What aux cable did you use? I need one for my old radio too.

BTW the radio and gauges are clues to how nice this car will be when complete.

Hi Jeff- The other 914 gauges I have show it "oil" so that is what I went with. Now if we were in Germany.......and it was the 5th Wednesday of the month......

Nathan - Thanks for the compliment. Here is the link to the radio repair shop that did the work. I think the cord to stream from my iPhone was about $70 or so. The radio went straight to Scotty so I can't even go look at it and tell you who made the cord. https://plus.google.com/1093800453918053714...gl=us&hl=en

What was the final decision on the color (not to restart that debate)? I thought about this thread today. I finally got a chance to get under a '71 I bought a while back (pretty rough; almost a parts car). I thought it was Bahia red, but it was a repaint. It appears to actually have been gold metallic originally. Very cool color.

I'll tell you for a $100. LOL

Sorry. I just couldn't find what you decided in the thread. You should paint it whatever color you like. It has been a long road and it is a great build. Enjoy it.

So here is my steering wheel via Dallas Customs. Great service and quick turn-around time. Double wrapped the rim and single=wrapped the spokes. Thankfully, Mark (mepstein) reminded me about not double wrapping the spokes - thanks for looking out for me bud.
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Dang.... that's a nice wheel. How much to get that done?

horn pad or hockey puck?

Hey Rob - it was a bit steep, $449. But in my defense, your hands are on it overtime you get in the car and I really like their work .

Mark - horn pad unless I hit the lottery and can afford a puck sometime in the future.

Its not that much if you've ever picked up a needle and thread and tried to do it yourself. Well, actually 2 needles and thread at the same time. Dallas does great work and like cairo said, you look at and touch the wheel 99% of the time while your in the car.

Scotty is going to be getting back on this project next week and we should see some serious progress.

Quick update - Tweet (Dan) got my locks all disassembled, cleaned up and ready to go off to the chromer for some triple chroming.

easing back into Michaels car as things start to smooth out. I have a 911 and BMW just about ready for paint and once they are done, Michael and Marks 914's are the main focus for me

The only real damage was the minor butt dent in the rear trunk, and a small spot on the underside of the hood

Looks great. That car is going to be amazing.

My 911 or someone else's?

Great pictures.

Nice to get some good body news for a change. We went through a bit of rust and damaged panel issues on my car. Glad that appears to be all behind us now.

I look forward to seeing my chassis all in primer.

Thanks for posting up the new pictures Scotty.

Looking good!! Its really coming along

73 S

Check Pel E can

Glad that one is moving along!

Scotty - Please post up the link on the Pelican car. I could not find it. Then again, I am terrible at searches - go figure.....

I really enjoy seeing these cars getting their color.

Just search under member name Scotty b - posts in the last month, in the advanced search field

you can do the same in earlysreg to see his other builds

Thanks Mark. I found the 3 page thread that concludes with the welding of a lot of nice new metal. But the car is no where near paint. Is there another thread I am missing? I was expecting to see it all primed, blocked and ready for color.

Scott was referring to my car ('72 T) in that thread.

The 911 he is ready to paint is a rare '73 911S. Don't know where those pictures are...maybe early S registry?

OK I will give the S Registry a peak. Thanks Bill

Great work, as always Scotty.

the thread on the S hasn't been updated in a while. It has been a long process of blocking re-priming etc so not much picture wise. I'm down to fitting panels with gaskets installed, getting gaps right, fitting lights with gaskets, bumpers, sand and paint dash, touch up the trunk where some sand blew out of a crevice when it got painted, in preparation to do a final wet sanding and paint in the next 2 weeks ( hopefully ) Basically a LOT of monotonous crap going on with it right now

Is it turning gold yet?

I believe we could be getting close.....

New to the Forum (at least posting on 914W).

Still taking solicitations on the color choice, by chance?

I'd like to offer a compromise on the Gold Metallica, which BTW would look great with matching BBS E50's.

Maybe a nice 1970 Green Metallic (L97P). Since you noted Irish Green, adding a bit of metal flake wouldn't be too much of a stretch.

Welcome and the metallic green is a terrific color. And would be one of the top color choices for sure. I love Adriatic Blue and had my Six come that color there would be no questions about color.

When I find a way to end my originality fetish.

My next ride will be Lilac.

I'm still dealing with the backlog, and some issues my former employee left so it's been an hour here and there on Michaels until these other issues are sorted. Engine tin is all repaired and modded and waiting on the powder coater, heater boxes were a PITA. The metal used for the shell was thin to begin with, and being rusted on the inside, it kept blowing through as I was welding.

We got some chrome back

Impressive!

I'm missing a few pics, they may be on my shop camera. Nothing major, just the finished work on the engine tin and the underside of the trunk finished up. If I find them I'll add them.

Nice work on those H.E.'s!

Terrific job on the heat exchangers - they look great!
Thanks for posting some pictures it keeps me going.

