I'm starting to re-assemble my car.

You'll run into 100+ things you'll need while putting it all back together. Most of what you listed is easy stuff to get thankfully. Post some pics for us!

What it looked like when I traded my Toyota 4Runner for it. I traded some dude in Colorado straight across. we met in Douglas, WY and checked each others' rides out. We liked what we saw, handed each other the signed and clean titles, and drove away happy. Well, I drove away happy. =o) I'm going to just figure he stayed happy, he didn't come looking for me.

my parts car:
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Working over the front suspension to go with the 911 SC brakes and boxster wheels:
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H4 Headlight HID conversion:
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Working over the rear suspension with the Koni yellows:
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Rear wheel on with 1" spacer. going to go with maybe 1/8" spacers and beating my fender witha baseball bat. (actually going to use ahdoman's suggestion, thanks again Steve!)
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Getting the engine ready... building mounts, bolting to transaxle etc:

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Toying with the idea of a turbo:



Getting the 1.7 drivetrain next to the v-6 drivetrain for some measurements to build the engine mounts:

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car in the shop now:



easier than the tranny jack:



Sawzall did its job:

I just like the way it looks in there:


turbo and all... (notice I switched from the Garrett T4 to the Mitsu TD05-BIG 16G turbo)

2.5 inch mandrel bent exhaust pieces for intake plumbing and exhaust plumbing...



This is the wastegate/turbo outlet plate. the 2.5 inche exhaust pipe fits quite nicely coming out of there.



not to mention the throttle body is 2.5 inches diameter also... not restrictions between the turbo and throttle body, that's for sure.

so... right now I'm at the point of going to get the cherry picker again with my bro, and cutting that engine shelf out of there and putting all of the useful stuff back in... in functional form! test fitting is about done, now it's the finite wiring and plumbing to do.

the radiator is going right next to the engine. It worked for my other turbo project while I was in Laramie going to school, only this time we're going with the blow through fans, and a sucker fan to get air to flow up and out of the engine lid when sitting and idling. (not that I plan any stops like that in this car...)

Um...
Good start! Jeeez-pers.

Cool Project!


I stopped in Worland several years back and was super suprised to see a 914 in the showroom of.....hmmm.....I forget maybe an electronics or car audio store.

If I remember right, the store was on a main street or something.

You don't remember thhat do you, or maybe it was your car, there can't be too many 914's in that town.

I found a picture of the engine mount being fitted:



see? I'm wanting to disassemble and paint all of the bare metal stuff, make it look nice. =o)

YES! I remember that. LOL My dad and I blocked off mainstreet to back the trailer up. We rolled the car through those double doors.
My friend James was in charge of the display and he wanted a car that would fit between the doors. We built up an extension for the window and set the car up into the window, then loaded the front trunk with car stereo stuff. That was my first 914 Turbo project... poor thing had rust so bad, and I had no idea how to fix it. Kevin down in CO bought the remains of it from me and took a sawzall to it. (this was after we'd turbo'd it and were starting to have fun) it had that acid drip finish to the rear suspension console, hell hole, longs, etc... and I needed $$ for school.

I should go talk to Dan and see if he wants to do that again this year. lol (Dan = owner of Hedge Music)

and... what I get to the machine shop with while working on the 914:



72mpg parts hauler. =o) (as long as the parts aren't heavy)

I was doing some engine work today.

If you notice in an above picture how the throttle body is right smack dab in the middle of the roof line (when stored in the trunk); you'll see why I did this morning's bit of work. =o)

Picture one:

the symmetry of the lower intake seems as it could easily be turned around.




Look at the layout of those holes. ahhh... makes me wonder if the heads are identical.



Now, were you paying attention?
compare the first picture with this one. see the cam pulley orientation?

Here it is with a test fit, to see where that TB ends up being.



See the yellow circle?



Wuallah! Now it's over there...

And here it is, with the top half back on and the oil filler cap out from underneath the intake. (it makes it easier to top off with the oil if I don't have to pull the upper intake every time I check my oil...)



front view:

RJMII,

What V6 motor is that?

Andys

mitsubishi 6G73. 2.5 liter V-6 SOHC 24 valves; and now getting turbo'd. =o)

I got the engine back in; here are the results. =o(



It doesn't quite fit.

