Started a new 914 race car build for a local guy. Haven't worked on a 914 for over 3 years so it's kinda exciting. At this point, we've got the chassis down to bare metal, the metal treated, and everything has been de-tabbed. Now, it's time for the cage...

Nope, traditional acid dipping. Then we sanded it down, and treated the entire chassis with some chemicals to kill any sufrace oxidation and prevent any in the future while all of the metal work is being done. Once we are done with fabrication, there will be no need to sand or prep anything. Simply clean, and paint.

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Nice!


Looks like you got a pretty solid chassis to start with. Always a lot less work that way.

How can something so simple be so beautiful?
Where's it headed? HSR? HSR west?

What Body is going on the car? a Sheridan?

Pretty

A thing of beauty that chassis.

Soda blasted?

Any rust anywhere?

What racing venue?

Looks brand new.

wow, looks sharp!

so you took out the center tunnel, and cross brace so it could be acid dipped. Are these pieces going back in?

Also, how'd you deal with the heater hoses in the longs?

Looks brand new.

Looks like the longs may have been cut apart and welded back on.
Is that how you did it?

Zach

The owner of the car runs with HSR primarily from my understanding.

The body work is just fiberglass GT flared fenders and quarters.

The longs were gutted prior to dipping for obvious reasons, and the tunnel will not be going back in.

There is/was some rust up in the front bumper mount areas, and near the bolt plate for the door striker, but it's solid where it matters.

Will you rebuild/replace the doorjambs with steel or fiberglass?

Door jams will be rebuilt in steel.

Nice work!

what shop is this out of?
really nice work

Planning a cable shifter I take it then?

Neat project.

move this to the Paddock and drive some more "racer" traffic over there

Been so busy with other projects, forgot to update this. Here are some pictures from last week. It's been REALLY humid lately so it's been a constant battle against surface rust with all of the bare metal...

Those are some seriously gorgeous welds.

SWEET!

Those welds were done by an artist! Wow!

yummy

Wow. Just Wow. Keep posting. Please.

your stack of pennies welding is very clean. Well done !

Wow indeed.

You get what you pay for.
Beautiful work.

Very nice! Makes me think...

Stunning

The factory would never have done such beautiful fabrication and welds !!

Stunning !

Very nice. Power plant? Did I miss the end of your Boxeru build or is it ongoing?

I'm pretty sure it's going to be a carb'd 2.5 6 cylinder.

The Boxsteru has been done for a few months now. 4 track weekends so far with ABSOLUTELY no problems of any kind. Starting on a pair of street cars now.

Who would of thought you could over pictures of welds? A thing of beauty, keep us updated.

All done (on my end). The customer is going to finish it off from here....

Very very nice...can you post and or pm me the price tag for 'your' portion of this yummy project?
Thanks

Very nice work! Well done.