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.

[FourBlades]

Your car is really coming along. You jack tube sticks out because
of the way your long was repaired. The stock metal is two layers
thick where the tube goes through. The innermost layer bows into
the long by an inch or more. The next layer is the outer long
which is vertical and has a hole in it that the jack tube passes
through.

You either need to cut a hole in your long and stick the tube
in and weld it or shorten the tube and weld it to your repaired long.
This may be weaker than stock, if your repaired long is two layers
of good metal it may work ok.

A little hard to explain in words, if you look at some of the other
rusto threads you can see what I mean.

John

[Spoke]

Your car is really coming along. You jack tube sticks out because
of the way your long was repaired. The stock metal is two layers
thick where the tube goes through. The innermost layer bows into
the long by an inch or more. The next layer is the outer long
which is vertical and has a hole in it that the jack tube passes
through.

You either need to cut a hole in your long and stick the tube
in and weld it or shorten the tube and weld it to your repaired long.
This may be weaker than stock, if your repaired long is two layers
of good metal it may work ok.

A little hard to explain in words, if you look at some of the other
rusto threads you can see what I mean.


John

Thanks, I knew the repaired long wasn't that much fatter than stock.

I think I will cut a hole then. If I shorten the tube, the jack may not seat all the way and could slip out.

In my best Dwight Shrute voice:
Question: How far does the tube stick out from the support? If I cut a hole and slide the tube in, then I need to know how far out the tube is from the support. I don't have a stock 914 to look at.......Who put my stapler in Jello? .....MICHAEL!!!!