And so it Begins 75, Reclamation of 75 914 Options

[EdwardBlume]

Nice! Putting your skills to work! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

[Cairo94507]

Those flares are looking great. If I had another 914 that I was going to build, it would have to have flares like that or the Tangerine Racing flares. Very smooth purposeful look. Almost a "pro-stock" look. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[jd74914]

Those flares are awesome!! I did something similar on the rear of my car, but yours are way nicer. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif)

Is that the ride height you're going for?

[djway]

I have been asked to provide more picts of the process

[djway]

more

[djway]

Front

[djway]

If you want to know what the inside of the tunnel looks like.
I had to weld several breaks in the clutch tube mounts and I added some extra braces for safe measure.

[burton73]

Thanks for your help.

Bob B (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

[djway]

Thanks for your help.

Bob B (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

Keep us posted on your progress

[djway]

Those flares are awesome!! I did something similar on the rear of my car, but yours are way nicer. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif)

Is that the ride height you're going for?

The photos show the suspension at full compression. This was done to ensure that the tires would not rub.
I won't be belly scraping, just going for a nice stance with the upper tire inside the wheel well.

[djway]

With all the rain it was lucky that I had already purchased the fabric for the seats. Nowhere near needing them yet but I was stuck inside.
I increased the bolster height and I added a lot of lumbar support. On the drivers seat I also installed an inflatable lumbar pad in case I need more (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
I have not tried to heat out the wrinkles yet.

[Mueller]

Great progress so far, you some nice work for sure.

[djway]

For several years I have been tinkering with a new way to have vented rotors without requiring 911 parts.
I found the Sebro rotors/hubs for the front but they only work with early struts. I went as far as converting a pair of early struts to the later ball joint. This wasn’t a bolt on solution which was my challenge plus you have to order the rotors from the old world and they are expensive by the time they are shipped. In addition if rotor damaged or worn everything must be replaced. Still wasn’t satisfied.
Watching some T3 VW builds with 944 suspension and 901 5 speeds I came across some combinations for brakes that got me thinking.
After several variations I settled on this

Complete bolt on Boxster/Cayman rotor and caliper on the later 914 strut.
Mission accomplished.

[djway]

I had to have the matching rear rotor/caliper combination.
When URO announced the 5x130 rear hub a bolt on rear vented 5x130 brake became a possibility. These are redrilled hubs but the URO part will solve that issue.

Years of long nights googling my brains out but I did it.

[djway]

Da hub.

[DRPHIL914]

I had to have the matching rear rotor/caliper combination.
When URO announced the 5x130 rear hub a bolt on rear vented 5x130 brake became a possibility. These are redrilled hubs but the URO part will solve that issue.

Years of long nights googling my brains out but I did it.

this is cool too but.... what does the body/flare progress look like?? last pics were 2018! love that approach and keeping stock fender , just moving them out is what i wanted, similar but less than you did there,

[Root_Werks]

You've got some seriously good metal skills! Welding on flares takes skill, but properly extending fenders is a whole other level. Looks great!

[djway]

Da hub.

The front hub can also be had in aluminum but takes 944 donor parts.
Bolt on 5 lug large caliper and rotor. Thought there would be more interest.

Thanks for the kind words on the bodywork. I was kinda forced into completing my 63 Nothcback and had to put the 914 on the back burner. The 63 is nearing completion allowing me to move on.
Next I have to get the 59 Ghia ready to put on BAT.
After that, back to this project.

[horizontally-opposed]

Very cool project, and I grew up in a '63 Ghia Convertible, my mom's daily driver from 1973-1982. Black, red/orange interior with white piping iirc, and a white top. My dad picked it up at the factory and brought it back after serving in Germany.

I love this approach to the flares. There was a yellow 914-6 running around in Southern California (and occasionally up at Laguna) with 16x7 or 8 in front and 16x8 or 9 in the rear…but the sides looked nearly stock. Pretty sure the same car was on the cover of VW&Porsche magazine (or possibly European Car) with a number of other 914s. There were a couple of 914s done this way—and really well—up here, too. A dark metallic blue six conversion built by John Holleran with 16x7 and 16x8 951 Fuchs, and a 914 (4?) somewhere in the East Bay with deep (!) VW steelies and dog dish hubcaps that I'm not sure made it out of primer. But those rear fenders sure looked cool…almost like they should have been that way from the start.

I suspect you could start a new thread about your brake upgrade, as it looks very appealing and there are a lot of people who want to move to five lugs and better brakes. I was one of them 30 years ago...back when I was looking through the Richmond Classified Flea Market for Porsche parts. My how things have changed.

Meantime, keep on keepin' on—digging the direction of this! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

[808 WRX]

I had to have the matching rear rotor/caliper combination.
When URO announced the 5x130 rear hub a bolt on rear vented 5x130 brake became a possibility. These are redrilled hubs but the URO part will solve that issue.

Years of long nights googling my brains out but I did it.

Looks good! Do you happen to have the URO part number for the rear hub?