Sweet bejesus Shoestring - that place is fantastic. I will post some shots of mine at some point. It's a lot more conservative, but features some good, original 60s bits (and a lot of the materials that Eddie mentions above). It also has the same ducted air heating sytem - ours is an incredibly efficient at turning gas into noise and dust.
As Eddie said, it'd be interesting if someone built one to resto-mod spec with proper insulation and ecologically sound heating.
Back to Porsches. A day of ups and downs. Many weeks ago, when I dropped my shell at Enviro-Strip, I had neglected to bring the doors, bonnet and decklid as I was under the impression that these weren't included in the job. Turns out it's all part of the service. So I dropped those panels off when I went up to collect the shell.
Today an Enviro-Strip truck was making a trip to McLaren (down the road, in Woking), so they put my panels on board and I met the driver on site. What I found, I could never have expected - they are awesome - no rust or scabbiness whatsoever, just crisp lines. OK, there is some evidence of dent removal, but it appears to have been done properly with a dent puller and file. Must be the only car in America not to have been repaired with bondo. I couldn't believe my luck.
Overjoyed, I headed home, stopping by Dude HQ to catch up on engine news. Things there not so sweet - too much info for me to remember, but basically the inside of the heads have been reworked with a pickaxe and the crank is into its second grind. Dude analysis goes that the head work may be as a result of no.1 piston letting go. There are some clues, such as this big 'fix this one' arrow, and the chunk taken out of the crankcase inside:
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Damn!
The rods have been ground down - maybe balanced, maybe just ground. We'll find out in due course, although who really cares - I think they're going in the bin:
F****** silicone everywhere. This photo shows a rare piece still attached to the case (as opposed to sitting in the oil strainer with the rest):
Crank. Hopefully this will polish - Dude says third grinds are bad juju.
El Cheapo overbore kit - probably fitted because it was cheaper than replacing the stock barrels and pistons:
Can't remember why I took this, but there's something crap going on here, too:
At first glance, the carbs are the correct size for the engine. Dude reports, however, that there are 20-something mm throats fitted inside - I won't say the numbers, because I got the displacement of the engine wrong by 40.4cc a few posts back and he sent me a text about it. The narrowed-down venturis would have been strangling the engine. You can't see them in this photo because I took it with the butterflies shut (dork):
