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6 minutes ago, Pork Chops said:

All of the above. A1.

Thanks mate. I feel the finish line is in sight now. Its that second wind I needed to keep going with the long nights 

 

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10 hours ago, MrRPJ said:

Nope air cools my oil cooler as well. 

 

Yeah i was trying to get away with only running one radiator that looked like a stock oil cooler through the bar. Besides the ls motor I’m trying to keep the car looking all Porsche and not a Frankenstein. Hopefully it does the job

Definitely agree with the keeping it up front and inconspicuous.  I have seen some horrible solutions

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though I dig the speedster roof chop on the black one

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Could use an auto trans style radiator.  Oil and coolant within the same cooling fins.

An RWB style air dam might hide everything in the GT2 bodywork or alternately a 934 front dam.

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7 hours ago, Coastr said:

Definitely agree with the keeping it up front and inconspicuous.  I have seen some horrible solutions

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though I dig the speedster roof chop on the black one

Oh wow they are definitely out there. Motor aside the goa was to keep it looking as close to a gt2 as I could get. I think even if I need more cooling a have a lot of room for a second small radiator at the rear but I’m pretty confident the one should work. I worked out the whole cooling system will hold over 10l and the alloy piping should also work as a bit of heat soak. The 993 front bar will do a good job of cover the radiator and once it’s painted black as well you won’t wven notice it. I was talking to Angie from car porn Racing who owns RWB Victoria. And she gave me some tips when I was planning my cooling system. 

 

3 hours ago, OZ930 said:

Could use an auto trans style radiator.  Oil and coolant within the same cooling fins.

An RWB style air dam might hide everything in the GT2 bodywork or alternately a 934 front dam.

Actually my radiator was an auto one and I cut the oil tube out. I though I’ll just run a small oil cooler in one of the rear arches. I’m trying to keep the bay as clear as I can to run the 180 deg headers. I don’t want it to sound like a v8 but rather modern gt3 same set up as this 

 

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Thanks mate. I appreciate your honesty and I knew from the start it was not going to be a car that a lot of people would like But I was cool with that. It was I have a shell and this much money. How can I make it all go for this amount. 

And for sure mate. I’ll be happy to take anyone for a ride. Once @MFX has a motor we will try to tee up some fun things to do for some videos. So I’ll be down that way. 

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On 25/03/2018 at 2:24 AM, Coastr said:

Definitely agree with the keeping it up front and inconspicuous.  I have seen some horrible solutions

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though I dig the speedster roof chop on the black one

The through bonnet vents (almost gt40 like on that black one) are a very good idea but need some bracing up front to make it happen. And would would look better if done more smoothly. 

Elephant racing and DP Motorsport have both done it for air cooled cars but much more subtle. 

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On 26/03/2018 at 4:19 PM, clutch-monkey said:

The through bonnet vents (almost gt40 like on that black one) are a very good idea but need some bracing up front to make it happen. And would would look better if done more smoothly. 

Elephant racing and DP Motorsport have both done it for air cooled cars but much more subtle. 

Hopefully I can get away with running a factory looking hood. If I need more cooling I’ll add a second radiator at the rear. But I don’t want to stray away from an oem Porsche look. Saying that tho after seeing @Pork Chops new wheels and rubber I have new love. I’m thinking fifteen52 wheels with the same rubber. I just need bigger rims as my new front rotors are pretty bigW9b1Z2P.jpg. Radiator is ready to fit. 

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Next job is to adjust the hood hinges, fit to fuel door and cut and fit the front flares oh and fit the indicators and intake scoops to the front bar. 

Looking at it how it is you wouldnt know it has a huge radiator behind the bumper!

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41 minutes ago, MFX said:

So the engine is in. What does it need to get it to fire?

Engine has been in for a month or so. I just pulled it out again the other day to fit ported heads and MLS gaskets and tidy up and paint. 400hp is all I'm looking for. I should have that with the heads and tune and headers, maybe a cam im undecided yet on that. Motor will be back in next weekend. then all I need to fire it up is to hook up my fuel pump and run my wiring. 

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Ok after a big weekend we have made some decent progress. I got the cradle back from powder coaters 

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I started making my raised shifter box

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I got the motor stripped down, rebearing the bottom end and fitted MLS gaskets throughout.

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started reassembly

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all finished and bolted up to the Subaru trans and fitted to the cradle

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and its in took 25mins to install 

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Got the GT2 front flares fitted up 

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and all in 

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Had a great weekend and thought I would share A couple of behind the scenes pics from a Photo shoot for street Machine Magazine that I did it will be in next months issue. These are just my iphone snaps and not the pics that will be in the mag.  

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