Well got out to the shop today and got a little work done

First off Thank you Chris the for the plastics and coil packs.

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Next up all my safety gear is in also gloves and finger cots, they are really finger condoms.

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Face masks for grinding, cutting, sanding, and wire wheels.

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New welding helmet on the left, one on the right flakes out everyone and then. And it is a Miller unit.

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New Gloves selves, and hat for my I also got a shirt, had leathers apron for a long time.

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Found the piece of metal I was missing.

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it went behind the the table, and into the shield on the sander, no body pieces found.

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Son - in - law came over and welded a bunch of stuff for me, while I mocked up a bunch more to keep him busy.

So back to making progress in the shop it feels good. The Mechanix fabricators gloves are very nice, flexible, and seem to do well so far, been working with larger metal today, no sheet metal, that will come latter.

I really like those face masks!!!

I forgot I had one on yesterday, was working away, and stopped said you idiot where are your glasses. It was then I realized I had the mask on, It was that clear and that comfortable.

Amazon has them here, not bad for a high quality face shield.

Also carry replacement face shields

Grinder shields

And darker ones if you need a shade 5

The Unex Shield fit this Spartan mask

The Jackson safety welding helmet is the best one I have ever had. My son-in-law grabbed it over my Miller after his Miller would not go dark. He said his Miler was not used that much, and he had replaced the lens in it 3 times since he got it. He is a pro welder though, so not long is like years on my helmets.

Finger cots work great, able to slip my hands in and out of the gloves with out issue. keeps the wounded areas clean which is a huge plus.

And I must say it was nice having Cory doing welding, freed me up to work out fabrication details while he was Need to check the welder as last night it shutdown do to over heating. Darn pros are used to welding for long periods of time, he might have killed my hobby Mig Pro. Wife accused us of sabotaging the build by killing the welder so i could get a bigger unit. Idea had not crossed my mind until she mentioned it. Wonder if I can find something with a much greater duty cycle. Maybe I should be hoping it is dead. NO!!!!!! That would take $$$$ away from my tool fund, I was getting ready to pickup a shrinker / stretcher set, and some flare and dimple dies. But if I have to pony up for a new to me Mig I will, I can't live with out a welder or two, or three....... Seems I might have an addiction.

Hi, Im Stephen, Im a weldoholic....

Itll come back I am sure. The boards get hot and they sometimes shut down. Mine did that when a buddy recently borrowed it, was doing a bunch of thick walled welds and it shut off. Cooled it off, put it in the shade and it came right back. Ive done a few welds at my place with it since and it welds like normal. The 110 boxes are just not made for consistant use.

Well that last post for July

Fingers are healing nicely, been out working in the shop trying to get the trailer finished up.

Go see the hand doctor on Tuesday.

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Definitely going to pick one of those up! Thanks for the links!

There's something weird going on this summer because I've been getting at least one text a week from buddies getting fingers lopped short. Oddly enough, they've been mainly cooking related. If you find it at all encouraging, I'll send you a pic of a 90-lb rock-climber girl with a finger that looks like yours doing 2-finger chin-ups... :-)

THAT'S what you caught your fingers in??? SHHEEEESHH man. Keep those super clean! Take care of them like George Costanza the hand model:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxX3-rJoNI


Hey did you see my post on the temp sender gauge? You can put the Speedhut gauge sender in place of the stock temp gauge sender. Makes it SO much easier. If you ordered that aluminum fitting you can use that as your air bleeder like this:

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The upper coolant pipe will probably be your high point like mine, so you can connect it there, or just tap that pipe for a fitting. I just didn't trust my Harbor Freight tap set to make a fresh tap in the aluminum engine pipe.

Chris thank you for information. No hand model for me I like to work to much to worry about keeping my hands pretty.

Update on the fingers, they are getting better every day.

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Looking great, actually it really is looking great.

I have not been doing much work on the 914, I have been working on Dad's trailer.

