What are the advantages?

I was thinking....maybe you could put hydrofoils on this car with a prop coming out of the back. Then you wouldn't need to buy that future bike?

I attached the muffler heat shield with screws on my car. It's been ceramic ally coated and is removable....as if I'll ever need to do that. Looks nice tho.
Good work there Bob.

Thanks, Doug. Never too many bikes.

Great build so far! Enjoyed reading your progress. Man, all that metalwork makes me thankful that I only had to do floors and trunks on my car. Keep up the good work

Thanks. I am actually enjoying this more than I expected. That could change when I get to more finish work.

Back from "vacation" from my retired life, where I do some teaching, research, and consulting from my house in Colorado. Spent a week with my son in Arizona, and pretty much did the same thing.

Anyway, getting back to work on the 914, but first had to play with some new tools, including the Fein dust catcher attachment for the grinder. Works pretty well, and started on the welds around the floor seams.

Dang, the photo posting still does not want to honor my right side up. I have tried opening and saving photos in different ways--and 914World still posts things sideways.

Bob....this is what I do with all my photos....and it seems to work.

After you load them on your computer and before posting them, pull them up in some kind of viewer.
On my iMac, it's just the built-in photo viewer.
Then rotate them 90 deg, 90 again, 90 again, and another 90 to get them back to where they started from.
So rotate them through a total of 360 deg (another way to say the above).
Then save them.

Now you should be able to post the pics on 914World (or other sites) right side up.

I don't know why this goofy little photo dance seems to work, but it always has for me.
Gud luk! Ha

Thanks, Doug. That may have worked! I reposted the photo to my previous post, and it looks right.

No garage work today. I only had a spare hour, and did this instead.

I had a similar exercise as well.

It was some wet heavy stuff.

In UT. I call that WA. snow...

dust collector//

Jeff - I will remember that line.

Back to work. First prepping all the joints, grinding out remains of spot welds and cleaning up metal.

Then fitting the new floor section. First trim the excess around the edges, and then cut the remaining floor piece to fit. Decided to keep as much of the RD panel as possible since some of the rust extended forward of the cross brace.

Other side.

Just found this thread, Nice work!

Unique looking house.

It is....but he likes that.
His last house was an igloo.

Ferg,

Bob is doing a great job. It will be nice to have another 914 at Cars & Coffee in Durango!

Bob used to campaign a 914 in Texas a few years ago.

Sounds like the Durango crew just keeps getting better

Thanks. We found a local architect who designed the house to fit the site--and our preferences. Of course, I should have made the garage bigger.

Only half the year.

I have really enjoyed getting to know the local car crowd, and feel welcomed. If we could only get Colorado DOT to stop laying down gravel instead of sand on winter roads.

A few things to do before I can start welding in the floor. Item #1: welding the web of cracks in the left inner long, at the parking brake handle recess. A little sloppy (my excuse: upside down, which I could have corrected by rotating the rotisserie, but...).

And then grinding (and then some more welding and grinding).

And before I forget, I welded the rear sway bar mounts to the new trunk floor.

Item #2: Straightening the bottoms of both sills, with dents probably from jacking incidents. Here is the right sill.

And the left sill.

I made some studs that can be welded onto the sill seam, and screw into an adapter for my slide hammer.

One on each sill, welded onto the seam at the center of each dent.

Slide hammer in action. Each side took a good number of hard hits to get close to straight.

Left side, after cutting off the stud and grinding away the weld.

And the right side.

Item #3: patching the hole in the front inner right sill, where rust ate through (fortunately from outside in). Here's the hole after cutting.

I made a patch from a section of 914 front fender.

Patch in place. Magnets are helpful.

Welded in place.

And after grinding. I was less aggressive, and left some of the weld since the sheet metal here is relatively thin.

The great work continues!

Nice job, making great progress!

John

Thanks, guys. Keeping the progress going...

Item #4: the. front floor corners. Here's the patch for the left side, again made from genuine 914 sheet metal.

Test fit.

Jumping ahead to #5: treating and painting the rust inside the lower firewall.

Back to Item#4: the floor front corners. I decided to reshape my patches to better duplicate the original floor channels.

Here's the left side, ready to weld.

And the right side, still needs a few tweaks.

Left side welded in, and a quick grinding. A few spots to re-weld and then grind it pretty.

Finishing up #4. Here's the left side done.

And from the inside.

Right side welded in.