1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod

[Peter]

Great job, v.impressive!

[jury]

I get mildly obsessed with hole patterns, they look superb mate !!

Looks like you have been busy, interior is looking spot on....great stuff

[jb]

It looks fabulous Mark.
I love the colour and the holes look just perfect.
How did you do them? With punches or scissors or?

[Nige]

Looking good Mark, how heavy are those speaker brackets though? Surely you could have drilled some material out to make them lightweight

[sladey]

Thanks guys

Chris - glad you liked the hole patterns - just kept playing around with them until I found a pattern I liked

JB - I inherited a set of leather punches (along with some other tools) from my great great uncle - simple things but satisfying to use as they give such a clean hole

Fair point Nige

I did trim them back a fair bit but might have to do some more drilling....

[bjmullan]

Interior is looking fab

Mark is there any job that you will not put you hand too?

[Nige]

Fair point Nige

I did trim them back a fair bit but might have to do some more drilling....

2/3mm ali plate and some rivnuts

[Bootsy]

Mark is there any job that you will not put you hand too?

'Hand' apparently. He practices more than most but still hasn't perfected it.

[sladey]

Brendan - Sewing's not my favourite thing any more - and I know f*** all about electrics (though having bought a book I can now check for voltage drop) - but I call Ian in for that

Nige - but I can't weld ally plate yet - always nice to weld something - got to love a captive nut

Thomas - practice makes perfect

[sladey]

Minor update - did the other door and revisiting the process caused me to make a few changes

Firstly I sourced rectangular grommets for the leather strap - these really neaten up the hole. They do add a little bit of resistance but door still opens fine



Secondly, driving around without the drivers door panel on at all made me realise how damp it gets in the door when it rains - I've not got any corrosion in there as the large drain holes are doing their thing and also appear to be keeping it aired - however my old door cards were badly rotted at the bottom - which aim putting down to a lack of door membrane

I therefore ordered the special "Sports purpose" lightweight door membrane. This was a special order from the Porsche klassiker section as it is NLA. Fortunately they had some NOS that had never been sold and I was able to get the last pieces. They supplied it on a roll and distributed it to me via their local outlet which is Sainsburys Homebase in Arnold, Nottingham. For reasons of discretion they had it labelled up as garden waste bin bags - luckily I knew exactly what they were

1. Glue the edges of the door. 2.Hold the oversized liner up against it


3. Trim off the excess


Of course then I realised I hadn't got the door strap connected up but that wasn't too hard to sort

This time I inserted the "cage" around the electric window switch properly - it needs to have the tabs hammered back into place - after years of wobbly window switches I can't tell you how good it feels to have them firmly fixed at last

Finally the door pulls looked OK as they were but a bit, well, normal. I decided it was time for another "signature" touch



Drove into the station this morning and it felt really nice to have finished doors - proper job




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[55ovalcharlie]

Nice Grommets

[sladey]

Nice Grommets

Thanks - and thank you for pointing me to them - in case anyone else is interested they are from 9elevenparts eBay shop and they are called Durchfuhrungen

[911hillclimber]

Big colour change from the bench to the car!

When I fitted my OEM/NOS liners, the 2.7 RS type mind (clear polythene gas impregnated for added lightness) back in 1989 when Porsche had them in stock I tucked my poly sheet inside the door inner frame for the last 100mm so the rain ran down the inner face and into the bottom of the door pressing which had been oil impregnated after a detailed restoration in lightweight steel and semi galvanised Dansk skins that clearly were not for a 911 but one a bit like a 911 ish...and one has started to rust from the inside out.

The GPO brown parcel tape was so sticky it is still there to this day.

Nice DIY job you are doing imho.

[sladey]

Big colour change from the bench to the car!

When I fitted my OEM/NOS liners, the 2.7 RS type mind (clear polythene gas impregnated for added lightness) back in 1989 when Porsche had them in stock I tucked my poly sheet inside the door inner frame for the last 100mm so the rain ran down the inner face and into the bottom of the door pressing which had been oil impregnated after a detailed restoration in lightweight steel and semi galvanised Dansk skins that clearly were not for a 911 but one a bit like a 911 ish...and one has started to rust from the inside out.

The GPO brown parcel tape was so sticky it is still there to this day.

Nice DIY job you are doing imho.

Thanks

[sladey]

ok so last week had some time off as the wife was away so I thought I'd start on the front seats. Eagle eyed readers with a memory will know I managed to pick u a pair of seats from a Ferrari 348 about 18 months ago in cream leather.

So last week's jobs we to firstly make them fit and secondly dye them to match the read of the interior.

First problem was ten seat belt receiver


Luckily the received from the Porsche sport seats fitted almost perfectly




The Porsche receiver has a wider bar then so had to adjust the cover accordingly


Forgot to get a picture of it all fitted together but I also had to cut a window out of the supporting frame - won't affect strength.

Then onto the brackets.

The Porsche seat runners are about 410mm wide; the fezza ones 340mm wide, and the front mounting fix from the front instead of from above.

Therefore time to break out the CAD (Cardboard aided design)



The brackets are made out of 3mm steel with a 90 degree bend added into all of them for added strength. Bending 3mm steel with a vice and a BFH is no laughing matter - makes the veins on your forearms pop out. And I've got strong forearms .

Here is the matching rear bracket with captive nuts welded in.