Last night I was able to do the final fitting of my rear trunk. I'll wind up butt welding some of it but adding a flange on the straight part across the trans support. The Restoration Designs part fits great.
Tonight I should fire up the welder!

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When is doubt, get your 10 year-old daughter to weld it for you

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Fixed my clutch cable tube. Looks better in person

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So yesterday I had some guys from a local body shop stop by to quote finishing the paint job on my car to see if I could save me some drive time and save Scotty B some space. They spoke to my wife who's reasonably car savvy and also pretty hot. she kept the phone in her pocket so I could hear the conversation.

They asked if I had done the body work, she said yes. They replied, "he's done a pretty good job but you can tell he's very inexperienced"

I'll put a quick emoticon in for Scotty:

Pretty funny these guys say that about one of the best Porsche metal guys in the country.

Soooooo, I think I'll be making that drive to Richmond after all

Damn Mike. Screw them guys

Have your daughter school them, she appears to have more skills than they have brains

Ask Scott to lend you that nice chassis stand he has with wheels when he's done whacking on mine

Great work so far

Thanks for draggin me into this

...just trying to help a brotha out...

I was actually referring to Mikes little "Porschegate", escapade with the local body shop

Putting the suspension back together so she'll roll back to Scotty B's for final paint!

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Getting close Scotty. Better make some room!
Let me know when you want her....

OK Scotty, 'bout there.....

Oh dear. I've seen this before with Scotty.


Dood - he's totally forgotten who you are I'm afraid.

Were you the guy with the hot neighbor or the scary one ?

That's Mike's wife, Scott!

Hot wife, Cougar neighbor

It's been a pretty good few weeks in the garage.
I got my CVs and shafts squared away

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I cut plastic covers for the open end of the CVs

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I restored my tail light housings and reflectors. I bought the Hela Euro tail light lenses from someone here for like $30. The clear lens was broken off but we have some pretty strong adhesives in the marine industry so i glued them back together. The results were pretty good.

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Rear suspension is together and looking tidy. I just ordered a full set of hard brake lines from PMB. I'm trying to get Erc to feature me in one of his unstoppable ads

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Ugh, all that work and you still have KYBs on there. Dude, Don't be THAT GUY!!!

You've been that guy for years, Donald.

Just gotta get it on the road. I can save up for shocks later.

Brakes are done!

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Gettin' some work done. My 11yo daughter and I are assembling the engine. So far we have....
Late 2.0 case
Balanced crank and rods
Raby cam


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Work space is getting a bit cramped. I have just about everything that I need. I used the sealant list off of the type 4 store. I couldn't figure out how to buy it from there I had to assemble the stuff from various vendors.

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a few shots of the under belly

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Engine assembly in progress

Gotta love a girl who can hold her own in the shop

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Short Block....

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KB Pistons and new Hastings Rings

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Coming together....

I have a couple of questions pending on other threads, heads are up next.

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Every once and a while the Ebay gods smile on us. NOS Hella euro turn signal lenses for $25 each! With free shipping

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Smile nothing. the Ebay god just gave you an old fashioned !!

How so my bro?

He means your deal is much better than just a smile.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?...old%20fashioned

I think I am a previous owner. I owned the car from 2001 until 2004. I was in high school. There are only two modifications I made: Installed a 2.0 fuel injected engine from a 1973 and, in typical high school style, added a new CD player and extra speakers (see passenger floor board of interior photo).

While I wish that I never sold it the car appears to be receiving a lot of attention that I would not have been able to provide. I look forward to keeping up with your progress. If you find that upon completion you need to swap it for a new project please let me know.

Who did you purchase the car from? If I remember correctly I sold it to a high school kid from northern VA in 2004. Is there any information about this car in any other threads?

Here are some pics that I think are from 2001:

porsche by Tachyan, on Flickr


porsche3 by Tachyan, on Flickr


porsche6 by Tachyan, on Flickr

onielsen, looks like this is your old car. I bought it from a real estate guy in Woodbridge, VA. I think it was in 2008. The car looked just like your pictures when I got it. He wanted one price but couldn't get the car to start, so I got it allot cheaper. I got the engine to start when I got it home to Annapolis but it had a bad tick. Turns out there was a stuck lifter that ate the cam. Lots of gas in the oil too. Weird that it had leather seats but I kept them that way. I have a ton of new/OEM parts to throw at it and it just left for paint today!

Awesome that you found it here! Stay in touch......

I understand. Yes, an Ebay hand job it was.....
Now if could just get Ebay to go down on me

The Teener is headed out for paint!
She'll be back in six weeks....

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Just an observation but when I looked at the pic I thought that the dowel pins that locate the bearings may not have been installed. I looked at the left bearings and saw the little hole in the bearing that I thought used the dowel pin to located the bearing and then looked at the right bearing and didn't see the corresponding hole. I am most likely mistaken but thought I'd offer my thought ...

An astute observation. I can't recall at what point this was taken but I know we oriented the dowels an the holes when we assembled. Also, the thing went together great and turns smooth as silk

My machinist buddy and I made a custom lexan disk to mate to my heads. My wife is a nurse so she got me a 30ml syringe from work. Time to CC my heads and figure out my compression ratio. They came to 62.5cc. With that and a deck of .045 that's about 9.17:1. Seems a bit high?

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Great build. I love that your daughter is helping. My sons are a little young this time, but in another year or do they'll be ready.

Can't wait to see the body after paint!

Just curious, have you tallied up your cost to day, including the initial purchase of the car?

Dave

Do these motors use head gaskets?

Do any of us add up the cost?

So....
I entered my numbers in inches into a metric calculator and got bad results on my CR. Looks like 8.26:1 this time. Now it seams low but my deck height will be set at .045" which I think is about a low as you can go?

My next step is to get the custom spacers to set my deck, then I can install the heads. I think the thing to do will be to make an adjustable pushrod and use it to set the geometry. I have machinist friends who can help make this. I'll pass it along if timing works out. I have Cro-mo pushrods so I can set the lifters to zero lash. I'm not used to this as I've usually dealt with Type 1 motors and stock Hydraulic lifter Type 4s.

If .045" is around the minimal deck height and I can achieve this then my CR will be 8.26:1. Kind of low but then again I might be a little off on my measurements. I made a tool that helps measure this. One issue I had was that my pistons went .01" prod of the cylinder when I first installed it. This means that I will need the custom shims or use a head gasket. Not sure what I'll do next. It usually takes about a week to sort all the info/opinions before I make a decision. That clock started last night

Good lord...WHY IN THE WORLD would you ever do such a thing?

Don't you know...that's a job for the NEXT owner to do, so he can brag about what the DAPO spent!