BUILD-OFF CHALLENGE: Barn find with 50k original miles Options

[Matty900]

Car looks really nice, you guys!!!!

Are you sure this isn't a reality show and we don't realize it??

More like altered reality.
The drive so far had a few thing's of interest. The highway on the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge was closed due to a forest fire. We crossed back on to Oregon in Hood River over a narrow toll bridge that was a white knuckle test of skill with the trailer behind me. I posted a cool timelapse of that drive on Facebook.
Comming out of Boise they was a pretty cool lighting storm.
Going to catch a few zzz's in twin falls and then try and meet up with the group at PMB. Probably going to miss tgem but well see how it goes.

[Matty900]

Made it in to Utah and had and engine light come on in the truck and started loosing power. Limped into an auto parts store and pulled the codes. I replaced the Map sensor and the Mass Airflow sensor and reset the codes. Pulled out, still dogging out. Turned around and went to a dealership to have them check it out. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

[Matty900]

Dealership ran Diagnostics found that the map sensor I just bought from O'Reilly was bad. Put the original one back in it reset all the codes and went and drove it out runs fine (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) now to hook the trailer back up and get the Colorado

[raynekat]

Nice Dude...that's great news. Weird for sure.
Hope the rest of your trip is uneventful.
Enjoy this weekend.

[Matty900]

Made it to Red Rocks!!

[ConeDodger]

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[Matty900]

Well we got the car together and running by 9/14. Made it all the way to Red Rocks classic from Oregon and the car was well received by all. As I head back to Oregon I'm going to play all the things that I still need to do the first on the list will be pulling the temporary carburetor off and going to a microsort set up.

[Matty900]

While we were at the hotel in Glenwood Springs a German tourist came through the parking lot and was looking at the cars. He really liked everything that was done on this car and I got to talking with him. He also has a 914 in Germany. Turns out he lives in Stuttgart and worked for Porsche for 15 years as an engineer. He wanted pictures with the car and loved the German front license plate.

[Matty900]

So now that I have had a chance to make it back in town and get caught up on a few things I'll go ahead and get some of my backlog of postings on this build out of the way. But towards the end it got pretty crazy and a lot of things happened. So the first big thing was the engine. The engine builder got it set up with dual dellorto carbs.
But when we went to start it we still had some Gremlins to work out and he was not able to be there for the initial start.

[Matty900]

When we did finally get ready to start the engine we had some very unwanted excitement.
https://youtu.be/K3btzJtjZrs
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[Matty900]

Thankfully we got the fire out in seconds and there was no damage done to the shop or the car. We were able to get everything secure and get the engine running for breaking it in. Granite for about a half an hour at over 2,000 RPM. At idle it had a mechanical noise we didn't like. So we call the engine builder and had him, come back up to sort it out. At this point we were still trying to get it running for making it to Okteenerfest.

[Matty900]

Next morning we pulled the engine. Cary had it out in record time like 32 minutes. And they went to work operating on it trying to figure out what the noise was. They quickly figured out that only one of the flywheel bolts had been tightened. So they went to work operating on it. Given the time we had to try and have the car running he brought a backup option for induction. We pulled off the dellortos and put on his favorite option when running on sand rails. A Corvair face to mix and a large Holley 4-barrel carb.

[Matty900]

With the new carburetor setup on I got the engine back in the car and got it tuned https://youtu.be/OIesLy0zvO0 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

[Matty900]

With the new carb setup I still needed to have linkage that would work correctly. Like Cary mentioned earlier in this thread

[Matty900]

The ceramic-coated exhaust looks awesome and the car sounds great with the cam and the Triad exhaust

[Matty900]

Installed new bushings and shifter ball cup for the side shift transmission.

[Matty900]

Installed an out of sight Bluetooth recover/amp 75 watts per channel. Used leftover hushmat to line the speaker pods for Better Sound. Installed a radio delete plate with a strong magnet for holding the phone and put some remaining Dash face vinyl on it to hide it from first glance so you don't notice it at first and it can be removed.

Update 2/6/19 we not carry the out-of-sight Bluetooth units https://900designs-container.zoeysite.com/o...etooth-receiver

[Dave_Darling]

Magnet for the phone? That may have some unwanted side-effects. I don't know how it will affect the phone's circuitry and memory, for instance, and a friend of mine found that putting her phone down upside-down on an external phone battery caused it to register a bunch of "phantom taps". She believes it's due to the EMI from the battery.

So use caution when putting phones on large magnets.

--DD

[Matty900]

Thanks Dave. The set up I am using involves a metal plate that I placed inside of the case for the phone. So the magnet is attaching to it and not the phone. It is similar to the one I use in my truck and other car for the past year with no problems.

[Matty900]

Got the lower dash and vents back on today