Hello friends.

I recently acquired a 70, 914 project. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but seems to be a fairly complete car. I’m looking forward to getting it back on the road with some much needed advice from the forum.

Welcome to the party!

my brother Jim, is right there in Centennial if you need instant help. He is quite 914 knowledgeable

Now you tell me! I am right next door...

I’d like to add some photos, but it’s been challenging.

I’m trying to link photos from my Google Photos page with no success. The album is set to share, but links’s keep getting rejected. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Yeah, posting photos can be a challenge.

Scroll through these a bit, you might find your answer. If not search or post and you will get an answer.
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=94568

Thanks. I can’t get the photo links to work, but the file attachment does.

Here’s my car.

Welcome to our mid-engine madness! You’ll find plenty of helpful people here ask and you will receive

cool car , looks like a good starting point

Thanks for the welcome. I’m sure to be asking plenty of questions.

I don’t have a lot of background on the car. It saw it on CL, contacted the owner (who is a member), and we worked out a mutually beneficial trade. I didn’t think I was going to get back into Porsche ownership, but the stars aligned and here I am.

Current plan is to get it running as it’s been sitting a number of years. Last registered in 2015, so that’s promising.

Were the letters gold in 70?

Yes all the early cars have the gold metal letters. Not everyone’s style but I think it looks good

Congratulations and welcome... that's a great color. Mexico blue?

Adriatic

Yes, Adriatic blue.

Here’ something I haven’t seen before. VDO.

It looks like it may have come from Stoddards.

It has a fancy radio and a wood dash. Are wood dashes original?

The motor looks to be pretty complete. A friend and I force fed it some starting fluid and it managed to want to start, but the fuel lines are gummed up pretty bad.

I like how fastidious one of the PO’s were. The gauge wiring has the same labels, in the cab area.

There’s definitely some ugly. Longs are shot as well some of the floor perimeters. There also seems to be random rust sprinkled about the body. I’m not overly concerned with that right now. First goal is to get it running, then do compression/leak-down tests to see what I have to work with.

I picked up some supplies to re-plumb it, 25’ of 5/16 (8mm) nickel-copper line. Lines were drawn through the tunnel pretty easily. I decided to buy the correct grommets while I was at it, so I’m waiting on some small parts before I go much further.

I want to run a large OEM filter. I tabbed a bracket which will get plug welded to the firewall.

That’s all I have for now. I’ll report back when I make some more progress.

astropulse. ---------->fantastic.
moonage daydream stuff. brilliant.
worth getting the car just for the radio.

I found electric boots and a mohair suit in the trunk. That kooky gauge pod reminds me of the Sleeper house. Colorado folks will know what I’m talking about.

Here’s some more wonky stuff. Any idea why these would have been added? The car doesn’t seem especially high. Maybe worn out springs?

Regarding the threaded bosses at the bottom of the fuel tank, is there a supply and return? I have both the supply and return fuel taps, both 8mm exterior, the return slightly smaller inside diameter. I’m just not sure which one goes where.