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> Bringing Back The Dead, Restoring/Updating an old school 914-v8 Conversion
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post May 19 2015, 05:03 PM
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Those 17" Fuchs are nice!

Nice meeting you last week!
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post May 19 2015, 05:26 PM
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Thanks! You too man!
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post May 19 2015, 05:50 PM
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Nice work! The Brad Mayeur kit should stiffen it up quite a bit, especially if the longs were weak. Should feel great when you get it back on the road. You'll love the Speedhut gauges. Very easy to set up and use. What style did you get?

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post May 19 2015, 05:55 PM
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These right here. I know the Brad kit made a night and day difference on the 73, and that car wasnt as flimsy as this car was. I am doing the GT Reinforcement and trailing arm reinforcement also



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post May 19 2015, 06:45 PM
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Nice! Mine are very similar. White during the day, blue at night, black surrounds but the same font and layouts.
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post May 19 2015, 07:01 PM
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Cool. They have great reviews and the gps speedo makes life easy
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post May 19 2015, 07:34 PM
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What breed/kind of dog is that? He (she?) looks just like our dog, whom we got through a rescue league, so there was no history on our pooch.
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post May 19 2015, 08:06 PM
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Probably related! He came from big dog rescue and was expected to be 65+lbs of deer hound mix. .he's 42lbs of wire haired asshole. Loves us and great with my 3yr old but is hit or mostly miss with strangers and other dogs
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post May 19 2015, 09:06 PM
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Keep up the pace Erik. Nice work and ditto on the Fuchs wheels. I love 'em on GTs.
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post May 27 2015, 10:34 AM
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No updates for a while, sorry. I did get the interior torn down, hood off, fuel tank off and started tearing down the trailing arms for reinforcement and powdercoating.

Rich Johnson has been working away at the suspension and brake components and they are being shipped. I managed to sell the 73, so I can order up the fuel injection for the motor, so that will be fun. I pulled out all the HVAC components and will be filling the fresh air vent slots in the cowl as well as the washer nozzle holes.


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post May 28 2015, 06:13 AM
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Erik,
Cool work bringing the longs back in shape, you are quick with the repairs. Nice looking weld, that shows years of practice.

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post May 28 2015, 11:13 AM
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Thanks Dave. I am actually disappointed in those welds. My welder gas solenoid was getting funky and there wasn't much shielding gas getting to the weld, so they are a little porous. That's being fixed now before I continue with the welding. I did get some other little stuff blown apart though!


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post May 29 2015, 10:37 AM
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I think I am going to rename the car the FML914..Every time I take something apart I find another marginal repair. The bottom of the fuel tank hold was rusty at some point and poorly fiberglassed over. I can fix it, of course, but geez.

The car was originally irish green. but the front portion of the car looks like it may have once been light blue before being painted irish green and then black. I just have to keep going and reweld/reinforce everything..arggg...

Got fuel lines out so I can run a fresh -6 to the back to support the EFI thats on order. Going to relocate the battery cables through the center tunnel also (instead of strapped to the coolant pipes under the car) Started thinning out the wiring harness of extraneous wires. Decided to eliminate the relay board entirely. Going to a one-wire alternator as well.

My project board was fairly well crossed off, so it got wiped and re-written with a new list of excitement...


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post May 29 2015, 11:04 AM
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Going to relocate the battery cables through the center tunnel also (instead of strapped to the coolant pipes under the car)


YIKES! Imagine if the insulation rubbed through those...probably nothing but could be... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blowup.gif)

You're doing it right Erik. When you find a few weird things you have to go all the way down to square one and start fresh. There might have been a repair done if only one section was blue. It happens. As long as the tub is straight it's all good.
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post May 29 2015, 11:24 AM
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Yeah, when I got the truck of the transport and parked it in front of the house I looked at it and was like "what??" the cables were dragging on the ground because the zip tie broke! That's pretty much why it got immediately torn apart.
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post May 29 2015, 06:47 PM
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While your at it, you should just drop the 901 and go with a modern trans with a cable shift. Then you will actually have low enough engine rev's to travel 75MPH and get good gas mileage.


What's one more thing?

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post May 30 2015, 08:20 AM
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Yesterday I got the rear inner fenders cleaned and tacked in the gt kit. Also cut the front fenders off because I couldn't stand looking at them any more. I also got one trailing arm reinforcement pretty much done. Trying to finish the other one today so they can go to powder coat Monday.


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post May 30 2015, 08:21 AM
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post Jun 1 2015, 10:33 AM
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More pics from the weekend. Got the entire GT reinforcement kit welded in. Got the trailing arms boxed and ready to go to powder coat.


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