I have been gathering a few parts. Met white1975 at the Dayton British car day. Some very cool cars in attendance, we also did a trade for some parts.

Set of great Hella Euro turn signal lenses.

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Also picked up a 20mm HH swaybar with some very interesting hardware in a coffee can.

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And now for a depressing and exciting item.

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Yes I purchased a set of Speedhut gauges.

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Yep quad gauge, oil pressure, water temp, fuel and volt.

8K Tach with lights and memory.

160MPH GPS speedo with high beam and turn signal indicators.

I need to get this car together a whole lot more to do on this one.

We this weekend came and went that is not such a bad thing.

My Shereline Mill has been getting a work out.

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I made this tool to release pressure on hydraulic lines. Sometimes the implements will move a bit, and pressurize the line, and you can't get the quick disconnect back together. Easy enough, Lathe, Mill, Welder, and Bandsaw all got a work out. As did the finger eating monster.

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I went over to Scotts, to drop off a tool, and do a quick bushing install, and strut damper install. He got rid of the KYBs


Came back and did some work on my 914, its about time.

First I drilled out spot welds on the floor piece Bruce sent me. Thank you Bruce, very nice piece.

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Then I started cleaning things up a bit. Cleared out the grease and removed a fuel pump mount off the 911 alloy cross bar.

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Then started taking the front rack apart for some R&R

32 mm wrench to big to fit on the turbo tie rods. So whats a guy to do

Make your own!!!

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Works like a champ

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Disassembled

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Note the difference, that bigger gear, makes a huge difference in lock to lock. Hopefully I don't need a ships wheel to turn this thing.

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And did not get to re-assembly because I launched the clip on the end of the gear.

I need to invent high speed garage cameras to track all the little parts that fly around garage.

Oh almost forgot, I restored these body hammers and dollies that I got from a friend that died this year from a brain tumor. He was diagnosed on a Wednesday, and forgot who most of us where by the following week. Was dead two weeks after. Ken you made a huge impact around here, your deeply missed. So in honor, I cleaned up your hammers, I fell privileged to have them.

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I also heard from Chris, some of my parts are in the post Weld on suspension bits should arrive tomorrow. Struts, and trailing arms should be in next week or so. I have a set of JRZ shocks showing up thanks to Bobby. Ordered a set of Koni front Sport inserts, and 22mm torsion bars from Paragon. Thank you Jason He also check to make sure I did not order the wrongs stuff. 914 Koni Sport inserts with 911 splined torsion bars. Top notch service as always from him. I would love to have a set of JRZ front strut inserts, they seem to rare as hens teeth.

My wife seems to be killing car batteries this week. Truck is dead, about to go out and pick one up, get a call, and she killed the one in her EOS. Man she is rough on batteries this week.

Good to see you back on the horse!

Well it has been a long time since I updated this thread. I have been doing many things 914 related except working on my 914

First off I made it to Okteenerfest - 914 less, but had a great time. Roads where great fun, even in a VW Jetta TDI!

I meet some great people and saw some great 914s. My wife was the lucky one and got some great stuff which she promptly handed over for good use.

I spent last weekend meeting Doug and helping to move his 914. it is now getting some work done, and I am glad I could help in a little ay to get the 914 running.

So that brings us to today:

First day of Build Off Challenge 2017 I am in the part Duex group. So if you don't wish to read the whole I'll get you up to speed.

Parts have come in from Chris.

Rear Trailing Arms are converted with 911 e-brakes, stiffened the Chris Foley way. Powder coated, and Elephant Racing Poly Bronze Bushings installed.

Front Spindles have been raised, thus lowering the front. Which then brings us to the top of the strut, where we will find new strut tops. We will have spherical bearings, and camber and caster adjustments.

The rear suspension pickup points will be raised by 2” using one of Chris’ kits installed. He does great work, and glad to have them on my car.

Brakes parts are here, and well they should stop the car.

