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]

Progress, actual progress! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)

Some of you that know me may have trouble believing this but I have actually been working on my 914! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
And this weekend I actually made progress. Most of my time so far has been undoing stuff the PO did poorly but yesterday I made net progress.

I finished installing the fuse panel and put the driver door back on.


I routed the front portion of the wire harness up to the headlights, horns and fog lights, nothing is connected yet but the harness is in place.

Cleaned up the rear Fuse/relay panel in prep to install it.


I ran the rear harness to the tail lights and connected them. The complete rear harness from the fuse panel back to the taillights has been rewrapped with electrical tape and has some patching to the right rear taillight, maybe else where as well. I will probably see if I can find a new harness and replace it at some point latter but for now hopefully it works.


I have removed the tail shifter shift lever and front shift rod. I am switching over to a side shift trans I have had for awhile.


I removed the poorly assembled & installed Mega Squirt wiring, I am installing a known running 2.0L with D-jet.


The Mega Squirt was installed with the control unit behind the passenger seat and the harness run thru the tunnel and into the engine comp. The harness had to be disconnected from each engine component just to get the engine out. To get the harness out I had to pull out the stainless fuel lines since the harness was wrapped around and thru the fuel lines. It took me several tries to get the fuel lines back in the tunnel correctly, they apparently were a bit bent, but I got them in.I also installed the rear fuel line grommets which I found inside the tunnel.

Still have a long way to go but at least I am heading the right direction!!

Jim