Drove it on GMR today. I think that it was Mothers Day there were less motorcycles up there. It was a blast.

If everyday was like this.....wouldn.t need to drive on any other road in a 914.

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Drove it on GMR today. I think that it was Mothers Day there were less motorcycles up there. It was a blast.

If everyday was like this.....wouldn.t need to drive on any other road in a La
"Lucky" I love that drive.

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Nice work Larmo / Keep at it. I have some parts to toss into your truck for the June 2 drive / for Kent - and I am beginning to understand why a Man of his broad and seasoned acumen in the world of brass pipe and plumbing would choose a Suby conversion verses the hellish vortex of EAP's Decent into the Abyss - as we are currently swirling in

Update: I am presently zip-tied to a Rotary lift in a dingy dripping wet smelly basement festooned with alligator clips squeezing various body parts unbeknownst to the weak of political fortitude as I am held hostage by the Weber Guru for yet into next weak.

PMO may have something here......

Happy Mother's Day mothers..

Edgar Allan Poe..........

Installed new Hella horns. Put in racing seat. Ready for next week's SCCA solo event.

I am in the early stages of making a mold for a carbon fiber full cover back pad / that is, a CF piece that will cover up the hatch and tidy up the interior on our 6 cars.

I am a ways out but interest is growing in this piece. I am working on a piece that will fit in early or late cars with seat belt retractors.

My car is early 71 so the challenge is to make it a business like CF piece easy to remove for service thru the hatch but looking good and sound deadening when in place. Everyone loves Carbon Fiber / and although they don't know exactly why, they only know carbon fiber fabrication is costly, cool looking, and serviceable.

Like a lot of things we all want.

Any interest here in the same piece? Now worries if not.



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i drove it to run some errands , nice to have a tight steering colum again! trying to decide whether to drive the 914 or the boxster for the DE at Robeling Road next month! any advice? i have to say after driving both cars today i think the 914 is way tighter in the corners , but it does have Sport bilistein shocks, and boxster is stock, just feels soft in comparison.
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I purchased the ArmorAll AA255 Wet/Dry Vac for my 914 yesterday so I could easily vacuum it without having to lug out my household vacuum or a much larger shop vac. Works well. Nice small size, yet holds a lot. https://www.bestadvisor.com/best-car-vacuum-cleaner

I drove mine 510 miles on saturday....first real drive after getting it completed. Highways suck tho...felt like I had a hangover all sunday.

Looks good

... and

Monday: Picked up the AN-3 parts from Earl's ... $25.

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Yesterday, I attempted to run a pull wire through the clutch cable tube ... got it inserted in the front, but it isn't showing up in the engine bay - the tube doesn't pass through the rear fire wall like it's supposed to ... just one more of the little things that one or more of the POs hacked on this car. I have corrected most of the issues, but every now and then I run across something else that isn't right. Slowly but surely I'll have them all sorted out.

Take a piece of fishing line and tie a small piece of t shirt material on the end then use your shop vac to pull the line thru. You can substitute kite string but if the area is rough it will want to hang up. Once this is thru you can tie it to the an-3 line and pull it thru:beer2:

How sure are you that you aren.t getting CO in your cabin?

That is a classic symtom of CO poisoning.

Can you post pictures of your front mount oil cooler setup. I'm doing the same on my car soon. I also am cutting the engine lid screen for the front coole. I thought I was being original. Ha ha!

I wished it was that easy, but unfortunately, the rear end of the clutch cable tube doesn't protrude through the firewall and into the engine bay. I have a #14 solid (white) conductor entering the tube from the front opening, but it has hit something and won't go any further.

Inserting an inspection camera doesn't yield an image of the (white) conductor balling up near the back of the tunnel, nor an image of the other (rear) end of the tube.

To be honest, at this point, I'm wondering if the cable hasn't ran through the tube since before I owned the car. THOMAS installed a new cable back in 2009, but whether or not the cable traveled through the tube is at question now

The image below is what the firewall looks like. Note the clutch tube does not pass from the tunnel through the firewall - and a piece of steel has been bolted to the firewall where the tube is supposed to be. Looking through the hole, all you can see is open expanse inside of the tunnel

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Take that rear access cover off and look inside the tunnel for the missing tube, gap or obstruction.

Yep, did that. I had stuck the camera down through it to try finding where the tube ended - with no luck (it's hard to maneuver the camera head once inserted into a void ... it wasn't designed to perform colonoscopies)

I finally got a view through where the wiring harness goes back down into the tunnel and saw the white #14 tucked in the lower right hand corner of the tunnel, but still couldn't see where it exited from the tube.

I inserted a really small (1/4" diameter) flashlight through the hole in the firewall, made a hook to grab the #14 and again, with the help of the camera, pulled it towards the hole, then grabbed it with a pair of long forceps and pushed it towards the flashlight and through the firewall.

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Next, I inserted about 8" of the #14 inside the ID of the AN-3 hose and taped it up real good, then started pulling from the front bulkhead. Something within 6" or so beyond the firewall was inhibiting the pull, as it took several attempts to finally get it passed whatever the hang-up was. Once it did, it was smooth sailing from there on

The end result? ... success, finally

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Front bulkhead

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... and these were the some of the tools needed to accomplish this task

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This hydraulic thing better work, because I don't want to do this again

Bought new Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires for my car. The old ones were ten years old. Finally finished installing the MB911 1 5/8" heat exchangers on my car. Very noticeable throttle response and power over the stock six heat exchangers. Ben was awesome with support and feedback. Love the heat exchangers. Glad I did the group buy. Killer deal!!
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What kind of shift linkage is that? Never seen that mod before... (915 transaxle?)

