Porsche 911 Project

[LJ851]

Update?

Been working like a slave on this thing for the last week+. All day, every day.

Have made huge progress, pics soon.

Here is a teaser vid.

[4Running Daily]

Update?

[delatlanta1281]

Ha ha. There's no way that's legit. No way.
Glad to see your motor coming together lorin!

[acolella76]

Looking good Lorin :)

BTW, those struts are spoken for after all :(

[LJ851]

Lorin - 1 / Farbin - 0

Haha!

Disassembled my pedal cluster, welded an adjustable stop on my on my clutch pedal and took all the parts over to get powder coated. There will be water on the floor at some point so the powder is mainly for protection.


EDIT: Powder coater just called 3 hours after i dropped the parts off, powder coating is ready to pick up !

[poopin04]

WOW! E30's and old Porsche's were always my favorite set of wheels. Maybe one day when I don't live in a city where it snows or the roads suck.

Keep up the good work man!

[Farbin Kaiber]

Lorin - 1 / Farbin - 0

[LJ851]

My only question is where does the thermostat install at?

There are 2. The main thermostat is in the engine cases, you can see the top of it in front of the oil pressure switch in this picture. It's the football shaped piece of aluminum with two nuts holding it down (you can only see one nut in the pic).



The second thermostat controls oil flow to the front oil cooler. It's in front of the rear wheel with the 2 shiny oil lines going into it.




Oh wait, were you joking? :p

[Kevinl]

Cool build

I have always loved 993's maybe I'll own one day

[Farbin Kaiber]

My only question is where does the thermostat install at?

[LJ851]

Some more progress.

Cleaned, regreased and rebooted my late model axles. This shot shows one how i got it and one finished. The inner CVs are worn but they will do for a while.



I was missing the load spreading washer plates and even german aftermarket are over 10 dollars each ($65 for both axles) so i had to do something else. The CVs looked about E28 (bmw) sized so i called up a buddy who has E28s and he gave me 6. Perfect fit!



I rebuilt the entire emergency brake system as it was rusted solid. Had to cut the cables off the handle. Where the new german cable housings meet the body they were about .2mm smaller than the originals so they wouldn't slip over the protruding tubes. Very annoying. Ended up wrapping thin strips of emory cloth around them and sanded the tubes down til they fit.

New cables on, drums cleaned and lubed and adjusted. Longer wheel studs too.



The emergency brake cable tubes in the chassis were filled with solidified grease that was so thick i could barely pull the cables through it. I had to get rid of it before the new cables went in so i came up with this. It is a piece of one of the old cables that i hammered the end into a y shape a little smaller than the tube. i chucked it up in my cordless drill and used it like a plumbing snake. It worked great.



Pedal cluster removed for new bushings. A couple pieces are pretty worn so i ordered some more parts tonight. I'm going to check my powder coaters schedule and see if he can slip the pedals into a batch in the next day or two. We will see.

[LJ851]

Hm. Not sure if someone's already claimed our last set of early 911 struts or not...

My car has bilstein strut housings (as opposed to Boge) which is the only variable. Currently running Bilstein inserts and shocks.

Let me know what you got !

[acolella76]

Hm. Not sure if someone's already claimed our last set of early 911 struts or not...

[chance]

ooooohhhh

[LJ851]

Ready to plug in. I am running out of excuses why my car doesn't run yet.







The shop looks like an explosion happened and i am having trouble finding even my duplicate tools so it is clean the shop time for a bit.

So tempted to pull the oil tank out of the car and fire this bisch up like it sits.