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Respect.

kawi825

Holy crap!! 👍 nice job

Euro 928

Thank you Thom and Matt. Your cars were two of the vehicles that inspired me in this rebuild.

Euro 928

Susie finished the firewall. She says it's not something she would want to do again any time soon, lol. She worked in a chair factory for 20 years and called on her observations of their upholstery pattern maker to figure out how some of it should be done. We wanted to leave it in one piece as much as possible but because of the large concaved areas, we ended up installing it in four pieces.

Euro 928

Did some light cleaning today...underneath the car.

Landseer

Damn, you do chicken right.

Euro 928

Well as you can see from the photos, we've made no progress in two years. We had a mechanic friend helping with the rebuild. Unfortunately, because of personal crisis, he can no longer assist us. Because we have zero mechanical skill, the vehicle has sat for exactly two years today. I've contacted nine shops in my area and no one is interested in the work or do not have the knowledge of 928 repair. I've reached out for help to just about every avatar on the board with Michigan as their home state. The majority would not even return my pm's and the two that did from the shark tank for some odd reason closed ranks and told me it's up to a two year waiting list. At this point I don't really know what to do?

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Majestic Moose

No consolation but if you were closer I would help out, the work done looks amazing!

Go Go Joe

What else needs to be done? It looks like the engine is 90% complete and just needs to be reinstalled. That is a pretty straight forward job that you could probably do yourself or any halfway competent shade tree mechanic could help you with. Plenty of information here, Dwayne's tutorials, and the workshop manuals to guide you. Then it's a matter of rehanging the fenders/front end, alignment and you're burning rubber! I know it seems daunting, but you've come so far and I know you can see it through with your family assisting. Best of luck...get 'er done!

Joe

RFJ

unless you are willing to try or have a LOT of money you should not get into one of these,that said most of the work is done by the looks of it so pick up that wrench and turn one bolt at a time ,ask questions and grab one more bolt and so on. You can do it.

Mark Thornton

All I can think of is my wife's reaction to Engine parts in the living room.. whew.. don't wanna go there

erioshi

Given the amount of work done outside of their control, I can understand why many shops might be hesitant to finish a project like this. If a shop ran into unexpected problems during the process of assembly, firing up the engine, or making the car roadworthy, they are likely concerned about the possibly being held accountable for work they never performed. Also sorting a project of this magnitude and starting with an unknown condition (to the shop) is likely going to be a very expensive process. A shop would need to verify *everything* if unexpected problems cropped up, and then any problems discovered would need to be addressed as well. Also they would need the freedom to fix it in the way they were comfortable with, which might be a different direction from the most economical or "hands-on" customer preferred method.

At this point you will most likely need to find a competent fellow 928 enthusiast to help get the car back on the road, and/or be willing acquire the necessary tools and dig in yourself. Be mentally prepared for both surprises and setbacks. While assembly is typically a straightforward process, there are always surprises.

A third possibility might be a smaller shop that specializes in perhaps Porsche, hot rods, customs or restorations. But if they are not familiar with the 928, you end up paying to educate them. And if problems were discovered, I'm sure resolution of those issues would fall back to you. This involves a lot of potential monetary risk. I would avoid this path; this is how cars end up being owned by a shop with everyone unhappy.

Good luck.

soontobered84

I would gather a group of knowledgable 928 guys and have a full-on tech session.

You might ask how you gather such a group? Advertise free pizza and beers and the opportunity to work on a 928. You would learn a lot from having guys there working on your car.

jej3

HONESTLY? I cannot fathom the amount of disassembly done and the assertion that your family has no mechanical ability. I think your decisions come down to three options...

Get an Enthusiast to Take Over your car and transfer ownership of the vehicle

What would you pay for someone to put this back together?
a. Should you just go buy a car which runs at that price?
b. Should you offer someone with a good quality car market price with a small discount for trading your current vehicle and pretty parts?

Tell the kids to fish or cut bait

You have kids, as I do, and let me tell you they NEED to learn about mechanicals/turning wrenches.
Make it a work for reward program, each hour they spend on the car is worth X (where X might be working towards their own car Or simply funny money for clothes or something).
Hopefully they learn life skills and determine if working on things mechanically IS or IS NOT for them.

Sell the parts now and know you just didn't have the ability to finish the job

I know this is harsh but if you cannot finish, another couple of years isn't going to help you finish.

You've clearly got a fair amount of money in this vehicle. I personally think you dove into the deep end with no water in the pool (or no ability to swim).

I do VERY GENUINELY feel for your situation but it is absolutely time to man-up and make a decision. Know if you get it further along, people on this board will CHEER you on and point you in the direction of the resources you might need.

GOOD LUCK!!!!

jetson8859

Might be worth a trip to the Sharks in Hell event early August. There will be many owners and quite a few from that area and you could talk to folks and gauge interest for a possible work weekend. You can get more info in the sticky at top of forum.

Good luck and hope your able to get her back together so you can enjoy all that work that has been done!