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FirstSight this June
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2L not running sideshift
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Ricardo Montalban Smooth
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Some Assembly Required

Looks like a great start.

Thanks.
I've made some progress though I have yet to post the pix.
I went to order another quantity of paint but could not find
the receipt with the mix code.Yesterday went there with
a label from the can,and the guy wasn't there.
"A 914 Story"Starring the 3 Stooges.


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Corvair power eh? Awesome!

Hello all
Thought I'd share some pix
of relevance.

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A snow-hog in a frisky mood
taken this past spring.

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A gearbox for cable
circa '07(my trade)

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At night the painted sky entertains
those who are without tv.

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The First Light
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Dy'er Rev

Hello All.
A discovery in what not do do to your 914.
If you look closely at the last pix you will see the strip
of sticking plaster tape across the rear window.
In a misguided attempt at securing a tarp,a po
has that stuff,now aged,all over the bottom of the rollbar.
Time To Remove:4hrs.A pita totally unneeded as was
the removal of the "undercoating spray".
A few minutes handy work with a can made for a
marathon effort in a spacesuit.
Method.
1:spray "Gunk Brake Cleaner" on 6"x6" area of trunk.
2:before the rapid evaporation,wipe with papertowel.
3:Repeat 1>3.
TTR:22hrs.
The results made it all worth it somehow and I am
pleased to discover it was an attempt at preservation
rather than disguise.I heated then pulled the factory
sealer from the bottom corner to find real steel.

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TaDa.
Much much more to do.>>

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Under the Infrared

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A Fuzzy Photo

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Under the Infrared

Turned some bolts today.
The prognosis not so good.

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LH-65 Frozen on lightly rusted cylinders.
Inspected with borescope,RustBuster
sprayed generously.

RH-64 Turns freely to interference with
heavy carbon deposits.PO had installed
retracted gap race plugs.Plug bores
90% crudded.

Should be easy to pop the heads off those things and clean/inspect/rebuild them. (As your budget and inclination to tinker dictate.) They're pushrod motors, like the Type IV and the Bug motors, so the valve train is not that complex like in the 911 engines.

--DD

Long ago I wrenched a 4spd toploader into my 66 Mustang Coupe,
Gold w Perfect black int.289 2bbl.Circa '73.Even then the car was
a rustout.Floors,rockers,quarters,windowsills ...worse than my '62
Bug.I still have an affinity to the cars,but,for my next act a
914-C6 is IT.
Having some 40yrs of machinery building experience,I will now
endeavour something never tried with the Corvair.It may actually
be as simple as adapting recyclers production parts.Definitely
they will be my prime source.However,a first example must
be produced before any further Talk.
(re to self:A Part on the shelf)

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A little off topic,but I thought one of you who have made the
944/LS conversions jump might like this look.
A bit of work smoothing /fitting here or there could change the "face"
of the downtrodden 924/924T/944/951.The world's tastes have changed
in the 20+ years since they were marketed.

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I may not have the time for this project for a few years.

This am began the removal of heads sequence.

Dose all exposed studnuts with RustBuster.
Allow soak time,24-48 hrs.
Carefully grip case end of stud with modified vise-grip.
Apply torque gradually to squeak.
Apply more RustBuster.
Apply torque gradually to squeak.
Apply more RustBuster.
Apply torque gradually to squeak.
Apply more RustBuster.
Fully release torque on all head studs.
Success!
Only one stud moved in the cases,5 degrees.

Apply RustBuster to cylinder/heads joint to soak into
24-48 hrs.

to be continued...

Some progress

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Irresistable Reflection=6hrs

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All released,still attached.
Hmmm..

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Restoration Design

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To be welded in soon.

Ixnay on easy,on the '64 both head's studnuts are fully released without damage.
The crank cranks freely until interference with dislodged carbon deposits.
All pistons undamaged,bores are free of rust.

Some PO installed these race plugs.
Heavy carbon deposits resulted.

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Fuzzypix
Retracted gap plugs,5of6

Apply more RustBuster,wait till timer tings.

Rick
Well after all this time of lurking about and discovering the unknown realm
of 914W,it's high time to Do.
A timeline resultant is May'14.
Much to do:
Sand entire car exterior.
I started at the rear simply because of the easy access.
We pushed it in forward when we arrived on the flatbed.

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The second T-Lid done on top.

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2K Primed,Ready for some Heat.

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Cooking 2K primer w Ifrared.

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A Dust coat flashing off.

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An early colour experiment.
Navy.

Earlier...

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did the screen,flat black on the lid underneath,
now the lid isn't sitting down level like it was.
Some fiddlin'to do.

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Reflection Test


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Black is Wet

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Still Clean

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Cooking the underside

BTW is there a source for raintrays here?

When those who are about to teen
refer to rust they usually mean holes,yes?

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there is real steel thar.