Lots of work to do on this car to make go again.

GOALS:

Chassis Work and Welding Done. Yes I actually plan to finish welding the car. I calculate another 75 pounds of welding wire will be used. And most likely another 40 pounds of TIG filler.

Install the Engine

Get it running / driving

Finish body metal work

Make it one Color

Drive to Okteenerfest 2017

Here is how the 914 sits as of 7:30 am yesterday: Day One of Part Duex Challenge Build.

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So that is where I begin the second round from.

Now for yesterdays progress October 15th, 2016 Day 1 of Build Off Challenge Part Duex.

First up finished my rebuild of the steering rack.

Had to mill the inside of the housing to accept the Quaife Gears, bolt in affair my .....

Not sure where all the pictures went of the rebuild and boring process

So you get to paint your own based off my description. I disassembled the rack, started the reassembly to find the a Quaife gear hit the housing. It was just to big to physically fit. So my limited arsenal of tools to the rescue. The steering rack housing was to big to go into my Sherline Mill. So I made a Guide on my Lathe. The guide fits into the opening of the housing and allowed me to use my Rotator and my drill press to bore the housing to allow the gear to fit. Times like these I need a Bridgeport! But hey it worked perfectly.

Here is the assembled rack

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And shaft bolts safety wired up. Don't want to loose a steering bolt. Over kill 100% YES

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You may bore I got ride of the steering donut and went direct drive, I did that 20 years ago, after a discussion with Jon Lowe. When you raise the rack with bolt on bump steer kits they can hit on some chassis. Mine was one of them. So return the geometry back closer to normal, I took the spacer out. Never looked back. Just don't put your fingers in the spokes of the wheel, it might hurt.

Rack is done, Quaife installed, Turbo Tie rods installed, standard tie rod ends removed.

Day 1 still, October 15th, 2016

Built the front struts: And my damn Sony camera lost the build shots So here are the finals.

Oh I did find one

This is almost how I got them back, I did a test fit of the Koni to see if I needed any parts.

Last year I sent these off to Chris at Tangerine to get the spindles raised, and have the arms reset, and the Rebel Racing Bump Steer Kit installed.

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Chris' work is stunning

Thrashed on them and this is the final installation: Been a long time coming to get it here.

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Detail shot of the back side.

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Front shot for you all addicted to brake porn

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I would like to thank Chris at CFR and Tangerine Racing it was well worth the wait. And Also the guys at Rebel Racing for making the caliper adapters and the massive rotor.

Other parts not seen in the build.

Brake cooling ducts, with the hub seals to get more of that air down the rotor vanes. 996 calipers. Koni Yellows, custom valved, advantage of being in southern Ohio, I have two Koni rebuilders with 100 miles. These went to the factory. New bearings and seals. They will come back apart for touring and lubing before the final assembly. Need them for other work on the car. Should have done before I removed the old stuff. Hind sight is 20/20

More from October 15th, 2016 It was a pretty good day, but then assembling parts makes for great forward progress. It is the fabrication that slows you down.

So on with the show.

Got my Rear Trailing Arms back from _______________________.

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And the answer is:

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Looks like I am doing an ad for Chris, no I am not paid for these endorsements just a satisfied customer.

Installed the 911 brake parts, this is the picture I took to make sure I could get them re-assembled correctly.

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Notice a part missing.

The spreader bow and springs the one piece that makes the dang thing work. Replacements order, the ones I have will turn up, the minute the post drops the ordered parts onto the door step.

And final assembly:

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Elephant Racing Poly Bronze Bushings
Rebel Racing Caliper Bracket
All of Chris' hard work - yep his arm boxing trick is in there as are the re-enfocing plates, 911 rear brake adapter, bearing covers, etc....
FAG bearing
930 CV compatible stub axle is buried in the arm.

Not sure how I would do this build with out my machine tools. I needed to bore out the shaft hole on the outer arm mount. Mill and bore bar, took off just what I needed for a nice fit.

