Porsche 911 Project

[slippery]

This thread is my new favorite. Excellent work!!

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[TwoJ's]

Just posting to subscribe myself.

Great work man, I appreciate the ingenuity.

[grays]

keep it up. love these cars

[LJ851]

Harness stripped down to only what i need. The pile to the side is what i removed.



Installed new rubber seals all around the engine bay.

[LJ851]

My new oil line from Blunttech showed up just like Steve said it would. 23 hours from the order til i was installing it.



Installed with 2 more new oil lines.



This is the engine harness off the 3.0 engine. It is in pretty sad shape and has a lot of extra crap i dont need on it (CIS injection). I eventually will make a whole new harness for the engine bay but i am trying to stay focused on getting this thing back on the road so i will repair, strip down, and tidy up this harness for now.

[Cha Ching]

Subscribed. This is looking epic.

[LJ851]

Made some small progress.

The odo was inoperative so i took the speedo apart and replaced the bad gear. It's the dark colored one in the first pic. Took the opportunity to polish the lens and generally clean and inspect everything in there.



I zeroed the odo because i wanted to and the mileage is unknown (even on the title).I feel like the car is starting a new life now anyway.



The main oil feed line to the oil cooler was really crimped flat from improper jacking, the line that's wet with oil . It's a common problem on these cars.



There are several spots but this one is the worst.



I came up with a brilliant idea to save the oil line. Mostly because it's a $500+ piece of tubing from porsche! I ordered some steel ball bearings a little smaller than the ID of the tubing and drilled a hole through one. I put a cable through it and welded a nut on it so i could pull the ball through the line like a mandrel and gently open the line back up.

So far, so good. I inserted the cable through the line and clamped it in the vice so if i pulled on the oil line, the ball would be forced up the line. I tried it cold at first and it didn't work but i didn't really think it would.

Next, i heated the deformed area up to around 400 degrees and pulled on the line again. It moved this time! But...


EPIC FAIL! !



The line totally shattered and let a bunch of nasty, stinky burnt oil vapors out and stunk the whole house up.

Emailed Steve at Blunttech to see if he could pull porsche parts out of his hat like he does with bmw parts. 20 minutes later there is a new line on the way to be delivered tomorrow (thats ONE day) for a price so good i'm pretty sure it's stolen. Oh, this part is like 7 feet long as well. Promptly ordered some more parts from him to make a set of plug wires. If you don't know about Blunttech check it out, you will not be disappointed.

Kinda glad i'm getting a new line in the end.

I couldn't find any 5mm crush washers for my new sync ports in my intake manifolds so i made some out of an old aluminum cookie sheet.



Finished. Simichrome tube to show scale.

[etagolnik]

wow, subbed. keep the updates coming! those carbs look unreal. I want to hear some induction sound when you get it running...post some Videos!

[Pac1373]

Overall amazing project, I have to say though, Fabricating your own spark distribution system = 1 blown mind. Amazing stuff there.

great work, the car will be amazing!

[broach328]

I keep hitting refresh and have been getting let down every time.

[PaladinReed]

And two shiny parts sexier

[LJ851]

Thanks guys!


One thing i have going back and forth on is wether or not to drill and tap my brand new fancy manifolds so i can use my 4 channel sync gauge to get the carbs sync'd as optimally as possible. Most porsche guys use air flow type sync tools that fit in the mouth of one carb barrel and swap it back and forth.

This is not ideal in my opinion and i am used to syncing many carbs together on motorcycles so i made the decision to mod the manifolds and try to match the look and quality of the carb setup.

I marked each port in exactly the same place and set up a jig to hold the manifolds square in the drill press.



I drilled a pilot, countersunk the hole, drilled to size, and tapped a 5x.8 thread.



All three done.



Left side manifold done.



I'll screw in fittings to use while syncing but normally there will just be plugs in the holes. I took some stainless screws and massaged the heads of them until i was happy to use as blanking plugs. Here is the end result, i tried to show the fitment in the pics.






One step closer.

[DRTSRFR]

That's impressive

I've seriously been thinking of selling the Mtech to fund a 911 build.

Good work!

[csermonet47]

I made a stool once.

[Nick_S]

Distributors confuse the hell out of me....and you made one. Made props. Love seeing updates on this build!