Long trip to Atlanta was cancelled because of hurricane. New destination Red Rocks, so the car came out of trailer for another day of interior work.
We left at 7pm and he still needed carpet and seats. No posts, maybe he got it done.

I went back yesterday afternoon to re engineer the 4 barrel throttle. That's covered in Matt's other thread. http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?s=&...t&p=2526840

Car has a 1pm appointment at Rothsport for a ride height, alignment/counterbalance.

Man, I hope you all got some sleep. But this sure is exciting to watch from this end!

Starting to forget what day it is and my name and... what were we talking about.
A lot has happened in the last 48 hours I worked on a car from most of those hours. In the wee hours of the morning trying to get packed up for the trip to Atlanta with a car that was not running because of linkage issues and still so much still to be done with the car it occurred to me that as much as I wanted to make it there it was not going to happen and it would make a lot more sense to take a running driving car to an event. Red Rocks is a lot closer and I had a blast last year so altered plans with the car back off the trailer I went to work overtime if that's possible. What's over time to 3 o'clock in the morning well I stayed up all night last night working on the car. Yes that's right zombie mechanic. It was a very surreal thing no music playing like I usually have for motivation, no two liter of Mountain Dew just working through the parts sorting things out figuring okay this goes here and seeing something else okay that goes there but I have to do it in this order and spending a buttload of time on that damn window. That is still not done
I always try and keep in mind that things happen for a reason and this is not in sequence for everything that's happened but is too cool not to share. We still have to figure out the alignment ride height and we're still having some brake issues carry in his awesomeness hold a favor at Rothsport Racing and was able to get the guys excited about the project and wanting to help on it. He was able to get me an appointment at 1 p.m. but we still needed some brake components that we're being overnighted from Eric at PMB (thank you, you rock ) so I work on the car up to the point where I get it into the trailer and load only the car and take it out there. Pick up the brake parts and head out. I get there and I'm just overwhelmed with how cool this place is but I'm so freaking tired. Taking a nap for about an hour and a half on the couch in the employee break room. I will not make it back downstairs Jeff gamroth himself is doing the clinic with the guys on the car. Pretty freaking amazing had to share this out of order. As soon as I have the time I will get more sequential build information for you.

This is what my car was surrounded by. Place is truly amazing. Very I don't know how you get any work done at all I'd be drooling all day long. Thank you thank you thank you you are awesome and it goes without saying my project would be nowhere near the caliber it is without your guidance and assistance

Car porn

Well I need to quit screwing around and get back out to the barn and get my stuff for the car packed up so I can get on the road early in the morning 4 Red Rocks after some good sleep

For some reason, this song comes to mind.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_sB6gFenUg

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
We're gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
I'm east bound, just watch ole bandit run

Good luck and God's speed Matt.

They didn't get away too early, but Matt and Shannon are on their way. They were in the Dalles at 7pm. He sounded a little more rested.

East bound and truck n.

Car looks really nice, you guys!!!!

Are you sure this isn't a reality show and we don't realize it??

More like altered reality.
The drive so far had a few thing's of interest. The highway on the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge was closed due to a forest fire. We crossed back on to Oregon in Hood River over a narrow toll bridge that was a white knuckle test of skill with the trailer behind me. I posted a cool timelapse of that drive on Facebook.
Comming out of Boise they was a pretty cool lighting storm.
Going to catch a few zzz's in twin falls and then try and meet up with the group at PMB. Probably going to miss tgem but well see how it goes.

Made it in to Utah and had and engine light come on in the truck and started loosing power. Limped into an auto parts store and pulled the codes. I replaced the Map sensor and the Mass Airflow sensor and reset the codes. Pulled out, still dogging out. Turned around and went to a dealership to have them check it out.

Dealership ran Diagnostics found that the map sensor I just bought from O'Reilly was bad. Put the original one back in it reset all the codes and went and drove it out runs fine now to hook the trailer back up and get the Colorado

Nice Dude...that's great news. Weird for sure.
Hope the rest of your trip is uneventful.
Enjoy this weekend.

Made it to Red Rocks!!

