Exciting times anticipation building!

Already covered in my rebuild DVD. It’s more involved than simply swapping 1st bits.

Trans from Dr Evil and headers from MSDS were mated with the Charlie of Renngeist engine!

I did get a high performance flywheel and clutch from Patrick Motorsports. Did not go the aluminum or ultra mimimal flywheel mainly because i have no experiences with them.

sweeT!!!! looking great! cant wait to see/hear this, let me know when you get to Roebling Road with it.

Great progress last week. Oil lines, thermostat, new cooler, and filters all plumbed now. Fuel system is set as well with dual pickup and new tank. Engine and trans are in and i transported the car to get final assembly and breakin done. Getting pretty darn close now for sure.

Looks great!

Thanks. The encouragement really helps. My desire to make sure everything is done right (which takes time) competing with the desire to get out there and race (temptation to cut corners) is in a constant tug of war!

If anyone sees something they are not quite sure about let me know! Or any questions on what i used am happy to share. Pretty much everything inspiring either came from experience or just as likely from here so very grateful for this place.

Havent updated in a while. Car is with engine builder awaiting final assembly and dyno
Also going to add in throttle and steering positioning sensors to complete driver aids/analysis. Packed it up and drove it to destination last weekend.

Inside updated transport

Which data system are you using?
I badly need to replace my traq mate and have been procrastinating

Two step process for me. Wiring was all hinky and fried so went with the AIM PDM08 system. Essentially manages everything with solid state fusing. Very customizable and fairly easy to setup. It includes the power distribution module, gps beacon, and the aim dash as well. Hooked up a smartycam which automatically starts when driving. You do need to wire the harness or it can be done for you. I worked with Matt Romanowski and he made it relatively painless.

https://trailbrake.com/pdm8/

@brant did that help?

yes sir.
thank you
Matt is really a great resource.
I spoke with him once about it... and looks like a great solution
need to do this... just prioritizing money..
but looks like the right system.
brant

Yeah it is not cheap. Think it was around $3k when all was said and done. However with all 100% new wiring and lots of flexibility was worth it. Get the 32 not the 8 like i did. Prices seem to have went down a little so should net out

Have not updated this in quite some time. Had gotten the car back and did some dyno time to get initial breakin started. Not overly interested in looking at hp/tq numbers but just make sure it was set to initial tune. Car sounded good and was excited to get it to the track for continued breakin laps and had 1.5 days to do that set on Summit Point with PCA.

Some pics from Sept last year.

Got to the track and ran for a few laps before encountering some stuttering. Shut the car down and rolled in. Glad i did that it would turn out.

A lesson learned is that after any intiial break in you must retorque everything. Turns out that during breakin there were a couple studs that pulled out and one of the head stud nuts loosened up. After Peter Dawes was kind of enough to loan some of his guys for some diagnostics they found these issues. Net result was no apparent damage thanks to shutting down quickly and there was confirmed zero damage upon imspection after disassembly once i took the car back to my builder. He is finishing the case work and putting it all back together i hope by end of this month. We made a change in the head studs to a more appropriate type and oversize inserts to ensure we dont have another issue. We want it right.

Long journey. Patience rules.

In the meantime i bought a 2020 911 to manage my speed urges.

Got to the track and ran for a few laps before encountering some stuttering. Shut the car down and rolled in. Glad i did that it would turn out.

A lesson learned is that after any intiial break in you must retorque everything. Turns out that during breakin there were a couple studs that pulled out and one of the head stud nuts loosened up. After Peter Dawes was kind of enough to loan some of his guys for some diagnostics they found these issues. Net result was no apparent damage thanks to shutting down quickly and there was confirmed zero damage upon imspection after disassembly once i took the car back to my builder. He is finishing the case work and putting it all back together i hope by end of this month. We made a change in the head studs to a more appropriate type and oversize inserts to ensure we dont have another issue. We want it right.

Long journey. Patience rules.

In the meantime i bought a 2020 911 to manage my speed urges.

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Nice "compensation"
i cant afford that type of compensation but i may have a 944 in the "werks" or works as the case maybe - anyway looking forward to seeing this /6 in person!!

Engine ready to go back in!

It is a good day today! Engine finally reunited and will be hooked up fully and running next week.

Nice work
Exciting

Engine alive and dyno next friday.

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Home safe finally. All issues now sorted and time to nut and bolt it, add some things like gauge pod cover, race radio, and some cosmetic stuff.

