Very nice! You'll need to let me know if the Euromeister 9's fit with your rear flares. I planned on buying the same rims but am unsure if they'll fit. I see they don't make 8's so it's 7's or 9's.

Gotta say, I'm really impressed with the Restoration Design parts. I've done some hot rod stuff and the repro body panels can leave a lot to be desired, fit wise. Maybe it's the mfg tolerance improvements that came between the '50s and the 70s.
Fitting of the front floor 1/2 is nearly complete so it's time to attach the pedal support bracket. Welding in the inner long stiffener gave me a chance to improve my spot/plug/rosette welding and I'm happy with how this turned out.

Again, probably boring for you but making regular, consistent progress is important to my emotional commitment to these sorts of projects.

Everybody have a safe and happy new year!

Nice find- I guess they're still out there if you're lucky enuf to stumble upon them!

Should be a fun project!

Ready for pick up! Here are your signal housings. Plug and play.

MB

It is FREEZING here in foggy Petaluma, CA so during my holiday break, I'm not getting as much done as I'd hoped. Plus, some more Boxster drive line goodies showed up and I couldn't resist hooking them up and making engine/shifting noises!
And all I could think was "my shifter control can go around corners!".

Let's hope this is the only time these parts will be in this orientation!

And as you've all heard, this trans set up really does go "snick snick", with very little effort. And that's with the shifter just floating around on the floor. It's certainly going to be a little while but man, I can't wait to drive/shift this thing!

Welcome back Chris,

Your not too far from from me. I am just located a few minutes north in Rincon Valley!

What a wonder find you have. I've seen quite a few 914s and this one sure looks well kept for as long as its been sitting.

Cheers friend and maybe some day we can cruise together.

Nemi

Floor fitted and ready for welding. Hope to get to that on New Years Day.
The gaps are smaller than they look as there's a bit of Sharpie ink right at the edge.

I applied weld through primer between all the panels. I'm really after improving my metal working/finishing skills so to make the rosette welds as nice as possible, I wanted to eliminate the spatter I get from the primer. So, I flatted the tip on one of the 7/16 spot weld drill bits and used it to remove the primer from each of the holes.
Hard to tell from the pic but I have nice clean, bare metal for the welds!
Too anal? I don't think so!

Finished my buddy's 911 roll cage and finally got some time on my own car! Completed the rear seam butt weld... well, nearly complete, anyway. One minor gap to close but it's turning out nicely. Seam should all but disappear after the weld is ground. That's the plan anyway...!

Looks good!

Pete

Well, after watching your YouTube floor panel install video about 100 times, I was hoping so!

Seriously though, I can't say how much we all appreciate all the great things Restoration Design has done for our little cars. Great products, great people. What more could a consumer want? Keep up the great work!

Little bit of and the front floor half is in. I'm working to up my welding skills to metal finish on all my butt welds. And even though one side of this will be under sound proofing and carpet and the other side will be undercoated, it was great practice. I'm happy with how it turned out.

Part of the floor repair includes a fix to the tunnel. No idea what the PO was thinking/doing but there were some gaks that I had to fix. I decided that it would be far simpler if I did the repair with the tunnel, or at least part of it, out of the car.
With 1/2 the floor already out, I figured, why not. More welding practice ahead of tackling the flares.
So, here's what I started with. Gotta get better at the entire "before" picture taking. Anyway...Click to view attachment

Next, I had to fab the patch. Different radius on each end of the patch... what to do?
I made a tool! Well, if you call two round things partly in a vice a tool.

rough cut the patch, figure where the radius needs to be and wrap it round the tool to get the desired two radius part.

Ta da. Just like I'd hoped!

Trim, fit, trim, fit, trim, fit... then grind, grind
Almost done.

Great job!

Bummer about the "Club Race at RA"...darn GT-4 Cup!

Tony

Then I decided to get fancy and I broke out the HF hole punch / flange tool and did my best to replicate the indent for the access cover. Not quite to the point that I'll be quitting my day job but I feel like I'm getting there re: the quality level I'm trying to achieve.
Still have a few touch ups but this was it for today.

Nice fab work.

Great job!

As mentioned, I'm working with Rich Johnson on a suspension package and it's almost done. So here's a little suspension porn to start the week!
Raised spindles, Koni yellows. Not pictured are the Boxster calipers. Can't hardly wait!

On the drive train front, I'm getting to know our friend Tony (Cracker) and his experiences with the LS3 and Boxster S transaxles, as well as other V8-in-your-914 info. Tony's a wealth of info and VERY willing to share. Great guy. That's a long way around to:
I'm about to pull the trigger on all the Renegade stuff

And I may end up sourcing my engine from Tony as he may have an LS3 that suits my needs. But I'm still educating myself ahead of making that decision.

