Niko Posted 4December, 2014 Report Share Posted 4December, 2014 Congrats on the purchase Dusty, a bit of work, but looks like you have done good. Enjoy that SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persian Posted 26December, 2014 Report Share Posted 26December, 2014 Hey, very nice! sounds like you have a neat little project on your hands if you don't mind me asking, how did you find this beauty? I'm looking myself so just wondering how you T'd up a blind buy thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webrest Posted 26December, 2014 Report Share Posted 26December, 2014 You aren't mucking about are you. It is great to see more hands on guys [& gals] getting around the PFA. Power in numbers. Keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tit Posted 26December, 2014 Report Share Posted 26December, 2014 I'm still impressed by the interior improvements! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 29December, 2014 Author Report Share Posted 29December, 2014 Persian - it popped up in a Manheim auction over in WA and I jumped on it on price alone. I'd been looking for over a year for a 'do'er upper' but have been really lucky with this one. From time to time, 911's come up through the auction houses and you'd be surprised how often they are incorrectly advertised. I was once looking at an SC in Bris that had been labelled as a 996 - it sold for $10,200 (but had suspected structural damage) and even my car was wrongly advertised as a Targa... Sometimes perfectly good cars pop up in the salvage auctions too but you have to be very careful, there's no recourse at any auction but you could be buying something that can't be registered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 29December, 2014 Author Report Share Posted 29December, 2014 And thanks webrest and Tit - still wont rest til I reign in those rear flares and add the fuchs...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persian Posted 30December, 2014 Report Share Posted 30December, 2014 awesome, you did really well! thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted 30December, 2014 Report Share Posted 30December, 2014 Where did you pick up the rear deck lid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 30December, 2014 Author Report Share Posted 30December, 2014 It's a fibreglass one from rennspd - with a temporary home paint job that I'll get sorted over the coming months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 25February, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 25February, 2015 The car's been in at the panel shop since last Thursday to repair the rear flares but work could only commence yesterday. Not sure why I'm posting this except in disbelief at how much fibreglass had been built up over the original panel to accommodate the truly horrific 10 inch wide wheels. Its a poor shot but what you're looking at is a 3 inch deep fibreglass hole, built up over the original panel barely visible at the centre. With that sort of panel 'extension', even more fibreglass was required to blend the flare with the panel further up towards the rear window. The method to bring it all back is to simply belt sand the fibreglass off, then re-paint. Hopefully nothing more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 25February, 2015 Report Share Posted 25February, 2015 So....that really will buff right out? Your car is going to weight at least 10kg less after you take all that out. Full respray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 25February, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 25February, 2015 You should see the hole in the flesh! Looks like the car was made from a gobb-stopper and someone took a huge bite. Yet to make the call on the full respray. Probably not given that colour matching should be very straight forward. If I was, I'd consider taking it back to the original copper brown, but that'd be a new world of cost that I'm not prepared for yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 2March, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 2March, 2015 More progress over the weekend but it's slow moving. All the dust coming off the sanding is preventing a solid go of it but today I was able to see the fruits of my girls bottom tuck. before: After: It's going to be a race to get the other side done, and both prepped/painted before c&c this weekend but that's the goal. Loving her new bottom though and might even take the new fuchs down for a trial fitting over the next day or two - there's no way I'll be able to drive it with the current monsters on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 2March, 2015 Report Share Posted 2March, 2015 Lovin' the dune buggy look. I also love the layers of different paint that tell a story a bit like tree rings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poli84 Posted 18March, 2015 Report Share Posted 18March, 2015 Awesome progress, congratulations! What a great project you have got going, good luck with the rest of the list and keep the updates coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 18March, 2015 Report Share Posted 18March, 2015 Dusty you end to post some post-tuck photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 18March, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 18March, 2015 I plan to but I'm 'between laptops' at the moment... the last one packed it in after base jumping from my wifes clutches onto the tiled floor. Hopefully get a new one sorted later this week to finish off the thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 12April, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 12April, 2015 Had time today to give the car a quick wash and post the mostly-finished work following the flare nip-tuck, interior re-do and the engine overhaul (part 1). There's still a few jobs including another engine drop to repair a cam housing leak I over looked but currently my preference is to drive the thing. Will also take a look at the front suspension bushings, some seat stitching as well as clean up the wiring which still has a couple of gremlins but all in good time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withers Posted 12April, 2015 Report Share Posted 12April, 2015 Wow Dusty what an awesome thread this is! Congrats on all the hard work - car looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastr Posted 12April, 2015 Report Share Posted 12April, 2015 I take it a new laptop has been sourced You don't need to drop the engine to replace cam cover gaskets if you're talking about the ones on the end of the engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted 12April, 2015 Author Report Share Posted 12April, 2015 No unfortunately the leak is much deeper. Between the cam housings and the heads. They're sealed using loctite 574 (or three-bond etc) and mine must've eroded while the housings/heads were being electro-sonically cleaned as one piece despite the technician telling me the sealant would remain... My own fault, while it was all apart I should've just re-sealed it but wanted to get the car back together quicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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