my car is basically done except for little things that bug me.

Like the brake calipers were dirty and rough to the touch. So some bead blasting and some ceramic caliper paint...

also repainted my rocker panels and rear valence. They had taken a beating this year from AXing and Track events. (mostly from AX venues).

put on the street tires and wheels for the winter.


next will be removal of stock back pad and recarpeting the entire interior including the rear bulkhead wall.

and

and I will be doing the carpet in a very short grey pile, carpet similar to an RS interior including the replacement of the backpad with carpet to compliment my 914-6GT style seats.

then I will begin my complete detailing of the car so it will be ready to be displayed at Blackhawk auto museum in Danville CA.

my car will be part of a display of Porsches to include at least 2 997 GT3s, one orange GT3RS, and possibly a CGT, and then my little Puttputt. Pretty good company to keep.

I figured out that 3 out of my 4 injectors are kaput!

Is knowing you have broken parts progress?

Anyways, thats my weekend of fun.

You look like you had more fun than me.

Jim

I confirmed that I will be getting some much needed FI parts shortly thanks to some very helpful members. I also came to realization that my intention of just swapping panels from my roller to my parts car (since parts car's under is way more solid, as well as the Hell Hole) is not really feasible due to fact that panels are all welded on, so now I will have to do paint right away instead of swap and go. So 1 step forward 10 steps back :-( If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all!!

Got to play with my new carb synch tool. Just finished overhauling my 40 Dells last week, and I'm getting them dialed in. I can't wait to see how much better it runs. The difference at idle is DRASTIC!
--bird

Towed home the newest addition

I cleaned my motor and trans, cleaned up the engine tin, replaced the pushrod tube seals, and adjusted my valves. Much easier doing valve adjustment with the motor on jack stands.

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I helped exorcise the demon out of DrEvil's car. Then I painted my engine tin - well, except for the last 2 parts I need to get back from the bead blaster tomorrow. Then I put the head back on my T4.

so, lots of little stuff.

Maybe tomorrow I'll put my doors back together - or hang christmas lights. Dunno yet.

Zach

I worked on glassing in some mounting tabs on my fiberglass rear valance...

Morphed an audio visual cart imto this awesome TIV prototyping engine/tranny stand!

Removed all of the rubber seals, door handles, targa chrome, bumpers and their mounting hardware. Its going in for paint and chrome bumper transplant. Was supposed to be tomorrow, but it looks like my painter has gone on vacation a week early. Aaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

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Still need to clean up a pile of bumpers and choose the best ones. Some are here, some still ion the barn.

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I put my rocker covers back on, got new rims/tires, and put in some new seals and other little things. My car is the yellow one thats almost finished

My brother bought a '72. It has a 2.0 with FI in it (a nice surprise, we were told it was a 1.7). He's really excited and now gets to start on body work since this car actually runs and drives. Its the first Porsche my family has bought that came running.

The green '70 lost its garage spot and we're trying to figure out what to do with her. Now we have 3 teeners and a long hood 911, my mom is thrilled



These two pictures show my brother and his car. They are proof that 6'7" to 6'8" people can fit in 914s and drive them . . . he's only 15 BTW

Here's my baby and the group of teeners.

Did I mention that we got a spare engine with the '72 and a few hundred in brand new parts

Some inspiration for ya' Dan.

I mounted a rear spoiler that I've had for 5 years and started building a Home Depot front splitter. 1/8" luan door skin with 6oz fiberglass on either side. I'll finish the splitter in the next couple of days. I'm glad it's not 20 below like some of you guys have to deal with, I can still get some stuff done outside.

That is a sweet carpet kit... Who makes that mark?

I drove mine...a lot.

T

Reupholstered seats in black duct tape (shhhh! nobody can tell!)
Drove it and froze my toes/ears.

...thinking of installing aux oil cooler in center console for heat

joined the mile high club. ok, 4 ft, but really helped with a speedo angle drive replacement. No more shimmying around on my back.

I lowered the fuel level a couple times. Once with a friend and the other a blast by myself.

On my car, I broke the fan belt on my 3.2...

On Erik's car, (Great Pumpkin) I tried for 3 days to weld a allen into the drivers side torsion bar adjustment bolt so it would come out, broke all 12 attempts...

. . . began the caliper change on the 911 front end for my V8 conversion . . . .

I put my new Triad racing exhaust on my car. It weighs a total of 12lbs and sounds great. The only downer is it just doesn't look as cool as the other Triads. I did drive it a lot in 25 degree weather. Sometimes I do wish I had heat.

Put in my new jets in my carbs (mains, airs and idles) and mounted my breather box.

Tomorrow I plan to adjust idle and maybe go for a little drive =)

Not much 'work' got done here ... I caught a pretty nasty cold

BUT ... on Friday, took my brother on a drive through the twisties around the Palos Verdes peninsula in my wife's car. We needed to verify good roads for next Saturday's San Pedro/PV run. He hadn't been in a 914 in over 30 years.

