Burma Shave

I'm fixing up a 72 914 for my father, currently my guys are disassembling for rust repair/refinishing. We're trying to remove the rear interior trim panel. How do you rmove the handle for the engine cover release as it passes through the panel?Tia.

Matt Romanowski

The **** unscrews.

Burma Shave

Thanks, took a closer look after posting. My cleanup guy said the same thing but he breaks things occasionally..:-)

Jay Gratton

Yeah, breaking things is bad. Post some pics of the car. Would love to see the project.

Burma Shave

No problem. I've got a lot of metal work to do etc. Prolly not worth it but since its for my Dad I don't mind investing the labor. At least I'm getting him into a Porsche. The car has a leaky old carb on it that I will have to do something with. I'm assuming going back to injection will be costly and difficult since the parts are long gone. I do have a parts car with a 1.8 or 2.0 that has dual throat carbs on it. I heard that they aren't suitable for the 1.7...any knowledge on this? The engine in the parts car turns over but po says it has a burnt valve. Who knows, if its not too bad I may fix it / freshen it up. We are also gutting the parts car for a vw vr6 swap.

Jay Gratton

If you can fidn a 2.0 that would GREAT!!!!! However, I would leave the 1.7 in it over the 1.8 engine. I find the 1.7 to be quicker then the 1.8. I think Matt will agree with me on that as well.