walk passed it ,said hi

I think he used felt, Joe



I started fitting up a front valance last night (the first time one's been on my car since I've owned it - 2006). It wasn't mating up at the front of the right wheel well. Found evidence of previous repairs that weren't completed, so as I was straightening out the fender metal, I smacked the shit out of my left index finger with a big hammer

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Center and final aluminum dash piece done. (Decided heater controls are no longer needed)

Just need to brush and clear-coat.

No pictures, but I replaced the speedo cable, angle drive and fixed a stripped bolt that holds the speedo drive in the transmission tail shaft on Betty's 914.

I also put in fresh gear oil, changed the oil and replaced the backup light switch pin so the backup lights work again.

Just it to work again for the 3rd day in a row. Drove Christine the day before that.

Today, I nursed my battered finger ...

It didn't deter me from spending some $ though ... here's today's booty:

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Hope to play with some of this stuff during the w/e


... and you need to post pix, Clay. I have no conception of what you did

What's an angle drive

Last autocross season I was a little hard on the front valance and rocker panells. I hit a few cones kindof hard and ripped three of the mounting holes out of the front valance bent up the right side rocker panel cover.

I spent some time fixing the rockers and dug out a spare valance I had. With a little and paint they all look great. Mounted them back up on the car yesterday.

A nice sunny, dry winter day here today. I tighten up the front wheel bearings, check the oil & tire pressure, clean the windshield and then took him a for a nice 30 min drive.
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Afterwards my wife helped me push the 74 project back on the lift. It will now get my attention again.
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took it for a ride
this car has not been on the road since 1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXz4IFqueWY&feature=plcp&context=C3deb7e5UDOEgsToPDskLF1ZqftwKe3k5pt-nwZCwz

Drove it to York this morning. Went to a 4 hour Tech Session at Transloggt specific to 914's.

Tony is builting a 914 autocross/driver and showed us all the bracing and wait reduction done, and a work in progress for a Boxer Tranny mated to a teener flat four amoung other things.

Removed all my trunk springs for my carbon fiber lids , drianed the oil so I can do the valve adjustment and 1.7l w/ 911 adjusters , and worked on the front suspension console to get rid of mice rust .

Getting closer to being on the road

Sweet! Love the gas can on the trunk lid.

Took the car out for a short drive and got some gas before the price rises even more next week. Almost $50.00 to fill up. At least it gives back more smiles per mile!

Mine? Nothing.

Did this for someone else's 914 though:

New bearings...




Bearing plate...


Love this finish...


Elephant Rubber...


In...


Late model 911 hubs...


50mm studs...


Entire rear suspension getting topped off with 930 CV's and Sway-A-Way free floating axles. Sweet.

Finished and primed right rocker panel complete, onto engine room cleaning/priming.....

Got a lot done today, replaced the seal behind the flywheel, mounted engine bar, installed clutch, pressure plate and bearing. Mounted the Heat exchangers.

Borrowed from the Bird board....



It connects the speedo cable to the transmission.

Aluminum dash done:


RAAMaudio insulation & Acoustical/thermal barrier going in:

I was kidding, Clay ... I just wanted to get you to post a pic
I took mine apart and cleaned 30 some-odd years of crud out of it, and THOMAS did the extra O-ring mod to the upper sleeve (before going back to the Fatherland) ... no more leak

Looks good Matt. I found your muffler, cat and Y pipe and some more... You can almost piece it back together...

I cleaned up the garage a little today after the 914 breakfast. Almost ready to get the car under the knife...

The aluminum does look nice

Thanks!

It's a pretty painless job having a template and the correct tools. Brushing the aluminum was the hardest part(still not perfect using free scrap aluminum around work)

After installing the GT style engine grills, with the under grill structure powdercoated black, the silver body color showing under the little side grills never looked right, so I painted the area under the grills (body) semi-gloss black as well with a little rustoleum. when I replace the side grills it should all blend in pretty well except for the little remaining silver wings up next to the window - but I ain't touching those.

mounted the transmission, cleaned and rearranged the garage

Ordered more parts, installed new front brake pads and new fuel lines in the engine bay. Installed freshened passenger rocker cover. Lots of parts should be coming this week.

Put a new fuel filter on Delilah and new wiper blades on Christine. Took Delilah for a ride.

Another weekend and I will be welding metal back into the car instead of cutting

Tore out the dash.

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Sent the gauges to Palo Alto.

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Installed a 924 washer/wiper switch assembly...

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Oh that's how the dash wiring is supposed to look.

Changed the oil, glued in the sump plate - been chasing that leak for a long, long time. changed out the fuel filter, it was almost all rust bits! Bled the brakes.

I think I might have to get my fuel tank cleaned out again, did it 6 years ago and it looks worse right now than when I took the tank in for the first time! Damn ethanol.

