'77 Carrera 3.0 Hot Rod / Outlaw

[Stockydude]

12 hours ago, LeeM said:

Nice work mate 👍

Thanks Lee - Dave Hosking at Carrera Trimming did all the work, can't claim credit for it - I'm merely the "patron" (& of course visionary, driver etc LOL) 😁

4 hours ago, sjm said:

Looks great, what clan tartan is that or was it case of “I like the look of that tartan “ Eject button, classic.😁

Hi Sjm, that's Clan Gunn modern - my family is part of Clan Gunn but the tartan really suits the car as it happens. Yeah, love the eject button - got to have some fun! 😂

[sjm]

Hi Sjm, that's Clan Gunn modern - my family is part of Clan Gunn but the tartan really suits the car as it happens. Yeah, love the eject button - got to have some fun! 😂

Nice, I'm a Glaswegian, not an expert by any means of Tartans, but looks cool anyhow.

 

 

[tomo]

That's a couple of air cooled Tartened up now

[Stockydude]

18 hours ago, sjm said:

Hi Sjm, that's Clan Gunn modern - my family is part of Clan Gunn but the tartan really suits the car as it happens. Yeah, love the eject button - got to have some fun! 😂

Nice, I'm a Glaswegian, not an expert by any means of Tartans, but looks cool anyhow.

 

 

Shetland Islander here - if you want to check out the vast array of different tartans, I bought mine from The Scotland Shop - online setup for tartan sales, so many of them.

[Adam.B]

On 10/09/2022 at 10:55, Stockydude said:

The work to turn the GTS Classics seat frames into the finished article was all done by Dave Hosking at Carrera Trimming. Different densities of foam used depending on the part of the seat (some from GTS Classics, some provided by Dave). Clan Gunn tartan in the centre, with double row stitching to position and retain shape and continuing over the top of the frame structure for a smoother and more workable look, seat heating elements and adjustable lumbar support also fitted. The sides, rear and headrests all trimmed in hand-sewn nappa leather. Not only am I much lower in the car, better located and more comfortable but they also look fantastic I reckon. Dave also re-trimmed the steering wheel in alcantara by hand, changed the Momo logo and yellow positioning stripe to red and red leather to match the car's exterior - just quality work all round.

That’s absolutely awesome, very nice 👍 

[Stockydude]

Next up is doors. Mine already had smooth, kinda "RS" style door cards (with speakers) but we wanted to run a strip of tartan along the top of the doors to line up exactly with the dash strip and tie the interior together nicely. Have seen a number of cars done like this but neither Dave nor I felt that they got the join between the tartan and the rest of the door quite right. He came up with the idea of using an aluminium extrusion to match the extrusion on the dash and have a clean split between tartan and the planned nappa leather remainder of the trim. He made up completely new door cards, fitted them with Carbone surrounds for the window switches, Rennline lock knobs & buttons, re-trimmed the handle on each door in alcantara and the pull strap in leather. We also took the opportunity to use black vinyl wrap around the door edges - Porsche normally paint the cars that way but when it was resprayed it was done red - can no longer see the red paint around the edges of the door trim - nice. The door cappings are the original cappings - they line up with the original dash top strip to once again, tie the interior together and keep the car linked to its past. 

[MFX]

I love the touch of the aluminium trim. Very nice.

[Stockydude]

8 minutes ago, MFX said:

I love the touch of the aluminium trim. Very nice.

Thanks Jeff - yes, I'm really pleased with it too - touch of genius from Dave Hosking to come up with that idea, really makes a difference!

[Adam.B]

Did you spray any protective onto the wool? Or left as is?

[Stockydude]

14 hours ago, Adam.B said:

Did you spray any protective onto the wool? Or left as is?

Hi Adam - have left as is but I'll definitely be treating it, just need to work out the best product. 

[Adam.B]

7 hours ago, Stockydude said:

Hi Adam - have left as is but I'll definitely be treating it, just need to work out the best product. 

Please let me know what you go with, thanks

[Stockydude]

The carpet in my car had been there for at least 20 years & was showing its age, plus had a fair bit of impregnation of one thing and another. So Dave Hosking sourced proper lightweight carpet, trimmed the car up with it, including numerous detail changes to various pieces to sit and fit better, trimmed all the edges in nappa leather, embrodered "Carrera 3.0" into the carpet on the rear parcel shelf and in the front footwells and finally made up some classic style footwell pockets for small items - love what he's done and the carpet really makes such a difference to the experience of driving the car - so good. First 3 pics of what was there and what came out, rest of the new work.

[Stockydude]

One of the really good things about a top-shelf trimmer is the attention to detail that happens - Dave Hosking is just soooo good and as he's a keen on Porsches generally, he goes to town - so details like wrapping the seat mounts in nappa leather, the handbrake, alcantara a pillars, nappa leather b pillars, carpet shaped around the Rennshifter, even tartan seat belt lock buttons (& alcantara on the back so that they don't mark the seat lather) all come with the job - brilliant! We then decided to replace the old, kinda worn out engine bay pad with a custom quilted pad, done by Dave at Carrera Trimming - looks great I reckon! 

[P-Kay]

Love it!!

[Stockydude]

I've mentioned Dave Hosking and the awesome trimming job that he's done on my car, with more to come. At times I've referred to him as "legendary" and these photos tell a small part of why he deserves that reference. 

