Restoration of a RHD 2.2S

[Timo]

Superb work, hats off guys. I'd love to be able to reach your level of work one day.

[Project 911]

I love that lower inner front wing piece!!!
I have to do same for mine (haven't managed to buy that part) and I'm wondering how many weeks it takes to make.

[911-356 dave]

Hi Alan,
Fantastic job on the panel work! when do you expect the shell to be finished?
Cheers Dave

[Ian Donkin]

Awesome work by Barry - effectively building a 911 from a skeleton in less than 6 months!

Can't you find him something more challenging next time Alan

[Alan @ CanfordClassics]

Thanks for the kind words, I will pass them on to all involved in this project.
Barry is doing a great job on this shell. Oh, the next car on the jig is a RHD SWB car.

Anyway, the 2.2S is progressing well. From the last set of pics the roof rail is in.



The left front inner wing require alot of pre prep work



Most of the flanges needed to be repaired, before the new inner wing was fitted.





Attention then turns to the rear inner wings, inner sills etc



Thanks

Alan

[Alan @ CanfordClassics]

Other parts of the car are also progressing well. We have worked on a few fuchs recently so I took the opportunity to refurbish the original deep 6 x 15s.







As with the fuchs we are working on several sets of MFI throttle bodies so the ones from the 2.2S have also been restored.



We stripped them down, re-bushed the shafts, bore the intake shafts, make and fit new butterflies with the correct chamfer, re-plate, re-face both faces and rebuild.



Thanks

Alan

[Alan @ CanfordClassics]

Plus all along, new panels are being fabricated and fitted.





and once fitted



Thanks

Alan

[911hillclimber]

As they say round here abouts 'Bostin' work'

Great to see and very very interesting.
Just why the screen panel is levitating in the one shot maybe is beacuse Barry is practicing magic all over this car!

You must disperse all these parts to several specialists simultaneously to get so many parts ready for re-assembly (throttle bodies/hubs/calipers etc).

In my imagination I see an 'M25' of old 911's waiting patiently their turn to enter the Room with the Jig with a magician inside

Got to do some boring work now...

[Ian Donkin]

Top drawer work all-round

[Alan @ CanfordClassics]

Hi,

Work continues on the restoration of this RHD 2.2S but the next resto project is close by. One of the future restorations is a RHD 1968 911. From this picture Barry looks like he has had enough already!!



With regards to the 68 car is something missing????



Fortunately we sourced a NOS SWB torque tube, but that is for another thread.

Alan

[911-356 dave]

Hi Mate.
At this rate Barry wont be able to fit anybody else in!
May as well put him on the pay roll!
Good look with the SWB.
Dave.

[Barry]

Thanks for all of the comments chaps, much appreciated .

Yes, Alan has a fair old chunk of capacity booked: the cheek of the chap . It just seems to work out well: we both are keen to keep improving and trying new things. Plus the shells arrive just as I like them: completely bare and stripped and for me here, the bigger projects fit in best with my particular setup.

On that note I've been busy with a few bits for enhancing the workshop, details to follow soon ....

[911hillclimber]

Do you lot have a Time Making Machine?

Great thread and must be so satisfying to bring them back from the dead.

More!

[Barry]

Definitely, couldn't do without the old TMM MKII, and a big improvement over my 1950's Time-O-Matic .

Seriously, for my side there's a few tricks I use on myself to keep going through the tough times:

Go out to the workshop and 'just make a start' however impossible that particular stage may appear. It's suprising how often a problem pretty much goes away once you've picked up the tools and got going.

I never spend any time looking for a tool: if I can't locate something, I simply start tidying up, rather than trawling through everything that happens to be out at the time. All you end up doing then, having overlooked the missing tool / part, is start going through everything again. I usually find that the tidying method quickly locates said part, and if it doesn't, at least the workshop has been tidied, and I won't waste time going through it all again.

Be like a postage stamp: stick to one thing until you get there. I only ever concentrate on one area, or occasionally two, if one offers light relief from the other. I never strip out everything at once if it can be helped, so that I've always got the other side as a reference. A lot of cars get hacked to bits, all references get lost, and then it's a mountain of work to get anywhere: very depressing!

Also I work on my own from home, and often literally don't see a soul for two or three days at a time, and don't spend a lot of the time on the phone. No computer in the workshop either (or kettle, come to that). Therefore it is quite easy to have a very tight routine with virtually no distractions: just how I like it .

Obviously as time goes by the actual job gets easier (more and more jigs, patterns and tricks) as well, which helps greatly, plus I've built a new overhead body measuring system (which I'll detail soon), which is invaluable for tackling the parts the main jig brackets can't reach. Effectively it means I can locate just about any point in 'mid air' on the upper body, this means things like A-posts, sill heights, arch widths, outer wing positioning etc etc are all a doddle now. A huge leap forward, and I'd really miss it if I didn't have one now.

[Alan @ CanfordClassics]

Hi,

A few more pics to update the bodywork stage, and one also shows the rig previously mentioned.

Alan