Since I was stuck inside, a friend dropped off a Gum Ball Rally DVD to help cheer me up


INTERESTING NOTE

There's a scene with a silver 914 in it, never saw this before ... my wife spotted it

... sort of at the beginning, just after they've all started the race ... just after the little Italian guy drives off in the Rolls Royce with his girlfriend after her photo-shoot

Sold my 72 this weekend...sorry to see it leave, but it went to a good home and a bright future.

Now...I can focus on just one project and maybe get something done.

Well....It's been Fuchin' cold here,.... so all I got done was put away the old wheels and tires with the summer tires from our daily drivers.....

At least there's nothing on the garage floor except 4 jackstands (holding a 914) a TIV with 901 beside it....and an engine stand with a fresh 3.2!

I took the advice Howie gave me in 2005 and spent the weekend installing the front sway. Used the crossmember as a reference to get them the same height.

Larry, that's a Morph carpet kit (he's a member here, see the Member Vendors section) and a custom firewall carpet piece made by my upholstery guy. He cut the carpet and sewed the edges with some black stuff to give it a nice finished look.

traced continuity on the relay board to try to see if it was the cause of the car quitting twice on the way to have some work done on it last weekend. no faults found so i used a dremel to clean all the pin contacts and fuse contacts to avoid corrosion faults. other than that, i pulled back the end of the tarp to see if the car was still orange! i did install 3 roof windows on the garage and started shingling

I made an engine cart out of a single 2x4 and 4 casters and a box of screws from home depot. Grand total 18 bux to make ( I couldnt find one anywhere!) I then dropped the engine! First time i've ever done that!

Turns out I've got a GD case from a bus! the cooling fan has a ton of broken blades. At least the main seals look like they're in good shape.

I have 1.7L heads on a 2.0L engine yippee

Dan,

Looks like you're on the way to some fun!... as for the question, what I did to my 914, After my three days at B/W last month, I readjusted my front sway bar. This
adjustment made the car respond better.
I guess I wil know if this was a good move or not next month at the OC PCA 'El Toro' event.

Thanks for sharing

I drove mine once. Topless. Does that count?

I had to put the top on this morning before driving to work. It was only 23 degrees at 06:30.

Drank lots of coffee to pass the time so Monday would come quicker so I can go pic up my car with a framed rearend to hold the 930 tranny. Pics to come soon!!


Ian
678-458-0770

Put in a new thermostat cable, as the old one was frayed on the end. Also had to replace the small bolt and square nut that holds it to the flappers. Now I'm not sure if the thermostat is good or not. Isn't it supposed to be compressed when it's cold? Anyway, the engine warmed up better on the shake down drive.

Worked on the Alien Autotopsy. Started here... Two on the opporating table.. Ended with one on the gurney..

I checked mine this weekend. I also have a broken cable. I took a heat gun to it and after about 20-30 seconds (didn't want to melt it) it expanded like an accordion. I assume that to connect the cable correctly, you want to compress the flaps (the opposite of their default condition) and then connect the cable, getting out all the slack.

No!
Mark D.

Almost finished welding in Engman kit. I have about 20 short stitch welds left. Ran into a glitch. 2 pieces of metal in my left eye. (I was wearing goggles, took them off to wipe sweat and a bunch of filings fell in my eye.) 3 hours in the ER and nice divot in my eye.

This looks like my last welding project.

It's hard to type with only 1 eye.

Bad news: no worky today

Good news: no worky today and good drugs.

Dave

You're not alone pal. I got rust or dirt in one eye on Thanksgiving day. Went to a "doc in the box" and they couldn't get it out. Missed work on Friday but it's still there. Just not as bad.

The good news is I finished pulling my engine out before the accident. Progress WAS made.

Tim, do not leave metal in your eye.
Critical to remove it asap. Organically active material in they eye is bad bad bad.

It's hard to rotate the flaps and tighten the bolt while making sure all the slack is out of the cable. Somehow, I managed it with only two hands. Only problem was, my thermostat looked almost completely expanded with temps in the 40's. I may need to replace that too.

I DROVE it!!

Your eye will grow over it and removing said problem is really painful. Ask me how I know. I did it with dirt and not metal; metal is much worse.

Well, this was a very busy weekend for me....

First, I painted my current project, by myself, in my own 'Redneck Paint Booth'...

Here it is just after finished painting, still in the booth...

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Here it is in the yard drying...

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And here are the doors and lids painted, still in the booth...

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-- Rob

Oh, and I also drove my other car around this weekend... Here it is at home, instead of at the shop...

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And I still have today, Tuesday and Wednesday off from work....

-- Rob

Made a spindle out of a length of 10mm ø bright/silversteel for my bellcrank and mounted it.

Pulled off the rear trailing arms, pushed the bushings out, popping out the bearings tonight. 5 lug here I come!