Sorry, no pics on this one... yet!

Struts are all done. Almost too pretty to hide under the car! Big thanks to Rich Johnson for all the boingy bits!

Fit the door sills. Learning that I get a better "spot weld" result when I sheet metal screw each hole. Coming along...

Welded, ground and primer on! On to seam sealing.
And I have to say, the Restoration Design parts are so nice to work with. I mock fit the outer rocker and the rivet holes align perfectly with the pre-drilled holes in the sills. So satisfying...

Did I say "on to seam sealer"? Maybe not so fast. After seeing mrfourteen's 74 Sunflower Yellow Build Off car's trunk, I decided that look was for me and it would be "OFF with the seam sealer in the rear trunk.
Again, shoulda taken some before pics. Short story is the factory tech who applied the seam sealer to my car's trunk was particularly enthusiastic in his application! There was A LOT of it and it was uneven, etc. No matter, it's all gone now.

I just hit it with a wire wheel and, other than the "sealer storm" I created (respirator required!), it went pretty quickly.

I may tape all the seams off and apply a tidy layer just at the seams. Still tbd on that.

That is a pretty clean trunk you have there.

Nice work!!!

Another repair of PO hole drilling. There were some odd holes in the frunk bulkhead so I went after it. Whatever had happened, it appeared that there had also been some grinding / thinning of the material because I almost immediately blew holes in the holes! (My God, that's hideous! Look away!)

So, it's time to fab up a patch. Here's a good answer for Jeopardy:
"It" can be used to fabricate a 914 frunk bulkhead patch panel.
The answer is: a 1 x 1 square tube!

It's the exact same radius. Thankfully, I had some laying around.

Time to trim / fit the patch.

then then (insert grinder emoji here) then prime and...
like new! Well, OK, except for that little dent thingy that used to be there.
I think I can live without it. Maybe that will be my signature modification.
Yeah, that's it...

Oh, and I almost forgot: After 28 years, that's right, 28, it's ALIVE!
Did a very minor service and it fired right up! Gotta love the ol' Type IV!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HprL5s4Cgjo

Total Change of plan:
This car will be left stock - or as stock as it can remain, given what I've already done - get completed and be put up for sale.

I'd sell it as is, too, so if interested, PM me. (Hope this doesn't mean I get punted to the "Classified" section...!)

And what of all the goodies I've purchased?
Well, I've just purchased another car (very clean '75 roller) that will serve as the platform for the LS3 conversion. I'll post that in a separate build log.

So this build will move to a 'get it mechanically dialed in, get it painted, put back together and sold!

The fun continues, as always.

I'm interested when it's all put back together!

PM sent - You can pick your color and other details...

That would be sweet! I just don't have a clue how much everything would cost. Most likely out of my range but who knows...

What was the original color anyway?

L 99 A - Delphi Green Metallic

Awesome color!

Wrapping up the front floor half install. Got to the seam sealing and since I'd only replaced 1/2 the floor, I decided to try and duplicate the factory seam sealer. Worst case, I could strip off the sealer on the back half and redo the entire outer seal.
Anyway, I saw that if you apply the sealer and blast it with an air hose, it creates what starts to look a lot like the factory sealer. So, I started practicing.

Then I went after it on the car. I did my current best to try and blend/match. I think it turned out OK.

I may replace all the old stuff, just to make it all really matchy-matchy. We'll see how it all looks after I Wurth Stone Guard the bottom. I'm thinking that will soften some of the sharper peaks I got with the air hose approach.

You may be able to duplicate the look of the seam sealer, but make sure the material you are using is just as durable or you will be inviting rust in. I never thought the seam sealer was that tough until we did the media blasting in the trunk. We would actually have to apply a lot of media to get it off. In the end we left in the areas that we didn't have to remove, but I plan to use the Wurth product even though it's expensive as I know it will not have an issue later.

Thanks for the reminder. Yes, this is a 3M product, urethane, recommended by a local high end auto paint supply place.

Let's finish up the floor, shall we? Found time to wrap up the tunnel repair. I'm happy with the fact that I was able to get the piece to fit exactly as it did before I did the cutting and welding. It was tough to do the repair and get the patch tacked on both ends while ensuring I didn't build a twist into the part of the tunnel I'd removed. Hard to explain but no worries as it all lined right up.

and I have a repaired tunnel! As Edd from Wheeler Dealers would say, "Result!"

I see she's up for sale at a very reasonable price. Good luck!

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/5727406271.html

And....... she's sold! Kind of a sad day but I need the space.

I'm about to start posting the build of the car that replaced this one as the base for the LS/Boxster set up. Lots to come.

and congrats to you Sir! Looking forward to seeing the PDK in there!!!

T