Porsche 911 Project

[Wh33lhop]

Yes yes yes. Please, do go on.

[Herr Faust Schinken]

subbed i love 80s 911s

[slammin.e28]

OHHHH NOICE!

I'd make a trip to GA to hold your hand while you drove me down some twisties.

[frankenbeemer]

The PO should be in jail.

[LJ851]

After a couple weeks i decided since the engine ran pretty well besides the exhaust leak, i would fix the leak and drive it until my 3.2 (now on carbs!!) was ready.

I found a missing ex stud so i dropped the headers and found this:



In case you can't tell, that is a broken off tap and some drill work done by a blind,one armed third grader. I lost the desire to repair that upside down in the drive way so it was officially parked awaiting 3.2.

This handiwork was a foreshadowing of the other "work" the PO did on the car.

Some people should not be allowed to own tools.

[rcsoundn1]

.........AHHHHH i await!

[mbonanni]

Oh god yes

[Danny]

Oh god yes

[LJ851]

I saw that MAXELHOFF has his own build thread now so i've got to step my game up a bit.




I thought i was over 911s when my first one met an untimely demise. It had some strong points and some weak points and was not a "nice" example. However, i was left with a 85,000 mile 3.2 Carrera engine in my garage that i had purchased to replace the very worn original but had not yet installed. It kept taunting me.

This is the OLD car, RIP.


3.2 i picked up in Raleigh NC:





I started passively looking for another car that was maybe not so great mechanically and found an '82 911 SC in Tampa. Called up my friend Bender and we hopped in the E30 for a road trip from ATL to Tampa and back in one shot. This is it in sellers driveway.



Here we are refueling in southern GA in the middle of the night. Oh, and then the 911 refused to start (megasquirt)



We made it home with no other issues which is a miracle in itself but i'll go into that later. This is a few days later with my 9" fuchs on the rear and 7's on the front.



At this point the entire AC system is gone, but it has a pretty bad exhaust leak so i parked it for a couple weeks getting ready to swap my 3.2 engine in.

So then i was trolling craigslist for more things i don't need and found an ad for "porsche carburetors". One crazy story later i have these:



The snowball had begun to roll.