DONE! - finally

74rsman · Post by **74rsman** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:24 pm

After 6 years off the road, many many hours of blood sweat and tears she was finally MOT'd taxed and driven on the road yesterday. Managed a good 50 mile shakedown on the airport bypass road which is very light of traffic (going from nowhere to nowhere) -

first impressions, loud, stinky , incredibly solid (thats Porsche for you)
Rocket ship performance (even on a running in engine limiting to 4k (and a bit ;o))

Im going to have a lie down!

Ellie loved her first drive in it, a mix of excitement and terror i think

Gary71 · Post by **Gary71** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:34 pm

Looks great, I must arrange a drive over the peaks in a few weeks time. You could bring it along and stretch it's legs a little!

GP911 · Post by **GP911** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:58 pm

Great, car is looking, congratulations

MBEngineering · Post by **MBEngineering** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:08 pm

HI red964

car looks good,

regards mike

911hillclimber · Post by **911hillclimber** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:11 pm

That is a l o n g project!

Great when it all comes together and is not a let down due to much anticipation.

Being new to DDK, what spec is the car?

74rsman · Post by **74rsman** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:03 pm

hi
its an 85 3.2 with a 92 3.6 engine (rebuilt by me, top and bottom) with a genuine RSR ecu remapped (though off this car).
bodywork by Mark Darby at www.rs911.com

Appbiz for the interior trim, RS911/Mark Waring for the seats.
15x7s and 8s, a 911R 10K tacho.

Basically loads of other bits via DDK/Impact Bumpers, some ebay odds and sods.

There is only one problem that lets the first experience down - no3 cylinder is noisy. Originally i thought only at idle originally thinking a noisy tappet but then narrowed it to a combustion noise as with the fuel injector off the noise is gone. On the shakedown drives its now clear the noise is combustion noise under any load at any engine speed so my feeling is
a) exhaust/head seal on no3/
b) exhaust joint (internal)?
c) cyl/head seal on 3.
d) something inside the cylinder like a broken ring.

its a bugger to be in this position but it doesnt worry me too much.
I'll run it down to Rob and Col at Ninemeister and I'm sure they will know.
all in, its amazing to walk around the corner and see it parked up the road out in public - i get that 'WOW look at that' factor on my own car

a tiny bit of me is still tempted to RSR it with steel arches at some point.
it is just fab

74rsman · Post by **74rsman** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:40 pm

Seems like ages since i started to pick at the bpost rust spots!!

Its only 2 years since she was in this state so i dont know where the rest of the time has gone..

911hillclimber · Post by **911hillclimber** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:50 pm

Excellent.
I well remember picking mine up from Bob Watson after it's first suspension set-up and after my 2 year re-biuld...
That was in 1991.

My daughter used to giggle all the time during flat-out runs!

Be called 'irresponsible' today, but it has always been safe as houses.

summer ahead!

PAUL CALDERBANK · Post by **PAUL CALDERBANK** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:12 am

Looks fantastic! I've been waiting ages to see photo's of this car in a finished state. It really makes me miss my old chartreuse 911.

domtoni · Post by **domtoni** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:40 pm

Cool !!!

Faster than my car.

Dom

veryporky · Post by **veryporky** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:09 pm

A stunning and most convincing replica

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:37 pm

The car looks awesome and what a colour! It's the best

Well done on its completion.

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:05 pm

red964 wrote:Seems like ages since i started to pick at the bpost rust spots!!

Its only 2 years since she was in this state so i dont know where the rest of the time has gone..

Ahhhh, the penny has dropped. I remember looking at those pictures when I bought my 3.2. Made sure I didn't buy one that needed that much work. Having said that the end result is awesome, excellent work my friend.

willbrown · Post by **willbrown** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:36 pm

Congrats on the completion - must be a great sense of achievement. Car looks gorgeous.

But did I hear you right? You leave THAT car out on the street every night? OMG - I wouldn't sleep a wink!

74rsman · Post by **74rsman** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:13 pm

oh no, not on the street. jeeez no

I couldnt sleep and i dont think the guys at AON could either.

hang on - that doesnt sound right