http://www.autoatlanta.com/Porsche-650-Pie...9147076KIT.html

Is this worth buying from Auto Atlanta? I have never purchased from them. I will be putting my car back together after completely stripping it for paint.

Thanks

I would like to know too if this is worth it! It will be nice to have all those hardware nice and clean.

Looks like a complete kit for the interior , rockers and valances. Can you get it elsewhere?

Would be nice to include sail trim hardware too!

Probably a 200% profit item for George, but he did the work to put it together. I can't take that away from him. However, for that price, it should be absolutely factory correct.

He is known for a lot of things, but producing the highest quality product for a fair price is not one of them.

If you don.t mind waiting months to get it.

They are on Ebay too. Probably the same guy

http://www.autoatlanta.com/Porsche-650-Pie...9147076KIT.html

Ebay seller - Lionel_Atlanta

Maybe if I buy it off ebay I won't have to wait 6 months??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Porsche-914-914-6-...THy&vxp=mtr

I will guarantee you that the plating will not be the correct color.
If that doesn't bother you....then buy it.
You'll pay more than you need to as well.

Well, I just bought one off ebay. I think it is worth having nice new hardware. Better than trying to put this together myself.

I'm not one of his fans, in fact do my best to steer clear of him, and I have no doubt that they're not always correct though I bought the three box set and I was very happy to have the kit as I stripped the car down to bare metal and as I put it all back together it was so nice to just look up which screw, nut, or washers I wanted for the entire car inside, bumpers, lights everything for me it was a big Plus to not have to run around looking for the correct little nut, screw or washer. Must keep in mind my car was ment to be for me or to me a very nice driver, not a concourse showpiece, I've had concourse showpiece cars before and I'm afraid to take them anywhere let alone drive the piss out of them so for me is a big plus.
Oh just in case as I replaced each pice I saved the old one in its place back into the box, a true hoarder I guess!

Probably all Harbor Freight made in China fasteners...

Bdstone aka Bruce has all that stuff and it is replated original or German quality new.

I steer clear of Auto Atlanta for reasons I won't elaborate on.

Download the PET from Porsche and you'll be able to buy the fasteners yourself for much less.

I've wondered about this too. What is the PET and does it list every nut/bolt/washer/screw and where they go?

Yup. You have to learn how to read it, but it's got all the info you want.

http://www.porsche.com/usa/accessoriesands...partscatalogue/

Mark
I can't seem to down load the PET on th elink.
Brian

I don't buy anything from AA.

I bought (correction: I paid for) a thermostat from AA for my 914. After 3 months the part was not delivered so I called them and canceled my order.

http://www.porsche.com/all/media/pdf/origi...USA_KATALOG.pdf

I bought two for customer car restorations.
They were very good, although not perfect.
All made by Winzer if I'm not mistaken, and well worth the price IMO.
I would not want to put in the time required to identify all those parts and find good sources for the limited quantity required.

I bought the set as well- definitely not junk. My car is not meant to be concourse, so I'm not certain if every piece is exactly correct and I don't really care. It is very high quality hardware though.

Maybe I could have been able to buy every piece individually for less, but it has been extremely nice to just reach for these boxes and have brand new, high quality hardware right at my fingertips.

Also for what it's worth, it was shipped to me in a matter of days.

Thanks for all the responses. I too am not building a concourse car so not concerned about originality.

You will have to do more work, but BelMetric has high quality fasteners and is a well known source here in the Northeast for Porsche and other German car dealerships and service centers.

I highly recommend.

650 pieces for $150. Averages $0.23 each, which isn't too bad considering the time it would take to piece it all together and label it yourself.

Makes perfect sense to buy this package if the hardware is of good (good enough) quality AND you are simply restoring a car for a driver. Even though it would pain me to buy stuff from AA, I'd do it given the recommendation from a couple others above.

I've been saving all my parts as I take my 1974 down to a chassis, but for $150 to have all brand new hardware....no way I could do it for cheaper.

I think I'll get one just for the convenience of having everything in one spot. Granted I could get the hardware cheaper piece by piece. But the issue is not every hardware supplier has every type of screw. I started looking at my hardware needs a couple weeks. The bolts and nuts aren't issue, everyone carry's those. The screws are a different story.

Chris, do you remember which items were missing from the PET. Maybe George could add them ?

