Spoke's 71 2.056L 914 Progress Thread, Driving it Like I Stole It Options

[Spoke]

Like Zach said before, just what the World needs is another progress thread. So here it is for my 71 1.7L red ride.

I'm working on an engine swap for my leaky 1.7L with slipping clutch to a non-leaking, unknown GEX rebuilt 1.8L so I decided to concatenate several threads on this car into one progress thread.

Eventually I will sell the red 71 and keep the green 74 as my only 914. For now the plan is to get the new 1.8L engine in the car. The 1.8L has SSHE where the 1.7L in the car has very much corroded stock HE's.

Here's pics after last year's rear end accident that totaled the car and the finished product after many months of rehab.

[Spoke]

A while back I repainted the trunk and relocated the battery from the trunk to the original position in the engine compartment. I used an aftermarket battery tray and placed the tray in the original position.

At that time, I had a carbed engine and didn't care about locating the FI ECU between the firewall and the battery tray.

Now that I'm FI'ing this engine, I need place the ECU in its original position. If the battery try is too close to the firewall, the ECU won't fit.

To check the fit of the ECU, I made a mock ECU out of wood that is the same size and maybe a bit larger than the ECU.

As the pic shows, there is room to mount the ECU. Yea! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)