These arrived today! Waited for 10 weeks but they are sweet!
Should be on the car this week, in time for cars and coffee saturday.
it's a set of Fuchs 2 16×6", and 2 16x7's. Cleaned repolished and painted.
Once on the car I will post some pictures.

Those wheels look great! Do you have a wide bodied car? Post pics of your car after installing these!

Also know as whacker's cramp...

No. Fender lips rolled. I have a set of 16"x 6" on all fours now, and spacers in front and rear, so the 7" should fit. Tires in now are 205/55 16, which were standard on this rims in a 911 according to my mechanic. His 73 911 has that exact set in it now. He's putting my tires on Friday !!!

Cool! I have a set of 4 16x7 Fuchs. I was thinking of trying 205/55/16's all the way around. I'm not sure how much massaging my rear fenders will need though. I plan to use spacers on the fronts but not sure how thick they need to be.

Those wheels look great!

I finally got around to getting started on the car.
Completely disassembling the car in prep for media blasting.
Going to have to take it down to bare metal to see what I've got under there.

Discovered some rust in the driver side rocker panel and around the headlight supports.

I'm going to need to buy all new lenses all the way around. Tail lenses are cracked. Passenger side fell apart as I pulled it off the car. Sweet!

So far so good!

Nice teener! Stock color? Doesn't look like sepia brown in picture.

The glove box lock-set is installed in the lid of the ammo box and is keyed to my non-valet key (thanks to Jim H. for the wafer set to key it to..) and now I have fabricated my two hole cup holder - fabricated in light weight aircraft alloy - approved by Larmo as to welding quality... Bitch! - and soon off to the powder coater for a coat of satin black after a bead blast to even things out.

It is so subtle in fact, and nicely situated between the two seats that only a few saw it at the swap meet last weekend... or could give a hoot... my goal precisely...

As Closeeau said: The crooks never sleep and neither does Closeeau!

Wow, those look great!

Steve A-

Just curious . . . will you be selling the set of 16x6 wheels that are currently on the car?

Thanks!

Steve A-

added my cold air intake LOL

looks darker in the picture, '75, copper metalic

not sure at this point, my mechanic has made offer for trade of work, may pass and keep them, or just sell but im not . just not sure.

depends on how the rears fit with the 7",

Bought a Subaru SVX,
So now my 914 has an EG33 boxster H6..

Yay me . . .

Have any "out of the box" plans for your new install? I've got ideas but I'm currently out of commission for another couple of months and fresh ideas are always interesting! Suby trans or stock? okay, I'll quit with the questions...

fixed.....until in there it's still a type IV

No real work on the 914, I did get some parts back from zinc plating, including some 911 front hub* grease caps..one of the caps is little more beat up than I'd like, but I didn't have time to do any metal work on it before sending the stuff off.

Yellow zinc with and baked in the oven to get rid of any hydrogen entrapment.


*which will be for sale soon

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Been driving so much, I might have to put GAS in it today. There is this strange RED light on the left side of the gas gauge, does that mean something? Should I worry or drive faster?

Definitely drive faster!

here we go, got the tires mounted on the new rims and put on .....

so we had a bit of a problem-once the springs settled it rubbed just barely on the right side more than left but enough to cause some heat, thus the bubble of pain on the fender lip

I helped the new owner load the 914 on a trailer and watched it go to it's new home.

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Did some detailing today then drove it into town for some groceries. Park it far away to avoid runaway shopping buggies. I have some new injector boots but don't know how to get new ones over the connections.

Remove the pins from the connectors, might be able to use small metal pick to release the springs holding the pins inside the connector.

So are you without a 914 now? - or have another one stashed away?

Sprayed plastidip on the end of an old lug tool so that it's a bit more gentle on the lug nuts.

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Those wheels look seriously good!!!!!

thanks! Almost spent as much on those as I did for the car 6 years ago.
I guess I will go show them off at cars and coffee ttomorrow.

What type and size tire did you use on those 7x16 rear wheels? Have the rear fenders been modified at all yet?

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I am now without a 914 for the first time in over 40 years......

#1 '73 Sunflower Yellow

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#2 Factory Six '70 Signal Orange

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Factory six and conversion project....oh yeah.....BFG 962 nose......

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#3 Finished conversion six '74 Ocean Blue Metallic

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#4 '75 Copper Metallic

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Next?????

They are going to need some more work, I'm looking at Chris Foley's flares for the rear maybe. They had been rolled before (the lip) and that was not quite enough. These are 205/55-16- 7" rear 6" front. Tehy were rubbing just barely. I would have been better off with 195's oh well!

Drove the 'BB' to do some errands yesterday. While I was getting gas, a gentleman from Germany asked a bunch of questions. He remembers seeing 914s on the autobahn way back when, but never drove one himself. He also said he and his brother have both submitted resumes to the Porsche Experience Center in Carson - just a few miles away from here. Would be a nice gig if employees had access to free after-hours track time?

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Hoping we get some rain this week end, the 'BB' really needs a good bath

Thought I'd put today's high temperatures to work for me . . .

Getting a pair of speaker housings from Mikey914's recent group buy (Thanks Mark! ) ready to go into the car. Scuffed them up, washed them down, degreased them, then hit them with some "wrinkle" paint. So far they look pretty good:

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FWIW, they're much blacker than shown in the pictures.

They're curing in the back of one of my Volvo wagons as I'm typing this (it's like an oven in there). After that, they'll be filled with a pair of Rockford Fosgate R165X3s and hooked up to a more modern Sony unit (radio, CD, MP3, etc.). Maybe Terri will finally be able to hear the radio (I still prefer the Dellortos )

Tested wiring on the ABM, took back out the CDR 220 I installed. Changed the oil on Dad's car. Drove with Buddy to the store to get Bologna for the yellow jackets.

So, right when I take the rain try out for the summer, it monsoons here in Southern California?

Rebuilt a 73 steering column for conversion on my 75. New upper and lower bearings, cleaned and repaired turn signal switch. Ready to bolt in.

Got the race tub on the rotisserie, she needs a good cleaning and some significant rust repair

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Started to replace the carpet in my '73. Got as far as taking the car cover off. Then phone rang, and when I got back to start work the rain started. Figures, hasn't rained here in like seven years.

I tightened the fan belt on my 3.2. No I don't have a hole in my firewall. Super easy if you have right tools. It was squealing like a pig every time I jumped on the throttle.

Mother nature washed the dirt & dust off of the 'BB' today - I didn't have to lift a finger

I had to drop some 'thingies' off at the shop, so decided to stay a while longer when it started raining. I resumed working on one of the 912 motors, but couldn't find the 1/2" to 3/8" socket adapter to torque head nuts ... so thought it would be a good idea to crate some boxes of parts that need to move to AZ

I ordered a bunch of parts from the Sierra Madre Collection today. The had sent an email out back on July 14th., that had some really good deals on selected 356, 911/912 and 914 parts. Today, I finally looked at their offerings and was happy to find they had a lot of items I needed/wanted.

The total amount in my shopping cart (w/tax & shipping) was $897.65, but the actual total only came out to $320.77 when all the dust settled

If you received their email and haven't looked at it, better hurry, the sale ends tomorrow (7/21)

To order any of the sale items, you need to call the order in (discounts are not on the web site). Call (888) 986-4466

If you didn't receive their email, hurry up and shoot ma a PM with your email address - I'll forward the email so you can see the discounted price sale items.

finished my throttle cable and lowered my front end. Enjoying my summer