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A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

EastSmith wrote: post #147
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My father had one of these just sort of gathering dust in the garage when I was growing up, utterly shocked when I turned 16 and he handed me the keys. I still like to casually drop "oh yeah, I used to have a Porsche back when I was 16." Although I must say it was in immeasurably better shape than this one :D I still dream of finding an old 914 and giving it an electric conversion… I'd have to do something about that…

Is the electric conversion still a thing? I want an eclectic car with no monitors, no software updates, no surveillance (none of the new electric car offers that - they are calling home for updates and god knows why way too often, and they have bigger monitors than my 14" work laptop).

How fast do you need to go? Hyster, Crown, et. al. make what you want.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Post by NoImmatureAdHom »

titzer wrote: post #194
blastro wrote: post #11

In high school, my friends and I managed to resuscitate a 914 that had been stowed away in a garage for over a decade. We towed it to the top of a hill with a pickup truck and attempted a clutch start after we'd picked up some speed. None of us (especially me in the driver's seat) expected this to work, but amazingly it fired right up. One of my friends managed to jog alongside and jump into the car as I tried to kee…

lol, your memory jogged my memory of me and my neighbor, me 14, he 16, finding an almost-completely disassembled moped in the woods behind my house. It had been completely stripped--out of spite, it would appear, since everything not firmly attached to the steel frame, including all of the plastic shell parts, lights, switches, etc, had been strewn all around. Of the few things attached to the frame, it was lucky the…

I am sorry for your loss.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Post by eyelidlessness »

I think my 87 Jetta (purchased in 2002, died and abandoned 2000ish miles or so moving 3000 miles US coast to coast) very closely resembled these remarks. Of course no one wanted to steal it. But I appreciate the author’s portrayal! And it was a really fun weird way to feel like I’ve owned a Porsche!

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Post by rascul »

fps wrote: post #273
rascul wrote: post #109

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Many states barely even check anything anyway. Out of six states I've had a vehicle inspection in, only one (Maryland) did more than check lights, wipers, brakes, and horn. Inspections seem to be more a revenue stream than anything else.

I think most states will fail a car with the "check engine" light on. For cars in the northeast, keeping the CEL off gets more and more expensive every winter. I had a truck that was getting a new oxygen sensor (there were 6 on the car) every year from age 8 to 12. The truck drove fine with them malfunctioning, but it couldn't pass inspection. My current Jeep, I assume is going to need about $2K every year in mainten…

> I think most states will fail a car with the "check engine" light on.

Except Maryland, none of the states I've done an inspection looked inside the vehicle. The states that did emissions would fail if check engine light is on, but if you disconnect the battery right before to reset it then they might pass it.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Post by blastro »

14 wrote: post #296
blastro wrote: post #11

In high school, my friends and I managed to resuscitate a 914 that had been stowed away in a garage for over a decade. We towed it to the top of a hill with a pickup truck and attempted a clutch start after we'd picked up some speed. None of us (especially me in the driver's seat) expected this to work, but amazingly it fired right up. One of my friends managed to jog alongside and jump into the car as I tried to kee…

lol that's a cool story you probably damaged the rings and cylinder wall by force starting it without taking some precautions first. If you have an engine that has sat a long time you definitely should pull the spark plugs and spay lubricant down the holes. Let it sit overnight. Then gently try and turn over the engine by hand and see if the rings are free or not. Something sitting so long the ring tend to stick to c…

Thanks for this explanation. Totally makes sense!

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Post by trainsarebetter »

EastSmith wrote: post #147
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My father had one of these just sort of gathering dust in the garage when I was growing up, utterly shocked when I turned 16 and he handed me the keys. I still like to casually drop "oh yeah, I used to have a Porsche back when I was 16." Although I must say it was in immeasurably better shape than this one :D I still dream of finding an old 914 and giving it an electric conversion… I'd have to do something about that…

Is the electric conversion still a thing? I want an eclectic car with no monitors, no software updates, no surveillance (none of the new electric car offers that - they are calling home for updates and god knows why way too often, and they have bigger monitors than my 14" work laptop).

Check out the openinverter.org/wiki project. it’s very active, lots of development and backing going on

I also design a variety of parts for adapting oem ev parts for other vehicles www.bratindustries.net

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Post by mikeryan »

logifail wrote: post #203
optymizer wrote: post #65

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What a blast from the past. I learnt to drive using a VW Golf, and I've always thought this shift pattern is just standard on German cars with manual transmission (at least in the 90s). One thing I don't see mentioned is that you first have to press down onto the knob, then shift forward, in order to shift the transmission into R. Simply pushing the knob forward won't go from N to R.

> this shift pattern is just standard on German cars with manual transmission "Standard?" Hmm. We have two cars with manual transmission, a VW Sharan and a VW Up: The Sharan has R at the top left, then (reading across) 1 3 5 with 2 4 6 below; so 6th is at the bottom right. The Up only has 5 forward gears, but for some reason they decided to put R at the bottom right (so down from 5th... you can probably see where thi…

but for some reason they decided to put R at the bottom right

Reverse in the bottom right is the “normal” 5-speed reverse spot no?

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