Craftmanship, I like that !
If I remember correctly the mesh is from an ac instalation I removed from my 911, so it is vintage mesh

Looking awesome.

Thank you, I also have an 73 inspired hotrod in my garage, but its blue like a smurf..

Sent you a PM

Oscar

Some quick updates before the weekend.

Fabricated a new inspection hach for the firewall. It already was one there, but it was not nice.

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Used the shrink/strech tool a lot for this.

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I was also very pleased about how the speedo cleaned up, it looked like it had been under water before I started..

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Finaly got the steering wheel finished. Home made hockey puck horn button.

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3D model of the plastic part.

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Tool (nr. 3...) for the porsche crest leather stamp. Goat skin from Uganda btw.

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You also need the lid from an Owatrol box

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Leather part finished and harware mounted.

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Beautiful work on the steering wheel! There’s that craftsmanship again.

......wow, just awesome skill!

The wiper assembly mechanism arm hole.. thing.. was looking a bit suspicious. So I started a little investigation. Luckily it was much better than feared.. wrong!

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The bottom was not saveable, deep rust pitting.

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Made a high tech special tool.

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Test fitting the part.

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It turned out quite nice.

The other side is probably better.. very wrong! The panel around the hole had been dented with an hammer for the bondo. (unfortenatly I was to upset to remember to take a photo of this).

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New tool to make the fillet on top.

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Had to make this panel in two parts.

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Finished part pre welding.

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Finished repair.

Great work!

Any idea who makes a rear tail light mod for 914's...Looking for the circular almost F 308 like look.

Really tired of rust repair, so doing some fun detours along the way.

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Found a ø60mm vdo gauge from a boat, and made the dashboard mount. Gauge still needs new face and black trim.. Also bought a 70s Heuer clubmaster stopwatch, really cool looking
with the green/red/black anodized buttons. Made a mount for this one too. cleaned up and added blue paint on the defroster panel.

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Since the stopwatch is pretty far away from the driver I thought I make a mechanism to operate it from driver pos. Lots of small parts.

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Working mechanism, pres to start, press a little harder to stop. (note the 10.9 bolts )

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Lever had to be red. Probably never going to use this set up, but looks kind of cool I think.

Series 9 did this on Jon Nelson 914....
@Madswede

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...=131528&hl=

He made them out of steel and welded them to the car.

here is who made the fiberglass sets,,,,
Mike Swanson
AR Concepts
ar_concepts@hotmail.com
(818) 470-5700

Here is a link to kits and install
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...lamps&st=20

Here’s the thread of the metal ones - http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...528&hl=Lens

Thanks for sharing, very impressed about the collective knowledge on this forum

As its close to the weekend, here are some pictures of some more rust .
This is from a while back luckily. Internal structure of the roll bar was in really bad shape. Not uncommon I think..

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Not much left of the original structure.

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Cardboard repair panel

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Extencive area was damaged.

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Tool for inner structure.

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In place.

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Tooling for outer (inner structure).

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In place.


Wishing everyone a nice weekend!!

Damn dog, cant wait to see your tail lights ..

You will be disappointed . They will be boringly original..
But of course there vere some rust

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One more suspicious hole.

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Fuchs Friday.
bought some 8x15 fuchs wheels some time ago. They were painted and had some pitting, but otherwice guite nice. I got them stripped and powder painted in the same finish as the rear 9x15 minilites. They were not possible to restore "properly" with anodized surface bechause of the pitting. I did the black detailing myself.

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Started doing the masking by hand, but was not sucessfull , so I made a part I could draw a help line with.

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Line

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Then I used thin masking tape and followed the line.

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And some more masking..

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And painted with 2K satin black.

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Exciting moment

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Glad it was only two though.

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The rear Minilites

The definitive highlight this Christmas was first shot at the sandcasting of the GT oil thermostate housing. There was a little bit of sinking around the mounting ear, but we will sort this out next run.

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Melting the snow outside my very skilled casting connections garage

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casting pre meachining

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Other side of part with sunken area. Machining plans on the paper under the part

Have a nice weekend

Wow, that came out great! I'm amazed at the text definition from a home sand cast part. Just awesome!

This is very much a back yard project, fun to see industrialized processes can be replicated this way.

Back Yard Project...I think few are sand casting parts Most definitely next level here. I'm sure the next questions will be are you willing to produce more of those.

Love it, you are rocking it

The wheels look terrific. As for the sand casting......wow!

Mad skills there!

Very Nice.....

Not any plans of making any more of these, quite time consuming. I think they would be expensive in small scale production. Appreciate your feedback

Thank you

Thank you John, say hello to my lovely cousins

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A little spin off series on the home made hockey puck project. Forum member @Miguel K R has given it a try based on my 3D-models, and even taken it a notch up with magnesium etched tool for the leather stamp. Fun to see my project can inspire others

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A quick update before the weekend. Here are some pictures of the fabrication of the GT-engine lid. I initially bought the mesh typically used in period, but thought it was a bit rough, so I made my own iterpretation based on the original lid and mesh.

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The idea was to merge two lids into one.

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Also had to add some holes in the crossmember

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The near finished product. some battle scars in the mesh..

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Good thing I had some extra mesh.

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And some precision mig welding

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More or less finished.

Have a nice weekend!

Excellent work, and a nice variation on the GT lid theme. Many folks delete the oblique crossmember, but your added lightness approach works well and looks racy!

And the precision MIG welding - wow. Keep the posts coming,

- Tony

Wishing everyone a nice weekend

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So, got a "Covid"-child.. And progress kind of stopped a bit

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This is about how the car looks now (done some more work on the doors ++). Not far from paint actually.

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A lot of stuff I have done previously I can dig up, and I will try to do so, but recently the greatest highlight is finishing the instrument cluster..Found a 3 gauge in parts in an ad for some other parts, and it cleaned up quite good. Had to make the colored light.. thing.. that had cracked.

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Great to see you back posting. Your work is fabulous as usual and very entertaining to see. And that little guy looks like lots of fun too!

Any photos of the RS anywhere?

Thank you for the kind words

The rsr project was finished 10 years ago now, bare metal, lots of rust and welding.
It is a project thread on the pelican forum, but pictures are gone..

On request some pictures of the non 914..

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Thanks. Great looking car in a fabulous color. Sort of a tribute to the 914 that you have that great 911 but are building a -6 GT clone.

Nothing like having that flat six right behind your head. Sort of the ultimate air cooled Porsche experience short of a 910!

Absolutely, the 914 in many ways feels more special, especially the seating position with straight legs and the enginefan almost inside the cabin.. and of course, pop up lights

Stance and wheel tire combo on the 914 is perfect!

911 is pretty sweet also!!

Can't believe I never saw your thread before. Fantastic work, creativity, I am a huge fan !
Loving the RSR too!

Bests

Antoine

Nice work with the gauges.

Have you considered paint remover instead of abrasives? Less messy, less effort, ...

Welcome back!! Great work as usual.
You have a little helper now, exhaust specialist I see.
911 looks amazing.