What color was original plated hardware on a 1970 Porsche 914-6? Silver or gold? If you look at photos of cars in their current condition, or even hardware for sale, it is quite a mixture. I’ve seen some threads on hardware and kits, but they seem to be focused on personal preferences rather than what […]

Bosch Starter for Porsche 914-6

While it’s clear that a wide variety of model numbers and even remanufactured starters would have worked, I seemed to be cursed with the desire to keep things as original as possible. After quite a few enquiries, I found a starter with the correct 0001212208 model number for our 914-6. Thanks to 914Werke out of

After my home workbench rebuild of the distributor, I decided to send it off for testing. Yes. I am trading money for some piece of mind. Largely because I remember what it was like to own an unreliable car and not know if you will make it to your destination. Or worse yet, be sitting

I often get impatient, which is usually not a good thing. It does however something lead me to coming up with some creative uses for things. In this case, a very questionable use of tools. Example one is I needed to polish the shaft of distributor which was stained and pitted. It was going s-l-o-w-l-y

I took Sunday to try to restore the Marelli S112BX distributor I bought off eBay. There isn’t a ton of info out there are these distributors, but I was able to find some help. PartsKlassik offers a rebuild kit, which is great given that parts were hard to come by for some time. It doesn’t

I started compiling a list of things to do while the engine and transmission are out of the car. Ease of access can sure simplify things. What I discovered is “let’s just rebuild the engine” and get it on the road has become quite a project! I came up with a pretty lengthy list. I’m

Just for giggles, I thought it would interesting to create a reproduction of the dealer window sticker that would have been on our car. I modeled it after 1970 sticker examples found on Jeff Bowlsby site and used the historical info I got from Dave Pateman for options. There have been some variations over the

TLDR; Porsche 914-6 built prior to April 1970 would have CDI and a Marelli 911.602.022.00 S112BX distributor. I guess it should come as no surprise by now that identifying something as common as a distributor is not that straight forward. 914-6 came with models from a couple different manufacturers, and those come in different flavors.

When attempting to track down original parts for vintage cars, it is really helpful if you know the part manufacturer’s part number in addition to the car builder’s part. Meaning if I had a photo or one in my hand I could look at the number on the starter and see if it matched. Case

Porsche 914-6 Engine #6404202

Based on some super helpful historical data obtained from Dave Pateman, we now know that the original engine for this car was 6404202. It looks like it was sold on The Samba in February of 2018 for $2700? The seller was zsvendschmidt of Newport Beach. He appears to have a car business called Newport Classics.

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