Thanks for the welcome... Sorry to the FI fans. I'm a big fan of originality but I also like to have a good chance of arriving where I intend to go... My type 4 just wasn't revving up...fabulous on the carbs. I have kept the FI....sharing a box with the FI off my other type 4 engine which also runs on carbs I really like the colour - there seems to be a bit of 'discussion' on what it actually is. I have the original bill of sale and a brochure too which is pretty cool - colour stated in the brochure is Sage Green. The original interior was lovely too but that has been removed and placed in a box. Replaced by NLA VW that seems pretty good... look forward to being on here
Ah man...should have photo shopped that out - but no idea how to. 'Accidental' eBay purchase means we now have an actual waste water collection thing but it's massive! Anyway - I'm no photographer, I've taken my one snap for this year and that was it...so it will have to do bud!
more pics of your 914 please we have a few other bus owners on here who also run 914's @mcswiggs @lhu1281
I see the issues on old FI and lack of some parts ..FI is always going to be better and if you go modern EFI then you get reliability and mappable ECU ..
Now it just so happens I have many snaps I could share - literally a few hundred... It's a 72 build registered Jan 1973. California car until a few years ago so rock solid. Had the gearbox rebuilt and an aircooled engine builder works with us so obvs the engine has been rebuilt too... Mike at Vintage Volkshaus built me a custom exhaust - even so the car is actually very stock. Had a full bare metal paint last December so looks great and drives fabulously
§ Well - "run 914" is still an aspiration, but maybe one day soon! See https://thelatebay.com/index.php?threads/two-seater-targa-topped-bus-restoration-914.75583/ for the story so far. Meanwhile here's a picture of the cosmologist genius Carl Sagan with his....
