 1974 Porsche 914-4 Restoration, I'm restoring a 1974 chassis with a 1972 engine |
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| GeorgeKopf |
  Mar 14 2021, 05:50 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 189 Joined: 9-February 21 From: Princeton, NJ Member No.: 25,186 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region  |
Today marks the official beginning of my 1974 Porsche 914-4 restoration project.
      I'm hoping to have the car on the road before its 50 anniversary. |
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| GeorgeKopf |
Feb 26 2022, 07:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 189 Joined: 9-February 21 From: Princeton, NJ Member No.: 25,186 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Bare naked 914!
The chassis just came back from the chemical dip.  First the good news. All four quarter panels are smooth and straight.    Both the front and rear trunk lids look really good.   The doors look really good.  It is fairly obvious that this chassis has never been hit. The rest is just what you would expect to find. The hell hole and the driver side.   The trunk pans.     The headlight cavities.   Wheel wells     Rear end   Gas tank cavity    Longitudinals   There is a bit of work to untwist some pretty crappy welding by the previous owners and a bunch of areas that need some repair. It could have been much worse. The chassis is now in the hands of Tony at Translog GT in York PA. All in all, I'm delighted!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) |
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| Archie |
Jul 11 2022, 08:44 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 197 Joined: 23-September 09 From: Western Canada Member No.: 10,844 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
QUOTE(GeorgeKopf @ Feb 26 2022, 06:41 PM)  Bare naked 914! Does that look great or what! A word of caution though, I had my Big Healey chemically stripped some time ago and was later gobsmacked to find that rust still lurked in all the pinch (spot) welded seams! I'm still researching a "cure" for that; need something oily with lots of "creep". |
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| sixaddict |
Aug 30 2022, 09:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 863 Joined: 22-January 09 From: Panama City Beach, FL Member No.: 9,961 Region Association: South East States 
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Ever come up with solution QUOTE(Archie @ Jul 11 2022, 06:44 PM) QUOTE(GeorgeKopf @ Feb 26 2022, 06:41 PM) Bare naked 914! Does that look great or what! A word of caution though, I had my Big Healey chemically stripped some time ago and was later gobsmacked to find that rust still lurked in all the pinch (spot) welded seams! I'm still researching a "cure" for that; need something oily with lots of "creep". |
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GeorgeKopf 1974 Porsche 914-4 Restoration Mar 14 2021, 05:50 PM
bkrantz Enjoy the "ride". Mar 14 2021, 07:28 PM Jamie
Today marks the official beginning of my 1974 Por... Mar 14 2021, 08:03 PM
GeorgeKopf
Today marks the official beginning of my 1974 Po... Mar 14 2021, 10:15 PM Root_Werks That looks like a good starting 914 to me! Yo... Mar 15 2021, 05:24 PM GeorgeKopf Prepping the car for the body shop. Added the hoo... Mar 22 2021, 09:02 AM Shivers Looks like a real good start. I'm back to this... Mar 22 2021, 09:21 AM GeorgeKopf I dropped the car off at TranslogGT (http://transl... Jul 11 2021, 12:34 AM GeorgeKopf I finished refurbishing my wiring harness. I repa... Oct 2 2021, 08:26 PM bkrantz Nice work! All the hours spent on the wiring ... Oct 2 2021, 08:53 PM Cairo94507 Really nice work that is going to pay huge dividen... Oct 3 2021, 06:34 AM Mikey914 Nice work. Hopefully most of the work done is good... Oct 3 2021, 12:24 PM GeorgeKopf Just finished refurbishing my front turn signal ho... Oct 16 2021, 09:35 PM mlindner That looks great George, keep posting. Mark Nov 6 2021, 02:56 PM TRS63 Great work making progress on all the parts during... Nov 7 2021, 03:39 AM StarBear Ah, just found this. Yeah, probably not ready in t... Jan 11 2022, 02:30 PM StarBear @GeorgeKopf Presuming (?) you had metalwork don... Jan 15 2022, 08:12 AM GeorgeKopf
@[url=http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?show... Jan 17 2022, 09:48 PM StarBear
[quote name='StarBear' post='2974729' date='Jan 1... Jan 18 2022, 08:13 AM barnfind9141972
Bare naked 914!
There is a bit of work to... Feb 26 2022, 10:24 PM GeorgeKopf
Bare naked 914!
There is a bit of work t... Feb 27 2022, 12:47 AM GeorgeKopf Going to refurbish my suspension while Translog GT... Feb 28 2022, 12:23 AM Dion Wow, what a great candidate to begin a restoration... Feb 28 2022, 05:26 AM Superhawk996 Given that you've done a full tub acid dip, ar... Feb 28 2022, 07:36 AM GeorgeKopf @Superhawk996
Wow. That looks great. I'm je... Feb 28 2022, 12:48 PM Superhawk996
[b]@[url=http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?s... Feb 28 2022, 12:59 PM GeorgeKopf I hear you about having somebody else do the plati... Feb 28 2022, 02:23 PM GeorgeKopf Turns out my powder coating oven is not big enough... Mar 24 2022, 08:06 PM Superhawk996
Also, I've had good success with Zinc platin... Mar 25 2022, 06:07 AM friethmiller
I've had good success with Zinc plating but c... Mar 25 2022, 12:38 PM GeorgeKopf I can't believe how long it has been since I l... Jun 10 2023, 07:25 PM GeorgeKopf I just visited my chassis at Translog (York, PA).
... Sep 17 2023, 06:37 PM windforfun Did you attend Princeton University?
:) :) :) Sep 17 2023, 06:47 PM GeorgeKopf
Did you attend Princeton University?
:) :) :)... Sep 17 2023, 08:00 PM GeorgeKopf Brought home the finished chassis this past weeken... Jul 21 2024, 08:46 PM StarBear Wow! :Qarl: Super lovely! A passion, for ... Jul 22 2024, 04:52 AM 930cabman Lookin great, keep us updated as you complete this... Jul 22 2024, 05:01 AM |
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