i think this is a fantastic practice for our cars. every time i unplug a connector i put a dab of loctite dielectric grease on it before i plug it in... sure save a lot of headaches. and it makes the electrical devices work better. its a win win.

Nothing on I my 914 today but drove 400 miles with a haul car hauler to go see inspect and maybe buy a 74 914, but 20 miles from my exit I stopped to get gas, and pulling off the freeway my '07 navigator just quit running. It either the fuel pump or brain.


But I will be doin g a P.P.I. tomorrow, and if all checks out I might be brining home another 914!!!

But I was not planning on driving it home -with but we will see.

Good thing for AAA, and 100 mile towing.! Also the dealership and mechanic is 1open mile from the hotel and 2 miles from the car.
Any other 914 guys in Chattanooga, Tn?

Well the other day I changed the oil and put in new plugs etc., and early this am started off on my trip to Portland OR. I am currently sitting in a hotel room with a cocktail in Woodland CA (north of Sac) and mentally flipping off my friends that thought it was a bad idea to load up my clothes in my 37 year old sports car and go to the great rainy ass north at the start of February ( with the top off no less). Tomorrow in the am going to Shasta and points north. So far so good.

went fur a drive..........very nice day

If I had known you were in town I would have met you and had a cocktail too! I work in Woodland.

Drove her to the beach and went for a surf.
Don't you just love winter time in Ca.

Is that El Porto?

What rack is that? Can you post a picture of your surf rack? I gotta have one of those!

Yep, that secret spot, El Porto.
Snapped my long board, got'a go back with the short board mid tide.

Home made rack, post photos later...

I replaced my exhaust and getting her prepped for the Big cup wheels to go on and started refinishing the top off my 73 so I can get rig of the top with a cheesy sunroof.
Some progress.... Still much to go before spring

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Went to Cars and Coffee with my dad. It was nice to see him, and talk about just stuff at breakfast afterwards.

Then took the top off this afternoon and cruised Mission in Pomona and grabbed some tacos. Good day I'd say

Turned the flowmasters 90 and added a crossover and some tailpipes.
Really quieted it down.

NICE sixnotfour. was that the one that was for sale a month or so ago. Very nice Teener either way. Looks like Pa. Tags?


Today I replace all my fuses and pulled the steering wheel to realign it after I had put it on off center after I replaced the ingition switch last week. Also broke the horn wire tab again in doing so. I'll fix that tomorrow. This time I'm going to make a clip on tab and see if it will work.

Took a nice ride around South Central York Conty Pa. before the weather set in. Car runs great but been having problems with ignition. Pretty much think it was the "74 logic relay by-pass. I had bridged the two large yellow wires to by pass the seatbelt relay but I think the bridged connection was causing my ignition problems. I redid the bridge and the ignition seems to be fine today, fires up every time. crossing fingers and hope so.

that looks waaaay better.

Thanks
AZ staying registered there. I hear its sunny there alot. Its in WA state right now.

Went through the Crutchfield catalog and ordered a stereo...OMG, how can I hide this from the wife?

It is easier to ask her for forgiveness than permission!

dude...let me know when your going to be around..Ptown.and car and coffee.

Az tags look like Pa sort of I think.

today

Jaime,
Watched your video, NICE! But I don't think the music was by Earth, Wind and Fire. It sounds like Little Walter on the mouth organ!
Cesar

It's a car. If she's like most women, she will probably never notice.
Just like we don't notice when they change their hair.

Did some more piddly items today. Finished running the SS fuel lines all the way up through the engine shelf (with some of those nifty grommets that Racer Chris sells), started cleaning up under the fuel tank and front trunk area (still need to deal with the gaping hole from the removed air conditioning condenser). I also installed some carpet to hide the visible crap under the cowl.
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Attempted to install some carpet on the firewall. I think I bit off more than I can chew, ain't going to be as easy as I thought
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Removed the front bumper to deal with non-working horns ... and confirmed what I've always suspected - the PO did not install any dog-bones when back-dating the bumpers. Removed stock horns and installed a set of [extremely loud] air horns


Painted my windshield wiper arms and the engine lid grilles, and mounted an '86 Corvette third brake light assembly to the lid.
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Also, applied a second coat of paint to the front valance. This time I used a textured rubber undercoating spray (to cover up my piss-poor metal reshaping skills) The texture of the paint is very similar to the targa top's texture.
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lol I cut it up some....the ewf...its there.

