911T - Light restoration

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911T - Light restoration

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My new car has some serious water leaks, the headliner is away and the intention is to have this replaced while all of the window and door seals are being replaced.

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911T by TP021272, on Flickr

I started striping out the interior last night to get a better look at the extent of the rust. Carpets, seats and the vinyl will be thoroughly cleaned while they are out.

I am considering striping the waxes and build up off the vinyl and respraying black. Woolies sell a kit. Does anyone have experience of this? I will try and basic clean first, I don't want to loose the patina of the car so probably won't bother.

http://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/c-118-vin ... ation.aspx

Looking on detailing threads I think the best recommendation for vinyl and leatherette is to use leather cleaner and creams, Gliptone Liquid leather will be the product of choice.


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911 T by TP021272, on Flickr

The back shelf is solid enough but has some unsightly serious surface rust, I intend scraping / brushing as much of this away as possible and then treat the surface. There is one small hole on the LHS right below the corner of the window, when the windows are out i will get a better look at this and hopefully get it welded or treated.

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911 T by TP021272, on Flickr


Most of the sound deadening pads have seen better days, the rear shelf runner is gone. Are these easily sourced?


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911 T by TP021272, on Flickr

The floors are good with the exception of a small hole that has been badly patched.

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911 T by TP021272, on Flickr

Can someone post up a link of the build up from floor through to carpets back in. Is it simply prime, paint, sound mat and then floor mats? Can the original sound mats still be sourced?

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Re: 911T - Light restoration

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Hi Tom I will see what pics I can find for you, but for now here are some seats we hav just re trimmed for a 71 car. Hopefully they can help with what they are like when re trimmed.

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Looking at the floor deadening the car is a 1970. The sound pads are pretty straight forward but the rear pads are getting hard to find and are NLA from Porsche.

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Very nice Alan.

I could see me sending the front seats to you at some point looking at the standard of the rears.

Scott came back to me on the engine decals, as soon as these are in I will order a set.

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The clock is not working, again through DDK there was a recommendation for a refurbish service. Relatively inexpensive. Packaged and sent this morning.

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Tp81 wrote:The clock is not working, again through DDK there was a recommendation for a refurbish service. Relatively inexpensive. Packaged and sent this morning.

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Numpty question does the clock run off it's own battery or the car's? Mine doesn't work either and I had consider getting it repaired but since I disconnect the battery everytime it is parked I didn't think it was worth it.
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My clock in my 73T runs off the car battery.
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Hi Neil
I seem to remember that the clock in my T was mechanical but with an electronic winding mechanism,
As I type this I realise how silly that sounds but I'm pretty sure that's the case.
I'm sure some one with far more knowledge that me will be along soon to let's me know what a fool I've been... :wink:

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Clock back in and working. Great service from John Ostick.

The dash had a couple of small blemishes and a bad crack at the speaker.

Some before and afters.

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Once David from Prestige leather worked his magic. I had him fix some minor tears in the vinyl while he was at it. I much prefer the repaired look than retrimmers or renew.

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Some minor updates. Like I have said more of a lightweight polish and clean than full restoration, enjoying it all the same.

Seat rails and grill shot blasted at work and coated.

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Went to visit my car today. Structurally everything is really solid, the floor had a small hole which looks like circular drain areas. What purpose do these serve on the floor pan? It had also sustained an impact which had cracked this area, all ground down and ready to be welded. There happened to be an older porsche in at the same time which has been going through some restoration.

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The number plate holder is to be replaced due to some minor damage. New part coming from R Bray.

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My car had sprung a serious fuel leak, it turned out to be a cracked fuel filter. Nice and simple, the plastic end had sheared completely and fuel was spraying everywhere. I imagine its had been cracked for some time because I had a very slight weep of what looked like grease from the front at the toe hook, I can only imagine it's been the fuel breaking down some of the black rubberised coating that covers the underside.

All fuel pipes nice and supple, brake lines checked everything looks good.

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Tom

Good to see progress.

The circular holes on the floor are factory. The 'flaps' were kept attached at one side only and bent down so that when the floors were painted the excess paint drained away. Once painting finished they were bent back into the hole and stuck up with gummy stuff (someone here will know what) to make a sealed hole. Not one of Porsche's finest moments and often need watching and resealing (mine did).
Another one of those hot weather issues with your car, I would imagine, where the gummy stuff has hardened and cracked. I would check them all.


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Some progress identifying the worst areas and cleaning off the glue residue and getting the areas ready for new metal. The car is really solid with the exception of the areas around the rear window where the seals have failed and then on the inner sills as a result water ingress. A minor fix of some cheap rubber could have prevented so much of this.

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Glue removed and the rust buffed off, getting ready for acid etching and then painting.

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Its looking good, hopefully ready for the Scottish curry night!
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I think Barry on here may have those front corner lower window edge pieces ready fabricated.
Otherwise I think you can buy them from Porsche or somewhere else. Saves a lot of fabricating in a tricky corner.

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Work continues on the car, all the rust out and new patches in place. No real surprises behind the rotten sections.

Some pictures of the repair to the floor (impact damage) and some of the front which a small rust hole below the water bottle.

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Small patch in, treated and then coated out in black sticky stuff.



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The impact damage on the floor treated.

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Bumpers cleaned inside and out.

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Front indicators, rather than replace these with plastic copies (thanks Mike) I had a go at refurbishing the originals, they has come up really well. Very pleased.

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Stripped and sanded and then sprayed.

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Looking good Tom. Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh at the curry night :)
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Brendan, thanks it is starting to really come together. Not sure if it will be ready in time for Thursday but either way I will come along to enjoy the night.

Some further progress.

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New sound deadening from Porsche, stuck down, cut and molded into place.

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