I think it was the Tied House meet that gave me the kick in the pants, but I finally decided to jump in and get started on my car. It's been begging for work for a long time. I'm starting with the rear end sections. Can't wait for it to actually DRIVE! Here's the list off the top of my head.

1. Pull the motor and fix oil leaks, pull the ceramic lifters, clean everything, install carbs (for now).
2. Fix the hell hole and firewall rust, plus weld all the little holes in the firewall. New battery tray and new rear trunk pivots.
3. Fix the 'access hole' some DAPO cut in the rear trunk. The top starter bolt is not THAT hard to get to.
4. Clean and paint the engine bay and rear trunk.
5. Clean and reseal the transmission and replace the speedo angle drive.

Here are the pictures from day one.

Congrats Mark.... Now, while you're in there....(DWD)....

Keep the pics coming.....

-- Rob

That might need a little spacklin' befor ya paint it!

Think about this...

Chrome engine bay......
inner fenders, firewall etc...
Rich

Right on, McMark!

--DD

WTG Mark!

Good to see you are getting going. You are going to do a full "tweek restoration"
on all the bodywork and parts, right???

John

Hey, glad to see you are finding some time to work on your car. Looking forward to the progress pics.

Can't wait to see it on the road

It's about time... you were turning into the plumber with the leaky faucet.

Heeheh, LOL. This will be going back to original Marathon Blue Metallic, so that's what the engine bay and trunk will be. I know, BORING! Hahahaha


No 'tweaksteration' on this one. Just a good solid refresh. My goal here is more of "Hey, it's running!" instead of "OMG! Look at the detail!", I'll save that for the Aubergine car.


Yeah, tell me about it.

Awww. I liked the black grafitti look.

Zach

I'm with Zach. Keep it with graffitti and call it your shop car. Pimp that ride!



Cool that you're getting her rolling again. Good work.

Roger

OMG!!! Isn't it time you put the 2270 parts on the shelf together?

Missing heads...
The 2270 is for the Aubergine car anyway. And this 2056 is fresh, just dirty.

Chrome paint the engine bay....do it...

Rich

Slacker...

Hey, some of us are still working...

The motor is pretty much clean. Certainly not obsessively clean, but there are some places you just can't get to on an assembled motor.

Started cleaning the transmission. It's soaking in cleaner now and it's going on a trip to the car wash tomorrow.

I welded my new trunk hinge pivots and the painted the back side.

How much fun can one person have? When you have a really big project in front of you and there are just so many things to do, it feels great to start picking away at the project. Keep the energy flowing!

Good work mark! You're inspiring me to pull my motor this fall, clean it up and fix my oil leaks.

Cleaned the transmission today. Got most of the new seals in. Man-o-man am I looking forward to a dry transmission...
I was surprised by how much oxidation/corrosion there is on the transmission. It looks dirty, but it's just pitted.

More done today. Cutting the old metal out. Nothing too horrific. I wasn't planning on doing the engine shelf, but I figured, why not...
I also took out the rear window and cleaned out all the layers of old sealant (stock, silicone, then more butyl)

Stop, stop, stop, wait,,,, waaaaaay to much progress going on around here. Someone give this man a beer and stop the progress!

Nice progress Mark. I picked up my SC front suspension today and am actively looking for some 16 x 6 fuchs. If you want those pedrini's let me know.

Larry

Do you know if they are early or late? I definitely want a nice set of Pedrinis for my other car.

I am pretty sure they are OE on the 72. Everything on the car from the paint on down is OE....

If you want them they are yours ... Just what ever you think is fair. You can just put it on the balance sheet for when the 72 comes for metal work.

Sounds good! My other car is a 72.

A month later, I made a little more progress...

a little more progress... I got a set of bus carbs to run the 1.7 motor I got from Jeff K. Which I guess I never mentioned. I sold my motor while it was out. So I was motor-less for awhile and Jeff offered me his old 1.7 which I took just to get me back on the road. I'm just trying to focus on getting on the road, not building the best car possible.

Maybe you can try the soda blasting setup on those carbs ...
Andy

As soon as you come up and help me pull the electrical for the compressor.
Mark

pull them apart and dunk them in a citris based cleaner...does wonders.

Rich

Whats up Mark. Good to see you in Sacramento a few weeks ago. Can I ask you to post a better pix of the exhausts that you have on that car right now. I don’t think I have seen that you before????

Here they are:

Translation:
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Manufacturer: Super Sprint, Mantua, Italy

Type: VW-Porsche 2000
Date: October 1985
Part#: KBA 20272
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Andy

I have several 16" Fuchs Larry... Some 6" some 7"

This FourBlades guy John just has to be stopped! Look at the fuchin' progress people are making when he inspires them! I vote we ban him for threatening and harrassing jackstands!

Hey McMark! Any chance you could do a detailed expo on cleaning and sealing the trani (or point me to a good how to). Mine is leaking like a sieve. I already have it dropped, I just need to know the best way to clean it and seal it back up.

Thanks,
Brad

Post a new thread and I'll go into it.

I guess I better not post any progress anymore or mention how I just got new
seats from Craig at Camp914, or how I put in all new brake lines, just bought
my first set of tires for my car, etc. etc.

All I can say is... WOW!

[Okay I can say a bit more than that.]

It's amazing the progress you've made! If I'd of gotten as busy as you when I started my resto, I probably would've had it done and sold by the time my shoulder went out. But then, I didn't know jack f--king squat about Porsche's when I started my resto either.

But seriously, awesome work dude. Things are looking good- keep the pics coming!

Finished up the patch that I was halfway done with (see above). Now I just have some misc. DAPO screw holes in the firewall and then the engine shelf. Then the welding is done..... Well, until I dig into the other side hell hole.

Looking good dude! Keep up the good work

Looks awesome... hang in there!

Its a customers car...

Rich

Only if someone buys it before I'm done.

More work... months later. Engine shelf is in and all the holes in the firewall are welded up.

I'm waffling between
1. being thorough and cleaning everything in the engine bay, stripping the paint, and having it all done up nice.
2. being quick and just spray painting everything and dealing with real paint later.

I should probably pick #2... right?