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]

This side was also repaired like the passenger side with a big plate of steel and wrapped around the bottom of the long. That is a big hole in the long and just above it is a piece of tinfoil which I think was used to hold bondo on when the fender was repaired.




WTF half-assed repair is this on the jack point. It is very flexible and basically unusable. The top of the jack tube support plate is still there but the bottom has rusted away.

The gas tank vent hoses have some sort of grommet on them. Where would these grommets go?




Close-up of the hole. Looks like I'll be taking off the sill plate and cutting the corner of the fender off to get access to the jack point.

However, the long at this point is relatively rigid so I will postpone the long corrective surgery until after the engine is back in. This way I can get the car on the road and as the long is repaired, I will have the correct pressure on the long to make sure the body dimensions don't change.