Another 914-6 GT Tribute Project Options

[Tom1394racing]

Tom looks good. I need to revisit this on my car. It’s time to finish up some things I saved for later. Well it’s later.

Thanks Ben. The turn signal switch was the biggest challenge. Had to study the wiring diagrams for both the early 911 and the 914 six to figure it out. I have plenty of notes so if I can help in anyway let me know.

[mb911]

Tom looks good. I need to revisit this on my car. It’s time to finish up some things I saved for later. Well it’s later.

Thanks Ben. The turn signal switch was the biggest challenge. Had to study the wiring diagrams for both the early 911 and the 914 six to figure it out. I have plenty of notes so if I can help in anyway let me know.

Thanks I need to address that very soon. Turn signals work great. No horn though. Need to get that figured out.

[Tom1394racing]

Tom looks good. I need to revisit this on my car. It’s time to finish up some things I saved for later. Well it’s later.

Thanks Ben. The turn signal switch was the biggest challenge. Had to study the wiring diagrams for both the early 911 and the 914 six to figure it out. I have plenty of notes so if I can help in anyway let me know.

Thanks I need to address that very soon. Turn signals work great. No horn though. Need to get that figured out.

I’m using a 914 six wiring harness. On that, the horn connections came through the 12 pin connector in the chassis harness.

[mb911]

Tom looks good. I need to revisit this on my car. It’s time to finish up some things I saved for later. Well it’s later.

Thanks Ben. The turn signal switch was the biggest challenge. Had to study the wiring diagrams for both the early 911 and the 914 six to figure it out. I have plenty of notes so if I can help in anyway let me know.

Thanks I need to address that very soon. Turn signals work great. No horn though. Need to get that figured out.

I’m using a 914 six wiring harness. On that, the horn connections came through the 12 pin connector in the chassis harness.

Oh so I used a 4 harness and that’s what I need to trace back.

[Tom1394racing]

Moving forward, I started the install of the oil cooling system. After some persuasion and fitting of weather stripping, I got the ductwork to fit over the chassis reinforcement bar near the inlet cut out and seal up nicely. I'll be using some stainless steel mesh screen to cover the outlet in the floor.

I am using two 11 foot sections of 12AN steel braided hose to run from the cooler to the T-stat. This seemed like the simplest solution and the hoses fit nicely in the enlarged openings in rocker sill brackets. I’ll be using a Mocal T-stat located somewhere in the lower RHS of the engine compartment.

[mb911]

Very clean

[Tom1394racing]

My seats from Stefan at GTS Classics finally arrived yesterday. They are the Spa Francorchamps model. Well worth the wait!

[Luke M]

Hi Tom,

The Gt project looks like is coming along great.
Question about the front oil cooler install.

Are you using the PMS/Setrab oil cooler kit?

It looks like the cooler itself is mounted to the upper cooler housing (per post #192)
is that correct? Reason I ask is that I've seen it where some coolers are mounted to the chassis side vs the cooler cover. I purchased a steel replica GT oil cooler cover made by Mittlemotor in Germany to use on my 6 project. I never really saw a full install of this cooler setup being installed from start to finish. I've installed a cooler in my brothers 6 GT but mounted the cooler to the chassis side. I did use rubber insulators on my brothers cooler mounting points but still feel like that wasn't the correct way to do it.
I'm just wondering which way would be best or the correct way to do the install.

Thanks,

[Tom1394racing]

Hi Luke

The cooler is a Setrab 464 that I purchased from BAT. The cooling shrouds are fiberglass from Getty.

The cooler is bolted to a custom mount bar that then bolts to the top FG shroud.

Fitting this system to the chassis did present somewhat of a challenge as the added stiffness bar behind the cooler opening did interfere with the lower shroud. The FG construction did allow the lower shroud to be bent over the bar. The resulting gaps in the fit between the upper and lower shroud were filled with weather stripping form Home Depot.

[Tom1394racing]

After some adjusting of the seat rails, I was able to install my new seats from GTS Classic. They look and fit great especially with the 380 mm repro steering wheel and new retro Repa belts.

[SirAndy]

Any constructive comments or suggestions ... will be appreciated.

Put some black tar goo on top of the front shock towers, not only will it be period correct but it will also throw the concours guys for a loop.
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[racer914]

Car looks great Tom! I wish I was this far along...I should have it back from paint next month and I can start the reassembly process.

[Retroracer]

Tom - I went for a similar plan & routing for the oil lines to/from the cooler; flexible AN lines from the thermostat (rear LHS in my build) up the rocker panels and popped through to the frunk. Less in-line connections to fail/weep than the hard lines.

Nice seats BTW! Keep the posts coming,

- Tony

[Tom1394racing]

Any constructive comments or suggestions ... will be appreciated.

Put some black tar goo on top of the front shock towers, not only will it be period correct but it will also throw the concours guys for a loop.
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In the plan, after alignment...Thanks

[Retroracer]

Production sixes had the black goop on the front strut towers for water ingress; in the photo records, I have noticed NO goop on any factory built GTs. FWIW,

- Tony

[eric9144]

Love the seat choice (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

[TRS63]

Seats are looking fantastic!

Antoine

[Tom1394racing]

Time for another update. Lots of distractions the past couple of weeks have kept me out of the garage.

Since my last update, one of the seats had to go back to Stefan for a headrest correction. I have to say that he was very responsive and turned the seat around very quickly.

I installed all the tunnel lines, cables, the Tangerine Racing shift bushing, the pedal cluster and the brake system. Just waiting on the rear soft lines and some crush washers to complete the system and do the bleeding. I was pleased to see that all the components seemed to fit nicely around the Mad Dog engine mount.

With the electricals now sorted, next up I plan to remove the metal dash, paint the cowl area satin black, complete the dash fascia, install the restored dash top and reinstall the dash. Once those tasks are complete, I plan to build the engine.

[mepstein]

Looks super clean.
Is this for the tangerine kit?

[Tom1394racing]

Looks super clean.
Is this for the tangerine kit?

Thanks Mark

Those are the "dog-eared" attachments for the trailing arm pivot points stabilizers. Most factory GT cars used these. I am hoping the stabilizing rods will not interfere with my oil lines and T-stat that I am planning to locate underneath the engine sheet metal on the LHS of the engine compartment.