The Rear Brake mounts needed a spacer, just like 911 brake calipers do, so the Lathe made me a perfect set of four.

You could have gotten all this done with out machine tools. But as I am standing there fitting parts I wonder how I ever got this done with out them. More use than most other tools in my shop now.

That has a small snag going over the shaft on a shock. Lets take a .0001 off and call it a day. i know I am a little OK maybe a lot

Off to the shop for day 2, I would like to get the shell down on 4 wheels so I can make some measurements, and make sure things don't drag the ground, things fit under fenders, and well fenders actually line up with the centers of wheels. Just little details I forgot to check.

Stephen,

Flying start, nice layout of where your at, and moving along well. Good luck on the 2017 Build.

Thank you sir, thank you, hopefully we will both be at Okteenrfest this year with a 914, I know that is my plan.

But then I have a backup plan just to make sure I get there in a 914 with 6 cylinders.

October 16th, 2016 Day 2

Well did not achieve all I wanted but I made great progress.

Finished the other rear trailing arm. 911 rear parking brake is a pain with the hub, but I have it down now.

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I then had a squirrel moment and pulled a Centerline out of storage. Wow it actually would work.

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So now to the front struts, No Way Pal was my thought, and well it doesn't. But it is not far off.

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But this is where the buck stops. don't think you could fit a buck between the caliper and wheel.

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So after the squirrels ran away, I got back to it.

Engine and trans back in for the 51st time, wish I could say it was the last time, but it is not.

Installed the trailing arms

Installed the rear tires and started working on getting the ride height set so I can figure out if I need to dry sump this thing.

Here is how it sits as of tonight.

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This build is way too epically awesome for such tiny pictures. More resolution please.

Did he cut and weld in material to raise the spindle on Boge struts.

Cheers,
Scott

Lets see if this does what you need. Two Birds theory.

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More than likely an over simplification of the idea. I do not have a band saw or a lathe that would cut this either accurately or fit on my lathe bed.

In reality the service price was a bargain for what I got. Once you calculate tooling costs, time, and if I screwed up.

The rear arms where the same way, calculate the one time costs, well worth paying to have them all boxed, welded, and parts installed.

Thank you for the measurements BTW, I will put them to good use

Bigger picture of the rear arms minus all the distracting hardware. Lots of welding and little details.

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While I am capable of this work, I am sure I would have screwed up the arm, and then it would have been rattle caned if painted at all.

looks good you can come down and get mine ready too

Two 914s in front of you, but after that I would ready to help in anyway I possible can.

Beautiful parts, this car is looking sweet.

Thank you

Day 3 October 17th, 2016

Nothing done expect finding parts needed that I have misplaced Or to replace parts that do not work with the other systems installed. That is what happens when your building a custom car. Some thing just don't fit with out and .

I have also started a second project. I don't want to let out of the bag until I know I have it nailed down. But lets just say it will guarantee I make it to Okteenerfest with a 914 in 2017.



I will start a build thread on that car also, I can't wait to reveal the car and the build.

I think you revealed it to me when you asked about an item I had for sale. I didn't realize you had the build waiting in the wings. Congrats.

Yes, I have a build in the wings. I am very excited about the build it has been a very long time coming. And can't wait to dig in to that 914, and bringing it back to life after a very long slumber,

Day 4 of build Oct 18th, 2016.

Struck a deal for a set of seats, like I needed them, but I was really bored in a meeting, and well I could finish a 914 detail.

Been talking to an engine builder outside of Columbus for my engine build for the other project. Looks like it will be a winter project for him also. That will also give me some time to research the shop and make sure it is a place I want to do the engine work. Really want to do it myself, but my wife has been on a kick lately of letting work on my project and outsourcing other items. She is a keeper, but somethings are so cool I hate giving other people the opportunity and the $$$. Ah well I should listen to her, she is wiser than my inner child is when it comes to my time. So that project will startup at the first of the year. I need to start a build thread for that one and thank all the people who have traded me parts to get this going. I also traded some green backs for parts to make it the car I want to drive.

