Porsche 911 Project

[kingston]

Love the wire pulling on your car, too! LOL! I LOVE seeing progress on this thread:)

[IronFreak]

How's this coming along? I can only live a Porsche dream vicariously through you as actually owning one isn't in my budget currently haha.

[SirWolfian]

Sweet Jesus man! More videos and stuff

[LJ851]

The engine sounded ok when i started it but the timing didn't adjust and change like i thought it should. It did not like running where i thought the timing should be and timing mark jumped around a lot. I was beginning to question my homemade distributor. A test drive confirmed the problem, it wouldn't take any load below 3-4 k and was backfiring and carrying on.

I compared it my old 3 liter dist (again) i didn't see why it would be acting odd so i did this.



I have a paint mark on the center of the tip of the rotor so with a timing light i can check how well the rotor lines up with the terminal when it fires.

Well, i couldn't even see the rotor in the hole, it was so out of phase! I am thinking that this is not possible, WTF?

Lots of head scratching and inspection reveal no flaws. I wired the MSD box to the bosch magnetic pickup via a description of the way to achieve the most stable spark output, it works both ways. Before i went into the dist to try and fix something i didn't think was wrong i decided to switch the wires on the MSD box.

Perfection! The rotor lined up just like it should and the whole dist acted like it should. If you wire a magnetic pickup one way it triggers off the leading edge and if you wire it the other way it triggers of the trailing edge. Learned something new!

[csermonet47]

Well how did she drive?

[LJ851]

Pulled out of my driveway on my second test drive and as i was accelerating up the road i heard a flapping from my left rear wheel. I looked in the mirror and saw this hanging off the tire.



Tire looks like this, has 2 miles on it.



It doesn't seem to have compromised the tire but pretty disappointing none the less. Fender lip is razor sharp for some reason, i'll roll them and see if i can put my spacers back on after.

[MatRacer]

Amaizing! Nice work! Porsches are so nice!

[LJ851]

I forgot to mention the oil cooler install. My car came with what is called a "trombone" oil cooler. It basically the same brass oil lines in a couple loops in front of the passenger side front tire.

It is not a very effective cooler and with the 3.2 engine i wanted more so i got a used oil cooler out of a late 930 turbo. It fits in the same place but the mounting brackets are different. The lower bracket is pretty cheap from porsche so i bought that and fabbed my own upper mount. The lower bracket gets welded to the chassis.


You can see it here with the cooler mounted. The upper bracket is hidden and i still need to relocate the horns.



View from the wheel side.



Rebuilt halfshafts installed.



Here you can see the CV bolts safety wired, i did them in pairs.



While i was waiting for parts to show up installed stainless flex lines at all four corners...



and rebuilt all the booster linkage, replaced all the vacuum hoses and installed a new master cylinder. I had the housing that holds the booster anodized black.



I decided to mess with the muffler i thought had a flange welded on crooked. Turns out it was tweaked in shipping and very easy to bend back into shape. I installed it.



It's a bit louder than the other muffler, i like them both.

There is a fair bit a wiring i don't approve of and a lot of wiring i will no longer need since this car will be bare bones.

The way porsche wired these cars is pretty handy for what i am doing. There is a main basic harness and all the options are separate sub harnesses. So i removed the power mirror harness, the sunroof harness, etc.

Some don't work the same and here is the brake light circuit (on the left and which i need) separated from the warning system harness it was part of.




Looking at the messy wiring under the hood and in the interior has been killing me so today i went at it and got it to an acceptable level of tidyness.
Here is what i removed today.



Much better!

[ACHTUNG]

Sweet

[slippery]

Great progress!!

Snap a picture of how you secured the cv bolts. Did you loop a wire through all the bolts?

J

[blunttech]

Wow badass I had no idea what these parts were going in. So cool

[LJ851]

14 quarts of oil????

911 is dry sump and oil changes are around 11 quarts. Initial fill with bone dry engine, oil cooler lines and oil cooler is 14. The oil tank holds about 9 quarts so you have to fill in stages, add 8 then start the motor and add the rest. Oil level is set/checked with the engine idling at full operating temp, 14 quarts expand quite a bit when hot!

[JCarp90]

Because air-cooled

Hahahaha yep


Really tidy nice work man. Enjoying it immensely.

Well, shit. That's badass!

[Danny]

Ohhhhhhhhhh Lorin that sounds so good.

[deutschman]

14 quarts of oil????

Hahahaha yep


Really tidy nice work man. Enjoying it immensely.