Now that I have the car back from engine build going to do some fine tuning and updates. First off is getting for primary wheels a more appropriate combo. The wheels used on some of the GTs used fuchs in the front of 15x7 or 8, but fuchs were not made in 15x9 widths yet to get more meat on the powered end. So they used minilites in the rear instead. Some of the 911s also used this setup. I wanted to take a nod to this heritage and sprung for a nice set of Al Reed wheels done in rsr-style finish in the front and a pair of minilites I bought from Steve Limbert about 2 years ago but hadn't mounted yet. Tight fight but looks like they will work without rubbing. Love the style and the historic homage. Some won't understand but if ya know, ya know.

Loving it, car looks great, glad you’re getting it sorted!!!

Nice!

Wow! Love this car!

So on to more updates now!

As a track car I want to have the ability to communicate back to the crew and to get information from them as well. As I had mentioned before, I bought a radio set to make just that happen. First step is to plan out wiring and radio box in the car. After that will update with the external antenna install
Here is how wiring is roughly routed as of today. Any suggestions are welcome!

Steering wheel push to talk

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Down steering column

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Down cage to floorboard

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Over to radio box. Antenna and helmet plug (my roux helmet has a jack and speakers/mic built in) off of radio as well

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Get one of these wheels, I don’t have them hooked up, but i was going to do one to turn on my datalogger…

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I like your wheel for sure, but paid a small fortune for the porsche wheel so I am staying put lol. The AIM system I have logs everything automatically and starts the camera at 25mph to boot.

The only thing I am worried about is the cord at the steering wheel. How have others mounted to stay free and clear of binding?

Soooooo.... after patiently waiting and updating had an amazing father's day weekend with the car. Spent Saturday breaking in the engine and shaking out the race radios, new wheels, and other odds and ends. Engine was okay but lots of hesitation between 4100 and 4900. Kept going moderate pace and different rims. Sunday proved to see that lag spot go away as we played with jetting and kept a close eye on plugs and boroscoping the cylinders to see if everything looked OK. The car performed quite well as I gradually dropped a couple seconds off lap times every session. Ended up being fairly fast even passing a gt3. Not shabby.

Lots of compliments on how the engine sounds and how the car looked on track. Really.satisfying and spent great time with my son and my buddy flew in to help with all the technical stuff. He was awesome as always.

Bill>> def a pride of ownership car; hot build & *good graphics...*not overdone or busy. Keep the shiny side up

Looks good! But watch out for number 29.

Some.videos
https://youtu.be/G7oMSleY9QA?si=BgYiRRhpW4gMMB5_

Thanks. Tried hard to not make it too busy, stay moderately in line with what was period correct, and look cool.

In preparation for suspension update and looking for rust, I had the car dry ice cleaned and rock guard coated for the entire underside and wheel wells. 54 years of road and track grime gets into every crevice. Pulled the floors down to essentially bare metal and relieved any loose coating from everywhere else. Found some rust in rear pan that will be replaced after the rest of the race season. Have every metal piece I may need ready to go. An assessment by a great shop early this year indicated after probing as much as possible that was likely limited to just floor but will see when we get in there. This car has lived in garage or trailer for at least 40 years so hopefully limited degradation.

I am very happy with the result!

Note that this wasn't the final cleanup. The headers sparkled engine and trans now cleaned as well. Local guy here in NC That has done all kinds of cars including a pristine restored 904.

Right????

He actually slept at the track on a cot overnight! Not sure how he got the massaged panels but he was in my group and drove pretty well. Was a nice guy too.

Wanted to also give a more formal nod to Merritt Motors in Kannapolis NC for the cleaning and resealing of the floors on the car. Jared is the owner and is definitely a car guy through and through. Loves F1 and has everything from a 911, to old school suburban with hot rod customization, to Bonneville salt flat cars. He took so much time to make sure I understood the process and was happy with the outcome. I definitely am.

https://merrittmotorsco.com/home/

Not sure how to embed this instagram video, but here is the car leaving Merritt.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9SJ7-UuRCM/...mpja2l1NjZxNXlu

Fair enough. But in my years racing it seemed like cars that had dents in the morning tend to have more (and create more) by the end of the day.

Definitely true! Fortunately this was just a passive open track day.

Haven't posted in a while! Father's day had a great weekend and the car ran well. However I did have another head stud pull out and thus yet another rebuild. I had the case fixed but decided to pull the trigger on a brand new case from Porsche. Not 50 year old magnesium but brand new zero heat cycles no excuses case. I did check on getting billet done but they just don't make the 7r case. Only damage to internals was the slightest of nearly imperceptible blemishes on the nikasil cylinders so.sent those out to be redone.

Engine is progressing now at Black Forest racing (Cody). Here are shots of the case, which other than the other one I have, is the last one in the country at present.

Sides

Wow is all I can say; a thing of beauty.

I want it to be perfect and the only way to achieve that is with the best parts and labor. 10 years ago I could have bought an entire decent driver for what that case cost.

You might consider building a glass case and keep it in your living room, simply art