I've always been bothered about my driver-side headlight flopping around and making a scraping noise when going up and down, so I took the assembly apart.

There was an abnormal gap in between the inner and outer pivots and rotating support bar. A PO kluged together this nifty home-made outer pivot instead of obtaining an OEM part.

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Now, while I truly appreciate one's resourcefulness, this was clearly not an acceptable fix ... The correct pivot has since been installed.

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Took the passenger-side assembly apart as well. Cleaned up, painted the inside headlight wells, and before reassembling everything, sanded and painted the headlight surrounds with a textured paint, as they were looking pretty shabby.

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On the way back from shopping in York Pa. I took a side trip to find out where TRANSLOG (www.transloggt.com) is at in York and found them. They were working today so I met Tony Miller and he gave me a tour of the shop. Now I'm set up with a good Porsche Independent Shop and will be taking my teener to them to inspect and advise what they think it might need to have done. Right now it's running and handling great but never having owned one until I bought mine in September I'd like to know if it's needing anything. When we were leaving Tony asked if I would like to come to a Tech Session on 914's that they are having there next Saturday morning.....Hell yeh! So looking forward tofurther my education about the 914's.

LSD clutch inspection since I was in there anyway. Matt at Guard told me the specs and after 1.5 years on the road and all is well. Finding out I don't need to rebuild the clutch-pak is just plain fine with me.

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Finally got the front suspension all put together (1974 911)
The front tires (215x40x17 Yokohama S drives) and wheels (2002 Boxster 7") mounted on 50mm spacers.

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Had the rear control arms sandblasted and POR'ed. New bushings, bearings, and beautiful refurbished shafts from Eric

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The rear shafts were rusted almost to failure-

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One of the rear control arm bracket bolts snapped while removing and after everything failed to remove it I installed a Tangerine Racing weld in bung!!!
Nice piece!

Drill out old with a 7/8" hole saw (top) and 1 1/4" hole saw (bottom)

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Prep area, bolt new bung to bracket then bolt bracket to car to orient in proper position, then weld in. What a pain...

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Finally, found some rust/cracking occurring on the inside of the control arm mounting ear so had to grind it, weld it and paint it.

Long couple of day's....

Priming done:

Pulled off the passenger side rocker cover for the first time in the year that I've owned it. ( Mostly because I was afraid to know) I was pleasantly suprised by the lack of rust or rot. sanded and cut a small bit of rot out then welded in a patch then added some paint. Added a light refresher coat to the cover and will put it work on the other side next chance I get. Will probably use screws instead of rivets to reinstall because I want easy access to clean and inspect. I know there is and was rust here but the po has creatively hidden most of it well and that's fine by me for the up coming season. Still need to freshen up the dash with a new head unit and speaker pods. New carpet (black) refinish my non sunroof top, finally get the turbo cup wheels mounted once the custom adaptors come in. Get some spare parts like the extra set of weber 40 idfs sold sell off the never used empi 8 spokes with new tires plus a few extras. grrrr so much to still do with little time and little extra money at the moment.

Nothing to my 914 but had some seat time in a fully prepped 911 RSA

It was wet but well worth it.

Picked up my newly painted 914-6 and put the first few new parts back on it....

Lots of work to do in the coming months.

I haven't chimed in here for a long time till today on another post asking about installing the 911 SC hubs, brakes and shocks so this seems like a good thread to say hello. I had a little "off road" experience with my car last summer so it's been sitting as pictured for the last 8 months or so. First accident I ever had in that car in the 19 years I've owned it. Seemed like not only a good time to repair the damage but to do some upgrades and maint. while it's apart. So today I spent a couple of hours grinding out all the fractures and stress cracks in the fiberglass and gellcoat with a Dremel. The Sheridan body shattered into 4 pieces and broke in a couple more. I pieced it all back together with epoxy and once all in place started laying new glass on the backside so I could resurface the front. It's going back together pretty well all things considered. hope to have it all back together and down to the shop for paint this Spring.
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Decided to cure my window rattle when rolled down half way. Installed a felt inside the front track with a little glue. Well it totally f'd up the window travel. Go figure, so now it has to come out. F me.

Turned this:



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Thanks Slits.

Ditched one at a friends, ready to ditch another and drove the crap out of another and dreamed about two other 914's. Gotta sell a 911 and a 76 914.
Must locate keys to another???





somewhere in there is shea's engine

Bought a new set of sparkplugs.

Drove to the OC in Sonoma to install my Boxster calipers only to find out that my rear rotors are too wide.


Well, looks like that some creative machining of the rear calipers and slightly shaved brake pads might do the trick. Oh well ...

On the upside, i got to drive my 914!

Spent 4 hours undoing my brave but misguided attempt to stop a window rattle, by unwillingly learning to completely disassemble the window assembly and pull the window. I removed the window felt I installed in the front track, which dislocated the narrow track the window rides in. But I didn't know that at first,or second. So finally discovered the track sitting at the bottom,reseated it and bam, it worked. Next had to clean the glue and gunk out of main window track. Up and down takes a bit more effort but the window is where it is supposed to be and seats well against the car. And the unexpected surprise, the rattle is gone. Hope lithium grease was the correct lube because it will be a long time until I tear into it again. Was amazed that the window merely press fits into the sliding track, thought it needed to be glued or something.