Well we got the car together and running by 9/14. Made it all the way to Red Rocks classic from Oregon and the car was well received by all. As I head back to Oregon I'm going to play all the things that I still need to do the first on the list will be pulling the temporary carburetor off and going to a microsort set up.

While we were at the hotel in Glenwood Springs a German tourist came through the parking lot and was looking at the cars. He really liked everything that was done on this car and I got to talking with him. He also has a 914 in Germany. Turns out he lives in Stuttgart and worked for Porsche for 15 years as an engineer. He wanted pictures with the car and loved the German front license plate.

So now that I have had a chance to make it back in town and get caught up on a few things I'll go ahead and get some of my backlog of postings on this build out of the way. But towards the end it got pretty crazy and a lot of things happened. So the first big thing was the engine. The engine builder got it set up with dual dellorto carbs.
But when we went to start it we still had some Gremlins to work out and he was not able to be there for the initial start.

When we did finally get ready to start the engine we had some very unwanted excitement.
https://youtu.be/K3btzJtjZrs

Thankfully we got the fire out in seconds and there was no damage done to the shop or the car. We were able to get everything secure and get the engine running for breaking it in. Granite for about a half an hour at over 2,000 RPM. At idle it had a mechanical noise we didn't like. So we call the engine builder and had him, come back up to sort it out. At this point we were still trying to get it running for making it to Okteenerfest.

Next morning we pulled the engine. Cary had it out in record time like 32 minutes. And they went to work operating on it trying to figure out what the noise was. They quickly figured out that only one of the flywheel bolts had been tightened. So they went to work operating on it. Given the time we had to try and have the car running he brought a backup option for induction. We pulled off the dellortos and put on his favorite option when running on sand rails. A Corvair face to mix and a large Holley 4-barrel carb.

With the new carburetor setup on I got the engine back in the car and got it tuned https://youtu.be/OIesLy0zvO0

With the new carb setup I still needed to have linkage that would work correctly. Like Cary mentioned earlier in this thread

The ceramic-coated exhaust looks awesome and the car sounds great with the cam and the Triad exhaust

Installed new bushings and shifter ball cup for the side shift transmission.

Installed an out of sight Bluetooth recover/amp 75 watts per channel. Used leftover hushmat to line the speaker pods for Better Sound. Installed a radio delete plate with a strong magnet for holding the phone and put some remaining Dash face vinyl on it to hide it from first glance so you don't notice it at first and it can be removed.

Update 2/6/19 we not carry the out-of-sight Bluetooth units https://900designs-container.zoeysite.com/o...etooth-receiver

Magnet for the phone? That may have some unwanted side-effects. I don't know how it will affect the phone's circuitry and memory, for instance, and a friend of mine found that putting her phone down upside-down on an external phone battery caused it to register a bunch of "phantom taps". She believes it's due to the EMI from the battery.

So use caution when putting phones on large magnets.

--DD

Thanks Dave. The set up I am using involves a metal plate that I placed inside of the case for the phone. So the magnet is attaching to it and not the phone. It is similar to the one I use in my truck and other car for the past year with no problems.

Got the lower dash and vents back on today

Thresholds, inner door seal and carpet strips on.

After mistakenly trying to tune the car at altitude at Red Rocks, we decided to tune it back the way it was at our altitude so it can actually run today. After spending a whole bunch of time we realized that Chinese relays suck the fuel pump wasn't pumping again. Probably the crappy Chinese relay again. So we'll save this for another day.

Lookin good... sweet ride

Thank you

Another (next) day. Relays checked out ok. We're going to build a tester. KISS
The problem was in the female sockets on the relay board. I'd forgot about the wiring cleanup tool I'd bought at Automotion many years ago.
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Used the fan socket for an example.

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But the gremlins returned, now no spark. Super In Law and Matt can dig into that.
Ignition power to the coil. No spark coming out the plug wire. Old School stuff for them to play with.