Worked on my fiberglass turn buckets and primer over some wrinkle work. Tomorrow early, clean and prep for lizard skin.

Not my wife.. She notices everything about our cars, including when I put a sticker on her 914 one time. That caused a hell of a fight....

Now I ask permission to modify her 914. But there are advantages. I got her seat belts for her 914 last Christmas, and a new dash pad and knee pad the year before.

<--- this Smiley is named after her.

The "smiley" is kinda low res bus she look nice. So I guess you better notice when she cuts her hair!

I worked it out with the UPS and FedEx guys to call me 10 minutes before they get here if it's got my name on it then we meet at the corner. Wife never knows and the delivery guys don't have to drive all the way up the driveway.

Small town living's got it's advantages.

That is too funny.

Prepped stainless steel heat exchangers I got on ebay. Polished the stainess steel and painted the exhaust with heat paint. Waiting on exhaust gaskets from Pelican to install.

So I did my last DE event with the green car back in November, I think. Car has been sitting in the garage since then, literally collecting dust (from a bathroom remodeling job in the basement). So today, I took her outside, washed her, filled the tank, added some Sta-Bil and took her for an hour long ride on the highway.

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Continued tear down of my LE engine for a 2056 build. The engine has been sitting on my garage floor for several months. It spun #1 rod bearing back in May.
I had already removed the heads and today finally got around to removing the P/Cs and case bolts.
Yes, the engine is NASTY dirty
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or you could drive around town and find the ups man.....thats what i do.

Here is a picture of us on a cruise in 2009.

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And here is HER 914.

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That is the first 914 I ever saw, ever rode in, ever drove, and ever fixed. And after 26 years, and 335,000 miles, all three of us are still together. I would not trade her for anything. Along the way, I got my 914, but this will be forever HER car, and I will do anything to keep it running for her.

Some times I think she just married me to get free 914 repairs. But then I remember she did the work herself for a LONG time.

Last night changed my injector seals and rubber fuel lines on the white 914....then today I took it on a 4 hour drive idle is still a bit high, but running very well going down the road.

Jeff

Every day is 914-day at Series 9.


I'm living the dream......

Hey Clay, is it my imagination, or is Betty a little taller than you?

I have to wrench on my wife's cars, but she does purchase most of the parts she needs, bless her heart

Dammit. I was going to say that she's taller than him when she's sitting down....

I pulled the drivetrain off my wrecked parts car. Motor is sold as are the carbs. Now just need to sell the HE & Exhaust. Then I start pulling the interior. Has some nice parts so I am sure glad my buddy thought of me when he wrecked it.

Yes she is taller than I am. But it doesn't bother her at all. Frankly it doesn't bother me either. Except when she backs the seat in the car up and I can't reach the pedals.

And I had a girlfriend in high school that was over 6 ft. She was a point guard on the basketball team. Last I heard she married some guy who is shorter than I am.

Well I made to Portland from San Diego. 3 days and 1070 miles 29.4 miles per gallon up I5. The car ran fantastic the whole way. I sure am glad no one had the sense to buy it before I left, I really didn't have my heart in selling it anyway So now I get to spend all those rainy weekends stuffing it full of 911 components and horsepower instead of crying over selling my baby. Here are some pics from along the way, and yes, heater on and top off the whole way!! Not bad for the first week of February. God I love Global Warming!!

Well...I did it this last weekend. One down 3 to go.



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I made a new gauge cluster
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Not a dayum thing. Stuck is Stockton, crime capital of Calif. For the week. When I get home will install a new opposable thumb, er, I mean fore aft sliding passenger seat.

Ouch, Stockton... I woke up drunk there once....since I lived in Sacramento, it wasn't too far away..

Tidy up the garage
start grinding the extra weld off the long re enforcement and put some primer on it.
Prep for Lizard skin and door fitment.

tee hee... it is the new "speeder" 914. coming soon to a 3d move being released next week....

Are those camoflage jackstands? I can't see em.

I think that's the same technology they used for the Hover Board in the 'Back to the Future' series ...

I finally hooked up a battery. First time since I transferred the whole wiring harness from a donor car into mine.

After installing a new fuse panel from engman, and after getting Al Garcia to install LED lights.

All my lights work, except that passenger rear brake light stays on. And ya, I have a blown fuse. Its the wiper switch

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I finaly got my front tires and painted and installed my rockers!

Almost there!!