Preping car for the drive to WCR at Mammoth:
Valves adj, Oil change, New output flange seals, adjusted rear Caliper venting.

Yep it's Martin Botts 916 kit. The shifter is a 915 Rennshift, CFR 915 adjuster, PMS firewall bearing and make shift, shift rod. For more info, check out Martin Bott's 916 kit thread in the members vendor section. I just pilfered what other people have done.

I'm putting the spare receiver on the front bulkhead. Can somebody measure the diameter of a 15" space saver tire for me?

Mine is a 996 16" space saver spare.

I know, I thought of yours, but I knew it wasn't a 15"

Just found it.....The total diameter of both the 15 and 16 tires deflated is 20.250 inches, either will fit on the front bulkhead.

I welded a 10mm nut to a Home Depot u bracket and used rivnuts to bolt it to the bulkhead.

All the mechanical stuff is done ... everything mounted, AN hose fittings done and connected front and rear ...

New grommet in the bulkhead

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Master cylinder - 90° fittings were required due to tight quarters

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Slave cylinder

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Next, the chemical stuff ... fill the reservoir and start the bleeding process

Awaiting carb tweaks.........

Worked on the mold for my carbon fiber back pad / one that will replace the weighty upholstered one.

Am I doing this right?!
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And these seats, soon to be a different color, are courtesy of Mr. Rice. Thanks so much for the unmentionable deal!
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Changed the oil.

I started it. Listened to the roar at 4k (MSD rev limit until 1st 500 are under the belt, then shut it down. Instant and excellent oil pressure, Mocal opens up at 180 +/- and the front oil cooler leaks at the bolt on the toip due to lack of sufficient squashage on the washer.

Still awaiting some form of communication on the carb jets. I will find reamers tomorrow and fix the jets myself.



This puppy is ready for some varied breakin highway miles.

I used a 914 as a coffee table.

Spent the morning at injumort's with AndyB and Porschef watching him reinstall his heat exchangers.
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Twins? Nice to see speaker aimed in and family involved..

Looks like Eosone, in which case your garage sounds much better than mine

Finished my WCR check list; 10 days early!

Me too...
New tires
New heat exchangers
New ski racks
Went through car front to rear.

Other stuff that's on the list, but not important.
GTS lemans seat install
Side mirror vibrates
Glue 914 rubber top seal
Wire up cooler fans. Only needed in bumper to bumper traffic
Install subwoofer
Etc there never done..

Installed the correct idle jets for the Webers (65's vs. 55's) and the backfire and tail pipe issues are solved. Smooth and solid. The tach adaptor is now working too.

Tomorrow, once on the lift, a clutch adjustment and fine tune of the shift linkage / then put some miles on it.

Congratulation Forrest on ur new 6 conversion!

Post some video footage of the maiden voyage

I'm stalled again ... the brake M/C supply line grommets are leaking, and there's less room to fiddle with them now that the clutch M/C takes up the adjacent hand space

Not sure how, or how long this setback is going to take to correct

I think I'll have to uninstall the clutch M/C and move it to the side to allow me to replace the grommets and seat the hoses. Fuch

Wasn't today but this weekend I took mine to a track I have never driven before, flogged the crap out of the poor thing. Streets of Willow.
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I had to change the inline fuel filter...so the wife got put on siphon duties

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Congratulations!!

Made a new gasket for the fuel sender since the not so old one had started to crumble. MY fuel sender seems to work ok but for some reason not showing full when the tank should be full. (that or the gaspump trigger stops pumping too early)

Finally sorted out the Webers on the six after a thorough ultrasonic cleaning and reassembly with 65 verses 55 idle jets - the engine was starving with the 55's but not so now....

When they work, they work really smooth and very ferocious compared to four-sound i was used to.

I also installed the air filter plates, gaskets, filters and powder coated rain hats. I now have to figure out the clutch adjustment issues I am having / or is it the new shift rod alignment???

I fitted the seats in after recovering the driver's seat with 914 rubbers seat kit. Not bad stuff to work with.

Sat in it for the second time since buying it over a year ago. Nice bitof motivation since seeing them in.

Going to attempt to replace the two little supply line grommets in the brake M/C today. This will be the 3rd. time I've done this task, but there's not much wiggle room in this area with the additional clutch M/C down there now, so the process should prove to be a pain in the

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When that's done, the bleeding process for both, the brake system and the hydraulic clutch system will ensue ...

Went out to the garage after work today, thinking I might pull the distributor for a good cleaning. Well, not sure if it was the glass of cab or the weather or the fact that I'm still feeling last weekend's affects, but I threw the Mighty Vac on it and the plates moved well in both retard and advance directions, so I figgered it was fine, and that I should probably spend my time doing something even more important.

So, I did just that.

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I'm sure the car will go slightly faster with this fine addition. I hope to take it out this weekend to verify...

Did you check the movement once it was fully warmed up? Heat can make those plates stick.

Good point Kent; no, I did not. I will do so this weekend, if it starts to feel like late May and not early April...