Forgot to add. I too have had issues with AA. But then I've had issues with almost every supplier we have. But being a retailer for 30 years maybe I'm a little more lenient.
High volume one man operations have thier own set of issues........ OLD RD comes to mind. Then large operations with multiple employees have another. Then poor Mark (914Rubber), he gets beat up all the time. Not only was the business a hobby to start with. But he too has begun to evolve with addition of his brother. He's trying to create new parts as fast a financially feasible.

it would take someone MANY MANY hours and days to round it all up. rounding up the right stuff takes longer than the work

No recollection on that.

The kit contains 72 unique hardware items, covering at least 110 line items in the 914 PET.

I use a ton of vendors who are talked about on this forums and as with all things I have found most of them are good solid suppliers who want to do the right thing. With that in mind I use AA and have found them to fall into this group also.

My car probably never had the right parts to begin with. Even so, Scotty b bagged and tagged the nuts and bolts. I lost half of them moving them back to my house. I ordered the kit from (hurts to write this) aa. Wish it could have been 914rubber. We have a guy at our shop we call "Heisenberg". Maybe I'll make him go through PET and pick out all the nuts and bolts in stainless and make kits.

"Download the PET from Porsche and you'll be able to buy the fasteners yourself for much less."

Sourcing them from Porsche would easily be 2-3x more than what George is asking. The other issue is, most of the nuts and bolts have been superseded several times over. The likely hood of getting the same finish, or stamped bolt as what came on your car from the factory is slim. Some of the "original" hardware is still inventory, but a lot isn't. I went thought that when I lightly restored the Bahia red 914 I had, roughly 6+ years ago.

Wurth USA also has a good selection of metric hardware. But again, will be more expensive to put together.

Replating like Bruce does is a very good option if the hardware isn't too pitted. I recall his parts being very reasonably priced.

The finish from different vendors can vary by quite a bit. So, keep that in mind if your looking to achieve proper factory look. Some are too muted in finish, others are too iridescent. Ran into that issue with several platers I tried over the years.

http://www.yellowzincplating.com/default.html Jim does exceptional work. Just be specific on the finish your trying to achieve if you decide to use him. He's usually back logged.

confession time,I only do ebay sales with them its safer that way,yep same guy.

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Will this help you ?

I got the kit today. Every thing is packaged up nice and neat in individual bags. Numbered to a chart. Very easy to read. I pull out a bag. It has 1 bolt. I look it up. Window crank. PH Flat MS M5x8 quantity #1

I don't know about George but I have 2 roll up windows with handles on each of them. Only one bolt is supplied in the kit.

Sigh, I'm going to bed.

1 screw. Hahahahahahahaha. Perhaps they are on back order. Too good too be true. Just when you think it's safe to order. BOOM! Reality....

Funny that the first bag you picked was probably the biggest screw-up in the kit.
I checked and mine were the same way, but thankfully you won't find that to be the case with all the other bags.

Do I ask them to send the screw? Being me, I have to say yes. I just couldn't live with the worlds most complete kit left incomplete.

and George will blame you for the loss of the screw, since AA could not possibly make a mistake. The kit was perfect until you opened it!

His detailed chart only lists one screw. So it's one by his design, not customer mistake.

He will send it all you have to do is pay shipping!

He all ready did.

Georges reply - "Hi Mark, I have already read the chat about this one the world and know that you are setting me up on this. The kit does not come with the extra screw, and it is documented that way.
By the way, with your next order, if you mention it, we will send the screw and if you need some more correct hardware we will send that as well at no charge. We have all of the correct hardware here, and I personally know what goes where and what it should look like (too much of the factory hardware has been superseded Thanks for your purchase George Hussey dr914"
So I just have to buy more stuff from AA to get what should have come in the kit in the first place. No thanks.

He could have just replied to the thread when he was lurking. Nah....then the flood gates open. Or...banked some love by 'we're going to rectify this issue and send you a $.04 screw free of charge'. Nah...too simple. Screw love. Nice try on your feeble attempt at setting him up. Keep up the good work! Don't forget to mention the matter next time you order.

Trust me, there will not be a next time.

That's what they all say. Then....BOOM! ha.

Tried to buy one passenger side GT front flare to replace the factory flare that was damaged in a accident and they flat out refused to sell me just one had to buy a set of 4
Even after I told them I was gong to buy other parts for the repair!

Can we get that in English?

I am still on back order, for a part listed in stock and Original Porsche, well 7 weeks gone by, still not one reply to my emails and calls and I know what will happen if it does ever arrive, in will be a "finally at last, Much needed, the wait is over!" plastic copy, Identical in every way POS that because I trusted the site and was stupid enough to sit waiting, the few other places I could have got it from sold the last ones and whats left is now 4x $$. Send me what you promised or maybe you could refund my money now and apologize for misleading me.

BOOM!