Old cars, DIY and other stuff…
While the chassis is getting its back straightened I’ve started to fix some of the parts that will go back on it. First out was the steering gear. I had already bought new steering arms from the 911 turbo (930) to go on it and a coupld of washers to move the entire rack upwards...
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Well after fixing the damage to the front right strut tower I started measuring the front end to see if there was any other damage that I could find. The bottom of the car seemed pretty straight but the front right tower seemed a little off so I’ve hauled the body off to Lars at...
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Reinforcment plate welded to lower firewall. Reinforcement plate welded to rear suspension console. Rear underfloor and engine bay in primer. Left hand side suspension console reinforcement from Tangerine Racing. and the right hand side suspension console reinforcment.
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Todays work was alot about prepping for welding and finally doing some welding. The areas where the new jack plates connects to the body was media blasted and painted with a weldthru primer (the blue stuff) The same paint was applied to the jackplates where there will be metal to metal contact and subsequently hard...
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I’ve mentioned before that the cars has been crashed in the right front at some time, today it was time to tackle some of the remains of that. This is what the left strut tower looks like. …and here’s the right one. It seems that someone at some point thought it would be better to...
READ MOREToday I spent some time cleaning up the rear floor and engine bay from old greasy dirt and built up crud, found a rustspot in the trunk floor that had been overlooked so that took some time to fix. I also drilled out the remains of the brackets for the muffler heat shield. Here’s a...
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Always fun getting car related packages in the mail and even better when the content looks this good! Got the parts from http://www.restoration-design.com/
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The last week has been spent repairing rust, mainly in the front end, the floors pieces under the headlight buckets was kinda nasty so I’ve mediablasted the insides and then repaired the sections that was so thin they were blasted thru. I’ve also been scraping/sanding/mediablasting the underside of the car. Today I laid the first...
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