My car nothing physical done yesterday, as I think I am getting sick, I crashed at 6pm last night. Forced myself to stay awake until 9:30 and was up at 2:30 this morning. Extra hour of sleep for me. At the office at 5 am, should get out of here early today and do some work I owe a few people.

And maybe get a few things done on the 914 tonight.

My new horizontal band saw landed yesterday so, I can cut some stock at square and at angles. Accurately , my Portland is great for detail cuts, but making a square cut was not at my skill level with that tool.

I have a couple projects for the new saw tonight. Need to make a couple of spacers for the trans mount. A second tier for my wheel rack, and an engine cart for my EG and trans combo. As the engine will come and go back in more than like a few hundred more times. I would like to build an eying rotisserie also as it would make it a lot easier to fit the exhaust headers.

Hopefully a couple items show up before the weekend so I can get the car down on all four wheels ,and get items measured and set.

Day 5

Good Day Eh!

October the 19th, 2016 if you are counting.

I did two things 914 related.

Paid Mike for some seats

Cleaned out all the trash out of the shop

Oh three, packed up some rear tail lights, and forgot to weigh them

Spent the rest of the night on Honey Dos

I started to lay out my new 914 front sway bar arms. I will snap some pictures as I proceed. My old mount was a NASCAR piece, for some reason them g'ol'boys don't seem to mind the weight of a solid steel arm. It was also a single sheer joint. I will make mine a double sheer in the RSR tradition. Bolt in a hole supporting a hemi joint. Pretty simple stuff.

More productive day than I thought.

Day number 8 October 22nd, 2016

Where has the time gone.

Got up today had about 4 hours to get something done on my 914.

So I unpacked my new small horizontal band saw. It cuts square so it is a keeper.

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I did a bit of cutting, which I can say is much better than doing it on my vertical band saw and the truing it up on my lathe.

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One was the blanks for my transmission mount spacers. I then chucked it in the lathe and trued up the end I had cut on my vertical band saw. Re mounted it into saw, and cut it in half to make the pieces I need. I then drilled them and added some lightening holes to the spacers.

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Parts came in over the past couple of days. Rear parking brake bows are very nice. I also got some spacers so I can get the rear wheels off the trailing arms. And a set of U tabs for moving mine on my arms, I could make them, some times its easier to just purchase the item, it will still need to be modded to work on my car.

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I started working on my front sway bar arms. I got these pieces off the circle track boys. They where heavy as hell. I trimmed them down and added lightening holes to get them down in weight.

This is how I ran it for years.

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And this is what the weighed.

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Remember you have two of these so almost 6 pounds worth of arms.

I am basing my design off the H&H swaybars. Which also is called the RSR style.

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I lay everything out on this plate

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I then will cut them out, weld all 4 together, then drill the holes out, cut out all 4 together, and then run them all through the disc sander to clean them up. Stick a couple of bolts in them and add them weld them to the arm pieces I cut off earlier.

Last thing I did was figure out where to mount the coil pack at.

Super awesome stuff! Love the CFR suspension and your other mods!

However:
I'm in this year's Build-Off, too, and less than 3 weeks in, I can see I'm already falling behind!

As a fellow "competitor", I insist you slow way down and constantly change your design plans so you have to redo everything at least three times.

Thanks in advance.

Think I'd mount it here....,.

It is your so you would know best. Thanks Bob

That being said I have a plan that might occupy that space. That is unless Scott convinces me an exhaust feed snail is the way to go. I flip and flop like a fish, I need to be

Tygaboy, yes I have been over on your thread also, nice stuff going on over there.

Trust me I will redo everything at least three times. That is part of the reason the spacers got made. Did not want to redo the trans mount for the third time.

