Making Some Progress, Rear deck lid, deck lid brackets, engine lid, engine lid brackets, 911 suspension Options

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Just wanted to post some of the progress I've made over the past few weeks.

I had some issues with the engine lid that came with my car, it was twisted. Looked like someone jumped on. The engine lid brackets were also really poorlys welded on the car. Ordered an engine lid from Sergio(PCA7GGR), its absolutely awesome lookings. Welded new brackets onto the car and got the engine lid installed. Once the engine lid was lined up properly, I was able to install new rear deck lid brackets fro JWest engineering. Rear deck lid is now fiberglass, as the original steel one was in rough shape. After all that I started cleaning and painting the 911S front suspension I ordered a few months back. The winter project is rebuilding/cleaning/painting all the brakes and suspension components.

Welded in some plates to reinforce the area where the new brackets are going. After cutting the old ones out, the metal was quite thin from grinding the awful welds from the PO.
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Used a 2x4 and some clamps to get the engine lid right where I wanted it. Went underneath and welded the brackets on while everything was clamped down.
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Engine lid latch in place and completely supported on the new brackets
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Jwest Engineering rear deck lid bracket. These are incredibly smooth and were a simple bolt in solution. It looked like the stock brackets rusted out and the PO just welded them on again. Poor solution as the rear decklid didn't line up at all, due to the brackets being welded in the wrong location. The new brackets worked out really well.
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Ignore the red paint, this was how I marked the location for the holes to drill in the rear decklid to mount to the bracket arms.
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In case anyone is curious, the rear deck lid came from GT-racing.com. Really nice product, but didn't have any mounting holes for the brackets. I came up with using the below item. I cut off the little spikes as these are a woodworking item and epoxied them into the rear deck lid. I was able to find them in the correct thread for the stock rear deck lid bolts at Menards. Works out really well. I used the same things to mount the rear deck lid latch as well.
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And finally, started cleaning up the 911 front suspension on the car. Before and after pictures. Its not exactly the stock green the bilstein struts are supposed to be, but it turned out better than expected.
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Started cleaning off the brake calipers, you can see the portion that has been cleaned versus how they came to me.
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Next up is ordering the rebuild kit for the front and rear calipers from PMB, along with new pistons. Still need to figure out how to get these pistons out of the 911S caliper. I don't really have a good way to build pressure in the caliper to push them out at the moment.

Thanks for looking!!