Nine Fourteen Sex, The on going story of Love and Lust for a Machine. Options

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Finished cleaning up the engine bay, so tomorrow I can reassemble her. I still need to clean up the plenums and about 6 nut serts on the scoops. It nice to see her this clean but she still needs some help.



Naked engine bay, I'll take another one after assembly.

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So I screwed up big time, I was screwing around removing the plenums and just removing the plexiglass from the plenums is about 50 screws and washers. So when I take them off I put them in a ziploc bag and set them aside. That's where I really screwed I have no idea what I did with them. Been looking for 3 days now and I have been straightening up the hardware laying on the benches and in the shop.
I ordered 50 more button head screws because I like the smaller head on them. The plenums and the fan box have been cleaned. The installation is coming along nicely and the car looks really clean for a car in primer. Still gonna be a couple of days till I can take her out for pictures.

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Picture

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Another one.



She's not quite ready to leave the trailer yet as I still have some stuff to tidy up. I really want to take her to a local RV park and see if I can get the rust off of her brakes. She is not rolling very well.

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So this isn't just me I am sure. Just because I do believe that I am not that unique of an individual. I keep raping myself for time. By this I mean that if I learned a new to me technique I may get inspired by this and want to go a hole new direction with some aspects of the car. The Supertraps led me to ideas that will give me a useable diffuser. Because of the work I did on the plenums and the fan box I have the insite to get the flat bottom completed.
Not happy with the seats in the the car I have received the inspiration to build Bomber Seats. I like them and I feel like they would be the perfect addition to the car.



Do these oil cooler's make my butt look bigger?

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Plenums installed and the engine grill.

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I've been interrupted by another project. A bomber seat for my office chair. I was always jealous of the guys posting of a hot race car office chair evan a nice 914 seat office chair. I got this bomber seat as a practice seat for what I want for the race car. I have seen a lot of videos on the bomber seat on U tube lately. Some thing nice for me and another unique item in the race car.

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Seat is ready for rivets. This kit is from Speedway Motors and was $187 but I spent $300 before leaving.
I have about 6 hours in this so far. Cleaning up all the time edges of burs and holes of chips. Seat is now ready for rivets. Nice kit, I'm about ready to start to do 200 rivets.



Like I said, this is not going in the car. The seat I want for the race car will take more time and effort. That seat kinda resembles an early Speedster seat.

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I don't have the proper rivet punch for my rivet guns. Ordered them, should be here tomorrow. I have cleaned and grained the parts, everything looks really good and I wanted to see it with rivets so here it is.



The rivets are just set in place so they fall out with the slightest movement. I ran the grain on each part differently, barely shows in the picture.

[Justinp71]

Lots of original designs here! Will be interesting to see the final product.

You going to do a head rest on the body? Did the 914-gt's even have a head rest?

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That's a good question, the seats they used did have a head rest but I don't remember the name of the seat. I had one in my -6, very comfortable, it's what it came to me with. I have a rectangle of foam attached to the top edge of the firewall on the passenger side. My passenger seat is from a sand rail. The new seats will be AWESOME.
Sorry I have no idea how to provide a link.
U-tube, Ron Covell bomber seat.
He is doing some pretty neat stuff.

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Remember this chair will used for my comfort while posting here on the 914 board. So it is not totally 914 unrelated.



Patterns for the 1/2" black foam padding.
This will be fine here under my but while posting. It did give me the insite to a much more appropriate seat for the race car. A seat that resembles a seat from an early Speedster.

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Working on fitting the chair to a chair base. I have to think this one out as it can't be done with just one piece.



Yep, 2 pieces, I need hardware and it's ready for padding. Hole saw supposed to arrive tomorrow. I want to see how the black padding cuts with the hot wire foam cutter. After I cut some holes I'll be able to test the foam for compatibility with the glue.

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Cutting the holes wasn't sure how to get it done. Decided to do it by hand. 19 holes left.



Can't wait to get started on the next one.

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Well I finally got the holes cut, I made a handheld 3" foam hole saw from a 3" hole saw. It cuts the hole in about 30 seconds. I just set it up in the pattern and twist it. Done.



I have about 4 options for glue. I'll start testing the rubber for compatibility tomorrow.

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I really like the seat, all the reflections from the dimples against the flat black of the padding. Kool seat, can't wait to do the next one.

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OK, now a picture of the seat with all the padding glued in. Got the hardware ready to go. I'll be posting here tomorrow from that chair.

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It's tomorrow and the chair is done. It looks really good. Now I can start on the layout for the new seats for the car. It looks much better than the Sparco, that seat is a monster. It got removed from the car because of it's size.



I already have a drawing of the new seats, so all I have to do is go to work.

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So the other day I was opening up the trailer to do some stuff to the car and opened the ramp door first and was amazed by what I saw. Excuse me but opening up the back door and seeing the car pushed all the way back gives a very nice display of her rear. I can think of no other way to say it. Bad ass. I don't mean to be beating on my own drum but whatthe. OK as a person I may be a little off center but I turn 75 in a few days and caring probably isn't going to happen.



Nice chair with the perfect back drop. Better picture...

[stownsen914]

I like the seat, Joe. That's cool.