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Glass out intact=4hrs
No perforations,light surface corrosion
easily repaired.(rust free..ha)

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And In The Light

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Inside TLid part un

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Inside TLid part du

Anyone here with experience with this new and improved efi system?
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http://www.diyefi.org/

or
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http://rusefi.com/

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something to consider.

Both are off-shoots of Megasquirt. Looks like they are backwards compatible.

That is looking lie a real clean 914 chassis you have there. Nice to watch the progress you are making.

Thanks 71-SIX
It was a 5-min inspection of the usual rust sites that made the decision easy.
The amount of work however,is 150% greater than what I first surmised.
It'll be fun to work on a chassis without the dreaded battery shelf corrosion.
A rare find here in the salted GTA.I will be putting in the time and sweat equity to polish a gem.More to come...

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You must be kidding, right?

Both have nothing to do with Megasquirt whatsoever.

Tell us about it then...

In the interest in full disclosure: my only experience with 914 is passing them on the track @ 24 hours of Lemons.

So, megasquirt is a popular commercial product. It works Millions love and hate megasquirt.

FreeEms is an open source project with some history, they have a couple of dozens cars running it.

rusefi is a very young open source project with exactly one car running it, so you can either board this train or wait for another year or so till it would be beta-testable. Oh, and I am the founder of rusefi.

I pass them quite a bit too... and 911's and big V8's and, and, and...

Why not use SDS FI? Easiest I've seen by far. There are two guys running turbo Corvairs with SDS around where I live. It costs more but what's your time worth?
I will be installing it on my built 3.0 soon...

Did you pass 911 @ 24 hours of Lemons? as far as I know, there was only one 911 in Lemons, I wonder if we have met at this race

An OpenSource EFI system is just the right price for this 914 Odyssey.Some tinkering and assembly is necessary,like the plastic AMT models of the early 60's.It'll be fun,It'll be fun,It'll be fun,fiddlin wit the pcb,easy as Pi,Raspberry.

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I have read of some incredible pursuits of gremlins in the EFI threads,of which I want no part.Board level,discrete component errors that may burn a piston seem to be a frustrating time consumer.I do understand that a plugin solution is available at a price,however,this is an experimental trip down "914 Repair" lane.I'm happy that a software guy has made a contribution to the world of fuel injection.The approach is a valid one,with some distinct advantages.

I am not sure this is available. Site history stops in 2010.

Why not just run a MS? by the time you get a board made and assembled you will have more than that cost into it. Besides, you can solder up a kit yourself and then it will fit into your project guidelines.

Carry on with your paint work.

Yeah moving slowly,like molasses in winter.Do-in some Flat 6 work,needed some expert work done by a highly skilled dental surgeon,all good,no paain.
More to come wit pix.

Which site stops in 2010?

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Way to make new friends and market a product!

Got to do some work this week,after a long cold winter.

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Lots of peel to be wetted out,but overall reasonable results.
I can even see the clouds in the reflection.

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Baking the flip side,
Spraymax Epoxy 2K primer
http://www.spraymax.de/index.php?id=351&L=1

before the paint,The Horrors of The Rust:

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The other corner before the treatment

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I'm so relieved that the rust I've seen is so light,knowing full well it could be so much worse.

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Glamour 2K Clear-coat

Sometime in March or April,I couldn't tell which,it was so cold.

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After removing the case bolts,simply lift the top half up carefully.

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Ah, GM 1958.

The crank is good to .0005 on all the journals but the finish is scored from the oil supplied debris.Must be polished(Superfinishing).

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Crud pounded Main Thrust bearing.

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Most of which is to be discarded.
The cases look to be in good shape,other than the cam journal surfaces.
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Some work to be done..more later.

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A new reflection,and an enormous labour intensive effort to get right.
Must be buffed.
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The fitting caused a ding on the ribbing to be repaired soon(figures).
Next up,everything else on the list.

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I had decided to prep the worst of the 2 targas for a smooth finish.
Taking the stippled factory coating down to the underlaying grp.
After carefully reducing the gutter area to an unoxidized/uv damaged layer I used
T88 aero epoxy to impregnate and seal the surface for a durable coating.
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http://www.noahsmarine.com/
for your epoxy/fillers source
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http://www.noahsmarine.com/
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Fully prepped,T88 epoxy sealed,Zmax epoxy primered.
Optical finish,meaning the resolution of the mean waviness.
Ready for basecoat/clearcoat/buffing.

AND ???

Wow, he does own a real 914

What happened to the EFI guy?

According to their wiki page, they have 16 installs now!

I'll stick with MS

On a budget?

Gotech MFI out of South Africa $500 US, delivered, pro built, complete with basic harness.
Website is real basic, but they have a facebook page.

We've added three Miatas and a 2JZ-GTE in June, so it's 22 now - http://rusefi.com/wiki/index.php?title=Manual:Current_Status

racing debut video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xz66oR95F8

Yes I have one of these sitting in my shop, very basic, nothing fancy, I should drop it in the classifieds as I am not going to use it in my build.