DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

They look superb!

After some searching I found a replacement felt for the original fuel tank mounts and straps. Funnily enough the only place I could find to buy it from was Germany. A 20x20cm 5mm thick was the perfect amount.



Cutting in to pieces.



Masking for glueing



In position. I'll finish off the straps later.

In the front trunk area I recovered my modified front trunk board and also decided to make a matching tyre cover to tidy the area up.



Bulkhead also recovered.

Moving on to the interior it was time to fit the first layer of soundproofing.



I ordered 20 square foot and will probably need another few sheets to complete the firewall.

Then on to fitting the dash in place but before I needed to replace the vinyl top.

Masking for glue.



Foam layer.



A tricky or should I say sticky job. Careful trimming around the air vent indentations made for a neat finish.



Fully fitted with the dash top.



Starting on the dash wiring with the switches. A few modifications yet to be made to the wiring because of the 911 gauges and fuel gauge yet to do but I've made a start with the excellent instructions provided by Perry Kiehl.

Just superb

Wonderful stuff, but you skipped a detail.
Tell them about the period correct laptimer you managed to source!

More awesome work. Great attention to detail.

Looking fantastic Stephen, great work!!

I've been busy at it this week as I've now set myself a deadline of taking the car to Brooklands on the 20th July to celebrate 50 years of the 914. It's the perfect place to debut the car. So, the clock is ticking... there's a lot to do!

I finished off the last piece of wiring aside from the engine bay. The rear light part of the harness had been cut previously and modern black and red wire used for the number plate lights. I cut this section out and replaced it with original grey and brown wire and taped it up as original.



I then moved on to the dash to get that wired and to run the new wires for the 911 oil pressure and temperature gauge and also extend part of the loom for the fuel gauge in its new location. Whilst there I changed out the old screen washer system and installed a switch on the stalk for an electric washer motor.



Although I previously had Euro lenses on the front of the car the light buckets only contained the one bulb for the indicator. I sourced a set of Euro buckets with side lights years ago so now it was time to change the loom and wire them up correctly.

With the loom now mostly installed it was time to connect the battery to see if I'd done it all right





It felt great to see the car start to come back to life.

Seeing the warm glow of the gauges bought back good memories of warm evening drives, something I can't wait to do again this Summer.

For the last couple of days I've been concentrating on fitting the new 19mm master cylinder and hard brake lines. I'd never bent brake line before but after a couple of bends matching to the old lines became easy.

Nearly there.


Once I finished off the front brake lines I could get on to fitting the front suspension.

Fortunately I didn't need to do anything to the rack as that job was tackled a few years ago. But this time I fitted turbo tie rods and a rose joint bump steer kit.



What that photo doesn't show is the hour it took me to find the damn bolts to mount the rack to the auxiliary support! I finally found them in bags for the rear hubs. Put there by me when sorting after zinc coating.

Getting everything together for installation with new 21mm torsion bars.



At this point I realised I wouldn't be able to do this alone and a neighbour was called on for help.



All up and torqued to spec



Sway bar not connected until I get the car on the ground and height adjusted.





And just because I have to see what a wheel looks like there.



Bank holiday tomorrow and a day off from the car!

After looking at this, I think I'm going to sell mine... We are not worthy!

Said it before this will be the best 914 out there.

Good luck with the deadline.

What a dash board!
This is all so very nice, glad I'm not restoring a 911/914 today, the bar is so sky high.

Thanks guys, kind words.

I'm sitting here this morning itching to go and work on the car again despite saying to the wife I won't today. But there's a whole four hours until our friends arrive for lunch.