Too cool, Marty


Not necessarily relating to 914s , I went to Sears to exchange a pair of shoes my wife bought me, and came home with another [inexpensive] roll-away cabinet / chest drawer combo that was on sale

Been wanting to segregate the specialized 'P' tools from the regular tools for a while ... this should do the trick.

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Is a good runner ? also I'm talking with the director this week about doing a 914 on the show Jay like super clean builds, if he like the idea I have a few 914 I was thinking about

Mark I love thats its solar power

Tastefully done...me likes

caught a bit of rain on the way home from taking my youngest to build-n-grow at Lowe's. - adjusted clutch cable yesterday,
- dash lights keep shorting out this time did not short the fuse, i think its shorting out in the light switch . so i might try and source a new one and see if that will remedy the issue.

Took it out for a to Harbor Freight to buy a rope saw. They said they don't carry them

Beautiful day. Car runs real nice but reading these threads about Subaru transplants is so intriguing...

Ugh. Must. Avert. Eyes...

Installed the new Recaro Poolside Lounger Seat today so I could test my new handbrake cable in the driveway.

Took the pumpkin out for up to Applegate Lake. Up and back a couple of hours, she ran perfect!


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pulled my spark plugs to check state of tune and learned that two of the plugs were not tight. tightened every one of them and went for a sweet 90 minute cruise.

Spent the day at BS swap meet. Good conversation, and even better parts and cars....

Great look! well done

looking good

I like it! Got a great deal on my wood steering wheel a few years ago.

Ted (porsche913b_sp) and I caravan-ed to the BS Swap Meet from the South Bay. Thanks for hosting this again Bruce. Met a couple new folks as well as mingling the usual suspects - got to BS with G & R as well ... Nice to see everybody's doing well. I think this is the first time Elliot didn't show up

Sold very little (as usual) ... and everything that didn't sell will probably stay in the back of the truck until next BS-SM (again)


Colin came by the shop later in the afternoon and picked up the 2.7L motor he purchased a couple of months ago (would that be considered a colin-cleansing?)


It was cooking in the shop ... had to employ the air conditioner. Worked well enough that I stuck around for several more hours to sort, package, label, and stage a ton of parts in prep for the impending move.

$20 91 octane almost 3/4 tank. Used the fuel cap to hold the pump spring so I don't have to hold it while pumping. Lately makes my back hurt when holding the pump spring on one hand and the pump on the other hand.

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I always like gassing up the car. People around always amazed there is no engine in front.

whoa! How'd dat happen

Thought you had a stutter for a moment....

So being in the land of no rain I see wipers are not even needed.

Replaced the PO's old brass-hinged gas pedal mod. Also found out my upholstery guy can't start on my seats and backpad til end of month so I put the driver seat and seatbelt back in so I could enjoy this great driving weather.

I mounted my trailing arms. Next will be the driveshafts.

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Put on the top for a ride today to warm up oil before changing in anticipation of winter storage... new filter and Brad Penn oil. Ready for winter

Silver car that is... red one gets used all winter in AZ!!

Finished installing the 914rubber dash top. Looks pretty good. Had a chance to reglue the basketweave material on the glove box and dash and also some general cleaning (dash vents, instruments, etc.)

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Very nice!! Looks excellent.

Drove mine to cars n coffee.

Another c&c picture, nice 73 targa with a 3.0 turbo

So did you fix your fuse issue?

One of these days I'll get to drive a P-car to the local Pelican C&C. There's also a lot of local 912 BBS guys that regularly attend the events.

You remember I had that going on? I think so. I was looking at the gauge wires to compare to my build off car and tripped the fuse when I moved a connector for the gauge lighting. Turns out the jumper connected to that bulb that was put on there by AL Garcia when he put my l.e.d. lights in was shorting out by touching the edge, since I adjusted it and wrapped it with tape, no more blowing a fuse in that circuit. Now if I can figure out why my fear air fan blows it's fuse I'll be got to go wiring wise.
Btw, you have a 912? Guy at c and c today asked me what I k ee about them, because a friend of a friend knows an elderly widow somewhere in AZ that's stashed away, wants to get rid of it, told him I didn't know what it was worth, but I'd check. It's a 69 he thinks, what's it worth, if it's rust free?

