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The thing is, the electrical parts are the biggest culprits for actually keeping cars off the road. Things like the MPS, which really is NLA, or the Air Flow Meter, which is getting harder to find and $$$.

How about intake boots, the hoses from the AFM to the throttle body on the 1.8 cars? The 912E ones have been NLA for a good while, you may be able to sell 20-50 or so of them in short order I would think. (Only 2099 912Es made; many are off the road now or have been converted to carbs...)

Those outer windshield seals are definitely a problem, but they simply make for a leaky car, not a non-runner.

What else? The MPS and TPS for the D-jetronic fuel injection, of course.

The seals around the engine bay. One or more of them was NLA the last I checked.

Taillight gaskets of various kinds. It'd be nice to have taillights that don't leak, wouldn't it?

If you can design a better front trunk seal, one that won't promote rust in the channel, that might be good as well.

The problem I see is that the market is not that large, and we 914 owners are notoriously cheap. Combine that with a relatively high initial cost to do a run of anything, and you wind up with a really good way to be out a large chunk of change... And make back some or maybe even all of it over the course of a couple of years. (Just ask the guys who put together the triple gauge combo gauge kits!!)

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