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| autopro |
 Jul 21 2021, 08:41 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California  |
Last week I took my engine on a little trip to LA, some of you might recognize the place. It has been great working with them, Jorge and Carlos have been great to work with.
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| autopro |
Jul 30 2021, 10:24 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Got my boy some new shoes. Bought these from Maxilite wheels and I think they look great. Sizes are 8x15 and 9x15, tires are FALKEN AZENIS RT660 225/45ZR-15 and 245/40ZR-15
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| ValcoOscar |
Jul 30 2021, 10:38 AM
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Garage Life Group: Members Posts: 2,474 Joined: 19-November 13 From: SoCal Member No.: 16,669 Region Association: Southern California 
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Looking like progress!!!!
With those wheels, looks like you decided to go WIDE-BODY. Love it...All my current 914's are wide-body but I long for the day I can add a nice original 73-74 2.0 narrow-body to the stable. Keep this thread updated (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) Oscar |
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| Root_Werks |
Jul 30 2021, 02:06 PM
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Village Idiot Group: Members Posts: 8,481 Joined: 25-May 04 From: About 5NM from Canada Member No.: 2,105 Region Association: Pacific Northwest
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Another build thread, awesome!
This 914 looks pretty solid and even more so now. Nice! |
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| autopro |
Aug 1 2021, 07:38 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
QUOTE(ValcoOscar @ Jul 30 2021, 09:38 AM)  Looking like progress!!!! With those wheels, looks like you decided to go WIDE-BODY. Love it...All my current 914's are wide-body but I long for the day I can add a nice original 73-74 2.0 narrow-body to the stable. Keep this thread updated (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) Oscar Thanks Oscar, I am going wide-body. It was a tough decision to cut up the car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) but I love the look, so no looking back now.  QUOTE(Root_Werks @ Jul 30 2021, 01:06 PM) Another build thread, awesome! This 914 looks pretty solid and even more so now. Nice! Aside from the rear of the floor the rest of the car was pretty solid, thanks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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| autopro |
Aug 2 2021, 10:12 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
During my kids summer break I put him to work on all those little jobs everyone loves to do (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)
  He actually did a pretty good job at it   |
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| autopro |
Aug 2 2021, 10:23 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Primer inside the cab so it doesn't rust again.
  Here it is, ready for the bodywork to begin (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)   |
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| 930cabman |
Aug 2 2021, 10:43 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,693 Joined: 12-November 20 From: Buffalo Member No.: 24,877 Region Association: North East States
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Another one coming back to life, keep up the good work.
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| autopro |
Aug 6 2021, 01:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
QUOTE(930cabman @ Aug 2 2021, 09:43 AM) Another one coming back to life, keep up the good work. Thank you! Wish we could bring them all back to life. Work continues on the metal prep prior to epoxy primer. Had to work in sections to get the epoxy primer on before the panels developed surface rust again.     |
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| autopro |
Aug 6 2021, 01:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
A few more. I was able to finish the whole car and now it will be ready for body work.
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| autopro |
Aug 13 2021, 03:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Well now that the whole body has been taken down to bare metal and epoxy primer applied, it went to my friends shop to get the body work done (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) . I really hate doing body work and my friend has a really good bodyman and will finish it a lot faster and better than I ever could.
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| autopro |
Aug 13 2021, 03:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Upon arrival at my friends shop, couldn't wait for the work to begin (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
 First thing I did was install suspension and wheels to check the fitment of the fenders. At this point I didn't have the front tires, but I got them before the final fitment of the fenders.   |
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| autopro |
Aug 25 2021, 07:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Now that the car is at the body shop, I can concentrate on working on restoring other parts. First up was the handbrake, it was in really bad shape and thanks to parts availability I was able to get it working again.
Here is what it looked like when I first removed it from the car. It didn't have the spring, handle or any of the internals.   The hole for the cable was deformed so I welded it up and then drilled a new hole   |
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| autopro |
Aug 25 2021, 08:35 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Removed all the paint and rust
 Here are all the parts that I had to get to make it functional  And the finished product  |
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| autopro |
Aug 25 2021, 09:03 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Another thing on my to do list before paint was the front sway bar modification. I bought it from GR German Parts Restoration. Made the bracket for the inner fender well, and then drilled the holes to fit the sway bar. Here I'm checking the alignment prior to welding the bracket on.
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| Cairo94507 |
Aug 26 2021, 07:53 AM
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Michael Group: Members Posts: 10,089 Joined: 1-November 08 From: Auburn, CA Member No.: 9,712 Region Association: Northern California
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| tygaboy |
Aug 26 2021, 08:35 AM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,451 Joined: 6-October 15 From: Petaluma, CA Member No.: 19,241 Region Association: Northern California
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| autopro |
Oct 20 2021, 10:19 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Lots of bodywork has been going on, here are some of the highlights. Cutting the fenders took a bit of courage, but I love the widebody look so no looking back now.
  Here most of the body work is finished and from here I will be taking it to a garage I have to do the final blocking and getting ready for paint.   |
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| autopro |
Oct 20 2021, 10:43 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
Got it back to my shop, hopefully I won't have to move it again. It is always stressful to move it with the dolly on a flatbed tow truck. I'm always afraid its going to fall off.
  Front end nearly complete   |
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| autopro |
Oct 20 2021, 11:01 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 14-January 18 From: San Diego / Tijuana Member No.: 21,797 Region Association: Southern California |
I still had to take care of some details for the floor so I thought this was a good time to get them off my list. I needed to add the hand brake cable guide and the rear bracket for the small cover.
 Then I had to make some of the little posts to hold the floor mats in place.   All finished on the inside and now it is basically ready for paint, finally (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)    Attached thumbnail(s) 
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