Why Didn't You do Anything to Your 914 Today?, or, What the Fuch is Keeping You From Working on it? Options

[JmuRiz]

Just paid my finish-the-2.8 engine-fund on the balance of my home renovation. Time to save up again and add to my procrastination of finishing my /6 conversion (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[930cabman]

Just paid my finish-the-2.8 engine-fund on the balance of my home renovation. Time to save up again and add to my procrastination of finishing my /6 conversion (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

How far are you to completion?

0ver 30 years ago, I had 2 1954 Speedsters, let them go to finance a cool historic building. In my head I justified the fact I can live in the building, but can't live in the Speedster. The 2 that got away (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[JmuRiz]

The biggie is the paying to have the 2.8 built...all the parts bought and paid for, just the labor the pay for an expert putting it together. Once that's done, it'll mostly be sweat equity putting everything together and getting some expert friends to baseline it.

I've put off the car project for similar reasons, a house helps 3 of us, and car just one. I did have to sell off my 280c and some motorcycles I'd love to have back...but the 914 will never go.

As for the house, the only part left is turning my screen porch into a 3-season sunroom....hopefully that's just $10k in windows and a lot of labor hours.

[euro911]

I have an ongoing project that keeps stealing time from my real passion, The Race Car, Carerror soon to be christened Aoouuu ( a howl that I do when excited). Another passion I have is being addicted to smoke, in one form or another. You would be very hard pressed to find better baby backs, I love Ribs. That being said I am a total failure at brisket. So I saw someone that inspired me to try again at brisket. I'm building a Smoker for Brisket, a dule basket brisket rotisserie. I saw a video of brisket done in a rotisserie at about 10 RPM. In their set up the brisk hardly dripped at all. Slowly boiling in it's own smoked tallow.



I'm drooling just thinking about it.

Ah ...it's a twin cam (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[euro911]

All automotive stuff's on hold at the moment - been having to deal with an estate attorney to get a trust put together (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

However, I plan to get my Cayman registered when I'm in AZ next month (it's been sitting in the garage out there unregistered since I bought it March of 2020) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)




... and when I get back to CA, need to get back to working on the buggy project. It's tucked out of the weather until I can get back to it ...




I think I bit off more than I can chew on the total wiring job (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif) - may need some assistance from one or two of you local guys in getting it completed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

[sixnotfour]

The biggie is the paying to have the 2.8 built...all the parts bought and paid for, just the labor the pay for an expert putting it together. Once that's done, it'll mostly be sweat equity putting everything together and getting some expert friends to baseline it.

I've put off the car project for similar reasons, a house helps 3 of us, and car just one. I did have to sell off my 280c and some motorcycles I'd love to have back...but the 914 will never go.

As for the house, the only part left is turning my screen porch into a 3-season sunroom....hopefully that's just $10k in windows and a lot of labor hours.

2.8 ? mahles made 2.9s slip in for years..great cheater engines..true 2.8s are an piece of history..

[Shivers]

it is the beginning of the season here, so time to work outside. Engine /trans comes out then all the suspension. I have been dreading this because everything needs to be stripped for paint, and my hands hurt. With hundreds of sanding hours ahead I was surfing the web and came across an ad for a blast cabinet. $214.00 was the price with a gun on Temu. Ok must be tiny right, no, not really. 33" wide top loader that would fit a trailing arm and most everything else. I could not buy the metal to make it for that sooo:



It is a second, didn't pass quality control is my guess. Bad spot welds, mounts breaking off that I had to drill and bolt, a dent from a bent mount on the top and through a little red on the missing paint. With a few upgrades this will be a wonderful tool for my hands
and have the suspension ready for paint toot sweet.

[DRPHIL914]

still in transition moving/relocating, so 914 is in SC while i'm in GA, still looking for a place in Atlanta/Marietta to put it, dont have a house yet and im not putting it in a apartment complex parking lot! It might be staying in a friends garage in SC until we get a house and garage of my own, and the house in SC closes in 3 weeks , im back on the weekend to load up the container, hoping i can get all the tools and parts and bins in it!
Today and next week are the loading days. Thats why no work on the 914! and it has something going on with it studdering,cutting in and out, and i didnt get it figured out last time here unfortunately, it may be a while before i get to work on it, as the tools will mostly be in storage in a container after next week! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[cassmcentee]

The most important tool for my Ranch (Utility Golf Cart) needed some love...

[jd74914]

Been working on too many landscaping projects! Trying to see how far we can get before snow falls. Put in a new field stone retaining wall and started steps this week. It's been a while since I've done this kind of work-slow getting started, especially working the heavy stuff by myself. Picture's don't quite do it justice. The steps are correctly pitched.

That bottom stone is about 6-1/2 ft on the long edge for scale. Pushed the limits of my 8 ton backhoe. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[Shivers]

Finished (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I will be testing it today.

[ValcoOscar]

Because I finally brought a project home after 9 years.



DONE

[mepstein]

Because I finally brought a project home after 9 years.
DONE

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[Shivers]

Wow, nice. A ragtop

[burton73]

[quote name='ValcoOscar' date='Nov 25 2024, 07:58 PM' post='3178921']
Because I finally brought a project home after 9 years.



DONE





@ ValcoOscar

Your car looks wonderful buddy, it takes a lot of time, but you did another great car.
I note that you did not use a center parking brake, very nice, very nice

Best Bob B

[Steve]

Because I finally brought a project home after 9 years.



DONE

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Very nice!! Can I go for a ride? I have never ridden in one.

[jim_hoyland]

-wow ! Congrats (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)

[fixer34]

Helped my daughter do a waterpump and a few other small items on her Tahoe. Shop wanted $1700 and 2-3 days to do it. $250 in parts/coolant and an afternoon (fortunately up in the 40's today and sunny) and she's on her way.
She normally does all her own work, just had never done a pump before.

[East coaster]

Haven’t had the 914 out in a couple weeks now. I’ve been busy adding another 12x40 area to my shop. My shop is 30’ x 50’ and had a full length lean-to on one side. I’m enclosing the rear 40’ of the lean-to so I can have a clean place to park the 914 while working on my next project. The rear section will also serve as a paint booth when needed. To that end, I installed an exhaust fan at the bottom of the rear wall.

Still have more to do but it’s almost done…..

[euro911]

Wow, a Hudson Hornet !!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

I'm back in CA ... prepping a type 616 motor for the 912 - installing a Wilhoit aluminum 5-pass oil cooler & a 55 amp alternator (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)










... and sprucing up things before reassembly ...




I rebuilt a pair of 40 IDF carbs while in AZ, just need to find the new gasket kits I have laying somewhere around here to finish them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)




Gonna run the motor, carbs, transaxle, CVaxles, Bursch exhaust, etc. down to the shop in January and get that all buttoned-up (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif)