Contracted 914 fever— is this the car to cure it?, What do you think of this ‘73 914 2.0 on Bat— pass or play? Options

[trylon]

Great little car for a good price - and it looks like it went to an owner that will take care of it. Glad you're having fun.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) what a steal with the wheels and pretty sure an expensive repaint ,well done (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) .

Not sure I can be congratulated for others dropping out of the bidding but hey thanks!

[trylon]

Ok, horn fixin’ time.

Pulled off the connectors on the secondary horn (that’s what I’m calling the ‘extra’ horn down the power chain) and hooked up a power supply set to 12v clamped to 5 amps. Got no sound whatsoever. Wanna check my work before I pull the horn and open it up?



Even switched the positive and negative leads in case they were on incorrectly.
Nada.

[technicalninja]

Lightly tapping the horn with a small hammer while applying power sometimes brings them back from the dead...

Usually means they will stick again, just when you really need them and should be restored/replaced.

Old school electrical diagnosis tip is to "smack the offending item" and see if anything changes.

Only way to diagnose early GM ECUs, which had a 4 foot pigtail especially for this purpose. Lay that critter in the passenger seat, drive around till it does its thing and then slap the dogshit out of the ECU and see if your problem changes/straightens up. If it does you have cold solder issues with the ECU and a replacement is needed.

Almost all sticking blower motors will "wake up" when slapped.

[trylon]

Lightly tapping the horn with a small hammer while applying power sometimes brings them back from the dead...

Usually means they will stick again, just when you really need them and should be restored/replaced.

Old school electrical diagnosis tip is to "smack the offending item" and see if anything changes.

Only way to diagnose early GM ECUs, which had a 4 foot pigtail especially for this purpose. Lay that critter in the passenger seat, drive around till it does its thing and then slap the dogshit out of the ECU and see if your problem changes/straightens up. If it does you have cold solder issues with the ECU and a replacement is needed.

Almost all sticking blower motors will "wake up" when slapped.

No go. Thanks.

[trylon]

So refurbished a 6v pair for my Ghia:



Seems they decided to keep out all but the most foolhardy.

Now, where did I put the 12v pair I replaced…

[trylon]

Wondering if the working 12v horns that came off my Karmann Ghia will sound the same as those that were on the 914…

[wonkipop]

Wondering if the working 12v horns that came off my Karmann Ghia will sound the same as those that were on the 914…

i'd guess yes.
the horns on the 914 are standard issue VW.
i have the single horn on my 74 1.8
sounds exactly like the horn did on my type 3 squareback from younger days.

meep meep. (roadrunner, the coyotes after you) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[trylon]

Wondering if the working 12v horns that came off my Karmann Ghia will sound the same as those that were on the 914…

i'd guess yes.
the horns on the 914 are standard issue VW.
i have the single horn on my 74 1.8
sounds exactly like the horn did on my type 3 squareback from younger days.

meep meep. (roadrunner, the coyotes after you) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Sweet! I will stick ‘em on and we can give them a listen.

[trylon]

There here!

[trylon]

Well, it seems that the tires are not the right size. The knowledgeable garage I use for such things did a bit of research and found this:



in this:



I don’t know how I managed to get it so wrong but it would be great to get cooborotion from you guys before sending back the ones I got (pictured above) and ordering the right ones.

[trylon]

I checked back and now recall the problem— the Fuchs wheel seems to need 6.5 inch wide tires.

[930cabman]

I like the way 185's look and feel on my '75 914/4

I am tempted to go with 165's though, we shall see

[trylon]

I realized that I ignored the ratio number— had 185/80s.
Returning them for 185/70s, what the 911 of that year had on its five bolt Fuchs.

https://www.cokertire.com/tires/185-70vr15-michelin-xwx.html

And now we will be rated to go about twice as fast as we ever will!

[Jett]

I realized that I ignored the ratio number— had 185/80s.
Returning them for 185/70s, what the 911 of that year had on its five bolt Fuchs.

https://www.cokertire.com/tires/185-70vr15-michelin-xwx.html

And now we will be rated to go about twice as fast as we ever will!

These work well… we have them on two 914’s with Fuch and Mahle’s…

Here is the price for five back in 2016 when we bought our first set.


Michelin XWX | 185/70VR15 57970 5 $1,740.00

[trylon]

I realized that I ignored the ratio number— had 185/80s.
Returning them for 185/70s, what the 911 of that year had on its five bolt Fuchs.

https://www.cokertire.com/tires/185-70vr15-michelin-xwx.html

And now we will be rated to go about twice as fast as we ever will!

These work well… we have them on two 914’s with Fuch and Mahle’s…

Here is the price for five back in 2016 when we bought our first set.


Michelin XWX | 185/70VR15 57970 5 $1,740.00

Thanks for the confirmation!
The price was a slap in the face though haha.

[trylon]

I remembered that I had used the 12v Karmann Ghia horns to sweeten a deal, so I undertook repairing those from the Porsche.

Had never drilled out a rivet before:




Got to practice on 8 of them:




As suspected, it was the points:




Rinse and repeat, button up with nuts and bolts:

[Gint]

Well, the Fuchs wheels seem to be 6.5 inches wide!

Probably not... They are almost certainly 6" Fuchs.

Wheels are measured from inside the wheel, between the inside of lips where the tire seats.

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Your car has me thinking about 5 lugging my zambezi and putting Fuchs on it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

[Gint]

If both of the Jtubes are capped and the rest of the heat system is intact there will be plenty of HOT air.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif)
The electric blower motor is basically in the same heating (or cooling) "circuit" as the engine fan. The only real purpose it serves is too keep a more significant amount of air blowing into the cabin when the engine is operating at lower speeds. Like when idling. Once above 1500-2k rpm, the engine fan blows way more air into the cabin than the electric fan does.

[BillJ]

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer...aign=2023-11-22

Yikes!

If that is a real factory GT its a steal of a price.

[Gint]

So, could a 914 pass an emissions test today? Not that this one has to!

I never had issues getting mine to pass. Stopped testing them a few years ago when i converted all my cars to vintage plates because $10/year registration is better than $100/yr + emission testing fees when you have 10 cars. Every once in a while I had issues with old gas if the car sat the whole year between testing but run the tank down and it was good on fresh gas.

Generally speaking, in states that do require a 50 year old car to pass an emissions test, the requirements they have to meet are usually not the same standard that a current car has to meet. The standard is lower or equivalent to what it might have been back in 73 for example. They do like to check for emissions equipment though. So later stuff like 75 or 76 cars that came with EGR valves, air pumps, catalytic converters etc... have to have the equipment installed on the car.

Back in the day before Colorado had a collector plate program and still required a 73 or 74 car to pass an emissions test, I had no issues leaning out a carb'd 914 slightly and getting it to pass. Fortunately I don't have to do that any more. As long as a car is tuned and running properly, it should pass teh older reuirement.