DaveB
Nov 25 2021, 02:08 PM
I thinks the sales pitch of I drove this a few years ago and it had a shimmy on the freeway was BS...
Click to view attachment There's other creative stuff on this car. Push button start with a hot wire switch, broken a trunk mount so a long bolt, 30 washers and screw it into the wheel well, wired in top, etc. Easy fixes just WTF folks do to a car
DaveB
Robarabian
Nov 25 2021, 02:10 PM
I wanna see more!!!!
QUOTE(DaveB @ Nov 25 2021, 12:08 PM)
I thinks the sales pitch of I drove this a few years ago and it had a shimmy on the freeway was BS...
There's other creative stuff on this car. Push button start with a hot wire switch, broken a trunk mount so a long bolt, 30 washers and screw it into the wheel well, wired in top, etc. Easy fixes just WTF folks do to a car
DaveB
windforfun
Nov 25 2021, 02:29 PM
Cheap shit DAPO!!!
Van B
Nov 25 2021, 02:32 PM
I'm actually impressed! You gotta try real hard to do a repair that bad lol!
DaveB
Nov 25 2021, 03:34 PM
QUOTE(Robarabian @ Nov 25 2021, 12:10 PM)
I wanna see more!!!!
OK, How about the fuel tank....
Click to view attachment I figure a 45 mile radius. I was impressed that they used a low pressure high volume pump with a separate regulator for the webers.
Then there is the ignition:
Click to view attachment Glad they kept the switch cover on this for safety.
Click to view attachment And the push button start on the dash. Race ready - lol.
I have more. It looks like a black rattle black paint job. Outlined the bumpers and painted parts of the chrome. Amazing what folks do.
DaveB
Van B
Nov 25 2021, 04:01 PM
This is amazing!
SirAndy
Nov 25 2021, 04:16 PM
QUOTE(DaveB @ Nov 25 2021, 01:34 PM)
OK, How about the fuel tank....
I figure a 45 mile radius. I was impressed that they used a low pressure high volume pump with a separate regulator for the webers.
930cabman
Nov 25 2021, 05:10 PM
Might be a bit Rube, but he/she deserves a few points for being creative
73-914
Nov 25 2021, 08:25 PM
When you run out you have an easy can to fill
bkrantz
Nov 25 2021, 10:00 PM
That's hall of fame PO stupidity right there!
Geezer914
Nov 26 2021, 12:16 AM
I thought I've seen it all until this! That trans mount takes the prize!!!
wonkipop
Nov 26 2021, 12:34 AM
Root_Werks
Nov 26 2021, 10:34 AM
Haven't seen a chain to hold up the tranny before, yikes.
914Sixer
Nov 27 2021, 01:41 PM
Isn't that a SAFETY CHAIN? There to prevent transmission failure
Jonathan Livesay
Nov 27 2021, 03:06 PM
QUOTE(Geezer914 @ Nov 25 2021, 10:16 PM)
I thought I've seen it all until this! That trans mount takes the prize!!!
I'd sooner drive a car with that trans mount than with that sort of gas tank setup.
willieg
Nov 27 2021, 03:31 PM
Thank you for posting. I thought my work had been getting sloppy lately but this posting puts me on top of the heap.
Chris914n6
Nov 27 2021, 10:58 PM
Actually the push button starter was a common fix before we got repro (affordable) replacement ignition switches.
DaveB
Nov 28 2021, 02:59 AM
If I have to replace the chain, is the genuine Porsche one $800?
DaveB
73-914
Nov 28 2021, 06:39 AM
QUOTE(DaveB @ Nov 28 2021, 03:59 AM)
If I have to replace the chain, is the genuine Porsche one $800?
DaveB
YES
mlindner
Nov 28 2021, 03:51 PM
I'd put a padlock for easy trans removal.
Puebloswatcop
Nov 28 2021, 06:06 PM
Phenominal, I'd like to meet the DAPO just to congratulate him on surviving. I must admit though when I got my '74 it had the same ignition switch that yours has, only without the safety cover.
mbseto
Nov 29 2021, 09:13 AM
QUOTE(DaveB @ Nov 25 2021, 04:34 PM)
Amazing what folks do.
I guess most Porsche owners never go through a poor student phase. I grew up in a rural little town in Ohio, we bought $400 cars that had to get us home from wrestling practice and to our fast food jobs. We kept a spool of bailing wire in my buddy's VW Bug for wiring on whatever fell off. When the floor pan fell out, we got a piece of steel from another guy who's dad worked at Hess & Eisenhardt - they made armored limousines - and so the passenger was safe from shooters hiding under manhole covers, and the whole car sagged to that side. One friend was either a driver or passenger in 6 wrecks that totalled the car- three were roll-overs and one he had to be cut out of. Never got a major injury. My cousin had so many cars catch on fire, we joked that she could always instantly find her car in a crowded parking lot. No one thought much past the day when we could escape that little town.
Root_Werks
Nov 29 2021, 09:32 AM
QUOTE(mbseto @ Nov 29 2021, 07:13 AM)
QUOTE(DaveB @ Nov 25 2021, 04:34 PM)
Amazing what folks do.
I guess most Porsche owners never go through a poor student phase. I grew up in a rural little town in Ohio, we bought $400 cars that had to get us home from wrestling practice and to our fast food jobs. We kept a spool of bailing wire in my buddy's VW Bug for wiring on whatever fell off. When the floor pan fell out, we got a piece of steel from another guy who's dad worked at Hess & Eisenhardt - they made armored limousines - and so the passenger was safe from shooters hiding under manhole covers, and the whole car sagged to that side. One friend was either a driver or passenger in 6 wrecks that totalled the car- three were roll-overs and one he had to be cut out of. Never got a major injury. My cousin had so many cars catch on fire, we joked that she could always instantly find her car in a crowded parking lot. No one thought much past the day when we could escape that little town.
I went through a poor student phase, but my victims where VW's, mainly Bugs back in the 80's. Oh the things a teenager will do to keep a VW Alive....wait, isn't that a book?
NARP74
Nov 29 2021, 06:58 PM
That's Roadkill right there! How to do the wrong thing the right way.
Mikey914
Nov 29 2021, 08:17 PM
I had a 914 in high school and wasn't independently wealthy, but I did understand that there was a right way, a pretty close to right way, and the bastard fixes.
The last was only to limp home.
930cabman
Nov 30 2021, 01:59 PM
QUOTE(Puebloswatcop @ Nov 28 2021, 07:06 PM)
Phenominal, I'd like to meet the DAPO just to congratulate him on surviving. I must admit though when I got my '74 it had the same ignition switch that yours has, only without the safety cover.
Are we sure he/she is surviving??
VaccaRabite
Nov 30 2021, 02:12 PM
Did the car still shift? Could you find all the gears?
I can't imagine the shifter geometry was anywhere near correct.
Zach
Sway Bar
Nov 30 2021, 02:22 PM
I don't mind that trans fix, but I'd like to see at least 1-2 threads exposed on that nut just to be safe
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