Dr. Dynamics

How's the temperature over there?
I was reading an Ultima building diary (extremeley awesome) and I read that the temperature was affecting a little his body fitment. Factory told him to snap carboard in a couple of places in order for the FG to settle for a week or so. Kind of like forcing spacers betwwen the small gap areas.

oceanvue

How do you do all that work and keep you're fingernails so clean?

Wachuko

Temps? 60-70's depending on the time of day/night. Starting to warm up in the next days.

I have decided on the wheels... will go with Lindsey Racing P2 (Fuch styled)


The photos are from Matteo, a gentleman in the Pelican forum that is getting this monster built in NC... but you get the idea, somewhat, of what the wheels look like... tires are 315 rears, 275 in the front. For my fenders I think I will need a spacer to make them flush with the outside lip... we will see...

Wachuko

Blue Nitrile gloves and lots of this:

Dr. Dynamics

on the wheels!

I was drooling last night on the red RSR that appeared on the Victory by Design video!

zorro1car

Jaime, I have a pair of 3/4 inch spacers.....just collecting dust.....

Wachuko

After playing some more with the position of the brackets and adding some flat washers to shift the bumper 1/2" to the passenger side... voila! Bumper fits better...





C clamps replaced with 1/4" stainless steel bolts and washers:





Made the brackets for the back of the fender... will glass over it an create an extension to the fender in that area to fill the gap that is there.

Wachuko

This thing is starting to look like a car again:





Working now on fitting the headlights... I was told and also read not to trust fiber glass for holding the headlights so I will make some brackets for the top and another one for the bottom to hold them in place.



Also, all the border around the headlight bucket needs to be removed for the lights to fit... seems the FG is too thick and does not allow for the headlight to fit correctly. I tried to leave some level of border to at least help keep it in place while I insert the bottom bolt...



All this lip goes away...



Here you can see why the lip needs to be removed... look at the bottom of the headlight:



Now with the border almost removed...





Looking much better now:

Wachuko

Thank you. It will be two months before I get the wheels... will know then what I will need. I will send you a PM if I end up needing them.

Wachuko

Got a few high-res photos from Wim van den Berg out of Apeldoorn, Holland.

www.porschespecialist.nl

Thank you Wim!!!!

Now I know what I will have to do to the fenders to finish the job properly:

From this:





It has to look like this:

Wachuko

Got to tell you... since I do not have plans to do a complete strip down and re-spray I will clean and paint just that section so I can take a photo like that that is one clean fender (newly painted and in the process of being built).

Here is the rest of that car:

rentadate

I'm not sure if anyone asked this question or not, but would you be willing to sell those door pocket for the speakers? Mine fell off and I would like something that is affordable.

-Nick

Wachuko

Finished doing the headlights... installed the bottom bracket with clip, upper alum bracket, holes for the wiring rubber grommets...













One less thing off the list...



Next are the signal lights in the bumper...

Dr. Dynamics

GET SOME SLEEP!

Wachuko

I want to get to point where I am able to prep the parts for primer and paint... to do that I need to finish all the small details that take a lot of time... holes for lights, brackets for the headlights, mounting brackets for the fender at the rear, trimming, bonding, fabricating...

What? Your Dad is complaning that I am not letting him get enough sleep??