New 912E owner, project thread

[fastricky]

I'm actively watching this thread! So EIGHT of us... ;-)

[ryans65]

HAHAHA! I'll have some updates this week after I massage these bypass tubes.

[ryans65]

I started at 6:30am today with the intentions of cobbling these bypass tubes together and then running this engine in. I started pulling parts out of boxes I have not look at in a while and to my astonishment the heat exchangers I bought over a year ago had a pair bolted to them this whole time. I had a good laugh but it was short lived. The rear inner exhaust stud pulled the threads from the head under torque so I am once again dead in the water. I am going to try and find a helicoil kit locally so I can attempt to get this running by this weekend. I need to anneal these exhaust washers anyways. Sigh.

[ryans65]

helicoiled the exhaust stud, annealed the washers and got these on then found out my exhaust gaskets were wrong so i called it a day

[ryans65]

aaaaaaaaand one of the little tabs that holds the bypass tubes to the heads has cracked. Time for the nuclear option. I will cut all the tabs off and come up with something way more robust.

[ToySnakePMC]

No 9 thread watcher here... New to P cars with recent 912E purchase in June. Hope you’re up & running ASAP!

[ryans65]

Nice! Thanks for watching! The engine is in and running but I hit a snag with the air flow meter and it has been sent out to fuel injection corp. for a rebuild. I have to admit to some stupidity here, I was cranking this thing over and over knowing it ran before having the engine rebuilt. After a lot of head scratching I finally started pulling components to test and when I pulled the AFM off the air box I noticed that little metal tang that holds the connector in had gotten lodged in a weird way and that wasn't allowing the the plug to clip in all the way. It was actually a blessing in disguise as it led me to investigate my fuel pump running with the key on issue and that led me to the messed up sweeper arm/ mixture gear spring inside the AFM cover. I am glad I didn't run this engine in with the messed up AFM. Keeping my fingers crossed it comes back to me by next weekend. Otherwise the car is ready for its first mile under its own power in 30 years.

Originally Posted by ToySnakePMC

No 9 thread watcher here... New to P cars with recent 912E purchase in June. Hope you’re up & running ASAP!

[ryans65]

Ill post pictures and videos of its first drive but all I can focus on right now is getting issue after issue sorted so I can enjoy it when it's all done.

[912EUK]

Watching and waiting for the fire-up and drive!
I bought mine a couple of years ago running and registered in the UK. Be patient and you’ll have her running soon.
Brendan

[ryans65]

Thanks guys! Waiting on my air flow meter from Fuelinjectioncorp.com .... noticed it had been tampered with at some point in the past and they said the door was broken from a backfire. Should be here by the end of this week! Last piece of this puzzle!

[ryans65]

[ryans65]

#1328 had a great first weekend out, the weather was perfect and the car ran and drove better than expected. I managed to put about 70 miles on it so far, a few little bugs to figure out but nothing major. I have a start up and first drive video but my cell service is horrible at my house so it will have l wait until i get near wifi.

[david c.]

That is well done sir! Congrats and enjoy!

[ryans65]

Took a little time last night to remove the heat hose clamps at the heater flaps so I can cut off the nut and weld a new one on. The bolt that tightens the clamp snapped off inside each one and Id like to have heat with fall approaching. Need to order a new cable also.

[ryans65]

drive to work today and my drivers window wouldn't roll up, I'm assuming it's the pivot pin and I should have known not to wind these things up and down so much with how tight the regulator felt..... gotta pull these doors apart this weekend, fabricate some pivots then grease and reassemble

[ryans65]

just as suspected the pivot was broken so I took an M12 bolt and cut it down to approx the same shape as the factory pivot but welded it to the regulator instead of trying to press it in and swage it. Welding my modified bolt to the regulator should be a permanent fix.

[ryans65]

My tach was intermittent at best so I hop over to ebay fearing what a 912E tach would cost and to my astonishment there was a NOS unit that was just listed. I ended up paying $150 for it with shipping. It came in the original box and still had the tape over the light holes! Unreal! Story I got from the ebay seller is they had just closed up a european repair facility and are liquidating their stock after 30+ years.

[joegranzier]

Good Morning
I believe I found your cars' twin sister.
Parked in 1998 , same brown color , same layers of dust. 87,540 on the odometer
Garage kept its whole life - woman owned , some records
wonderful little car - just a nice time capsule from 98
Fuel injection removed , dual Webers -parked with gas in tank (ugh)
New exhaust put on in 98 and stickers not even burned off -

Parked again for now - other home projects have taken precedence ( in effort to maintain the peace with the wife ) .....the wonderful wife

Your thread is appreciated and gives me some insight on whats in front of me
Joe G - Baltimore

[ryans65]

Very cool!! I've kept a slow but steady pace on this thing and while it's still a work in progress I've got it where I can jump in and take it for a drive whenever!

Maybe it was a bitter chocolate thing being parked for a while?! I'd love to see your car if you have some pictures!

[darkbeer]

Although I fully understand why people pull the L-jet in favor of Webers, I am pleased to see you building the stock configuration FI, with all its quarks and idio's....it is really sweet when all is good.Smooth running, great idle and awesome MPG....
I have had two E's, and will be getting #3 soon (i hope) KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK !!!!!