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> 914 2.0 > 3.0 GT Conversion, On the road!
defianty
post Mar 9 2020, 12:03 PM
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QUOTE(Dion @ Mar 9 2020, 05:47 PM) *

That’s bloody awesome!!! Fantastic Stephen.
Happy for ya! Enjoy it and looking forward to more posts. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

QUOTE(bbrock @ Mar 9 2020, 05:56 PM) *

Woohoo! That's great news. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)



Thanks chaps! I was so happy to get the news as I had prepared for the worst and to be honest I can't afford the worst right now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Mar 9 2020, 12:21 PM
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Woo Hoo! I'm never too embarrassed to have one of my mistakes corrected. I seem to make enough of them.
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post Mar 29 2020, 04:38 AM
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It turned out there was actually more wrong with the car than initially thought although nothing too serious.

After the carbs were rebuilt again the car went to the rolling road but things didn't go to plan and it was discovered the distributor wasn't at all well.

With what we're all facing now the car, with it's now functioning distributor, won't be heading back to the rolling road for a while. So as it was running well enough to drive, earlier in the week I collected it.

Huge thanks to Simon Rudge for his assistance in getting the car up and running.

Once again sharing the same garage as 23e Heure's GT
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The car was about an hour from me in the North Essex countryside. It was a beautiful day and the drive home on deserted country roads was fantastic and just the ticket from being stuck indoors.

Obligatory stop for a quick photo.
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Whilst the car was with Simon I also got him to install a Rennshift performance shifter. Such an improvement and one I'd thoroughly recommend to any 914 owner.

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So far the performance of the car meets my expectations but I'll do a full write up at a later date when everything it properly dialled in and we can get back out on the roads again.
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post Mar 29 2020, 07:59 AM
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That is just a beautiful car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post Mar 29 2020, 08:10 AM
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Wonderful news! Another bar-setting 914 is on the road!

You have done such a wonderful job on your car. Nothing more to say except:

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post Mar 29 2020, 10:19 AM
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So happy to see it on the road! Looks great! You did a fantastic job. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)
Gongrats (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

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post Mar 29 2020, 10:35 AM
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Thanks guys. Still plenty of fettling to go yet and sadly as we're on a lockdown here in the UK, no driving.
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post Mar 29 2020, 11:23 AM
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Great news Stephen - what a relief !
Look forward to catching up one day when we are all allowed back on the road !!
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post Mar 29 2020, 11:53 AM
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Great news Stephen - what a relief !
Look forward to catching up one day when we are all allowed back on the road !!


Cheers Chris. Very much looking forward to some summer drives!
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post May 2 2020, 04:43 AM
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Opportunities to get out are obviously few and far between right now, but there's no harm in extending an essential trip, is there :wink:

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i.postimg.cc-6621-1588422016.1.jpg)

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post May 2 2020, 06:09 AM
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Nice! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)

Great picture in the wild.

Isn't it fun to drive with a 6? Congrats again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post May 2 2020, 08:47 AM
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post May 2 2020, 10:01 AM
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You need to shoot a video so we can here it roar
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post Oct 19 2020, 10:10 AM
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..."underneath and the arches have been sprayed with a black polymer sealer that actually has kevlar fibres mixed in it. It's strong stuff and will provide the level of protection and sound insulation I'm after."

Hi. I know it's been a couple of years. I'm wondering exactly which product you sprayed in the wheel wells to achieve that texture. Is it the same Raptor liner you used for the top? Thanks.

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post Oct 19 2020, 10:14 AM
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Some great pictures! So good to see this 914-6 on the road.
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post Oct 20 2020, 09:34 AM
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..."underneath and the arches have been sprayed with a black polymer sealer that actually has kevlar fibres mixed in it. It's strong stuff and will provide the level of protection and sound insulation I'm after."

Hi. I know it's been a couple of years. I'm wondering exactly which product you sprayed in the wheel wells to achieve that texture. Is it the same Raptor liner you used for the top? Thanks.


Hi Dave, the product used was called speedliner which also had Kevlar fibres added in. I don't know if speedliner is available outside of the UK. It is essentially a British version of Raptor.
I hope that helps.
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post Oct 20 2020, 05:10 PM
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Another month of tinkering and I'm no further sadly. In fact right now I'm further away than I've been in a while.

So far I've managed about 40 miles in the car and none of them have been very enjoyable. Getting the engine to start initially wasn't too difficult but since then it continued to run worse and worse and starting got more and more difficult to the point where it wouldn't start.

The first thing I changed out was the starter motor. I was using my original 0.7Kw unit from the four cylinder and as you can imagine it struggled. I swapped that out for a 2.0Kw High Torque unit and that was a huge help. But each time I went for a quick drive the engine performed different to the previous drive.

I knew the timing was correct, or at least close enough, tappets were perfect and the spark was good, so that just really left fuel.

Last night I pulled the tops of the carbs off and on one bank one of the pump jets was blocked and the other bank two were blocked!

This afternoon I did this...

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As you can see they're a bit dirty.

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I guess sitting in a box for three years with remnants of fuel in hasn't done them any favours. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

On the bright side I get to learn how to clean a rebuild a set of PMO's (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

If anyone's got an good sources of information on how to do this please let me know.



This is a a good pic of PMO's which use IDF floats instead of the IDA floats.
If you're going to run carbs you need to know how to do this chore.
Nice build. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)
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post Oct 20 2020, 05:41 PM
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QUOTE(TorontoDave @ Oct 19 2020, 05:10 PM) *

..."underneath and the arches have been sprayed with a black polymer sealer that actually has kevlar fibres mixed in it. It's strong stuff and will provide the level of protection and sound insulation I'm after."

Hi. I know it's been a couple of years. I'm wondering exactly which product you sprayed in the wheel wells to achieve that texture. Is it the same Raptor liner you used for the top? Thanks.


Hi Dave, the product used was called speedliner which also had Kevlar fibres added in. I don't know if speedliner is available outside of the UK. It is essentially a British version of Raptor.
I hope that helps.


Doesn't look like I can get that product over the counter here in Canada. Raptor should be no problem though. Thanks a bunch. Hey, fantastic job on your car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Stephen, I just read the 29 pages in the last few days and it has been incredibly interesting and motivating. Thanks for sharing your journey!
Cheers from Stuttgart,
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Wonderful to see another project ready to be enjoyed on the road. I’d too like to see a video with sound.
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