Back to it, if you think those CFR suspension bits are cool, just wait

Cool you're using that coil setup. I knew I wouldn't so it would just sit in a box. You should have the mount that Bob made if you want to mount it where he had it.

BTW I think my TPS was bad. Only the ugly looking spare didn't bounce around all over the place with the Ohm meter when I tested it. Should help with the idle. I'll let you know in a couple hours!

Now I need to find Bob's mount I hate misplacing stuff.

I did make a nice cardboard mockup of the coil mount back on the trunk wall.

I was going to build it out of 20ga, and be all artsy.

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I transfer markings on cardboard via my trusty Dyekem - a little dab on the point and you can transfer the center of the hole my barely making contact.

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Squared corners mount is made up.

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Now to get the it to fit nicer around the coil. Trick number 2, masking tape and a knife, stretch it across the corner and cut it out. I can careful transfer it to metal. Then file it to fit.

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That is if to the coil mount as, I am not ready to transfer it to metal, it was a quick project while I waited for stuff to cool off.

More work to come, I will update latter tonight.

So I got busy today, you saw the coil mount above, needs a little tweaking and it will be good to go.

I worked on my swaybar arms.

First up drilling all of them. I welded them all together, and started making metal shavings.

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Got them all drilled spent some time working out the details. Here they are all welded up. Looks like I need to still slot one of the arms.

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And I saved a little bit of weight once done.

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This is my swaybar, Nascar Items, with roller bearings that self align. Now binding what so ever.

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Yes it is a huge bar, 30mm to be exact. And nope I don't have an issue with understeer, we will see what the new setup does.

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I installed it and one arm to make sure I could move it through all the locations, and not have the drop links bind. In-order to do this I had to move the U bracket back to the stock location. Yes the drop link is bent, thats what happens when you forget to remove the drop link and it got wedged, then bent.

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All the way up arms hitting bottom of trunk floor.

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Full droop

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There was another post on 914world on how to install swaybars, so I grabbed my H&H bar and built a weld on nut plate for it. I did two of them in 20 minutes. Why spend $60+ for the factory parts Will go into the media blaster before installation on another 914.

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Started working on a new engine cart, the wood one is pain. Always in the way.

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Cut off the old U tabs from the arm, and welded on the new ones. Will need to get these painted.

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And it seemed only fitting to finish up the night of work back in the trunk. I cleaned the bottom of the cut Bruce sent me, dykemed it, and celcoed it to the car. Once I get the engine dropped again, I will take my scribe, mark it, and the then cut outside the lines to allow me to file it to a almost perfect fit.

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Oh and one last thing, we are coming up on November so I though I would grace you all with my finder. Not making some sort of commit here, just showing how it is healing.

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Looks almost normal. Nail still growing out, it has come a long way from being gone.

This angle you can tell how well I screwed it up.

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I am grateful everyday that it turned out as well as it has. Could have been so much worse, I am one lucky SOB. And so glad I went to an ER that was trained to do hand reconstruction. I have full feeling in that finger, matter of fact I can feel a bone spur in it. But then again, it could have just as easily been gone.

Family had other plans last night so that gave me some spare time in the garage. Whats a guy to do.

Well first things first finish a couple of other projects.

Engine stand finished welding up the last caster mount and mounted these casters.

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Next up cut the swaybar arm I did not finish last week.

Next I got to work on a new project. Needed to figure out where and how the cables are going to go, so I followed an epic build "Jeff Hail's Bring Out the Dead thread, and so kindly lifted this idea out of it.

So first up the frame:

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Next up these little beauties.

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Made the with my two most used tools in the workshop now.

Horizontal band saw

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And my Sherline Metal Lathe

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This is the parking brake handle I used out of an 90-98 964. Has a flat bottom. Early 911 will also work, and be more traditional. That later 911 and Boxster stuff will work, but requires a more complicated mount.

