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I've reached a fork in the road, neead input on which way to go |
Type 47 |
Jul 11 2020, 06:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 784 Joined: 1-June 10 From: St. Louis, MO Member No.: 11,790 Region Association: None |
if you check my sig below you will see that I'm familiar with the 914 and some of my decisions may be emotionally influenced. I acquired a 75' about 5 years ago that was in great shape, low miles. I bought it with a fully resto in mind; and somewhat wanting to end up with something that emulated my original 73' that I bought in 77'.
I took it fully apart. The only rust it had was surface rust on the under side and probably some in the shift tunnel. other than that no rust in the hell hole, jack mounts, really anywhere. So I should have buzzed off the surface rust on the bottom and have called it a day. But no, I had to take it apart and have it media blasted and a fully body restoration. Cool 62k car getting a full up resto. Damn the media blast revealed that it had been rear ended; which meant the front was bashed too. Late 1970's body shop's fixed the car OK; it really just hast a little crumple in the back trunk and the front trunk. somewhat minor but is really major. So while the original body work was OK and the resto bodywork really makes it only visible when you pull up the carpets in the front and back trunks (that will eventually be there). SO HERE IS THE FORK IN THE ROAD... I'm ready to put this together. I have an LS1 sitting in the corner of my garage. emotionally I would like to just put the 2.0 back in and suffer through getting the Weber's or the original FE back on. I'm also thinking that the LS1 might increase the enjoyment of the 914 once it's finished. I've dreuled over RH cars literally since they began and still have a VW/Porsche magazine with a 914 and 911 conversion on the cover. Even though this car was damaged in it's early life, i'm not sure I want to cut it up to do the conversion. I've not talked with RH about what needs to be sacrificed for the conversion, but I know it has to be at least the front trunk area. I saw a post about a fairly radical conversion and it cut the rear trunk, firewall, and front trunk. i'm hoping the basic conversion just makes a place for the radiator. SO CONSIDERING the damage back in the day, it will never be a concourse car. It is completely rust free. SHOULD I PUT IT BACK TO STOCK OR DO THE LS CONVERSION????? If you noticed I have c6 z06 track car and a c7 z51 so I don't really mind going stock with 102 2.0 HP but 350 HP in a 914 sounds really fun too. This is a big fork in the road and your input is very helpful |
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Jul 12 2020, 02:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 784 Joined: 1-June 10 From: St. Louis, MO Member No.: 11,790 Region Association: None |
I know it's my car and I'm going to do with it what I want to but sometimes figuring that out requires input and everyone here has given me some great input.
I would love to drop that LS1 in but I know that is going to be expensive (to end up where I would want it to be) and labor and time intense to get it finished. Hell I've got a big task ahead of me just getting it back together. I don't mind a little surgery in the front trunk but cutting the firewall and rear trunk may be a little more than I can allow. I'm really leaning towards keeping it stock after reading all of your posts. NOW MY NEXT QUESTION...what's the best route to put a 2056 in it? What is a 2056 exactly? The engine from the car is a 62k mile 1975 2.0 that the PO encountered some FI issues back in the day (we all pulled them off as soon as we couldn't figure out which part of the FI was bad) and put dual Webbers on. I do have the FI components in a box somewhere, I think the Webbers are in my garage attic. |
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