Build diary.....72e....Becoming known as Geoff's 72 Hot Rod

[Superlight7]

Sharing my build diary....without much research and in need of a winter project I came across the following.

Now my wife's not normally a fan of 911's but with nothing to do she came along to view the car....we hadn't even got out to look closely before she turned to me and said...." I love it.....just buy it "



So after a few cups of coffee a deal was done and we became the proud owner of a 72e.......

[964RS]

looking forward to it

[Superlight7]

Inspection revealed.....need for sills.....kidney bowls....floors....wings......the list goes on.....but how hard could it all be....and the plus points of errrr.....it had Recaro seats and other original goodies



The moral of the story "beauty is only skin deep"

But then in my mind I'd already figured out if it came to the worse then it could be parted out for a tidy profit.

[Superlight7]

My wife's enthusiasm extended to starting to strip the car.....and a pleasing point to note is that during the whole project we've only encountered two seized fixings.....one dealt with by heat.....the other unfortunately sheared off......not too bad for a 40 year old car



Finally we found clean metal and started the repairs



And then the roof was found to be really suffering around the sunroof aperture ...... As the car is destined to race and not able to locate another roof panel.....we did away with the sunroof and rolled our own panel....

Tacked in place you can see that we needed to extend in places outside the normal aperture....






And now mounted on the spit



Old fashioned elbow grease to removed underseal



Towards the end of welding i built the dolly to transport to and from paint shop

[hot66]

Think I recognise the car ... Did it have a 3.0 in the back? Ended up in Ireland ?

[Superlight7]

Dry built to check panel fit and gaps.....new porsche front wings pretty much fitted out of the box....delivered to the paint shop just before Christmas.



And work in progress.....January.

[yoda]

Looks like a great project - what final spec do you have in mind for the car?

[Superlight7]

Then of course whilst all the welding was going on there's the not so small job of turning this lot into



Something more usable







Dolly in close up....my over engineered design supporting from torsion tube and front footwell / floor seam.....designed to take the car up to rolling shell by which time I will have got around to installing lift in new workshop

[left4dead]

Think I recognise the car ... Did it have a 3.0 in the back? Ended up in Ireland ?

Looks like a great project - what final spec do you have in mind for the car?

Superlight7 has no time to answer questions as his build steams ahead....

[Superlight7]

Think I recognise the car ... Did it have a 3.0 in the back? Ended up in Ireland ?

Sure did but now back in blighty

[Superlight7]

Think I recognise the car ... Did it have a 3.0 in the back? Ended up in Ireland ?

Looks like a great project - what final spec do you have in mind for the car?

Superlight7 has no time to answer questions as his build steams ahead....

Plenty of time for questions but be warned I'm a beginner fumbling in the dark....I really do thank many on DDK for their help to date

[yoda]

Another question well dodged - are you a politician?

[Superlight7]

Another question well dodged - are you a politician?

Couldn't survive on politicians salary....

What was the question?

[Superlight7]

My quick method for rubber bush removal...

30 seconds with gas torch to get things going.....then leave to simmer whilst you have a coffee.....



Then take a screw driver and help the burning bush just fall off.....



Quick sandblast a blow of black powder before installing new bushes.....



After much thought I've gone for Elephant Racing bushes ..... Certainly not the cheapest but wonderfully engineered and no risk of squeaking from poly bushes....

[Superlight7]

Finally finished at paint shop....9 coats from etch to final lacquer with plenty of rubbing back between coats....flawless with a texture like china.....