Just arrived in the garage: 1971 914-4 1.7 Options

[cary]

Picked up the donor car this am ...............



This is the first car that I think had spent it's entire life in California. There is no rust in the sail panels. Only two little spots from the foam over the passengers door handle. Front hood has no visible rust under the rolled edge. The front trunk seal channel is bitch'n. But it has fairly aggressive damage from the battery acid.
Rear trunk was cut for the V6. But not removed. So it could be re-welded.





Doug we got your seat belt retractor pockets too .......................



Top is going to the dump. Big crack right down the middle.
Extra front end.
We got 3 of the rear wheels.

[raynekat]

Just put together one of the seat bases after getting everything back from the powder coater and plater...plus using 914 Rubber's seat base bushing kit.









Everything went smooth excepting the supplied roll pin...just too large to fit in the hole.
So instead I used a tapered pin I found at our local hardware store.
Easier fit by far, and will never come out.

The big problem or puzzle was how to "wind up" the spring so that the tapered pin could be inserted.
Took some "Neanderthal" ingenuity, but I got it done with some help from the wife (need 3 hands for sure).

One more subsystem checked off.

[jmz]

Looks like you are on your way to building another nice one Doug.

I'm going to have to reach out to you for pointers when I start on the little details with mine.

Cheers,
JZ

[cary]

While cold galvanizing was drying I sprayed down the trunk support panel with OSPHO. Getting it ready for a rub down with a red scour pad and an application of cold galvanizing.

Took a couple minutes and tidied up the OSPHO and gave the panel a layer of cold galvanizing.

[raynekat]

While cold galvanizing was drying I sprayed down the trunk support panel with OSPHO. Getting it ready for a rub down with a red scour pad and an application of cold galvanizing.

Took a couple minutes and tidied up the OSPHO and gave the panel a layer of cold galvanizing.

Can't wait for some new progress on the metal work on my car.....
After Mark's car is done, then it's on to mine.

[Archie]

Just lookin' to build a killer 4 cylinder 914 that is factory race look.

I'll show you what I've got in mind over the coming months.

BTW....this was my attempt with a 911.

My '72 came with the "Porsche" decal on the rocker. Seems to be quite rare?

[raynekat]

Some of the 911 conversion parts arrived today.
Bit the bullet as I know I would have received a lot of flak for keeping the 914-4 braking system with a 911 engine that will be making around 200hp.
The upside is that I'll be able to take the car to the track....which I wouldn't have done previously.

Pity that I won't be able to use the killer 4 bolt Minilites, but I'm looking at a set of 15x6 deep (ET36) and 15x7R deep (ET49) replica Fuchs from Group 4 Wheels.
I'll get the wheels in bare aluminum and have them refinished in RSR style by these folks: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911...gh-quality.html
Haven't put the order in for these yet.



SC Bilstein struts and hubs. Dampers will be changed out for a set of Bilstein HD from Elephant Racing.

911 axles....you can see they are shorter than the 914 ones.
So I'll be doing the Sway-A-Way longer 930 axle conversion.

Trans flanges, 911 stub axles and rear hubs as well. Likely will be replated although they do look good currently.

All this came from Retro Automotive out of New Hampshire.
Very clean and in very good condition.
Can't recommend them enough....

[raynekat]

Another big batch of plating is coming back from Shaun @ Tru6 Restoration & Design.
As before, really, really nice work and will make putting the 71 back together a joy when that time comes next year.

[Frankvw]

Another great Plater-Picture ! nice work Raynekat. interesting to read the posts/progress.

[cary]

I hope to be back on it tomorrow.
4 corner brake work and fuel injection install on Mark's car today.

[cary]

Like always, I ran into a few more issues on Mark's car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Mark's car is not ready to go home yet, but onto Doug's car we go.
The star of the show ..................



New episode of Tool Whore. I will be purchasing a Snap On PTS1000 for the heavy lifting. It has a dual chuck that allows you to use Sawzall blades with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCYjl8c3Rw

[raynekat]

I'm ready to go Cary.....

[cary]

We need to be thinking about the stripping, I'm thinking the sooner the better.

Then maybe a sit down with the paint shop to talk about how far I go. i.e. primer and body filler. 1st. I don't want to do anything to void the paint job warranty. 2nd. No reason to do something they'll just remove and redo.
Bad money ..............

With the Jan 1st. dead line I think I'll be burning the mid-nite oil a couple nights per week.

I'll get Super In Law (Jack) building a couple more sets of door braces and engineering the new under carriage extension for the rotisserie mounts.
Then I'll move my car to a dolly and we should be good to go.

Dad's Garage had a Jiffy Lube oil change yesterday for the daughters, new to her 2013 Acura TSX, nice car. She said, "Dad, did you know you have nine 914's here right now ?". She proceeded to shoot pictures of each and post them on Snap Chat. Too funny. I hadn't really thought about it.

