The Porsche 914


Work documented before I got the car.
Fixing a few things after I got the car
Back dating the bumpers and some body work

Back dating the bumpers and some body work.
I was looking for a set of chromed steel bumper, but then found a set of painable steel bumpers and like the idea to color match them to the car. Here is what I did and what else poped up during the back date.

So, I found a front and rear metal bumper and the top pieces in good condition. The bumper self were painted and need some work. Here is the front one where I have closed the hole from the bumperettes. It also needed a little banging to get it straight at those areas.

The rear bumper showed some rust once I removed the bumperettes (or Stosstangenhoerner in German). Here is it after stripping the paint off, and I used some acid to get rid of some rust on the inside. It looks worse than it is, it's only some flash rust from the acid.

Here is the area that need repair.

Cut out the bad section

Fit the new piece and weld it in.

Clean up and done.

Got it primed and ready for final sanding and painting.

Here they are now painted.

I got to the point to see if the yellow bumper will fit and started to remove the rubber bumpers and support. I know when I bought the car that something happen at that rear corner.

I did not expect that it will become such a project.

After seeing this, I started to dig in and get the body filler off.

Oh boy, somebody did some hi-tech repair.

I decided to replace the rear panel, and I found a good replacement piece for the rear right corner.

Careful removed the spot welds.

I found a small area which needed a little patch.

While I was fitting the new piece, I also made the patch.

One more small section to be fixed at the bottom, but no big deal, just welded in a littel patch.

I prepped the section of the car with some primer, chip guard, and paint, on the section, I cannot get easy later on.

Here is the new panel complete welded in.

Here is what it looked before.

After the rear panel I moved to the front. At that corner it was also obvious that some repair was done at one time.

It was not as bad as at the rear end.

There were 3 holes when somebody tried to pull it out, so I welded the holes and massaged the rest. While I was on it, I welded the side marker hole. I never liked the look of them.

I was pocking around in the rear trunk and found 2 areas which looked suspicious.

There were some small rust areas which were masterful repaired with body filler.

I removed the exhaust heat shield below. I found that one of the support was hanging on body filler. That goop of chip guard must have been there since it came out of the factory.

A view from the bottom side.

OK, here I have the sections cut out.

I made new pieces to be welded back in.

Here they are welded back in. Pardon the ugly welds, I will clean them up.

Another view from the bottom side, with the heat shield support welded back on.

Next, I moved to the front bumper section. When I removed the trunk seal, I found some additional section, which need some repair.

Cutting out the old and welding new fabricated pieces.

More pieces, this was above of the headlight cover, hidden under the trunk seal.

I painted that section for now, so I can concentrate later for the external section.

I touched up the corners with yellow. It's not a super nice paint job, but it will do for now.

Ready for assembly. Now I looks at these parts and need to do something. I could not install it as is.

The Headlight supports are Powder coated. The most work was to get them all clean blasted. Thet are original grey, but I don't relly care, I like it black. .

Front Bumper is mounted.

The tail light housings, and lenses have seen better days, so I was able to find a good set of housings. I disassembled them and repainted the reflectors.

Here the housing with the reflector before assembly. I cleaned all the contacts, etc.

And here assembled and with the LED's installed.

And here finish installed in the car with EURO lenses. In the picture below it still shows the old bumper, but the tail lights are basically which were restored before and now re-installed after the Bumper back date. I just posted it for the animation.

Here is a picture with the new bumper and lights installed.

I added new custom Fog and DRL where the grill and the original fog light are mounted.

Here some picture of the 914 finished.

The Porsche 914


Work documented before I got the car.
Fixing a few things after I got the car
Back dating the bumpers and some body work