conditions. Drove the crap out of the cars. Kathy was able to keep up with all the six cylinder cars by staying off the brakes and driving thru the corners.

Drivers meeting.

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Cars on top of Mt. Hamilton.

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A well deserved lunch break.

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Wow, great turn out. Cars are looking good Michael, glad to see you got Kathy to take hers out of the garage.


Got a late start, but I got the valves adjusted, the tranny and exhaust bolted up, and the engine back in the white car. Still need to hook everything up, should have time to finish it up this weekend. Be nice to go for a drive again.


Jeff

Well, where's the video

I said I got a late start.

Maybe this weekend.

Jeff

I just looked at my 914 as I backed out the tractor and snow plow.... too cold in Ohio to go for a drive

I had to drive the 914 to work in the Rain after my Fuel Pump in the F150 took a Shit

Installed a Weblink throttle return spring in hopes to finally get enough tension to close the slave carb all the way with the Tangerine kit. It worked! Adjusted the valves, re-timed it, synched the carbs, threw in some 110 fuel and took it around the block. What a difference! Pics to follow soon.