Why save those rusty headers?

Isn't there a better option?

Not really. It's this, or stock sized tubing ones for 3000.00 + until someone makes O.E. style with oversized tubing for larger engines. We're just saving these to use until that happens

I saw them in person and I sure wouldn't mind owning them once Scotty got done with them. All the rust repair on these cars sort of looks like crap until it doesn't. Then it looks nice again.

Hi Mike- If I could order a set of new heat exchangers with bigger tubes for the 3.2 I would. Until tat is an option I saw no reason to drop $3K+ on the exact same thing I already have, albeit brand new. Scotty will make these look great, no leaks and then they get ceramic coated -hopefully.

What an awesome build! Cairo, I'm in Petaluma and gotta meet you at some point.
Scotty - u da man, man!

Hi,

I just asked Per at Stoddards this only yesterday and he advised that 'We are considering the larger ones, but need to sell through the smaller ones first.' Make of that what you will. I live in the UK so have no option but to have heat exchangers ! Might buy a OEM set and convert with 1 5/8" pipes which seems the way to go for a 3.2 engine.

good luck with the build !

Chris.

Yeah, I spoke with Stoddards too when they first announced the NOS heat exchangers and they told me the same thing. What I took from that was in a couple years they might make some bigger tube heat exchangers.

It is my hope that my car will have long since been in my garage with me going for weekly drives.

Hi Tygaboy - Thanks so much. It is my sincere hope that Scotty documenting this build to this level will allow others to fully appreciate the issues these cars can present when you start to work on them.

Keep in mind, aside from a dragging brake caliper in the r/f, I drove this car when I bough it and it looked pretty decent.

It seems we get a few of these projects which stall and are abandoned when the real depth of the work required rears its ugly head. I just want people to go into these cars/projects with their eyes wide open so their expectations are realistic.

I love my Six and will keep it until I can no longer drive. Then, if my son is a responsible car person, he can have it. If he is not interested, I would make sure it went to a true Six lover so others can appreciate these beauties for decades to come.

I can't begin to count how many times I have had people tell me

" you'll love doing this car, it doesn't have any rust"


I have YET to get into one of them and not find any issues. The 356-C coupe I did a couple years ago was the biggest surprise as it truly did not have ANY rust. Other than that, I have taken in cars that were running driving mid west cars with no signs of rust, garage kept east coast cars, 2 California cars only to start stripping them and find holes filled with bondo, fiberglass, or in the case of Michaels car, severe accident damage. One 911 we did a couple years ago had all of this,and the chassis was twisted, and this guy was the 3rd owner....his brother was the second. He was one of the ones that told me the car was a gem, just needed a little work on one rear 1/4 that had been hit previously. I have had several that had been wrecked early on in life and repaired at the standards of that day. ( Michales and Marks cars both were ) Now, multiply that one cars issues by 5-6 cars and you end up with one hell of a headache to deal with.

I make sure I post some of the worst stuff I run across just for the very reason Cairo mentioned. I know people get into this kind of restoration with big eyes and big hearts until the reality hits, because they rarely see the true ugliness that CAN lie beneath the paint. It's near impossible to tell a lot of the time exactly what condition a car is in until it has been stripped. I have been fooled by several customers cars, and have also made 2 bad purchases of my own based on buying on emotion, and not digging deep before handing over the $$$. There are at least 3 members here that have shown up with what they thought were solid cars, and right in front of them I tore out fiberglass that was covering holes, bondo'd and painted. Roofing tar over shitty longs with paint on top of it. The '1987 911 that had a piece of spring steel welded between the 2 A arms to keep the front end " in place " that when I unbolted it, it literally fell out of the car, leaving one of the mounts dangling by a chunk of RTV ( I have pics of that, and the piece of RTV covered floor pan hanging on the wall in the shop.) That guy had been told by another shop he just needed a front end alignment !

If I had taken pics of everyone of the "patches" I've run across, it would make a pretty intertaining book.

I have a 911 in right now that was owned by a Porsche tech, and then another Porsche fan. None of us were aware of the shit that was under the car. We knew the front pan had issues, but had no idea until he undercoating was stripped off that the whole front end was shot. Wrecked, pulled back out, rusted, patched, bondo'd, painted and undercoated.

I even had a 4 year old Toyota pickup come in several years ago from a dealer we did work for that had the frame almost rusted in two. It had gone through an auction house in Pa. The buyer put the car on his lift to change oil and a chunk of bondo came of the frame. Turned out I scraped the under coating off, popped the bondo off, pulled the duct tape off and found the frame so rusted it was flexing I told the dealer to send a rollback, I was NOT going to drive it back


I hope my posts don't discourage anyone from taking a big job, but what I do hope, is that they make people take a better look at their potential project. ALWAYS remember a 300.00 PPI by someone with the knowledge can save you 10's of thousands down the road