The piece of metal across the top of the firewall;

Is it structural? Can I trim it to make room for the my throttle control lever?

Nope, but that is where the engine compartment front seal attaches.

Kyle

I don't recall pulling a front seal from there. Would anyone happen to have a picture?

I'm planning on going with a full grate style engine lid, and I don't recall the front seal...

I cut mine. Just box it back in. It will be fine. This is the best picture I could find. If you look close you can see the cut out and rounded corners.

Starting to look like a water cooled conversion...

Got the dirty old radiator in there for fitment. =o)

I had my favorite machinist cut and weld the intake manifold. Now I need to modify the throttle lever a little, and it looks like it will work.

It's incredibly tight, but it will work.

Helluva build thread. Keep up the good work!

That's almost as crazy plumbing as mine. I'm impressed, keep it going.

downpipe from turbo to exhaust...

The engine is back out of the car, also. Time to put a dimple for the throttle lever, run some turbo lube and coolant lines, and get the down pipe situated a little bit better. The welder/machinist/fabricator did the build w/out the car present and got it off by just enough that we need to tweak it.

the shift bushings are in, too. =o)

Transmission mounts. stock ones. I was under my car!

Transmission mounts... 911 sport units. Twenty minutes later. What can I say? It's tough to get off the creeper to get stuff that I left on top of the car. lol

Thanks Felix! (Neo9146)

Slowly getting there. =o) The downpipe needs tweaked a little to fit right. It was built without the car present and the fabricator got it close.. almost perfect, but not quite.

Back ugly bumper off. anyone want to buy it? it's in good condition, but it's still a 76 bumper.

I've got a pair of Chrome ones on my 73 parts car. =o)

the front one is off, too... but that part of the shop wasn't lit enough to get a picture with my cell phone.

---> that's going to get some holes sometime SOON. woot! airflow for cooler engine temps.

The pic is still dark... I suppose I could open photoshop, but it's been a long day. I just want to put my feet up in about 3 posts and watch some TV.

every 914 owners dream... an empty jackstand. =o)



Hopefully I'll get pics of the blue ones under the car into this situation soon, too!

Starting fitment of the plumbing between the turbo and the throttle body.

Slowly getting there. The Orange reducer is hiding a bad angle... this is getting fixed.

better angle...

If you look at the orange, the pipe that is inside there coming off of the turbo points away from the engine a little bit more. The other U-tube that is getting cut tomorrow will remedy that awkward airflow pattern and smooth things out a bit.

The black tube between the throttle body and that first curve was quite a find, too! It fits perfect and will work great with the location of the throttle body in relation to the firewall.

I scored a set of 360cc injectors. These are stock injectors from a 3000GT VR4.

Top one is the old one (180cc, IIRC)
bottom one is VR4 injector. 360cc.

...and installed in the fuel rail and lower intake.

got the angle fixed for the pipe between the turbo and throttle body; and started fabbing up the air filter side of the turbo.

Looking good Jim! Keep up the good work

Wow ! That is cool !! Now I know what you are working on, cool !! That is going to be one cool car when you get it all done. Also the first time I have seen a conversion like that.

Glad you got those injectors too.

Cheers

Not going to run an intercooler?

Daniel, the plan is to go with a water to air intercooler after I get the car running. I can go up to 7psi before needing an intercooler, so getting it running first, then going to add the I/C.

Frozen boost has one that has 2.5" I/O and does a 90 degree turn. It will get placed in there on top of that valve cover and I'll reconfigure the piping then. Probably later this summer after I get working again now that the semester is over and I'm done with surgeries.

I got the air filter, and the silicone connector for the cold air intake to mount to the turbo.

The cooling lines are now run to the turbo.

Currently the engine is dangling in the air with the oil pan off so we can poke a hole in the side of it for oil return line from the turbo.

Also today 10 foot of Green stripe 1.25" hose showed up via UPS. (Thank you, Jamie Rust!)

The hose fits rather tightly on my connection points at the engine, and I'm thinking (hoping) that since the engine and radiator both came out of the same vehicle, they'll fit about the same at the radiator end.

Here's a hole in the oil pan for the oil return line from the turbo.

Oil return line installed. (It needs reconfigured a little, though)

Oil feed line installed. =o) all of the shiny copper pieces on the hydraulic line that go to the hard line. The return line is also visible in this shot.