Been a long time & lots has changed.

Much has changed since my long ago post, so I will just bullet what has been done, and add some photos:

• New Hartman racing 3 piece wheels & tires (245/45/17 front, 275/40/17 rear)
  
• 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera front suspension with Bilstein inserts
  
• New ball joints & Turbo tie rods
  
• Porsche 944 Turbo brake calipers & performance pads
• Hit a small deer and door panel hit from old lady in the same week so...

1. New paint on hood, front fenders, and the whole driver side
2. New steel front bumper
3. New LED driving lights & Hella rally lights
4. New cooling system hose & thermostat
5. New brushed aluminum dash
   
6. New Prosport EVO2 gauges + Wideband o2
7. Rebuilt gauges with LED light strips
   
8. Rust removed from floor pans & two stage oil based primer and paint
9. RAAMaudio sound insulation
10. Wiring in process & new carpet on order.

Future plans:

TBI injection

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Center Exit Exhaust

Here is my new boxster/GT3 style exhaust.

From the headers runs over axle pipes with magnaflow round mufflers. The two mufflers are connected on the end with a larger diameter pipe to balance the exhaust.

This is an exhaust that I traded with a fellow 914 owner from 914world.com and modified to my liking.

I am please with how well it cleaned up the look of the car.

240SX Headlight project

So thanx to a friend Mike over at 914world.com, I have found a new direction for my gaping headlight pockets.

I am taking some e-bay Nissan 240sx aftermarket headlights and modifying them to work with the Porsche.

My current set-up has great lighting however they do not meet the legal minimum headlight height, and do not look good at all.

After much measuring and hacking, this is my first "mock-up" of how they will sit in the car.(before and after)




I plan to retrofit small HID projectors into one set of the halogen housings. The remaining halogen light will be a yellow fog light.

Made a trip to work

She is running pretty great right now, and made a shake-down run to work.











Still working on a front valance and rear valence. Also making new lenses for the headlights.

Renegade Hybrid radiator back from repair!

Whoo hoo!

Renegade was able to repair my radiator that had stress cracks, rather than a full new core!

Got the radiator back in. . .but in the process of doing that discovered my Holley 650 carburetor is leaking fuel out of the front bowl seal and cross over tube seal.


Time to fix that, and hopefully this is causing the really bad smell coming from the car when running (Ultra lean condition for low fuel???)Burning off carbon from the pistons?

I have never smelled this from a car before. It is so strong that I can't tell if it is burning off the exhaust somewhere, or coming from the exhaust itself.

I will pull the plugs tonight to see if they look toasted.

QRS Fiberglass bumpers

I spent 3 hours installing QRS fiberglass bumpers yesterday to complete my "bumper backdate".

I really hate working with fiberglass, as it takes adjusting and sanding to make it work. It is especially tough when the car does not have the mounting holes drilled in the body work to accept the 70-74 year type bumpers.

I was lucky enough to find a thread on 914world.com that gave me stock measurements of where the holes are to be drilled in the body.

I would have much rather got some original black bumpers, but they are all trashed. They all require restoration to the bumper, and new rubber bumper tops that cost $300-400.

I got the front bumper for $180 and the rear for $141 in fiberglass.

Overall they came out decent (I will get photo up soon). They give the car a "track car" look, as it is obvious they are not metal. They weigh about 2-3lbs each, so the weight savings is substantial. The last remaining body pieces are to paint and install the rear lower valence. This will have to wait until my new exhaust is installed, so I can cut it to match the center exit exhaust.

I think I will also install the Renegade Hybrids front lower valence.

Moral of the story....buy original bumpers if you can drop the $ on restoration, however QRS (www.qrsfiberglass.com) brand bumpers are the lowest priced on the market, and are made very well.