 Finishing A 914-6 GT Conversion Project, Great Start, But The Devil Is In The Details! |
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| Lucky9146 |
 Dec 15 2017, 09:00 PM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart  Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California 
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Received the breather today.
Here it is pictured with a regular paint can for size. A little bigger than I thought but I should be able to find a decent spot for it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg)  |
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| Cairo94507 |
Dec 16 2017, 08:10 AM
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Michael Group: Members Posts: 10,095 Joined: 1-November 08 From: Auburn, CA Member No.: 9,712 Region Association: Northern California
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Nice looking part. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)
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| whitetwinturbo |
Dec 20 2017, 08:11 PM
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Honey, does this wing make my ass look fat? Group: Members Posts: 1,391 Joined: 22-October 11 From: Newport Beach/Kalefornya/USA Member No.: 13,704 Region Association: Southern California |
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| Lucky9146 |
Dec 20 2017, 11:13 PM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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Cairo94507 post Dec 16 2017, 06:10 AM
Nice looking part. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) QUOTE(whitetwinturbo @ Dec 20 2017, 06:11 PM)  Thanks for the support guys. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Progress has slowed considerably here but I have pretty much finished up the interior with the driver seat and roof now installed. Waiting on my steering wheel now. I might have sat in it the other day and went vroom vroom when no one was looking. But there's no pics and I'll never admit it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Next: more underside. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg)  |
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 1 2018, 09:30 PM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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A good lesson on what NOT to do (don’t put shit off) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)
Had always the thought the bottom of the floor pan would not be any kind of priority…..until I started cleaning it up. I just put it off never contemplating doing anything to it and should have done this way back. Turns out to be in pretty good shape mostly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) That's the good news! This is how the car has looked for over 2 weeks as I have continued working on cleaning and doing a bit of minor repair on the bottom almost every day just a little bit. Waiting till late in the game meant wrapping up the car to keep the sanding dust off. This of course led to covering the underside of the engine too. And should have done all this when it was 80 instead of now! Almost done! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg)   |
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 2 2018, 09:39 AM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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Got my steering wheel back and the hand leather wrap came out fantastic! Local guy does very good work. Installing soon.
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 3 2018, 09:29 PM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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Progress! I was out in the garage 11 hours.
Took 5 small things off the list yesterday, which sounds impressive……but then I added 2 more. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Well the list is shorter ultimately. One of the small things was to fab this support bracket for the oil hard line under the engine, I felt it just needed to be supported. Several locations and bracket types explored this one seemed the best compromise.  Saw somewhere posted on this site not that long ago a cool picture of a clock related to a car that took forever to finish and the thought got stuck in my head. I needed a clock like that! Today I made mine. So here it is and it helps keep things in perspective. Every multi year project deserves one! January looking good to finish it! Yes 2018 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg)  |
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| mmichalik |
Jan 4 2018, 12:05 AM
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MikeM Group: Members Posts: 732 Joined: 27-January 16 From: Valley Center, CA Member No.: 19,600 Region Association: Southern California
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Jim,
Where did you get the steering wheel wrapped? I'm going to need mine done soon as well and yours looks great! Mike |
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 4 2018, 09:17 AM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(mmichalik @ Jan 3 2018, 10:05 PM) Jim, Where did you get the steering wheel wrapped? I'm going to need mine done soon as well and yours looks great! Mike Escondido Custom Upholstery. Oscar is a great guy to deal with. Small shop, intensive detail. If you can stop by his shop soon you can see a car he is working on now. Amazing work! He has done 2 for me now. Tell him I said Hi. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg) |
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| mmichalik |
Jan 4 2018, 06:57 PM
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MikeM Group: Members Posts: 732 Joined: 27-January 16 From: Valley Center, CA Member No.: 19,600 Region Association: Southern California
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Turns out thats is the same shop / guy that did the upholstery (what little there was of it) on my dads race car.
I will definitely be bringing my stuff to him. Thanks Jim! Mike |
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 7 2018, 03:14 PM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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Everything happens for a reason.
