what did you do to your 914 today Options

[KSCarrera]

Ran at the local hillclimb event...

[ValcoOscar]

Ran at the local hillclimb event...

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Should be a poster (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer3.gif)

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[Shivers]

Oh boy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

[Shivers]

Painted the center with a wrinkle finish in preparation for wrapping. Wrapping will go slow. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[technicalninja]

Painted the center with a wrinkle finish in preparation for wrapping. Wrapping will go slow. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Your wrinkle finish came out excellent!

What brand did you use?

Any special drying tricks?

[Shivers]

Painted the center with a wrinkle finish in preparation for wrapping. Wrapping will go slow. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Your wrinkle finish came out excellent!

What brand did you use?

Any special drying tricks?

Thanks. VHT high temp wrinkle plus ( SP201 BLACK WRINKLE. ) it takes a lot of paint. Start with light fog. Wait three minutes and start painting a heavy coat horizontally. Wait five minutes. Paint a heavy coat vertically, 5 minutes and one more heavy coat diagonally. Then you pop it into an oven at 170-200 degrees for an hour. The oven part is really important to get an even wrinkle. I used a primer but it works fine without if your painting surface it nice. Best part is and hour (+-) after is is out of the oven it is ready to work with.

[technicalninja]

Thanks!
I figured you were doing something with the drying procedure to get it that even.

You doing this in your home oven?

My wife would kill me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

[Shivers]

Thanks!
I figured you were doing something with the drying procedure to get it that even.

You doing this in your home oven?

My wife would kill me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

Yeah, right?!? The Mrs passed in April. I have a small one in the garage but not big enough. I did the Bilstein b6 hd’s in the inside oven too. She was in the hospital. So I did all that at night.

[fiacra]

FINALLY got the car off the lift yesterday and test drove it. All went well. The list of tasks included (some of this is duplicate from an earlier post when I got all excited thinking I was finished):

1) Replaced new master cylinder that failed after 100 miles. This time put an Ate MC in;
2) Bled the brakes, then bled the brakes, then bled the brakes;
3) New PMB soft brake lines all around;
4) New front rotors and bearings;
5) New PMB restored front calipers;
6) New front brake pads;
7) New right rear trailing arm pivot bushings;
8) Valve adjustment;
9) New valve cover gaskets. It took two tries to stop the leaking from one of them. Just couldn't get it on perfectly straight the first time;
10) New 914Rubber speedometer gear bushing;
11) New 914Rubber LE front spoiler that fits over the 914Rubber tow bar;
12) Replaced the Riviera's with a set of Fuchs with nearly new tires that came off a car that the new owner did a five lug conversion on;
13) New firewall shift bushing. Now shifts better than any 914 has a right too;
14) Put on turbo tie rods;
15) Oil and filter change;
16) Transaxle oil change.

I might be a bit premature in my victory dance as I am taking it in for alignment the day after tomorrow. Trying not to drive it before then, but it did perfectly on a two mile drive. I think I got the alignment pretty close.

I was at a rally the other day and told a few fellow owners I was going to replace the MC the next day. Got several looks of pity and a few pats on the back. That has got to be one of the more miserable jobs to do on our cars, and I have the benefit of having a scissor lift and good tools. Then to have to do it twice because a new MC was defective (leaking at the casting plug) was a really hard pill to swallow.

Pictures with the Rivieras on and then with the Fuchs on. I think it looks a lot better, but I know this is all personal preference.






Got the daily driver up on the lift now to basically replace all of the subframe members, as well as the front and rear sway bar bushings and downlinks. Just got tired of the bumpy ride. Did the shocks and struts a few weeks back and that helped, but not enough. Decided to fire the parts cannon at it in a "while I'm there" moment. A lot easier to do certain parts of this job with other parts taken off.

[930cabman]

Thanks!
I figured you were doing something with the drying procedure to get it that even.

You doing this in your home oven?

My wife would kill me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

Yeah, right?!? The Mrs passed in April. I have a small one in the garage but not big enough. I did the Bilstein b6 hd’s in the inside oven too. She was in the hospital. So I did all that at night.

Sorry to hear of your wife's passing, she must have been a saint for sure

[Shivers]

Thanks!
I figured you were doing something with the drying procedure to get it that even.

You doing this in your home oven?

My wife would kill me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

Yeah, right?!? The Mrs passed in April. I have a small one in the garage but not big enough. I did the Bilstein b6 hd’s in the inside oven too. She was in the hospital. So I did all that at night.

Sorry to hear of your wife's passing, she must have been a saint for sure

Thank you. Haha, to put up with me she had to be. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I miss her

[SKL1]

Finally worked up the courage to drill holes in a perfectly good door. Used an automatic punch from the inside to locate the holes and carefully drilled from the outside. Cleaned up the threads with a tap. Looks great and now the car is symmetrical!

[FlacaProductions]

Nice work!
Go Hawks.

[Shivers]

Back to the steering wheel. Need to use the old cover as a template to cut out the new one but after 42 years the cover had its own mind. How will I get this flat? Heat and pressure might work:

[Artfrombama]

Installed a bluetooth amplifier

Finishing up blasting and powder coating rims

[Shivers]

Installed a bluetooth amplifier

Finishing up blasting and powder coating rims

Very nice. The blutooth, is that just a head and the amp goes some place else? I'd love to have a media blaster

[Artfrombama]

Installed a bluetooth amplifier

Finishing up blasting and powder coating rims

Very nice. The blutooth, is that just a head and the amp goes some place else? I'd love to have a media blaster

@Shivers Yes, the amp is behind the dash. HERE
The glass bead machine is by far the most used tools in my shop. I built the cabinet and used a nozzle, tubing and foot valve from TIP.

[Craigers17]

Swapped out my old turn signal stalk for a new unit. Now it cancels out correctly and I got the horn working while I was in there. After I replace the flasher relay, the signals should be functional again.

[930cabman]

Installed a bluetooth amplifier

Finishing up blasting and powder coating rims

I was never a big fan of the steelies, but these look great

[Beach914]

Spent a good part of Saturday trying to get these locking lug nuts off three of my 16x6 wheels on the -6. The fourth wheel had already had it removed and the ball seat and spoke ruined on the wheel (see pic). Combo pins on the removal tool shear off if the nuts were on with more than 50 ft/lbs (per instructions). Managed to remove the right front, and right rear properly with another tool I made but the pins are bending on the left front. Its on there with more than 50 ft/lbs for sure.Tempted to just use a metric tungsten carbide whole saw to but out most of the lug nut and then carefully grind out the nut with a rotary tool with a small ball shaped bit. But first I'll try to tap the holes in the lug nut, put some small allen head screws in it, and grind slots in a large socket to fit over the allens and try to torque it off.

This sucks. No fun to see a ruined $400 Fuch wheel and have to replace it.