Jim's Majik Blue 72, Progress, actual progress! Options

[jcd914]

I am resurrecting/hijacking this thread for my 914 Build Off thread.

I have made very little progress since I bought this 914 and started this thread.

My Build Off thread starts at post number 27 where I have a some background on me and my new Blue 914 and what I plan to accomplish as part of the 914 Build Off.

Thanks for following along!

Jim

I am leaving the original post in this thread so the post that follow make sense.

The original start:

So I went to Long Beach to spend Thanksgiving week with my kids, both my son and daughter now live in LB.
While I was in LB to took a trip up to Santa Clairita and bought Chris' (banger on 914world) Majik Blue Pearl 914 project. Chris has put a lot of work into this car with the engine he built and the paint & body work he had done. He has had an ad posted for awhile and had dropped his asking price too low for me to pass up.

This is going to be the beginnings of my project thread, which looks like it will mostly be reassembling the car after the body/paint work that was done. It is the body and paint work that lead me to buying this from Chris, it is an amazing color blue that changes with the light.

I did not bring a truck and trailer with me on vacation so I will be going back down (prob 2 weeks) to pick-up the car and parts. Empty truck & trailer from N. Cal to S. Cal if anyone needs something transported?

Now I need to sell off much of the 3 other 914s I have to support this project (and appease my wife). Since Chris' car was a complete runner before it came apart for paint/body work, there will soon be ads in the classified for much of my years of collecting.

Here is to new beginnings (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

Jim

[jcd914]

OK, So I have been spending what "914" time I have selling parts to recoup some of my cost from buying this new project car.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif) Today I actually started working on it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif)

Started sorting through the wiring harnes mess made when the car was stripped and painted.
Chris did not take out the whole harness, I think Chris (the PO) did the disassembly for paint work.
In the rear he pulled it all out of the rear trunk and into the engine compartment and bundled together.
In the passenger compartment he pulled the whole dashboard and dash frame, so the whole harness was loose and bundled together.
There is also a stereo harness, Mega-squirt harness and center console gauge harness mixed in here too.

The interior harnesses!?!



So mostly I untangled the harnesses and inspected them to see what I am up against. There are some poor splices in the harness that I will need to fixed and a bunch of additional connections I need to ID and correct.


Jim