Engine rebuilds, suspension swaps, new paint ... all great, but there IS a feeling of accomplishment and joy that comes with fixing the little things too

Installed 3rd brake light. Started her up, and congradulated myself for earning some cold frosty beverages.

Looked at it, got on this forum and then decided to go skiing. Later dude...

I went through 3 cutting discs playing on the car this morning... what a mess!

Today I had the day off so I drianed the oil and gapped my new plugs.

Truly spellbinding.

Got my gearstack back from Dr. Evil and reassembled my trans. Degreased case, replaced all seals, painted it and made it look purdy! I used a very light coat of hi-temp aluminum paint. Just enough to change the color.

Next up, finish putting the engine together. Already a long block, just need the fuel injection and tins repainted and installed.

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Sewed on a leather cover for the steering wheel - pain in the but but better than the dry rotted rubber.

First coat of paint done:

Didn't feel like working this morning so started fabricating my aluminum dash using the wood dash as a template.

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I think I am going to clear anodize.

Driver side panel:

Today I was in a meeting and a guy was giving a report. Boring as hell. So I starting thinking about my car.

Is the '76 you're going to sell your Viper Green 914?

This one?

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Bought a Suby 3.0 for my conversion.

I drove that rusty old bitch to work, then to the gym afterwards, then toyed with a Mustang GT before leaving his gutless ass in the traffic.

Went to the local go-kart track for a time attack event and learned two things:
1. front brakes NEED to be rebuilt badly
2. Pretty boys with m3's hate getting there asses handed to them in by a 40 year old car..

Put a bunch of new goodies in the trunk

I.... cut..... sooooooo many holes in my car tonight....



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fine tuning the MPS for proper A/F (had been running way too rich, got an mps that was set to factory specs , caused bad idle issue - it was WAY lean, - now it seems to be good, ran great to work yesterday, and

Drove it to work today, - yesterday put in a new rear window/engine deck seal- old one came out in a thousand pieces.

- blew a fuse today not sure why? #8/9 lost the tach, fuel level, cigarette lighter, console volt meter and oil temp. so what i dont know until i can troubl shoot this at lunch is whether there is a short or loss of ground connection that caused the fuse to blow or just a fuse issue---

fun fun fun. its the usual- drive the car 2 weeks , fix something. etc
- at least it is not on jackstands!

getting in on the egmann fuse panal buy.

Yesterday I drove Christine to work. This morning I drove Delilah to work. Sure was a lot of fun.

Was the first time either had been started in over a month. Fired right up with no problems.

Retrieved my motor yesterday. Started mocking up parts. next step, transmission and engine cradle.
Engine: Subaru Japanese spec 2.5L sequential turbo with 300hp and 300ft lbs of torque from the factory. I will probably go with a single turbo to get the car on the road.
From the car side, got my front hood fitted, now I have to get the headlights in and finish fitting them.
On the rear deck i have to finish up the duck tail and get everything welded into place.
Take the doors to get welded and then media blasted. then back to my house for primer.
Shoot the two lizard skin components in the cabin and firewall.
iron out a few wrinkles and re primer, cut and sand then ready for paint.

Put these on at lunch today!
From our world member, spunone!

I cut more, poked more, prodded more... then gave up.

This CAN'T be a west coast car. I quit. I think the only parts that don't have rust are the targa top and the tires.

Guess I'll strip it all down, bin the tub and decide if another tub transplant is in my future or not.

Come take a look at the 5-lug '72 I have down here if you're in the market for a good roller (surface rust only)

Viper Green
eventually, Gary in CA wants though.

The 76 above is a roller

Yeah thats a pain in the ass. Getting that clip to close under the air box was not easy, I used a wide blade screwdriver, patience, and cussin'.

Richard came by the shop Monday and Tuesday morning. The engine and transaxle are bolted in and the axles attached.

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It looks like I need to re-engineer the mounting plate for the Tangerine firewall bearing to allow for a little more shift rod travel ... otherwise the H/Es and Triad would have been installed too

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Installed emblems ( now I dont have to tell them what kind of car it is )

I had a friend take a little material off of the back side of the shift rod bearing's housing. This should take care of the shift rod travel issue.

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Drove it. Then took the plugs out, regapped them to .045 because of the Pertronix install. Took the top off, and drove it again.

57* on Feb 23. What a winter.....

75F in the Smokies so I drove mine with the top off

Unfortunately, electrical gremlins appeared and left me on the side of the road for about half an hour. Finally got it started and limped the 3-4 miles home. Haven't had a chance to figure out what is going on

Got some welding done. One less thing to do.

got my push rods and rocker assemblys, oil cooler and fan w/ shroud intalled on the engine. Pulled the car infront of the garage and got to working on the body again. got a few holes behind and under the driver sail pannel welded in. and the battery tray out. its trashed so ill make a new one. gotaa fix up the hell hole a bit first. the other side is surprizingly good. the rest of the car not so much

Nice!

Digging the felt back pad. What did you use?

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Got the 914 up in the air to drop the engine for the first time. Bit nervous but am optimistic that all will go well!

Reno