Well after spending lots of $$$ and seeing lots of work coming up, I hope to finally have my car to a respectable point. Should have a decent 2.3 with TBI and Microsquirt. Koni adjustable on all 4 corners. Front and rear anti sway bars. Rear coil overs and 180lb springs. New rotors, wheel bearings front and rear. All new bushings. Adjustable drop links on the front. DIY Autotune hotspark ignition. And lots of 914 rubber goodies.

This is going to be a lot of work! Will try to document it as it progresses.

You're going to love that 2.3....here's mine at Summit Point, turn up the volume!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbss0WamRIQ

Awesome! Hope to do some track time soon. Slowly aquring the kit.

Will be watching with interest and looking forward to your world tour to inspect it up close.

Ha! By your title, and the fact we know each other, I thought I forgot that I scheduled a trip to visit or something.

Cant wait to see your progress! Cool build.

Nope but I still owe you a shirt!

Slow progress but got the engine cleaned up a bit. Gross decon done and ready for detailed cleaning.

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Started cleaning and painting some other parts.

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Clean, paint, add eye candy repeat.

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You learn that there are a lot of parts that can soak up time and money that most will never see.

Oh well looks like some warm weather is coming and I will be able to do some bigger parts.

Clean, paint,............

I just KNEW that Camaro was going to go off course. Looked like he was pushing a little too hard. I was hoping your video was longer so I could see if he was still off course when you came around again. Didn’t look like he did any damage, but maybe just needed a few moments to gather himself.

Plotting evil things takes time. Lots of parts have to come together before I can take over 914 World.

Got some 315 cc injectors courtesy of Five O Motorsports.

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CSP bell crank linkage brings me closer to world domination.

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With these Tarett axels the world will cower at my feet!

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Pay no attention to the kitty butt in the photo. All part of my evil plan.

Overkill?

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Sure but looks great!

Got most of the cleaning done and started mocking up the new fuel system.

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Long way to go before its drive time.

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Looks great.....I know you said it's a 2.3, but can you give any build details, and/or who built it?

I have some of the history of the engine but not the exact builds details. Jansen Enterprise in Belmont CA Did the build.

But has mostly the standard mods swivel foot rockers, 78mm crank, cam, dual spring big valve heads, lightened flywheel, and balanced.

so by the looks of this you gave up on the 2056 with fi??

Nope!its stil there ready to run.

This one is FI as well and should put up some respectable HP numbers. Keeping the 2056 as a back up.

Might be able to keep up with you soon!

Looks like it is going to be an amazing engine.

I know that guy. He does decent work. That engine should be put together correctly. He works on my buddy's drag Ghia T1.

well, maybe , but its about handling and driving skill more than HP!
but seriously i am sure you will kick some but and find some ditches with that set up.
you should come down to robeling road for a pca de day when you gwt it ready!
i am doing the same clean up and refresh of tin and other stuff while my motor is out - i am not gettimg into soing anything with my heads or p&c's right now, just clean up and leaks- i looked closer at your pictures and see the f.i. bits - are you going with a Tangetine header and wxhaust on the new motor too? shod be awesome! there was a Raby built 2.3 with all of Foley's stuff on it last weekend here at our cars and coffee- sounded awesome! he shold be coming to the Okteenerfest in Sept!

That thing looks wicked. I'm guessing it will turn some heads. Interesting components too. Looking forward to seeing video of your maiden voyage.

Wow! Have not shown the 2056 much love or even started it in 2 months. Went out tonight and it started on the first turn of the switch.

It is a good build.

Well making slow progress. Installed fittings in the breather base plates for the intake air temp sensor and,the return from the oil catch can for the head vents.

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Ran a few of the AN lines. I sucked it up and purchased the Kool Tool for putting on the fittings and it takes about 15 seconds to put a fitting on a poorly cut hose and 2 seconds for a clean cut. Well worth the $30 bucks. Not a single bandaid need!

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Started the removal process of the 2056 to go to Germany!

Not too nasty but could use a bit of cleaning!

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Also ripped off the disgusting foil water holding cheap back pad material. Looks like I have some glue removal to do.

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Will start the rear wheel bearing and bushing replacement after I get the engine out.

Nice build there Mike, what size carbs are you going to be running on it? Also, what are you using for headers on it? You can really pump some power out of that build, and it's SO much fun to drive

Progress made!

Engine out and prepped for it’s return to Germany.
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Got all of the tins on the 2.3 cleaned and painted and impeller housing cleaned and installed.

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Got the tranny cleaned and ready.

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Now to start adding all my new suspension parts!

Got the left rear suspension pulled out. No need for hub puller it practically fell out wit the race stuck on.