My multi gauge in my 72 will not stop flashing chair.gif
First thought was that I needed to reset the master cylinder after the breaks were done. I did that - Still flashing

I checked the switch on the emergency brake. I had connected one of the wires for the back pad light to it headbang.gif Fixed that
- Still flashing

I was blowing a fuse for the drivers side signals. After reading posts I thought this could be indicating I had an issue with lights. I tracked down the ground, fixed the problem - Still flashing

I had replaced almost all of the lights in the dash with LEDs. So after reading posts about how the flasher relay works, I swapped these 2 lights and the turn signal lights in the tac back to regular bulbs - Still flashing

Any ideas?

Have an updated in awhile but it's time to get back to work on the car. Had a issue with the paint after trying to get the car done for the Build-Off Challenge and put in a big nasty scratch on the door. Took the car back to the paint shop and Kent was gracious enough take care off all it for me. I had a couple of bubbles that started showing up in the paint as well as my scratch. Turns out they were rust bubbles coming from behind 2 were on the hood so there was some rust happening inside of the space between the inner hood and the support. The other was on the fender where the repair had been made and not properly treated inside the fender well.

Good as new

Back to the Barn again. (Middle Motors) Next up we will be pulling the engine and removing the temporary carbs that we put on it to have the car running for the Build-off deadline.
Mario will be sending me this pile of "Some assembly required"
Micro Squirt
Should get interesting

While Matt's car is here for The Dub Shop MegaSquirt install. We'll tidy up a couple loose ends so it will be ready to roll when the MegaSquirt is dialed in.
1st. order of business is tidying up a couple wiring gremlins theft from the build off.
Left turn signals and the parking brake light had issues. With Spoke's assistance we got those cleared up. Took a bit but every thing is working. Matt is getting a new front turn signal bucket from Bruce.
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2nd item. A tiny fuel drip from the gas tank.
I found a couple left overs on the large outlet pipe. The rim of an old fuel sock and what was left of a brass washer.
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New nuts and brass seals installed . I've been doing a static test for 2 days. Dry as a bone so far.
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3rd. Item. Four of the 6mm threaded weld nuts on the longs that bolt up the outer rocker panels had snapped off bolts.
So the snapped off bolts where drilled out and metric nutserts installed.
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While the engine is out for the MegaSquirt install. I'll address the oil leaks on the engine rebuild. So for it looks like push rod seals and valve cover gaskets.
On my rebuild I used Permatex Teflon Sealant on the o -rings and I'm leak free. But I"ll go with the latest and greatest Best Practice. Dow 55.
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Engines on the table and ready for the MegaSquirt install. This is going to be fun .............
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Time for Matt's 72 914 to enter the 21st Century. I'm beginning the install of
MicroSquirt V3.
Verify #1 TDC

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Replaced the old Alternator wiring harness with a new one with new grommets.

Mounted the trigger wheel and crank position sensor to get things started.
But now, off to the oil leaks.

Needless to say the valve cover gaskets were leaking.
Primary leaks are from the push rod tubes. I'll tackle the left first.
Off come the rocker arms ....................
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Found a couple issues. Engine has maybe an hour of total run time.
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Had trouble pulling out #2 intake tube ..............
Had the same trouble putting in the #2 intake tube. The other 3 snapped right in. Then gave them a 180 degree twist.
We'll take it back out after the right side is done.
Like I've mentioned in other threads I've always used Jake's original Permatex Teflon thread sealant with no leaks. Old school guys just use engine oil. I'm not that lucky.
And I hate the old cliche air cooled engines are supposed to leak. So I'm trying DOW 55 seal lube. Looks like cold cream.

Going to be a very fast month. Get Matt ready for Route 66 and preparing the Rothsport rally cars for the Mexican 1000. Plus a Hummer service support truck, Dakar style this time. Leaving for Baja the morning of the 18th of April. The race is on ....

Nice work.

Noisy TOP SECRET day at MiddleMotors. Took the day off from Rothsport to get all the distractions out of the way.
#1 . Mounted the XL wiring diagrams onto the foam boards.
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#2 . Then all the noisy stuff is cleaning parts and hardware getting ready for plating.
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Taylor showed up around 1pm to make more racket in the other room. LOL.