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Today

I milled down one side of the cable stops, welded everything up, and it works, Here is where and how I am installing it in my 914. I will need to add some pieces to bolt it to the tunnel.

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I then switched gears and un wrapped the unknown seats I purchased. They are Cobra RS's very nice.

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Had to toss one in the car and see how well they fit you know for testing purposes.

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Not bad I think I can make these work. So I sat in it. My shoulders are way above the top of the seat. Matter of fact they are above the top of the head rest.

Well I guess I will be selling these cheap.

Onto more pressing things getting the car done.

When I bolted up the rear arms and mounted the tires, I had an issue with the new
CFR bracing that it rubbed the tire.

Okay I got a 3mm and 7mm spacers to try and see if I could make it work. At full droop. It works with the 7mm spacer added. Roll the arm up with weight on it, and the tire still rubs, just barely but rubs.

So looks like I will be modifying my new part.

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Speaking of modifying CFR parts, well I just had to Chris' stuff is so nice, but I just could not help myself.

Added a Toe Link to the outer pivots and cut Chris' off.

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I also machined my rear brake caliper spacers.

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I then took the arms back off, and finished installing the 911 paring brake bows and springs.

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Next up tried to install the front struts so I could get some measurements done, and ran into a ton of problems. Looks like the powder coater did not seal the ball joint hole and added a few 1000thds of powder to the surface, making it not fit.

Scraped it out, and then wire brushed it.

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Plumbing tools to the rescue.

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3/4" wire brush worked wonders.

This is the area I will need to modify on the CFR trailing arms. So nice an purdy but you can see the rubbing all ready.

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I then started measure up the rear suspension ears and getting ready to some stuff. And found that my ears are off Well I guess now there is no looking back, I need to finish measuring the chassis, make sure it is still square and I did not twist it at some point. I had one off track excursion a while back, and hit a drain culvert. No apparent damage, and the car always aligned just fine. One of the ears is off, not sure which one, but it is. At least according to my rear suspension fixture.

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Finished off the day with some panel fitting in the rear trunk, and did not take a picture of it, but then it is not done.

Tomorrow I will check my measurements, and then grab the and see whats up. Seems like somebody really wants me to move the rear suspension points. Maybe it is Chris' way of hexing me for modifying his nice shine parts.

I also need to spend some time with some cardboard, tape, and a measuring tool. I have an more than likely it will not work. I m really hoping it does.

CFR trailing arms, center mount ebrakes, changing suspension points... you and I share the same great ideas!

I am watching closely and plan to steal shamelessly! Keep up the great work!

Looks like you are making up for lost time!

Nope that time is lost, this is just my normal pace on anything I focus on.

Yesterday.

Where the heck did I put the scribe, which lead to me cleaning the shop, which lead to me finding the scribe and which lead to me thinking I need to purchase more scribes!!

All the metal lost from the work on Friday and Saturday. Always make you feel good to have a pan full of shavings.

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I then got to work on the rear trunk fill section. I got part of it to level out, then tack, hammer, grind, tack, hammer, grind, tack, hammer, grind, etc.... Welder was running like crap. Would barely do anything, checked everything over and found a loose ground. Good I thought I found the issue, move on. Then I started back in, still welding like crap. I have gas, so that is not the issue. It is HTP easy grind wire, in a 0,23" diameter. More than likely become filler rod for my TIG, as the stuff just seems to suck. It does grind rather easily, and cleans up well. And to make it all worse when it does start to run correctly, it will break and the feed will ball it up in the machine.

This is how far I got, with it.

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And then I ran out of CO2 /Argon I think I will switch to all Argon tanks, and keep 3 of them around, one on each welder one spare. At least until I finish this project.

Panel fits really tight , I just need to push the upper section into place. I just wedge a 2x2 under the one section, get it just right and

So I have been dreading working on the pedal. All sorts of variables going on, and I keep procrastinating the build. I started with a mockup, but then tossed it away, and just went to metal. Chemdyed it up, and started marking things. A cut here a whole there, a few more cuts and this is what I ended up with.

