My '74 914 Project Begins! Options

[designerguy90]

Hello all!

So my 914 refresh begins! As my car sits, it’s a ’74 1.8, which is somewhat cosmetically challenged (I know the pictures look good, and the car looks pretty good in person, but I am my father’s son and am anal about how my car looks, nothing short of perfection satisfies me).

My current project list includes(and none of these are in “order”):
-Brad Mayeur long kit
-new rocker covers
-dynamat for the firewall
-scuffing, sanding, fixing dents and repainting panels
-hunting for and fixing rust
-replacing battery tray (and fixing the trunk hinge while the engine is dropped, as well as rust hunting and fixing in the engine bay)
-replacing vinyl on sail panels
-refinish wheels
-clean and refinish wheel wells where necessary
-repaint/clean engine tin
-removing wart markers
-miscellaneous problems/projects that pop up along the way
-roll bar and harness bar (I want to autoX)

Currently, I’m planning on doing something fun with the car and giving it a subtle Gulf Oil theme. I have Gulf logos that are going on my front fenders in between where the door and front wheel arch is. I am also toying with either color matching the Fuchs centers Olympic blue, or painting the centers orange, as well as the bumpers, rocker covers and valances. Any thoughts on the paint, or other suggestions as I tear into the car? I am going to do this in quick bursts, so that I can have a car to drive, in between goals in repairing it. Eventually, the goal for the car is a 6 conversion, so I am going to be taking upgrades for that into account as I move forward as well.

-Alex

[designerguy90]

I like that photoshop of the car, but after some thought, I think I'm going to go something like this for the car, still going to put the Gulf vinyl on it though.



Over the last couple days, I got a bit more work done, I removed the jack pyramids and tubes, ground some other stuff down, wire wheeled the left front fender again, and did the same to the right side marker area. In prep for installing the 914ltd kit, I cut windows into my door sills as several other users suggested in another thread(though nowhere near as pretty looking!), and I plan on modifying the long kit as well, buy drilling a few more mounting holes for the welds, also as suggested in another thread. I was able to get the car up onto jackstands this morning, and will be doing a bit more prep work tonight and tomorrow in prep for the long kit install.

Is there anything I should disconnect on the car (electronic wise) prior to welding on it? I plan on taking lots of pictures of the process so be on the look out for updates over the next couple days.

Thanks guys,

Alex
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