Oh nice! I did speak with the owner for a little bit. Glad to see that he is a member here.

He was at the Temecula Fun Day at Oscar’s former ranch.

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That blue....wow! Looking good!

Beautiful!

It looks great!

Charlie

Thanks!




Yes, it's pretty bright, thanks.



Thank you!

Went down the other day and removed all the paper, I couldn't wait to see what it would look like. I'm getting ready to paint the rest of the parts this weekend.

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great color!

@autopro - Pedro, Terrific work and color; is that Adriatic Blue? Regardless, nothing prettier than a freshly painted chassis.

That looks delicious! Beautiful job there Pedro!

Love this thread, excellent work.


I have some of my refurbished GT Modified front & rear trunk hinges at plating. Should be back by next Wednesday. So if you are interested I'll have plated (Yellow Zinc), raw bead blasted, or primered available.

PM me if interested

These would look great on your 914

Oscar


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Thanks, Glenn and Robert!

Cairo, thanks for the compliments. The color is from Porsche and it's called Shark Blue paint code D5C. I agree a bare painted chassis no matter the car is a thing of beauty.

It does look a bit like candy Dion, I'm not a flashy color for a car kind of person but my wife and kids helped pick the color. Wife says she will be driving this one

Oscar, those look great I would love to get a set from you.

Doors and several other parts painted. Still need to do trunks and miscellaneous parts next Saturday.

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Got a little bit impatient and started putting some parts on the car. Brake lines and rebuilt brake pressure regulator from PMB.

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Master cylinder and a few brake lines also from PMB

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Now for some of the reassembly bits. Starting with the steering rack.


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Rebel Racing front bushing set installed. I used JB Weld to apply the races provided in the kit to the A-arms. I love how silky smooth they feel. New ball joints installed.

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Installed onto the cross-member

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Assembly of the front end continues, my goal is to get it off the stand I built before it gets too heavy.

A-Arms and Sway Bar from GR German Parts Restoration installed.

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Looking very nice.

Beautiful, even love the color. Let me know when you’re ready to ship.

Glad you like it, thank you very much!



LOL at least let me get some wheels on it

I love it when you get to work on the car all day without getting bothered. Time flies though and before you know it you didn't even eat lunch.

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5 Lung Conversion from PMB

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Absolutely beautiful workmanship, really enjoy the progress reports. Also that blue has got me hooked - I might have a new favorite 914 color. Congrats!

Fantastic

Antoine

I like that you're not messing around, getting things assembled so you can drive it.

Better than a brand new 914 for sure!

Thank you, to tell you the truth I was not too convinced on the color but it is growing one me. I was going to go with a different blue that was more gray.



Glad you like it Antoine



Cheers buddy



Well the time that I took off from working on the body I would do little stuff and buying all the things that I needed for when I would assemble. Nothing worse than starting to work on one thing and have to stop because of missing parts. I know it's unavoidable but I wanted to minimize the wait. Thanks for the compliments!

Turbo tie rods installed

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Front suspension complete.

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Now to the rear suspension. I bought the coil over kit from Rebel Racing and I absolutely love it, I could stare at these all day long

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Laid out everything I needed, I had previously installed new bearings in the rear arms and had everything powder coated.

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I can't remember where I bought the rear bushings from but they were proud of the shaft so I had to sand them down.

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End result

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Let's start off with this shot, just a few more pieces I want to install before I put it down on the ground.

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Again, 5-lug conversion and brakes from PMB

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Some more rear suspension shots.

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I love this shot with the fat tires.

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Catching up on this build thread. Absolutely stunning!

The blue is spectacular!

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the assembly! Have fun!

Wow simply amazing, congratulations

An absolute stunner Pedro! That colour works so well with the arches.
Nice work on the suspension. What size rims & tyres did you decide on? Never mind, just read the sticker on the tyres. Heheheh

I'm also looking forward to the assembly, although I love painting I love the assembly process even more. Thanks for the compliment!



Thanks CCE, where in Mexico are you?




Dion, thanks again brother. the rims are 8x15 and 9x15, tires are FALKEN AZENIS RT660 225/45ZR-15 and 245/40ZR-15

Over the weekend I got a little bit more done, not as much as I would have liked but progress is progress.

Hung the doors, latch and strike.

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Also finished painting the rest of the parts, everything that goes blue should be painted now.

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And my carpet kit showed up, so I was taking it out to make sure all the pieces were there.

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I wasn't even done taking everything out of the box, I turned around and this happened. Guess she likes it

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For the color sanding and buffing I asked a friend of mine for help. He is an expert at it and his job is to go and give classes to body shops around Mexico. Nobody I would trust more than him.

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Hood installed and color sanded

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End result nice, shinny and smooth as a baby's bottom I couldn't wait for him to finish and I had to install the door handle to see how it looked.

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Now that the color sanding and buffing is finished I started on assembling small parts I had for the car.

Tail lights, trunk opener and 914 emblem

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Excuse the dust in this picture, I was installing parts as my friend was polishing the paint.

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Hood release

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Looking absolutely fantastic. Way to go Pedro.
I’m happy your pup approved as well. :-)

That is really one beautiful car.... Excellent workmanship!!

wow! congratulations!

Dion, slowrodent and ndfrigi thank you very much for the kind words fellas!

I know this is out of place and it should have been done before painting but I didn't have everything I needed at the time it had to be done. So here we are and now I have to be super careful not to damage the new paint.

I needed to make the flairs to the side skirts and the front and rear bumper valance. Here is a little bit of the process of how I made them.

First I made some general shapes with cardboard.

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After I get the general shape that I need i take them off and put some packing tape on the inside. These work as my mold.

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Even though the packing tape releases well from the fiberglass I always put a coat or two of mold release.

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Piece out of the mold and checking to see how they fit.

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And now to splice them onto the existing skirts

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Added more fiberglass to the back side to bond them.

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Then after some body filler and some shaping we have the finished product

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A few more shots of the work and the semi-finished parts. They still need prime and block sanding to get them ready for paint.

Front valance

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Side skirts

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Parts ready for primer, still need to work on the rear valance, hopefully by next week it will be done also.

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The fiberglass work is absolutely brilliant. Can you please redo my front belly pan to match? Very sharp Pedro.

On another note the “Taxi” has piqued my interest.
VW Scirocco, Audi Quattro or Isuzu . The square body shape at front is throwing me off.

Keep the pics coming!

Hey Dion, that's my friends AE86, he uses it for drifting and he thought it would be funny if we painted it like a taxi frome here in Tijuana LOL

Sure man, I would be glad to help. Let me know what you need done to the belly pan and I'll do it for you.

Headlight buckets all painted up and assembled. I did re-use the bushings and adjusting blocks as they were in good shape. Painted with satin gray Rust-Oleum spray paint.

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That blue, wow.

I know, it really pops.

Not too much progress this week sadly. I didn't have the original horns for the car so I got these Hella's model H31000001 off eBay

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Headlights in, but need adjustment. I'll have better pictures of the installation later on.

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