I added a counter at the top of the page for WCR. It's time for you to go sign up. No excuses. I want to see all 14,432 people there this year.

I am only waiting until my boss actually approves my time off request.
I have a room reserved and my wife has the time off but my boss is a little slow with the paperwork

Jim

Dream big or go home!

I just got new tires and the 914 is running great!
But, I'll be working, in Costa Rica, during those first two weeks of June
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Have fun!

I'm glad I got my hotel reservation in a long time ago. . .

So McMark is the new brewmaster......... Who wants to sample?

I've been waiting to see if my wife was going to make it.......not going to happen, we have one litter of pups due the 12th, and another due the 18th...she's not going anywhere.

Lucky for me I don't have a problem leaving her behind.
Even found someone more into 914s to go with me.

Everyone meet Laney, my work dog.....looks like she's going to WCR.

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Laney was wondering if there will be any T shirts her size, she doesn't want to wear the same thing all weekend.

See you there

Jeff

Is that counter showing how many days till your car is done?

Trying to plan a work day for Thursday. . Would have done it on Sunday if Jeff and Jim hadn't been 'bothering' me.

Show us!

Two things held me up:

1. I decided not to throw the 2.0 in, and instead will be installing the 1.7 turbo, which I started reassembling.
2. I found a bunch of add-on wiring under the dash. Took me half the day just to pull out part of it, and probably another full day trying to bring the wiring back to stock.

But I did get the door handles working and the locks rekeyed to the same key.

have a good weekend???

Got a few more wires fixed today. I realized the car had a wiring burn at some point and the PO fixed the burned wires not up to my standards. But the good news is that it's not a whole bunch of random rewiring - I just have to replace the PO splices with my splices using OE wires with the correct colors and soldering and heat shrink.


Debating putting the 2.0 in the car to get it drivable, and swap the 1.7Turbo once it's all ready to go. Antsy to drive it now that I got the registration all sorted out and it's road legal.

Well I made a decision.

Shooting for drivable tomorrow.

Ohhh! But ... but ... you can't turbo a 914!

Nice!
That's the spirit......get R done!!!!!!

Jeff

Today - it - ran.

But with the turbo disabled. The oil feed is too large and it was blowing out into the turbo.

The MicroSquirt is all set up and working. Tomorrow I'll braze the oil feed shut and drill it smaller. Time to go research sizes.

Yippee!!!

It's the 22 of May, with 22 days to go.......you know what that means.




















We've only got 22 days to go........what were you thinking.
Better get busy, my cars ready......well kinda.

Jeff

no pics?
Video?

It did not happen.

Rich

Didn't know anyone would want to see a 914 idling. Sounds completely stock...

I just am happy to see you have in running.
Its been a while and you must be excited.

Me, still need proof, but I can wait till WCR with pics to prove you drove it.
You know you need to go down the road more than once before you leave for WCR, right?
There are 50 things you will hear on that first run...

rich

My USB to Serial adapter isn't working right. Ordering a new one so I can tune. Everything is pretty much ready to go.

The motor is in and she's off the jack stands. I just registered.

famous last words.

brakes, bearings, squeaks...lost of squeaks....

Rich