About a month or so I get a call from my friend JP in Vegas telling me that it's an 120 degrees there and he wants to get out of down. He needs to go up to Seattle and is planning on driving up the coast. I then get a call from Sung telling me that he has purchased another 914 to work on and doesn't need my car any longer. So the stars line up and I fly down to pick up my car and drive back with JP. Only now that it's been a month and I have had too much time to think about the motor options for the car in this build thread, am now thinking an LS swap is probably the best way to go. During this time I also find a classified on 914 World from @speedmetalarmy Greg who has a Boxter S transmission and everything I will need to go with it for an LS.
I need to get this about the same time so the general idea is to drive the 914 back to Portland and then grab my truck and go get it. One small issue, Greg is across the border in Canada.
As we are driving up through California and I am really enjoying the 914. I get a wild hair and think, wouldn't it be fun to just take the 914 the whole way? So I stop by the house pull out the passenger seat and grab my passport. I head North, not really knowing for sure if I can get across the boarder or not. According to the internet
It is open for "Trade" I am trading $ for parts so hopefully this will work.
I get the the border and give the guard my 914 Rubber business card and tell him what I want to do. There is literally no one else crossing the border, just some dumb old American in a 914 that wants to come in and get a Transmission in this little tiny car
He asks where am I going, I show him my directions on my phone. He says you're going to get it and cross right back over? Yes, I promise. I still need to go back home to Oregon.
He takes pity on my dumb ass and let's me in.