Drove up for the first time to Cars and Coffee yesterday in San Clemente hoping to meet up with and talk to 914 guys. Got to hang out with Lawrence, Steve, Keith, and Forrest. Yes, my car is still on jack stands. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) It helps with motivation to talk with 914-6 conversion guys and see their cars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Forrest was in from AZ and rode in with Keith. Looking in Lawrence’s very clean frunk (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) I got to talking with Forrest about expansion tank’s and charcoal canisters. Mine was removed apparently so I was all ears when Forrest was talking about long sweeping left curves generating strong fuel smell in the cabin without them. This morning I went to check out my current set up. I like the clean look without the expansion tank or charcoal canister. But........  Right now I am missing the large overflow hose leading from the tank filler surround that exits under the car and I’m currently working on replacing that. But the small hose that is in the filler neck visible when you remove the gas cap had a small hose leading down below and behind the tank. Pulling up that hose I found it was far too short and would not have poked out the bottom of the car AND it appeared to be clogged! So, had I not gone to C&C I would not have discovered the clogged vent hose or length. I’m in a quandary as to whether my ’74 6 conversion needs an expansion tank and canister? Found a thread here recently addressing 1970 expansion tanks and am resurrecting it to get wider insight and recommendations for my situation. I see no evidence (in terms of holes at the red line by the antenna hole) on my car of the hoses being routed to the engine compartment so don’t know what a ’74 originally had and can't tell from this.  Of course now I wish I 'd have looked closer at Lawrence's set up or taken pics! Duh! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) To be clear I am not looking for originality more functionality. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg) |
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| defianty |
Jan 7 2018, 03:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 659 Joined: 9-August 06 From: Essex, UK Member No.: 6,621 Region Association: None  |
I'm no expert on the expansion tank and charcoal filter but my car never had either connected in my ownership and I never had a problem with fuel smells. The car had been converted to carbs.
With the six conversion now both the charcoal canister and expansion will be left in the parts bin. |
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| mepstein |
Jan 7 2018, 04:08 PM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 19,597 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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All the 4’s had the expansion tank and charcoal filter.
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| rick8928 |
Jan 7 2018, 06:46 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 2-November 17 From: Baltimore Member No.: 21,564 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
While building a Factory Five cobra replica, created a homemade charcoal canister for less than $15. 8" PVC pipe, 2 PVC end caps (one drilled in the center to mount a brass hose coupling, the other perforated with multiple drill holes), a piece of screen to cover the perforations, and some aquarium charcoal.
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 8 2018, 10:58 AM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(defianty @ Jan 7 2018, 01:35 PM) I'm no expert on the expansion tank and charcoal filter but my car never had either connected in my ownership and I never had a problem with fuel smells. The car had been converted to carbs. With the six conversion now both the charcoal canister and expansion will be left in the parts bin. That is the same direction I am headed and I will not install them either. Carbs here too. Thanks and hope your making good progress! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg) |
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 8 2018, 11:05 AM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(mepstein @ Jan 7 2018, 02:08 PM) All the 4’s had the expansion tank and charcoal filter. I'm sure you are correct I just don't see where the hoses may have gone from the front trunk toward the engine is all. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) Oh well. Thanks and as I said in my last post, planning to just keep the clean look without them. I was more concerned as to whether it was actually a necessity. Apparently not. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg) |
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 8 2018, 11:10 AM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(rick8928 @ Jan 7 2018, 04:46 PM) While building a Factory Five cobra replica, created a homemade charcoal canister for less than $15. 8" PVC pipe, 2 PVC end caps (one drilled in the center to mount a brass hose coupling, the other perforated with multiple drill holes), a piece of screen to cover the perforations, and some aquarium charcoal. Thanks Rick cool idea but on further digging I'm just running without them and fix my hose routing. I did have the expansion tank already and Lawrence was going to give me a charcoal filter so it was not a parts problem. Gook luck with your car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg) |
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| gothspeed |
Jan 8 2018, 11:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,539 Joined: 3-February 09 From: SoCal Member No.: 10,019 Region Association: None |
Good idea on the deletion of the expansion tank and charcoal canister ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
So to do this, one just needs to cap the nipple at the neck of the fuel filler? |
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| Lucky9146 |
Jan 8 2018, 11:52 AM
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Always Wanted A Bigger Go Cart Group: Members Posts: 1,663 Joined: 22-September 14 From: Poway California Member No.: 17,942 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(gothspeed @ Jan 8 2018, 09:32 AM) Good idea on the deletion of the expansion tank and charcoal canister ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) So to do this, one just needs to cap the nipple at the neck of the fuel filler? No, I would not cap that small nipple in the neck but rather run a short hose to a "T" in the larger over flow hose coming from the filler surround. I found these pics in a thread related to the same subject on real 914-6 expansion tank discussion.  But as shown in this pic running the expansion hose to the "T", instead run the hose from the filler neck nipple to the "T". My current plan.  Or you could just run the small hose and the larger one out the bottom of the car if you can't find a "T" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg) |
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| mepstein |
Jan 8 2018, 11:56 AM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 19,597 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) You don't want the tank to "pressurize".
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