what do you think of this 914-6? [I bought it!], back to original Irish Green now Options

[turk22]

I guess its never gonna see rain... no windshield wipers!

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[rhodyguy]

I would put a driver's side assem and nut in the front trunk with a 13mm wrench. Like a box of chocolates...

[rgalla9146]

I would put a driver's side assem and nut in the front trunk with a 13mm wrench. Like a box of chocolates...

.....you never know what you get .....
better make that a 14 and don't forget the tiny wave washer.

[siverson]

Thanks for the compliments.

> I guess its never gonna see rain... no windshield wipers!

Actually that's just one of items still on the todo list. And yes, now the undercarriage is super dirty and I basically feel compelled to tear the car apart again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

He actually saw some light rain the other night with the top off - my 7yo daughter loved it.

-Steve

[rhodyguy]

I stand corrected.

[rhodyguy]

I think doing the the Siskyous in May with no wipers is a little risky. Positive on that one. The weather can go sideways quickly on the Oregon side.

[smg914]

Is this right? I don't think I've had a car with this part before, I don't exactly remember what it looked like when I took it off.

-Steve

The torsion bars holding the engine lid up should be black not body color (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif)

[siverson]

> The torsion bars holding the engine lid up should be black not body color

Really? Are all 914s that way or just the sixes? I've never really noticed before, but I think my orange car (1974 914-4) has orange bars there too.

You have any photos to share?

But the rear trunk torsion bars are body color, right?

I guess I'll add that to my list of crimes against humanity I've committed. I suppose at some point we are all some future owners DPO. Someone, sometime in the future is going to open that engine lid and start swearing about some hack (me) couldn't take the time to paint the torsion bars the right color. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I actually found another one this weekend that I can't believe I've never noticed - this car has a late dash in it! I knew it was replaced in the 80s sometime, and the PO had notched the late dash slightly so the glove box would still open all the way. I've crawled all over this car and interior, and I never really thought to look and just noticed it this weekend.

-Steve

[siverson]

Weird. Not sure why I never thought of that. They do all appear to be black.

EDIT/UPDATE: this does appear just to be bars for -4 lids.

-Steve

[sixnotfour]

Sixes were body color....well all of mine are.. not repainted..
picture is rgalla9146

[siverson]

The battle lines have been drawn!!!

-Steve

[siverson]

Hmmm... another quick search for just 914-6 engine lids does look they should be body color.

The silver photo is from a nice restored six, the orange one is from an unrestored supposedly never repainted original six.

-Steve

[smg914]

Very interesting.

Here is a photo scanned from a 1993 European Car magazine of the 5,600 mile willow green 914-6.

[Racer]

IIRC both my '70 1.7 and my Dad's '70 914-6 are body color.

[Cairo94507]

Both of my 70 Sixes were body color. One SignalOrange and the other Irish Green. My '71, with original paint still in the engine compartment, were body color, albeit chipped up pretty good.

[sbsix]

My '70 six is body color; light ivory.

[pete000]

I went through some photos of sixes that I looked at purchasing in the past and found most were painted at some time body color during a repaint. Not sure what they were originally.

I did find one that was black, but not sure if they painted them black them selves.

[larryM]

interesting thread
- lots of nice pictures
- lots of different opinions on originality, etc

obviously the repaint as acquired was crummy at best

some folks want you to keep it absolutely 100 point oem to maximize it at six figures

others want you to ditch the Marelli, etc - which means it is no longer a 100 point oem Parade Concours car

is there anyone here who will really PAY six figures for it when it is finished? ??

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[sixnotfour]

Here is 2 1970 4 banger engine lids and guess what the torsion springs are body color also...yes they are both Irish Green...I also measured the diameter of the spring and the -4 painted ones and the -6 painted ones are the same diameter.
I suspect when they changed the rain trey they needed a bit heftier spring..

So the myth of -6 having lighter torsion springs is almost correct , except that all the early 914's have lighter torsion springs...solved (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

AA's willow green 914-6 is a 71 , I have seen another 71 -6 and 2 -4's that have black torsion springs... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon_bump.gif)

[siverson]

I brought the car into European Motorsports a couple weeks ago because I just couldn't get the carbs to work well. It was running "ok", but it seemed like throttle response was really poor, flat spots in the middle, etc. I'm not sure what happened because when the engine was first built (~5k miles ago) it was running really well.

Anyways, after two trips there (argh), two sets of new spark plugs, and increasing the venturis from 27mm to 30mm and jets from 105 to 120, it's a whole new car. Running much better and just rips all the way to 7k. Vrooom.

While it was there they thought both rear wheel bearings were noisy. I didn't really notice anything, but since I had the WCR trip to Oregon coming up, I didn't want to risk it and took it apart.

I'm glad I did, the passenger side was totally shot, so I just decided to replace both. I honestly can't think of any other wear component that I didn't replace during this entire rebuild and have been kicking myself for not replacing these while the car was apart. Good news is everything came apart pretty easily.

-Steve