Nice clean hubs. I taped off the bearing surfaces before blasting. Shorter studs will be pressed in this weekend. They were set up for 1" spacers because of the Phonedials that were on the car before.

Aluminum cross member was blasted as well (after cleaning all the crud off first).

Karl,
What an amazing project. You're patience and attention to detail is remarkable. Thanks for sharing your progress with us.

Carl

My parts look better.. my parts look better.. Pics tomorrow evening.

Good job Carl. Everything looks nice and clean.


I mean K-a-r-l.



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t-u-r-d

Fuel tank is done.

It was blasted, powdercoated, sealed with the POR tank sealing kit (you do this carefully AFTER the powdercoating), fuel line fittings redone, fuel sender refurbed, new gaskets, and new hardware.

Voila

Okay, go here...

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act...t=ST&f=2&t=5248

... for the name discussion.

Thanks!

Karl.. I split the topics. We have a ton of control over the BBS. We can split and move threads at will.


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Finally did a rough assemble of the rear suspension..

From this...



to this...



I pick up the powder coated front struts tomorrow!

and other good news. Hunter is coming home tomorrow!!!! Yipee...

Very Very cool Qarl!

Nice work Karl. Hows your boy?

Swood Is that your car on your avatar? Coool color.

Karl, your car is going to be SO SWEET when you're done, that you're going to have to hire a bevy of supermodels to sprinkle rose pedals on the road ahead of you wherever you drive. You also may want to think about purchasing a set of velvet ropes to put around it when you're parked in public areas.

Looking good!
And the fact that Hunter is coming home is even BETTER ! ! !

cheers,

Jeroen

Oh man karl, This car is gona be the king kong of all 914's. What piece isn't powdercoated:)
Eric

I see you're not using the spacer.
Don't like living on the edge?

Paul

Karl, what brakes are you using?

glad your boy is coming home

The "spacer" is actually a 4 to 5 bolt adapter from the PO. The new car will have 9x16 fuchs in the rear...

aren't any of the parts actually in the garage. I more of your house than the garage.



Nice to see your son home...

Nah...with a 914, you can have two trunk monkeys!

Since time = $$$, I think Karl's got the first $1,000,000 914!

Who says Bilstein front strut housings have to be Bilstein green? Why can't they be Bilstein Yellow? The powder coat color (signal yellow) is pretty darn close to Bilstein yellow.

They should come together this weekend!

This is going to be a very, very nice parts car!



Watch your back!


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schweet! is thing goin into a museum? ever gonna see a road?

You may want to consider painting parts of your brake rotors.
Otherwise they will start to rust the minute they see any water.

I masked off where the pads contact the rotors and then sprayed on a high temp gray paint.
Then I baked them in the oven per the intructions on the can.

I also masked the area where the hub and the rotor mate to keep the surfaces true.

This was done at least five years ago and it holds up fine for a street car.

Another picture of the painted rotor.

The strut is a RSR style raised spindle for a 16" wheel.
(can be raised a little higher than for a 15" wheel)

Notice the reshaped steering arm and the gussets for reinforcement
where spindle welds to the shock tube.

mmm... big ass brakes!

Just stock '86 930/Turbo Look brakes.

If I put brakes this heavy on my 914 it wouldn't go fast enough to need them...

Okay, my steering rack has been refurbished.

Bead blasted cross member

Repacked steering rack with new moly grease

Installed turbo tie rods

Installed Bump Steer Kit

Your parts collection is nice!

You should build a car.


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Thanks. I was thinking of doing that... maybe some day.

We have bets on if you finish or not.


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Nice rack!!!

(sorry, couldnt help myself )

Finish what? Collecting parts? I will never finish collecting them...

lol Andrew!

Karl, you fail to see that you are under scrutiny by the central scrutinizer.



What's the time frame? Side bets!



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Woohoo!!!!

lol

We are the only people who would have a kegger over a pile of wires like that..

WOOHOO!


M

So, where did you find it?

cheers,

Jeroen

Miles,

I like how you sit in the shadows lurking... just waiting to reply to my posts...

Don't make me pull out the big red G.


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Long story on the harness...

I bought it about two years ago (before I even owned the current 914). Sold it about six months ago... Recently re-acquired it!

This is my old picture.. but it will be back in my posession soon!

I still saved considerablly from what AA wanted for the only other one I could find!

you may not need the bumpsteer kit with the reshaped steering arms on the RSR struts; they're both correcting for the same geometry/placement factor. my guess is the steering arm change will get you into the ballpark and you'll need at most a teeny shim under the rack to make it perfect. unless you're also relocating the rack in the tub, in which case i donno ...

i'll contact you offlist about pricing and sourcing - i want those struts (possibly the 15" versions) on my 911 this winter ...

BTW - fog light seals arrived just fine, thx.

Those RSR struts aren't mine. They belong to another dsmeyer!!! I have regular Bilstein struts.

Those were standard Bilstein struts, before the spindles were raised,
rewelded and gusseted. The steering arm was reshaped and then
the whole strut was powder coated green.

That's why I called them RSR "style" struts.

It lives... I actually DO have a car body to put all those purdy parts on to.

Car is primered. Flares are getting smoothed out. There are very few dimples in the body to be repaired. The body guy is amazed how straight this car is.

Wow, all those seams look GREAT w/o all the goop from the factory. I forget, did you remove that, or did your body guy? I hear it's a B to remove, but boy does it look good w/o it.

I am going to cry.


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Fu__ed a bearing up. Another one is on the way. Thanks Mueller!

Way too many parts man! You'll never get that all back together. I'm sure you'll end up like me,with a box full of "extra" parts.

So cool you're doing it right! Can't wait to see it done. Are you going to hermetically seal it when you're done?

I'm thinking more along the lines of a giant "Space Bag" or the Food Sealer 2000!

Karl,

we are neck and neck.. I dropped "blackie" off last week to the body shop and they kicked ass on it all week. The tubs look identical at this point...LOL

Thanks for the pics.


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How about a "blackie" update!

I need to merge all the threads I have started with the different pieces of the car. Update wil happen soon. The body shop has several digital camera's so I may have them shoot something for me (they are over an hour away from me with no traffic).


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