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Ales a big hole!

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Tomorrow add new rear wheel bearing and install the 914 Rubber SS povit shaft and bushing and tear apart right side.

REALLY a clean and uncluttered look. It will look great when installed. Not so sure you want to leave the FI bodies on when you put it in. The shelve and the control arm shafts/nuts get in the way.

Yes i think we all do it a few times even with stock FI thinking we can shoe horn it in. With no damage. Easier to remove before install for sure.

Wheel bearing did not look too bad if you discount the grit and huge amount of slop in the bearing.

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More progress.

Left rear control arm all clean.

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Rear wheel bearing frozen for over a year went in with no fuss.

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Nice new parts from Bruce to make it all look nice.

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914 Rubber SS shaft and bushings went in super nice and easy.

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All mounted up very nice.

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New rotors added and now to the other side.

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Sweet!

mike are you still with 4 lug, or did you upgrade to 5?
- looks lime four on those new rotors- if so, where did yoy get drilled rotors that fit with stock calipers?

Still 4. Had them done in CA by Performance Brake. About $150 with pads and because they come with lifetime warranty doesn’t matter if the crack or warp.

Got a set for wife’s Boxster as well. Seem to be good stuff.

The can do the 5 lug as well.

Are the bushings Delrin, hard plastic type stuff, or rubber and did you lube the shaft? Does the shaft spin smoothly, with little resistance, in the bushings before assembly?

I assume you are talking about the shaft bushings. Not sure of the material but not soft rubber. Slightly hard plastic. Yes lube on shaft and it turns very smoothly. Once the nuts are tightened up there is more resistance. But super easy install compared to the trauma of putting the rubber ones in.

Fantastic. This will make a huge difference in ride quality and driveability. Resistance adds to the spring rate and this free moving suspension will allow your shocks/springs to do their work.

It all looks clean and well done. Good job.

Rear sway bar test fitted.

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914 Rubber engine bay pad test fitted.

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Just need to install new trans mounts an a few hundred other thing then the engine goes in!

Starting the rewire. Minor changes but upping the spark a bit.

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So much to do

Making progress.

May have overdone the axels. These things are freaking massive.

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Got the engine in today!

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View from the bottom is not too bad.
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More work to come!

Trust me, in hind sight, I wish I would have thought to go w/ upgraded half shafts. I didn't at first and ripped one off the transmission on my first weekend out shake out cruise.

The Kool tool is great. Makes building ss lines super easy. I showed it to Russo and he lamented the last 50 years of doing it by hand.

Reworked some lines today that i struggled with for hours without the Kool Tool. Did them in 10 min today!

Well got all of the hoses run today. Need a couple of fittings to finish it off.

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Next add back in MicroSquirt and start!

I certainly believe if it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing. But compared to these things the stock axels are made of paper. Dont think I will have enough HP to even stress these.

It’s ALIVE!

Well almost. Going through the MicroSquirt set up. Having problems with idle. With the IBT set up and cam, there is not much vacuum at idle. It drops with revs but because it is reading 60 to 70 at idle the ECH seems to be adding more fuel as it is running rich.

Backing out fuel in the VE table helps but the corrections made by the ECU always seem to continue to make it richer.

For some reason I had adaptive idle on which I will recheck how it works with that off but likely not the fix.

Might try limiting the EGO correction and or take out incorporating the AFR reading in the fuel settings.

Any other thoughts on changes for high MAP settings.

Do you have all 4 ITB vacuum port connected to a little manifold to a single line to the MPS? I thought I had read something about this kind of setup from Mark Henry, not sure though...

Each of the ITBs are joined together by a vacuum port on each of the sides of the engine. So these two ports are joined together and go directly to the MAP.

After looking over the cam specs (410 value lift and 278 duration) I think I am going to get a poor vacuum signal regardless.

Pulled off the manifolds and checked for vacuum leaks and really did not find anything.

Did a quick test to run it on Alpha-N rather than speed density and got much better results.

Doing some testing to see if I can get it to draw a bit more vacuum. Increasing advance at idle to increase RPMs and then will close of the throttle bodies more to reduce the idle to where it should be. Should help some. But I think that. I will have to run a hybrid of Alpha-N at low speeds and the switch over to speed density at higher RPMs.

Developed a couple of different Tunes to see what works.

With the power of creation comes great responsibility. Took it out for first test drive. Still have some tuning to do but happy with the results. The sound the throttle bodies make combined with the Tangerine Evo exhaust is staggering and fast.

So when I get it sorted I will have to decide if I use this power for good or evil?

Pretty sure from the looks I got from people tonight I am leaning toward evil!

I vote evil