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I installed a layer of sound deadening on the floor and up the firewall from a company called Carbuilders in Melbourne.
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Mine too will have a centre (well off-centre!) fill fuel tank through the front bonnet!
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I've just kicked off a full restoration of my 914. I have owned the car since 2001. It was a California car, imported to the UK in that year, where I bought it and drove it until 2006. It was then left in storage until August last year, at which point I imported it to join me here in Melbourne.
To keep lots of info nice and short, it's a 1975 2.0L car. It's going through a full resto, but also being modified with new front and rear bumper designs, amongst other things.
Here's a photo of the car just before it left the UK last year. ..
... and a video of the teardown before Christmas:
Here is the current theme sketch for the front end design. I sketched up the idea myself first:
... then my buddy Pete took the reigns with the final rendering:
That's where we're at so far. The fabrication work kicks off in a few weeks.
L.
http://fueltank.cc/search?q=project+porsche+914
Hi Luke,
There are a number of us on PFA undergoing 914 builds at the moment, each different! If yours comes out anything near the render, it will be amazing!
Mine is also a '75 about to have the flares welded on! I can't believe how heavy the US-spec market bumpers weigh... straight to the pool room in preference for the earlier variety for me
Mine too will have a centre (well off-centre!) fill fuel tank through the front bonnet!
Cheers
Craig
Hi Barry, I see what you did there, I like it! it was very nice to chat with you on Saturday...
Oh, that's great to hear. I'm keen to keep up with them all for ideas and inspiration. Do you have a thread for yours?
No thread as yet, might do so when the bodywork starts in earnest- have stripped and fitted 5 stud 7s and 8s
This is the build inspiration
But enough about me, looking forward to your updates
Cheers
Craig
The car arrived in Melbourne last week after 3 days on the road from Perth. Next steps, body and paint...
http://fueltank.cc/blog/914-melbourne-arrival
After an unforeseen setback, the bodywork on the 914 is well under way. Now sitting cosy at Rotunda Revival in the northern Melbourne suburbs, the guys at RR are cracking on with speed and skill in abundance.
The exterior metal was stripped right back to reveal some filler across all four fenders that dates way back to well before I owned it. All things considered, it's lasted well this long without cracking or showing signs of the filler through the black paint that's been on it the last 20 or so years.
The good news is that the frunk, engine bay and interior bodywork is all looking generally really good, so we haven't had to do much cleaning up in those areas all bar a new battery tray, which is pretty standard affair when restoring 914s. But there are a handful of places where some attention has been needed...
Some leadwork on the roll hoop. Not so much for repair, but mostly to fill in holes left behind by trim pieces that I'm deleting. I'm changing this car from having a vinyl-covered roll hoop to having a body coloured one. Taking off the vinyl and some trim leaves holes behind to be filled.
The side rocker panels had taken a beating from the elements over the years, so some love was necessary to patch them up.
The biggest area to be attacked was at the back edge of the rear trunk. Over time, condensation sat between the metal and the carpet in the trunk due to heat from the exhaust. There were small early signs of rust when I first got the car in 2001, but
sitting in the lockup in the UK for 12 years
gave it time to grow considerably.
I could have ordered a new panel from the States, but given the time and cost involved in that process, the guys just got stuck in manually instead.
As you can see, they did a great job on it. Below is a shot after the work was done and painted.
As a cost save, the plan is for the interior, engine bay and both trunks to be tidied up and painted black. The final body colour will then be applied to tuck around seals and openings so that when all doors are closed, no black will be visible from the outside. Maybe one day she'll get a full rotisserie strip, but right now the body is in good shape, so there's no need.
More soon...
LR.
We made some progress last week, a few coats of primer are down.
I also took delivery of some GT Racing bumpers from the States. I'll get some pics of those up later on.
I’ve always liked them, was very keen on a rep 914/6 (silver) one that was for sale some years ago..........Hanging out with Luke and watching this progress definitely isn’t helping!
Thanks. It's pretty surreal standing looking at it every day. When such a milestone comes around, one can't help but reminisce about all the years gone by so far and how this point has come about. When I got the car in the UK in 2001 I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined that in 2019 it'd be sitting in my own shed in country Australia, restored and wearing a weird shade of green.
Things are ticking along here. The front end is out for rebuilding, the rear shocks and springs are out. I scrubbed and painted the underside of the car, the interior floor has had some attention and now I'm working on some custom dash ideas.
Some lockdown progress from me. I've done a few things over the last few months.
I've been taking advantage of the autumn sunshine to prep and paint some front end parts:
I stripped the old covers off the driver's seat and had a go at installing one of the 914 Rubber kits. Excuse the wrinkles, but I'm a car DIY newbie and I'm not used to doing these kinds of jobs. It's all good fun though, and I'm learning lots along the way.
I installed a layer of sound deadening on the floor and up the firewall from a company called Carbuilders in Melbourne.
And, most recently, I've mocked up a few interior parts to see how things are going to look. I have a new gauge plate from Rennline, a MOMO Prototipo Heritage Edition wheel, Autometer Tach and footplates and shifter from Thorotec in Germany.
I've been working away at the custom dash panel. It's not finished yet, but I've got about as far as I'm happy with before it needs to be powder coated in black.
The main jist is that it will be black mesh with a sheet of raw aluminium behind. I am placing various items in the panel such as toggle switches, LEDs, USB ports and a mobile phone holder in the centre. It's been fun to make, particularly since I've never done any metalwork in my life... Just making it up as I go.
Thanks for looking.
I made a start on the door cards today. 914 Rubber in the US supplied me with some plain door cards last year that they custom stitched in orange for me. Today I got round to making up some RS-style door pulls. I used a roll of orange webbing and a craft eyelet punch tool. I then drilled into the door casing and mounted the loop with a bolt.
I cut a hole in the new door card and threaded the loop through, finishing off with genuine 911 RS plastic pull loop escutcheons.
The main difference with this method to regular 911 RS pulls is that mine pulls the door closed, whereas they open the door. This method is more in line with my skill level as I did not want to get into mounting the loop to the opening mechanism.
Thanks for looking.
// Luke.
A fair bit has happened recently, but I'll jump forward to the interior that I finished a few weeks ago.
I laid down a layer of Carbuilders acoustic foam to go between the sound deadening and the carpet:
I then made a start on the carpet, also from Carbuilders (Melbourne). It's not a 914 kit, I started with a roll of raw material. It's not the most hard-wearing carpet around, but it goes around corners really nicely and easy to glue down and trim to size.
Since I threw the factory backpad in the bin a couple of years ago, it's been my intention to carpet all the way up to the rear glass, so that's what I did.
After final assembly, the interior is now finished. I've never done anything like this before.. it was fun.
I rolled the car out into daylight for the first time in many months to take a look last week. The windscreen has since been fitted, but here's a peek at how things are looking so far.
