Well this is I guess my start of new progress thread … a slow one…. But progress.
In the beginning, I bought Yellow 1971 914. It looked pretty at 50 feet doing 50. When I took the first test drive, I pulled back in from around the BLOCK and said this car needs to be redone. No sense trying to drive for a summer…

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hmmmmm, what did the PO do? car looks great from that picture

QUOTE (Mueller @ May 31 2005, 06:44 PM)

hmmmmm, what did the PO do? car looks great from that picture

pop riveted access panel

sorry, I havent figured out how to post more then one pic at a time..

oh, that picture...helps if you posted the crappy repair job 1st, LOL

doesn't look too bad, it's repairable by welding, something the PO must not have been able to do....

The brings the question, what's wrong with pop-riveting? It's used on race cars. What's the strength difference between it and spot welding?

I've seen worse... LOL

Good luck with it! Easy repair though...

Watch the fuel lines...

Tom

QUOTE (Neo914 @ May 31 2005, 07:52 PM)

The brings the question, what's wrong with pop-riveting? It's used on race cars. What's the strength difference between it and spot welding?

water trap?

if THAT's the worst your DAPO did, you will be a-ok... easy fix, and obvious... it's those hidden, "WTF is that" fixes that are the pain...

and look at all that rust inside the center tunnel you got "free of charge" when you bought the car!

Andy

thats from a clutch tube repair

just drill the rivits do some prep and weld it in

An interesting "fix"...
Here's some other creative DAPO stuff...