[mepstein]

Some of the 911 conversion parts arrived today.
Bit the bullet as I know I would have received a lot of flak for keeping the 914-4 braking system with a 911 engine that will be making around 200hp.
The upside is that I'll be able to take the car to the track....which I wouldn't have done previously.

Pity that I won't be able to use the killer 4 bolt Minilites, but I'm looking at a set of 15x6 deep (ET36) and 15x7R deep (ET49) replica Fuchs from Group 4 Wheels.
I'll get the wheels in bare aluminum and have them refinished in RSR style by these folks: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911...gh-quality.html
Haven't put the order in for these yet.



SC Bilstein struts and hubs. Dampers will be changed out for a set of Bilstein HD from Elephant Racing.

911 axles....you can see they are shorter than the 914 ones.
So I'll be doing the Sway-A-Way longer 930 axle conversion.

Trans flanges, 911 stub axles and rear hubs as well. Likely will be replated although they do look good currently.

All this came from Retro Automotive out of New Hampshire.
Very clean and in very good condition.
Can't recommend them

We got some 7R & 6 deep w/hearts, replica wheels from group 4. It took one of my guys many many hours to sand and polish the finish before they were usable. They come very rough. Don't be surprised if your refinisher charges you $$$ to do the job.

[cary]

Ran to Clackamas first thing and picked up the new Snap-On air saw. By the time we stopped for lunch we didn't get to the shop till noon, but I hit the ground running.
I've been dreaming of cutting off the tail end of the qtr. panels for a month.


After the trouble with the trunk seal channels on Mark's car, I scaled back my cut out a bit. In addition both trunks are getting fiberglass with wood frame lids. Which will be quite the challenge to get the fit I want.


Back to cutting up a perfectly good car.



I got so engrossed in my work I forgot to shoot a couple before pictures of the parts car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Qtrs cut off. Taillight panel cut away. Because of my needs on the qtr. panels I only salvaged the center section of the taillight panel. Super In Law is working on breaking down the tow hook in case it might be needed for a bumper back date.


Looks almost like the Pre-Runner truck I'll be driving in Baja. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Then on to the tedious task of cutting out the seat belt retractor pocket.
This is not for the faint of heat. Very tight work up against the door/targa bar frame.
Primary issue is doing as little damage as possible to the parent material of the pocket area.


We will save/cut out the bottom half of the firewall at a later date


That one unseen spot weld gave me fits getting the piece out.

But here she is stripped down and sitting on the work table.




I'll get after the left side first thing in the am. Then on to the tedious task of unpeeling the onion. Breaking down the multi layered portion, one layer at a time.

[cary]

Friday was spent prepping the parts cut out of the donor car. Note : The parts were cut out intentionally large to allow me to work from the backside. This will allow me to do the least amount of damage to the parent material of the part being used on the car.

Step One :
Remove all seam sealer with heat gun and small and medium wood chisel.


Step Two :
Cut down back side of spot welds with cutter.


Step Three :
Pop off cut spot welds with small wood chisel


Engineering Plan :
After all the dust has cleared from the sawing. Determined that the pocket will be trimmed to fit. 1. Top portion will lay on the cross brace and be rosette welded in. 2. If I can, the outer and bottom weld to be lap welded with rosette and seam welds. Most of the busy work will be under the interior back pad.

[cary]

Now where was I ? Next I was on to preparing the qtr. panel back corners. After looking at the taillight panel I decided a was going open up the rosette holes on the lower portion. The lower portion of the taillight panel is solid. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)





The cut out of the taillight portion went well. Did have one drill thru, but all in all, nice. You will find piles of seam sealer up in the inside corner. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
Next will be blasting it clean. I'll use garnet on the back. I'm thinking I'll try the walnuts I have for the front. See what type of finish it gives me.





Weapons tray ..............

[raynekat]

Because I'm putting a 2.4 MFI engine into the car, certain MFI specific items are needed.

First off, MFI micro filter and console.
New filter, powder coated bracket, freshly yellow zinc plated hardware, new seal gaskets, and misc hardware.

Ready to supply high pressure fuel to the hungry beast....

[raynekat]

Next up an MFI specific fuel feed/supply pump.
With freshly powder coated pump bracket.

Again needed for the high pressure fuel needs of an MFI engine.....

[raynekat]

From Stoddards, a new high efficiency 914-6 oil cooler.

This was sent to Pacific Oil Cooler to be cleaned and pressure tested.
Considering what the engine will cost to build, this seemed like a smart thing to do.

It's hard to tell by just looking whether or not these oil coolers are good...
For example, the oil cooler that came on the engine actually failed the pressure test even though it looked fine....was going to sell it. Trashed it instead.

Also most of the flexible oil lines that go with the 914-6 oil tank....