Restoration of a RHD 67S

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:26 pm

Well the journey begins.

Car is now in process of having all the rusty panels removed before being blasted and traveling to the coachbuilders (Chesterton Coachworks) to have all the new panels fitted or fabricated. The engine (67S) has now arrived from the US which I sourced some time ago along with some other 67S spares for the build.

Canford Classics supplied all the (Porsche) panel work and are carrying out various stages of the project. In the mean time I’ve starting to rebuild the engine along with the gearbox and body disassembly, all in between meals and nagging wife

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Various pictures to date below.

Original Colour

Some P38

Garry

pmjt · Post by **pmjt** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:42 pm

Congrats Garry, wonderful to see another 2.0S come back to life. Best of luck with the project

Philip

decapman · Post by **decapman** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:46 pm

Well done
seems a mighty task but these rhd '67 2.0S 's are rare beasts

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:55 pm

Engine strip down continued.

I knew water had got into the cylinders as it was left outside in the rain for a period of time when it came out of the car after a carb fire. So no surprises below

Should get away with a good clean

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:43 pm

Well Done Garry,

Good luck, look forward to the progress.

Regards

Dave

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:19 pm

Well the 67S engine has some interesting findings once I've started to measure everything.

Turns out it has 90mm cylinders with "Arias" pistons

The heads have been reworked to acommadate the larger bore size, but are still 67S with valves to match.

Stroke remains the same @ 66mm which makes the engine size 2.5 give or take a CC or two

Nice Power me thinks..

roy mawbey · Post by **roy mawbey** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:58 am

Garry,

If you can manage all the work involved you will end up with a great car. I really like early 911 cars and remember well driving my brothers 66 911 in tbe 70's and how it surprised me when compared to my 59A.
Good choice of model Garry

Roy

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:48 pm

Finally managed too separate the case an have a good look round

Crank looks cool being STD/0.50 which I am sort of happy with. STD early oil pump (needs upgrade) and other internals so not to much to worry about.

Now the machine work begins.

Back to the body

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:41 am

The shell & running gear now residing at Canford Classics for stripping, blasting and preparation for bodywork. (Front wings, Rear wings, wing supports, Roof, Floor pan, Tank support the list goes on)

Looking really sorry for itself

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:15 pm

What started off to be a really exciting day turned out to be a tad depressing once I’d seen what was left of the car after blasting. Alan (Canford Classics) was very reassuring but still the list of replacement panels & parts seemed to become a blur after a while.

Still onward and upward!

Shell delivered to Chesterton Coachworks to be rebuilt and aligned as per factory spec, these guys really know there stuff so I’m looking forward to moving gracefully forward for here.

johnM · Post by **johnM** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:49 pm

Wow that looks bad, I thought mine was rotten, I am sure things will get better from here. This is the low point in the restoration from now on you will see the bad being removed and the good being put back into the shell. Should be a loverly car once Alan has finished with it. Keep us updated with pics and good luck.
Kind regards

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:02 pm

Thanks for the words of encouragement John,

I have been following your resto in detail but seem a long way behind at the moment, still I would say yours is looking suburb!

Thanks

Garry

johnM · Post by **johnM** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:21 pm

Hi Garry
It looks like you have plenty of big new bits to put into your shell. Once the floor is out and the sills have been repaired or replaced things start moving on. Its amazing how rotten these early cars can be. I have contacted some of my cars early owners and even back in the early 80's my car was having rust repairs even to the outer panels. Quite frightening, we will have to make sure our cars are better protected with wax oil once completed.

Kind Regards

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:04 pm

Some progress made this week with refurbishment of the suspension and drive train by Alan. The bodywork begins in anger next week so looking forward to that.

I have also spent some time trying to trace some of the previous owners in order to build an historic file to live with the car. The internet is a wonderful thing as I have managed to contact three previous important owners who contributed to the changes during its life, the first I met on Friday for an exchange of stories and pictures.

The pictures below show how this owner paid £500 (yes 500) in the early 80’s then carried out the transformation into an RSR.

theorangeperil · Post by **theorangeperil** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:29 pm

visualfx wrote:

Ahh, poor old thing, it's all to easy to forget the many guises our cars have gone through before we took ownership. Old 911s clearly weren't always valued in the way they are now, and i don't mean from a monetary perspective.