[BillC]

Now that the paint is dry, I installed the new seal:


It's just fitted in place, without glue. I'm thinking about not gluing it in, since I read a suggestion a while ago about pulling the seal to let the channel dry if the car gets caught in the rain.

[Patrick3000]

Looks great

[BillC]

Finally had a chance to work on another task on the car -- hooking up the windshield washers. I picked up a used pump at Hershey years ago, and had meant to do this while the gas tank was out and there was easy access to everything, but where's the challenge in doing it while it's easy?

I followed @bbrock 's guidance here: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=361176 , and it went easier than when I wired up my previous 914, because the old car didn't have the pre-wiring for the pump in the wiper switch.

I found the brown/black wire taped to the wiring harness, just as Brent mentioned. Since I didn't want to modify the harness, I made an extension wire with a male spade on the end. I found an empty spade on a switched fuse in the fuse block and pulled power from there; the wire was run up through grommet where the main harness passes.

Since I didn't want to drill any new holes in the car, the relay is bolted to the existing hole in one of the cowl supports -- I found a 5mm bolt, so the hole didn't need to be drilled out. The pump is installed under the reservoir with VHB double-sided tape. I used the VHB tape on my previous car, and the pump was still firmly attached 5 years later when I sold the car.

[BillC]

Between waiting for the parts and spray paint to arrive, and being at the Summit Point Club Race last weekend, I wasn't able to get the hood reinstalled until last night.

Here's the "new" bracket (cleaned, de-rusted, and painted) next to the old one:


And the hood hinge installed:


And with the hood itself installed:


My son and I spent about 1/2 hour tweaking the positioning of the hood. It isn't perfect, but much better than before.

[Dr K]

The hood alignment looks great!

Seeing how well you raced, your time at Summit Point was also well spent.

[cmartin]

Good work

I like the big old spring for some reason

[BillC]

It's been a while since I've done any work on my 914, but something just happened that has me a bit excited.

If you dig back into this thread a ways, you'll find where I was complaining about not being able to get the car to idle properly using the original D-Jet system. It turned out that the problem is when the PO had the engine rebuilt, they installed a carb cam which isn't fully compatible with D-Jet -- I can get it to idle reliably, but only at 1600 RPM, which turns out to be remarkably annoying.

About a year ago, James at PMB Performance contacted me about a drop-in/bolt-on modern fuel injection system they were developing for 914s. Since it's an MS3 based system, it would cure all my idle and drivability issues. And ... this arrived yesterday:



Inside the box is all of this:



This is the first system to be installed outside of PMB Performance, so it will be a bit of a learning curve for both me and them.

It turns out that this system isn't quite a bolt-on, since I need to weld an O2 sensor bung onto the exhaust if I want close-loop operation (which I do). The system will apparently run just fine in open-loop, but I want all the modern bells and whistles.

Things are a little busy at the moment, since it's the start of driving/racing season, but I will update this thread as I make progress. The plan is to take lots of pics and detail the process involved.

[Trak Ratt]

Originally Posted by cmartin

Good work

I like the big old spring for some reason

X2

[JmuRiz]

Cool kit, wonder if they’re going to go the /6 kit he was talking about. That’s on my future (if I get $ to do) list of upgrades I’d like.