The first photo is a younger Dave, in the engine bay of a 356 at Spyder Automobiles' workshop in South Yarra - circa 1988, where he was doing some trimming work for John Gregory. The second photo is Dave a few weeks ago, in the engine bay of my 911 at Spyder Automobiles' workshop in Warragul, where he was doing some trimming work for me and for John Gregory's son-in-law, Mike Jacobson. Legends all and great to have two of them so involved in the car.

[Stockydude]

I kinda "glossed over" the awesome engine in this car that Mike D'Silva built - it deserves more attention. The car had gone through a few different engines & no longer had it's original engine when Mike bought it. He sourced a genuine Carrera 3.0 engine in parts (31 units older than the original engine in the car, according to the engine numbers). He then proceeded to build it up, not as a stock engine, but as a hot rod, with guidance and inspiration from William Knight in the US. With 10.2:1 Carillo pistons, Web cams, RHD ITBs from Sydney, Rasant Products wiring and engine kit and AEM ECU, - all puffing out through a 997 GT3 muffler - the engine just zzzings - way more power than stock (more at the hubs than a stock motor has at the flywheel) and it is just SO responsive with strong power and torque right across the rev range - Mike has build a brilliant engine, I'm really lucky to have it!

 

 

[Coastr]

This is coming together very nicely - a lot of good choices being made. 

[Stockydude]

3 hours ago, Coastr said:

This is coming together very nicely - a lot of good choices being made. 

Cheers mate, coming along nicely now - feeling pretty good about how it is progressing.

[Stockydude]

The car is currently back at Spyder Automobiles getting a few things done - and that will just about get me to where I want the car to be - as we all know, there'll always be bits and pieces to fiddle with but we're getting close to the car being personalised the way I want it to be. With a number of different owners over 3 continents and some different uses and changes (for example, car had AC when new, since partially removed) I have really wanted to tidy up the wiring since I bought it. A lot of that is now happening, removing the rest of the AC wiring (& switchgear, that had been taped up under the dash) and also the condenser from the smugglers box. Part of that is to replace the current ceramic fuses with blade fuses - got myself a kit for that from Adapt Motorsport in Perth (since relocated to Switzerland) and it has fitted up really well. Also took the opportunity to anchor the existing strut brace to the floor of the frunk (with a bonded supporting plate underneath that it is bolted to) to sharpen up the front end further. Some of the bushes on the Tarett adjustable ARBs were a bit tired so had some new bushes and spacers made. Also have had the stainless steel GT3 muffler ceramic coated black - looks so much better to me and smooths out the look of the rear of the car IMHO.

[Stockydude]

From the time that I test drove the car, 5th gear was noisy - whine kinda like a straight cut gear but not quite as loud. Mike D'Silva was very upfront about it, wanted to sell the car as is and we agreed on a figure all round that allowed for that. So after a few false starts, the time came to remove the engine and gearbox - allowed some of the electrical tidy up but also for the gearbox to be pulled apart. As often happens, one thing leads to another and knowing that 5th was going to be replaced for some time, I had planned to change one or two other ratios, maybe go to a lower 7:31 CWP and I was keen to get an LSD back in the car (it originally had one but the current gearbox did not). A deal came up on social media for a Brena Racing 7:31 CWP from Neat Gearboxes in Adelaide - had to go for that. Then I saw a deal for an OBX-RS Torsen LSD on Ebay for a 915 and grabbed that. When we pulled the box out and checked everything over, made the decision to lower 3rd slightly to even out the spacing - so bought replacement 3rd & 5th gears from Albins in Ballarat. New bearings, new detente springs (one was well-sagged, the other had collapsed) and an aluminium-housing HD clutch (1.5kg lighter than standard unit fitted to the car) and the box all rebuilt and setup at Spyder Automobiles by Mike Jacobson and the gearbox should be really sweet now and the lower CWP and LSD really sharpen the car up plenty on those backroad, twisty country drives!

[Stockydude]

Last step in the re-trim has now been done - it is also the last step in the mental picture of how I wanted the car when I bought it. Has taken nearly 2 years (with some Covid delays included) and whilst there will always be jobs to do & other tweaks to be made, it feels really good to have the initial wishlist done. Pics show the boot (or "froot" as I like to call it) when I bought the car, the AC compressor that we found lurking in the smuggler's box (AC removed from the car a couple of decades ago) and finally the re-trimmed end result. All work done by Dave Hosking at Carrera Trimming again - he's SO good! Has definitely all been worth it. Tartan used is my family tartan so that it matches the interior of the car, we removed the cover for the smuggler's box, cleaned it out and can now use that space for difficult shaped bags etc, cover on the spare, some tools mounted to the top of that (level off the floor nicely) and matching tool roll (with logo of course) and fuse cover opposite each other.

[tomo]

46 minutes ago, Stockydude said:

Last step in the re-trim has now been done - it is also the last step in the mental picture of how I wanted the car when I bought it. Has taken nearly 2 years (with some Covid delays included) and whilst there will always be jobs to do & other tweaks to be made, it feels really good to have the initial wishlist done. Pics show the boot (or "froot" as I like to call it) when I bought the car, the AC compressor that we found lurking in the smuggler's box (AC removed from the car a couple of decades ago) and finally the re-trimmed end result. All work done by Dave Hosking at Carrera Trimming again - he's SO good! Has definitely all been worth it. Tartan used is my family tartan so that it matches the interior of the car, we removed the cover for the smuggler's box, cleaned it out and can now use that space for difficult shaped bags etc, cover on the spare, some tools mounted to the top of that (level off the floor nicely) and matching tool roll (with logo of course) and fuse cover opposite each other.

She is coming up to be something special Mate 👍