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I stopped by the body shop today, and found them shuffling cars around. My 914 is wrapped up to keep off dust (and unlikely rain), while another car gets done in the paint booth. It should be in primer by tomorrow.
More work today on cleaning and inspecting the main harness. GoofOff makes it easy to remove the undercoat spray. It also removes the red paint overspray but only with LOTS of rubbing.
Of course, once cleaned, I found more breaks and cracks in the insulation.
While rooting around in the interior parts, I found the hand-written number inside the dash front. Since the number does not match the VIN, and the blue over-spray does not match the original Bahia Red, my guess is that this dash was swapped in at some point in time.
FYI. If your car needs any transaxle work, I can recommend California Motorsport in Lake Havasu city. Picked up the transaxle today for the 73. Looks like a work of art. They have a lot of their own billet pieces that improve on the factory pieces. They were working on a lot of different transaxles including some or the special factory Porsches in Germany running the tag Heuer left over F1 engines. Very impressive.
While rooting around in the interior parts, I found the hand-written number inside the dash front. Since the number does not match the VIN, and the blue over-spray does not match the original Bahia Red, my guess is that this dash was swapped in at some point in time.
automotive archeologism.....
one day it will be considered a noble job when we are surrounded by washing machines on wheels
I got my replacement strut last night from 914 Werke, a perfect replacement for my original left side with the mangled internal threads. Next week, off to the powder coat shop.
07-30-2020, 10:09 PM