Need to make a reinforcement piece to reduce flex under the floor board, and also to accept the front suspension arm bolt at the rear location.

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I then started woking the back side, and made a piece to cover the M/C and keep them tidy. I still need to make the two side pieces. This will unbolt to gain access the the MC's just incase you need to RR one of them.

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After that I worked on the cooling system placement of items.

I would love to see the front trunk, but can't figure out an easy way to do that. There is room for a 14x12 RAD behind the light buckets into the fender, if you made it 14 x 14 the tubes could be in the trunk area, making it easier to hook up Both sides would have a larger cooling capacity than my current griffen, so that is doable That leads you to no 14x14 rads unless you get the custom made. And that equals $$$$

So long of the short, I still have not quite decided how to mount the rad. I do know that it will most likely change several times before I get the final pieces done.

Stephen,
That tire rub spot on the trailing arm reinforcement can be mitigated by carefully "denting" the reinforcement with a hammer.

Your sway bar setup looks familiar!
Yours however is finished while mine has been unfinished for 10 years...

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Your progress makes me jealous!!!

Oh thank you Chris, it is

Andrew, I can't remember when I did the swaybar. I have run it for a long long time, and it works great, the bearings actually make it hard to setup the bar, as it rotates all the time. Once it is done, smooth as butter. But then great minds think alike

Tonight I messed around with the placement of items.

I followed Scott's lead with PORSTI and got a 15 gall tank for the front trunk. Also figured out my rad venting through the hood. Will be filling in the side discharges. Might add a tube to feed my brakes cool air.

I was then working on a way to get some front trunk space. Finally gave up on that idea, just to much stuff going back into the car, and the fuel tank area will be filled with fluid canisters, Heat and AC comments, and a battery. I might have enough room for a cooler up there, that would be nice. Or maybe a spot for a small tool box spare parts for road trips.

Lots of space in there, but just don't feel like building custom box sections and the like. Who knows, I might get there still, right now I have 6 months to get this thing on the road to make a goal I have.

I also put the Career seats back into the car, and a stock seat. there is 3/4" different. with the stock top I fit, with 3/4" head room. So my head scrapes with the Carrera seats.

But if I put the 944 roof, I have room And I even fit with my helmet on if I open the sun roof, which I planned on doing anyway to vent cabin pressure. So Woo Hoo!!!!!

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Now I have to do the 944, Also have to tell a buyer I changed my mind and eat crow.

Well another weekend come and gone.

I spent most of the weekend working on winterizing equipment, and doing some brake work on our work truck. 209,000+ miles the backers are toast, and had to order some new ones to get the truck back on the road.

But while I had down time, I got some stuff done on the 914.

Started working on the front, as well it is what was accessible. So I wanted to finalize the front rad opening and made more questions that I started with.

Prepped the front spoiler, man this thing does not fit well. But I got it close, will be opening up the front sheetmetal. I will make a transition piece to funnel air into the rad space. The spoiler lip will sit over the top of it.

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I am not trying to decide if I open up the bumper. It would only be up an inch, but would make an interesting transition. So I think it will happen.

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With that setup done and decision made, I moved onto the rad mount mockup and decisions on how I am going to mount all this stuff. I used the stock Subaru rad mounts.

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These will be threaded for the bolts and welded onto the chassis.

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I then jumped in with both feet, and cut a shock tower out. Why the Hell Would you do that

To install these

Another item from Mr. Foley and Tangerine Racing. Camber boxes, it fixes my nice camber and caster enhancements. I used a big hammer, powered by air, and a cut off wheel.

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I don't have access to the other side, so I jumped to the last thing for the day.

I removed some of my swaybar re-enfoecments, so I could add a section around cut out to re-enforce that area. So lots of grinding and cutting to get a 1" strip out so I can just weld in another piece of 16 gauge.

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