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]

While I was untangling and rerouting the rear harness into the trunks I discovered the drive side trunk hinge mount has torn loose.
A fairly common failure and the passenger side had been welded before the paint work was down. Which made me wonder why the driver side was not fixed before painting but on closer inspection it looks to me that the driver side tore loose after the paint work was done.

I don't own a welder, so I will have to borrow one or take my car to someone that has a welder. I probably know at least a dozen people local to me that have welders I could use and of course McMark is a short drive (or tow) away.

Part of the problem with rear trunk hings is the torsion bar spring set up used to support the opened trunk lid. These method puts a lot of load on the hing pivots and I think that contributes to their failure. So I plan to convert to gas struts to lift the rear lid. Then the gas struts carry a large portion of the weight of the rear lid and reduce the load on the hing pivots.

So I took out the rear trunk torsion bars in preparation for conversion to gas shocks fr the rear trunk lid, PITA job!

Jim