Restoration Literati914 Build, A clipped car rebuild Options

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Painted the back side of it with a 2000 degree heat paint.. just because I had it on hand and I really wanted to get this particular project done..

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I had planned to rig up some way to make this shield removable, but in the end I didn’t bother, again just wanting it done tbh. Here it is fully installed…

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Some time back I cut open the area where the front sway bar mounts so that I could add an internal reinforcement (for the bar), then got sidetracked. So I’ve finally gotten back to it… the situation is a little different tho in that I’ll be using a 19mm H&H sway bar at the front instead of a stock bar. Also, I’ve decided to used the external reinforcement pieces from ‘Maddog’ because it’ll also help reinforce the seam where this car has had a doner front end attached at the wheel wells (two birds, one stone). But with that being the case, I still needed to add a capture nut down in the holes I’d made a while back, because of the funky way the H&H brackets mount. Here’s a shot of that:

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And here’s where I closed it up, done the same on both sides obviously:

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Here’s the Maddog frt sway reinforcements, with a coating I’ve added to the inside before attaching:

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Unfortunately on the PS, there is a hole left by whoever did the crash repair - that I need to address before attaching the reinforcement. Can you believe anyone would just leave that and call it done?

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Looking good ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

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Been slowed down by rain - remember all this is being done outdoors (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif) , but was able to get out and patch up the hole (highlighted above ^ )

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.. done

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Welded in the passenger side sway bar reinforcement…

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..and the driver’s side.. also you can see in this pic, the seam in the wheel well where the donor section was added. Whoever did that repair used an over lap procedure - not my choice but it is solid. In the pic You can see I’ve knocked the high spots off their welds and roughed the surface for some fiberglass filler top dressing to make it all less “Frankenstein “ and more water proof ..

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Jumped to the back to add rear sway bar mounting brackets. This is more of a specific type of install because the rear sway bar I’m using on this car is not OEM 914 equipment.. I think the bar is made by H&H and is definitely a slightly thicker than stock (this car will eventually have a flat 6 of some type, probably Subaru). Anyway, the real difference in the mounting of this bar vs the stock bar comes down to the spacing of the mounts. The stock mounts are approx 39” apart (iirc) and these needed to be spaced 32-5/8” apart because of the difference in the bar’s shape. Here’s a pic showing where I drilled my initial hole for starters;

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Then I had to basically custom shape the holes to fit the weld pooling from the attachment of the capture nut on the back of the bracket.

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Here’s one set in place waiting to be welded, I actually leveled it out a bit better by bending the end a little where it mounts under the heat shield:

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.. before welding I notched the end where the hole is on the brackets to give more surface area for welding (yea I should have installed this before reattaching the heat shield):

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.. checked that I had a gap of a couple millimeters at least, between the bar and trans mounts before welding the brackets in:

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And finally welded it all together:

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If anyone installs one of these bars, again the bracket spacing is narrower than stock - I got 32-5/8” but essentially they get installed just inside of the outer most heat shield mounts (stock is well outside of the heat shield feet).

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I got these trailing arm mount brackets sometime back, forgot I even had them til I stumbled on them the other day… got them during a Maddog sale and figured they’d pair well with a set of boxed trailing arms that I have.

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Ready for welding: