Hello in/out there, I haven't been on here for sometime since I procured my Beck Speedster back in November of 2009. I picked this car up through a trade for my restored '74 BMW 2002tii. The kicker to the whole deal was that the Speedster didn't come with an engine (it was a deluxe roller package). The good news about that was that it gave me a chance to consider what I wanted to power this thing. After doing plenty of reading and frequenting ShopTalkForums, I came to the conclusion that a Type IV (4) was the way to go and quite quickly stumbled onto an engine (and transaxle) from a '72 914 1.7 liter. Initially I got all geared up about rebuilding this myself but came to my senses and as of January 2011 I am having a professional rebuild this and increasing the size to 1.9, dual Webers and a whole slew of new inards etc. The engine is starting to take shape and I will be delivering the Speedster to the shop this week sometime so all the details for installation can commence. I also recently received my Tangerine header system (attached). My hopes that by June 1st or so, I should be driving this after a long wait. It's been a good lesson in patience. I'm attaching a few photos here and if anyone is interested I have a thread within ShopTalk Forums, Type4rum area, "Type 4 into a Beck Speedster" is the topic. I have been documenting the process from the tear down (which I did do) and now the rebuild and eventually the install. Perhaps some of you here have seen it. I also have plenty of pix of the car (and many of my other cars) itself posted on my Facebook account.
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