Picked up another one!

The 914 provided us with transportation during the Vintage Car Road Races at PIB this past weekend. What a blast !!! Had to use a ferry to get the car from the mainland out to the island of South Bass. I worked the event in the Paddock area.

Pic shows her parked at days end behind our "Hotel" - the vessel Sea Dawg. That's my wife sitting on the boat.

We'll be back next year and will add the running of the old course thru the streets of Put In Bay.

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Took mine to the shop this afternoon after two weeks of messing with it myself. Turns out the VR was running at 17v and fried my new odyssey battery and my Mallory ignition box. Luckily I have spares for all that on hand and should be good to go for RRC next week.

Picked up my new ProSource windscreen ! Looks great.

Picked up a box of powder coated goodies from bdstone 914 in Riverside, CA.

I think it was somewhere between 121 and 146 degrees out there today.

Finally made it up to the Red Rooster in my 74 Ravenna car and snapped a twin pic to the one I took with the '73. As much as I love the 74, I do miss that yellow car.

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It was indeed a perfect day yesterday Ian.

Found my oil leak

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I live about 25 miles from this year's Okteenerfest. Drove the teener in the area this morning on a fall like day. Can't wait to see all the teeners in North Georgia!

LE bumblebee
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Not my 914 but still Porsche related. New Euromeister 7/17 and 9/17 wheels with 205/50/17 and 255/45/50 BFGoodrich G-Force Sports. I'll be selling the BBS's.

Old BBS:
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New Euromeisters:
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Those BBS wheels would look good on my white 944

Look great I love the look. I had 9s and 11s on my turbo and they were the jeff Alton fuchs.Click to view attachment

Could not replicate the hot start issue. It was 80 degrees and not 95 so that helped.

Both sets look nice, but your car could do with ... fewer 'spokes'

I replaced my rain tray drain tubes and funnels I had sitting around. Small step but it was something.

Replaced a broken clutch cable. Glad it broke while near home (well, 20 miles "near") and not somewhere in the north Georgia mountains during Okteenerfest

I put in new H4 lights for RHD and amber tail lights to get my import registered here in Australia. Next step is a RHS door mirror and metric speedo.

to El Pollo Loco for lunch.

Drove the '73... hadn't been driven for over a month as I was in IA exercising its brother the '71.
Ran great - every time I drive a 914 I get reminded what fun they are, even after 46+ years!! Who needs self-driving cars!!!!

I drove my car around trying to work the bugs out. I have carb issues, but it idles perfectly. I'm pouring over Weber carb information. It will be nice to figure out the tachometer too.

I need help, but I don't know who to ask.

Went to start car and the battery (10 years old) was dead. Not unexpected.

Replaced muffler gaskets after mounting new Dansk.

Did you verify that the jets, venturies and emulsion tubes are correct for your size engine?
How is the tach connected to your ignition system? Is it a 4 banger tach going through a tach adapter? have you called Clewett? I think it was a Clewett system.
I took the easy way out and went all stock. Even with the Weber's I used the stock cd ignition system.
Your very brave!!

I like the look of black center Fuchs

Thought about the Euromeister 17's for my car but went with the 16 Fuchs.

Looks Great

Double post.

Getting the '73 ready for a new Triad exhaust that is supposed to be delivered today... anxious to see and hear!!

Installed the Triad exhaust today- gonna take out for a ride tonight to hear...

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I fitted the RHS mirror without any drama - was a bit scary though drilling in from the outside but the first pilot hole was only 0.5mm out so all good. Certainly saved stuffing around removing interior door trim Next step for Oz rego is a metric speedo.





Lights, mirrors, almost ready for action...

Just drove the '73 for the first time with the new Triad exhaust. BIG improvement from the old extractor. Nice throaty sound.

And great dealing with Dave.

Looking great,hope you have more luck finding a metric speedo than I did...took me around 6 months to find one,got one from the US in the end,a few on European ebay sites but very spendy.
Loved Western Australia lived there for over 4 years....great place.

Had to find the battery charger today. Wouldn't start.

Valve adjustment

My little kid had a surprise for me!!!