I think 2 years ago that my 75 1.8 has the 1st time being flat towed because a smoke is coming out from the fresh air vent below the windshield. And I noticed the switch lever for the fan was half way on. So the following day after it was towed, I found out that my fresh air fan blower was stock and hard to turn the blower by hand. The fuse didn't blow up instead the wire for the blower burned.

Andy, is the googly eye look for the 911 targa? Turns out he live in the same development I do, snout 4 blocks away. Has his own shop here in town with a lift, offered to help out with my project, had been around 911s a lot, flips them mostly,- might be a new Porsche BFF , well nice guy, offered to let me use the lift etc might head over this afternoon to check it out..
So he does have the original 2.7 to go in that car, been rebuilt recently, the 3.0 might be coming out, going to find out what he's asking for the 3.0

Nope, it means that all i did to my 914 today was looking at it as i was taking out the trash ...

NEWS FLASH: I drove my car today. I mean REALLY drove it. It's a long story, but it's finally running as it was when Joe O'Brien delivered it (though not as rich )

Man o man, this thing is a monster. There's still some tweaking to do, it's not quite making full HP at WOT, probably need to adjust acceleration enrichment and then work on EGO controller programming. But I say, DAYUM SHE BE QUICK!! You couldn't get this grin off my face with a sledgehammer!

- Andy ...


Phil, just as with any car, it's hard to place a value without looking at it, but ('65 ~ '69) 912 values have been rapidly increasing recently (even the '76 912Es). I've seen pristine examples go for as high as $75k.

Average decent drivers are from the mid to high teens to the high 20's. Really nice drivers are in the $30k ~ $45k range.

EDIT: Here's a link to the 912 BBS classifieds: Link


Yep, currently working on two 912s ...

'66 in the foreground ... '67 on the rack:

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Drove up with Harve (57Liincolnman) to Euro Auto Fest in Greenville SC. Great show but disappointing that out of over 400 cars we were the only two 914's

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And this one is likely the most beautiful car I've ever seen:

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Look very nice. Is this just a glued dash (cap)?
I need to do the same.

Nice lines. Do you happen to know what it is?

That's a brand new after market dash, from 914rubber.com ...

lamborghini miura

I installed this little piece into the suspension system. This car handles really well now.

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bought my 75 1.8 last aug. 2011, at first I thought my dash was almost perfect and orignal dash, but one of our member here when he visited my place, noticed it was a dash cap! but at least still looks very nice and clean. Just no idea where the previous owner got it.

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I did the same thing! I thought, "Hey, everybody has crappy dash's, but I lucked out, mine has no cracks!"

Newbie mistake!

But, hey dash caps rule! They fake out the ignoramuses. Whatever!

I guess I could spring for the 914rubbers, but I'm cheap sob. Why bother! Whatever!

That has got to be one of the most elaborate tower braces I've ever seen! Has anyone
ever seen one like it or know anything about it? I see how it works (very sturdy!) but it looks slightly over the top considering how well our cars corner with even the basic suspension upgrades...

Sweet ride

I installed the Elephant Racing Spherical Bearings on the front suspension.

FWIW, they do NOT just slip into the steel front suspension crossmember.
It required a little grinding to get the rear carriers to slip into the crossmember:



I had to do some significant "porting" of the holes in the crossmember to get these carriers to slip in.

for the first time with my Subaru swap.

I installed the ignition key switch and housing that I received from fellow forumite Cabinetmaker. Things went smooooooothly with the aid of the Pelican Parts' 'How to...'

I took an iPad into the garage and followed the step by step guidance.

One advice though, not mentioned on the Pelican pages: behind the steering wheel, there's a cover holding all electrical parts. It's secured by a allen screw. The housing itself can slide forward and aft for about 8mm, 1/3 of an inch. When securing the allen screw, do a trial fit with the steering wheel to be sure that the contacts of the s/wheel and the housing touch each other.

The car as it was this morning:



I'll be adding side decals tomorrow: matt orange 'PORSCHE' with a 'Heuer Chronograph' decal in the same matt orange color. The car needs a respray in the future. Until that day, I am going to make use of the car's flaws and adapt an 'outlaw'-ish' style.

Not sure about the front and rear bumber, though... body color or also matt orange...

Menno