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]

The suspension pick-up is welded on including the support plates.

The geometry of this corner is all messed up from the previous hell hole repair where the inside suspension pick-up was replaced and mounted about 3/4 of an inch too low.

This means for proper camber I needed almost 1 inch of shim plates. Since I would never be removing the inside suspensino pick-up, I decided to lower the outside suspension pick-up about 5/8 of an inch to minimize the stack of shims needed. This drop can be observed by looking at the support strap to the fender.