Orange T
01-17-2016, 08:50 PM
#558
Drifting
Thread Starter
Just had a fantastic weekend at the NZ Motor racing Festival. This year Porsche was the featured marque so a big presence of P cars there. 400+ lined up on the track for a NZ record - and many Porsche racing classes. The factory sent over a '77 935 and a 1998 LMP WSC1 for demonstration laps by Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley. But my favourite as always was Ernie Nagamatsu's Speedster.
The T did OK but the hot track conditions and 231BHP really tested the skinny rear tyres.
The T did OK but the hot track conditions and 231BHP really tested the skinny rear tyres.
01-17-2016, 09:04 PM
#559
Drifting
Thread Starter
There is me, second row, second orange car with door open working frantically to solve a hot start problem before 400 Porsches are flagged away for the demo laps...it fired up at the last minute. Last year when Ferrari was the featured marque, a few were left on the grid, but no Porsches of course suffered that fate, and luckily not the freshly built Orange T!
01-22-2016, 03:44 AM
#565
Drifting
Thread Starter
Yes I did. Dean's car? Very nice, saw it at the xmas picnic and it is stunning. Mental note to never park mine next to his. Although they do have a different end use of course. He has gone back to work on it for the concourse coming up. I don't think Dean would have enjoyed attacking the fresh paint with bugs, rubber and stones as befell the T last weekend at the track. Bit of a mess really and sad to see the stone chips but that's what I built it for.
AU$200+k is quite a bit for a T. I see the T hotrod in Chch is still on offer at $NZ175k so it shows that us Kiwi's are still a bit tight when it comes to getting out the wallet for the oldies.
AU$200+k is quite a bit for a T. I see the T hotrod in Chch is still on offer at $NZ175k so it shows that us Kiwi's are still a bit tight when it comes to getting out the wallet for the oldies.
01-24-2016, 09:34 PM
#566
Seats update; happy....but....run out of big pieces of embossed leather. Stamped one whole hide but this has been insufficient.
So I have to say that parts of the seat faces are somewhat temporary. The guys had to sew a few smaller panels in. I can live with the seam at the top of the backrest instead of the regular double stich, but the back of the base with a seam is not right and will be changed. It is velcro'd to the seat shell as in the original race seat squabs so no big deal to do later.
Have no choice but to run with that until I can get a bit more leather stamped.
So I have to say that parts of the seat faces are somewhat temporary. The guys had to sew a few smaller panels in. I can live with the seam at the top of the backrest instead of the regular double stich, but the back of the base with a seam is not right and will be changed. It is velcro'd to the seat shell as in the original race seat squabs so no big deal to do later.
Have no choice but to run with that until I can get a bit more leather stamped.
Any guesses as to how many square meters of leather you used? And the car looks amazing!
01-25-2016, 01:18 PM
#568
Drifting
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It was 10 square meters, plus an extra meter that I managed to secure when the original lot ran out. I did a quick measure first and came up with it needing about 6 or 7 so I'm not sure why they needed so much. There are very few offcuts of any decent size left.
01-26-2016, 08:17 AM
#569
Thanks Maxem. Your car is very much in line with what I have in mind for my current project and please don't be offended, but I will be using your car as inspiration. Mine is a '77 S coupe that has been backdated, flared, sunroof-delete with an 3.2 motor as well. I am doing about 20% of the bodywork - mostly prep work - with the rest completed by a long time Porsche/VW body guy. I am building it as a lightweight GT car with a hint of track-readiness. ; )
I've done only a mediocre job of documenting it here.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...t-hot-rod.html
I'd recently settled on Signal Orange as the color and I knew I wanted oatmeal carpet too. After first seeing your interior recently on the PP forums and going through this thread here, I honestly wonder if I have been subconsciously using it as an ideal. Or maybe we just have very similar tastes?
Now I am curious. I've yet to see a picture, but are your pedal boards powder-coated black or still raw aluminum?
I've done only a mediocre job of documenting it here.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...t-hot-rod.html
I'd recently settled on Signal Orange as the color and I knew I wanted oatmeal carpet too. After first seeing your interior recently on the PP forums and going through this thread here, I honestly wonder if I have been subconsciously using it as an ideal. Or maybe we just have very similar tastes?
Now I am curious. I've yet to see a picture, but are your pedal boards powder-coated black or still raw aluminum?
01-26-2016, 07:56 PM
#570
Drifting
Thread Starter
Thanks Maxem. Your car is very much in line with what I have in mind for my current project and please don't be offended, but I will be using your car as inspiration. Mine is a '77 S coupe that has been backdated, flared, sunroof-delete with an 3.2 motor as well. I am doing about 20% of the bodywork - mostly prep work - with the rest completed by a long time Porsche/VW body guy. I am building it as a lightweight GT car with a hint of track-readiness. ; )
I've done only a mediocre job of documenting it here.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...t-hot-rod.html
I'd recently settled on Signal Orange as the color and I knew I wanted oatmeal carpet too. After first seeing your interior recently on the PP forums and going through this thread here, I honestly wonder if I have been subconsciously using it as an ideal. Or maybe we just have very similar tastes?
Now I am curious. I've yet to see a picture, but are your pedal boards powder-coated black or still raw aluminum?
I've done only a mediocre job of documenting it here.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...t-hot-rod.html
I'd recently settled on Signal Orange as the color and I knew I wanted oatmeal carpet too. After first seeing your interior recently on the PP forums and going through this thread here, I honestly wonder if I have been subconsciously using it as an ideal. Or maybe we just have very similar tastes?
Now I am curious. I've yet to see a picture, but are your pedal boards powder-coated black or still raw aluminum?
I had planned to do something with the pedal boards. I was going to have my own set laser cut and anodised and have them sit out front of the carpet but time pressure and not being there when the trim shop were on the job made it a bit hard to explain what I really wanted the carpet to do behind the boards. So I just let them go for it. The current pedal board is an aluminium version under the carpet and just raw finish. The passengers side is the wooden version. Over time I might do the new ones as planned and have them on show.