Restoration of a RHD 67S

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:24 pm

Lots more progress this week.

Torsion tube, inner wing, door skin and rear wing.

Now for the other side

jury · Post by **jury** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:30 pm

Wow!! Impressive stuff

What parts of the original shell will be left?

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:04 pm

Good question.

There was always going to be a sacrifice with this rebuild, as the shell was in very poor condition when I embarked on the project.

The essence of my goal was to keep as much of the original shell as possible but at the same time weigh up the economies of scale between repair and replacement.

My estimation is 50/50 with old to new, and as much originality as I possibly find, source, repair, engineer, fabricate.

58A - 71E · Post by **58A - 71E** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:44 pm

Thats a lot of metalwork!! looks like they're doing a great job, sure it will be worth saving

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:31 pm

Been busy stripping and sourcing parts for the gearbox rebuild, thought I'd show you some of the buggered bits

Parts List:

1st gear slider
1st gear dog teeth
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th gear synchromesh rings
Drive shaft bearing

owen nw · Post by **owen nw** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:23 pm

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visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:52 pm

More gearbox rebuild pictures, this time from MB Engineering. Sent all the gears up to Mike for replacement of synchromesh rings and dog teeth, these were completed in super quick time.

Thanks Mike

Northy · Post by **Northy** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:41 pm

Loving this thread Garry - keep the updates coming!

911hillclimber · Post by **911hillclimber** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:39 am

That is so much metal work, but great to 'witness'!

Love these threads, be pro built or DIY.

Keep it all coming. MB is great at boxes! (customer speaking)

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:21 pm

Some real progress again this week to the body.

Rear seat pans in, roof off, rear parcel shelf almost in, plus some template taking from my SWB 912 for those small detail fabrications. (washer bottle bracket)

tea boy · Post by **tea boy** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:08 pm

Some excellent work going into this car.

Almost as good as Barry

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:01 pm

Lovely 912 Garry.

visualfx · Post by **visualfx** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:53 am

Recently it’s been a time consuming process readying the roof supports an associated pillars for the replacement roof. Hopefully it shouldn’t be too much longer before all the panels are fitted, leaded, and it’s making its way to a painter.

Some other balls I’ve been juggling apart from mechanical rebuilding, is the refurbishment of the front seats. Good old mums sewing skills being unutilized to remake the rotten hessian backs, while industrial rubber and superglue worked a treat to make new O rings. Oh and not forgetting the painstaking weaving of cut foam to reinforce saggy springs. I’ve also managed to source some equivalent horse hair padding for the internal seat pads which once repaired works really well.

Fabrication tooling

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:02 am

Just catching up with some DDK reading: lovely work by Chestertons, and interesting to see their fabrication work as ever. Truly bar-raising stuff.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:04 am

BTW Garry, were they using that flypress for those roof rail tools, or was it something a bit more hydraulic?