DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

That's mad!
Mine are the '73 originals and touch one of the battery box's top lip and has been fine for 27 years with me.
I think modern batteries are a touch taller these days, so mine come a bit close to the top edge, hence the covers are required.

I didn't notice the battery contact covers were missing. It had them when i dropped the car off. I'll give them a call. Its actually going back in a few weeks a
To have the Carrera stickers changed to Porsche... Part of its slow journey back to a less RS look.

I fitted the front chrome lenses and grills, but the rear lenses needed some restoration work:


They weren't a disaster, but had quite a few small scratches and scuffs. No cracks fortunately.




So I bought a headlight restoration kit


And got to work


I'm very happy with the final result. Very easy to do. It took about 1 hour to do both lenses. They will be going on the car over Xmas.

Your car is looking great, and that engine sounds superb.
My car is coming out of a 'light resto' soon too, and I'll be looking for black horn grills and lamp lenses if they need a new home?

I will have the complete set of front and rear black rimmed Bosch lenses and the air grills for sale after Christmas. My car is back at GCS right now for some minor paintwork. But whilst its there they are changing the stickers from 'Carrera' to 'Porsche'. Jez is also trying to eliminate a flat spot.

GCS have finished the paint and fitted the new stickers..... They are a bit too high, so are being moved. Next job is to get the wheels repainted and change the rear engine lid and grill to silver rather than black.

I've been busy ordering bits and bobs. My quest to return my car to a more stock look is motivated by me being sick of people saying 'Is it a real RS?'. I can't wait to lose the ducktail, although the combination of the ducktail and the S spoiler make a huge difference when I was pootling along the German Autobahn at 180kph yesterday. The RS front spoiler didn't have the same effect of sucking the car to the road.

- Aluminium decklid has been delivered to Carerra Performance from Stuttgart Konnection for test fitting to another car and painting.
- I bought some original P O R S C H E and 911T gold badges at Stuttgart Retro Classic car show last month
- I bought a new repro aluminium grill from Karmann Konnection
- My Wheels are being repainted by Art Wheels in Strasbourg. I swapped the rear 8x15 for some refurbed ones they have. The replacements are a couple of years newer than mine, but as they were not original to the car and not the correct date, that made a lot of sense. They will refurb my 7R's and my original 6x15 spare.

Rear old 8x15


7R to be refurbed and repainted


There are no visible markings at all on my 7R. I know the factory ground them off for some reason.... Presumably to save a couple of miligrams.


Refurbed and very pretty (although terrible photo) 8x15 rears. And my stickers were moved too.


Very rough repro 7x15 fronts. It was all they had to lend me, but they got me home.


I will pick up my new wheels (with matching centre caps) when I drive back to the UK in June and then will fit the new engine lid, before driving to Classic Le Mans in July.

Paul

I got my 7R wheels and deep six spare back, together with some new matching anodised centre caps from Art wheels near Strasbourg on Thursday, en route from Zurich back to the UK. Very pretty they are too.



With the PORSCHE stickers moved, and the refurbed wheels on the car, I arrived back at my house in Surrey on Thursday just in time to watch England lose to Belgium.


After washing the flies off the windscreen, its now at GCS in Horsham to have the new engine lid and grill fitted and painted.... All just in time for Classic Le Mans next week.

Paul

New aluminium engine lid install in progress Not polished yet, but a very good fit.

PMNorris wrote: There are no visible markings at all on my 7R. I know the factory ground them off for some reason.... Presumably to save a couple of miligrams.

......the 7R used the same mould as the standard deep 6 which is why the part number was ground off and an ink stamp used to add the part number.

Great progress, car is looking sharp

A few projects now the snow has melted in Switzerland before I go for a blast..... My car has been regularly exercised over the winter in the underground car park beneath my apartment. I managed to set off the CO2 alarm last weekend.....

I had some tuning work done on my carbs last time I was in the UK, which clearly was not done well. They are leaking and had the wrong inlet valves fitted, resulting in a poorly running car.




So I bought a complete PMO overhaul kit from PartsKlassik when I was in NY last week


And a new set of Avon C6RZZ tyres arrived this week from Longstone tyres.





I also found an original 8 pot fuse cover at Stuttgart Classica a couple of weeks ago. A bargain at EUR 8.
Original broken one

New one

I need to swap screw over.

I also bought an original 1970 airbox as the 3.0 SCRS plastic repro one i have is a bit rubbish (it doesn’t sit flush in the carbs). I ended up with 2 snorkels though.




A few jobs tore done over the next few weeks. Annoyingly I will be travelling and don't have many tools in Switzerland, so I'm taking the easy option and getting my local specialist to do the work for me.

Paul

I tried to fit the 70 airbox, but the PMO carb manifolds are quite high and the airbox doesn't fit in the engine bay. So, the garage will try to make the 3.0 SCRS airbox fit properly with the help a hot air gun.

Whilst my car is being worked on in Switzerland, I am in the UK for the week and spent some time cleaning 49 years worth of road grease from my matching numbers original engine. This has been a job that I've been doing an hour at a time over the last year. Progress is slow...

Dirty part of the block


A couple of quick dousing in engine degreaser and a wipe off


First pass with the Dremel and another degreaser dousing


Nearly done, but the Dremel ran out of juice, so I've stopped for today.

After 3 years of living in Poland and 5 years in Switzerland, I relocated back to the UK at the end of October, bringing my car with me. It was originally a German car, which is where I purchased it from. I then had it registered in Poland and then Switzerland. I drove it back to the UK at the end of October via the Nurburgring on what must have been the wettest track ever. It had been raining all day, but the heavens opened at 17:00, just in time to make it treacherous for my 2 laps, starting at 17:15, when the track opened that day. There were a lot of slow/cautious/sensible cars on the track, and I managed to spin whilst attempting to overtake a C class Merc, I went slightly off the race line and just feathered the accelerator coming out of Bergwerk corner, resuting in an immediate spin, followed by a brown trouser moment as the barricade came ever closer. Fortunately I stopped on the grass verge, with only my ego destroyed. I assume the lack of LSD (my lack of driving ability obviously has nothing to do with it). So a LSD will be on the shopping list in the future.

My previous attempt on a dry track was more fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqraj4BUV68&t=30s

So, in order to get my car registered in the UK, it needs a NOVA form and an MOT. I have taken it to Neil Bainbridge to get an MOT plus a number of other jobs done, including getting my carb issues sorted and twin plugging.

We thought we'd start with the MOT so the UK registration con continue whilst the engine gets breathed on.

After 49 years of abuse, the rear suspension arms have some play in them.


so the holes have been machined round again, ready for some slightly oversized bearings


Job done


However, before they are reassembled, they have been sent for powder coating.

After 5 years in Switzerland and really struggling to find anyone vaguely competent to get anything done to my car, working with Neil and his team is a real pleasure. My engine is now out of the car and will be dyno'd before and after twin plugging. I am replacing my MSD 6AL with 2 Classic Retrofit CDI units, together with their matching coils. I discussed this with Neil and Rob at BS Motorsport. There is nothing wrong with my MSD kit, but they have found the Classic Retrofit kit to be very reliable and have a lot of experience using it, so I decided to go with that. I will also used a fixed distributor and use the Classic Retrofit ignition curve, whereas my current distributor has made its curve modified for my PMO carbs.

Exciting times!!

Paul