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Very happy....

This may be an easy solution for you metric speedometer.

http://www.sierramadrecollection.com/speed...-83-p27103.html

After a week in Scotland today was the first day for a while on the car.

I fitted the fuel pump up front under the tank and wired it in, don't know if it works yet though because the battery is on my son's car!

Also fabricated the other side engine tin, stripped the paint off both ready for the VHT paint which I seem to have mislaid.

Also fitted the replacement complete steering column that I bought a while ago. Nearly forgot I also fitted the blower controls and blower. But had to take the blower out as the wiper isn't working!

I have a few niggles to deal with before asking for help to fix.

Installed a new tank, my old tank sender and NOS filler neck / + two new filters in line before the up-front pump / on the way to two other in-line filters that are in line with two on the carbs.........

Sidebar: I have finaly figured out the issues with the carbs......... mainly miniscule crap in the wonderful 4 buck-a-gallon gasoline in SoCal.

Can not wait to get to Arizona for the same gallon at 1.65 /

Nice Tank!!! Great work

Have heard you mention the crap in the gas numerous times and believe me I will be heading your advice and when the time comes I will have several in line filters!

It's averaging around $2.60 for premium in AZ right now ... but still less than So Cal, where we get ...

What has brown done for us lately?

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(hint ... overspending)

Got my OEM ignition switch in the mail today. I'll put this in my glovebox and the POS Chinese replacement I'm using will last forever.
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Wait 'til November when it will go up another 19 cents/gal. in taxes because of the latest tax hike vote this summer. another from our enlightened legislature. Please tell me who are the people that keep voting these idiots in.

Morons who believe the government should provide for you from the cradle to the grave. I was born here and CA has gone straight down the toilet. Garbage everywhere, graffiti, seriously overgrown vegetation all over the freeways, accident debris that is just left on the freeways- bumpers, grills, wheels, etc, pot holes that ruin wheels and tires, and homeless POS MF'ers all over with their hands out who poop and pee all over and just pile up their junk on public property. The police and government do absolutely nothing to curtail this criminality which impacts everyone's quality of life. Oh, did I mention this whole sanctuary city and possibly sanctuary state under the moonbeam idiot?

Noticed I had an extra passenger on the pass seat when going to local AZ PCA Porsches and Pancakes this AM... luckily he was dried out and dead! The small ones are worse than the big ones!!!Click to view attachment


BTW- only 2 AC cars at the event- my '73 and a 993...

Hhhmm...not sure that will work,the scale of that gauge face is wrong for starters.
Should be 250k ;
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I think it will work but won't be accurate due to the mph speedo having different gearing.

Hi Midway, how did you locate the correct spot to drill from the outside?
Thanks,
Bill.

Could not have said it better.

Greg W.

Hello Bill,
I took careful measurements of the LHS mirror hole positions and applied them to the RHS and triple checked. I made the assumption that the factory used accurate jigs to position the nuts inside the door skin. They must have! I drilled the first hole with a 2mm drill and tested its position by rubbing a pin upside down in the hole using the head to feel for the threads. Then I used a 4mm drill followed by a small round jewelers file to correct its position before finishing with the correct size drill. You need to control the drill depth carefully so you don't damage the thread. After that I adjusted the previously measured position of the second hole accordingly. I had to be brave

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I fitted the RHS mirror without any drama - was a bit scary though drilling in from the outside but the first pilot hole was only 0.5mm out so all good. Certainly saved stuffing around removing interior door trim Next step for Oz rego is a metric speedo.



Looking great,hope you have more luck finding a metric speedo than I did...took me around 6 months to find one,got one from the US in the end,a few on European ebay sites but very spendy.
Loved Western Australia lived there for over 4 years....great place.
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Thanks mate. I'm hoping a bloke in Perth who runs a Porsche used parts business called Swan Porsche Parts can help with a speedo. He is from Germany, born and bred in Stuttgart so with that pedigree he might be useful.

I wouldn't think the mechanicals would be any different but that is just my logic. The speedometer face says 240 but goes to 250 at the bar just past 240.