Bought a brand new timing gun and a few other goodies when I was going a few weeks ago to do my own PPI for a 914 I was considering- it flunked and I passed on it. So after driving Bill H's car on friday after his new transmission swap was completed, and driving last week Chris's 75(sunab914) I realized my car needed to be tuned up. I was not seeing the power at @4000rpms as I felt on theirs. And the both were 2.0 with carbs. And it seemed to me that my f.I. should be giving me more. Well I am happy to report that after re-setting the timing which was off by a good margin, it is the best it has ever felt- I was really jealous guys but I believe mine now would surpass either. I was amazed at the acceleration now. I had forgotten that since I got the mps properly tuned ad the tps set correctly I had not gotten back to rechecking the timing! - my Tdc mark was no longer there! So I reverified its location, marked it and set it. Best it has run and idled for 3the years I have owned it! Now I can't wait to get the transmission done in april so I don't have that leak and the 1-2 syncro problem!
Sorry no pictures I was having too if mu ch fun driving and forgot to.take one!

Only installed a PerTronix module in a VJR4BR8 dizzy and repaired an engine harness, yesterday.

No car work today, drove out to Tustin Rehab to visit with Joe

And that is the best 914 work ever! (visit Joe)

I filed a police report for theft on my front hood and rear trunk. They were taken out of the body shop where I am having my 914 painted oem silver after years spent on jack stands grinding, welding repairs and reinforcements. Disgruntled employee from body shop with a story an hour long took them. The car has been in the shop for 6+ months. Say a prayer for this to resolve nicely.

On a brighter note I built a tire rack this weekend out of UNI-STRUT in my garage for my set of 17X7 x4 each cups and my Fuch's windmills 16x6 x 2 each and 16x7 x 2each. I have some beater loaner tires on her now for body work thanks to Brad Mayuer. Brad Rocks!

I went looking for rust. Found some.

I pulled my rocker covers, just to take a look.
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Not bad at first glance, but a little poking and pulling revealed...
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The metal at the bottom has some surface rust but I don't think it will need replacing, maybe just some clean and seal.

The engine bay sound pad and interior back pad were removed
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and pulled up some of the tar floor coating behind the seats
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as well as the standard hell hole. I don't think any of it is all that bad. I've seen what some of you guys have had to deal with.

I guess I'll be learning to weld.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=170890

Assume the position..

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Did the front brakes caliper rebuild, bearings and rotors on blackie using Eric's break in method. OMG, what a difference. Now I know why the white 914's brakes are enemic. They weren't broken in properly. Thx Eric. And my wife thx McMark for the long tube post. The last time I had her pump the brakes, we figured out that she was pumping the clutch pedal.

That is why you should never let a woman near a car with a "Man Pedal"






Please send any responses to this comment to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Because that is where I will be after my wife reads this.

I've been just itching to post something to this thread. So, today I brought home a friend for Austin. Meet Rosie! Picked her up from mepstein today. I'm sure they will be the best of friends.
Thanks Mark, I'll take good care of her! I think there may actually be something to this addiction thing. You can't have just one.
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Rosie looks like a low rider. Does she have adjustable perches in the rear?

Is she solid? By the way I like the EMPI eight spoke's on her sibling! Congrats on the new girl!

couldn't resist...sick as a dog. had to go cut out the intake naducts in the hood...1 step at a time. maybe tomorrow I will finish grinding and actually get some work done.

Continuing work on the old 'BB'. Yesterday morning, I vacuumed out the tunnel and treated it with Eastwood's Internal Frame-Coating, boxed up a set of SS heat exchangers for Mr Bontempi and dropped them off at FedEx. Installed the shift lever and attached the shift rods in the late afternoon. That's it, not a real productive day

Richard stopped by this morning, 'fine-tuned' the shift linkage and installed the passenger side HE. Stopped there, as additional hardware was required to get the driver side installed

So, we started putting the CSP bell-crank throttle linkage together. Ran into a snag there too ... need to rummage through my box of spare IDF parts tonight.

So, Richard reworked and lubed the driver side seat rails, and I repainted my faded Vitaloni Baby Tornados flat-black

Closed up shop early, went to the hardware store and then home

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The End

I glued in the vinyl pieces that sit on the rails in front of & below the seat. Also on the side of the center tunnel. Waiting for the glue to dry & going back out to finish the carpet tonight. Hopefully I will get my backpad pieced back together & installed

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Rosie looks like a low rider. Does she have adjustable perches in the rear?

Is she solid? [/quote]

No adjustable perches, I think it's just the angle of the photo. Don't get me wrong she will need some TLC. I won't really know how much 'till I get her up on the lift. But I ain't skeerd, yet!

finished up the NADuct's for my hood.

Replaced my 39 year old heat exchangers and muffler. Got a good set of stainless steel exchangers off Ebay and an almost new Bursch muffler from a fellow teener on 914World!

finished installing all gas lines, mounted pump and filter, changed one leaking injector. I will be doing the final check up tonight, if all is well the engine will be mounted tomorrow