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Might want to remove the carpet now. What's underneath may need to be cleaned up and painted along with rest of car and now's the time. 02 T
Yes, absolutely. Some brilliant PO Kiborted the transmission tunnel at some point to get to the shift coupler, so that's going to get fixed properly. Interior's coming out anyway for cleaning, so this can be attended to:
Just reminiscing a bit about the early car stuff. Bought NIB 2V pistons with 10:1 compression (no dish, actually a bit of a bump) for 100 dollars from ebay to build an engine with in 2001. Wow, a long time ago.
Hi Eric, nice to meet you and Lorelei (sp) over a nice glass of wine.
Yes! It was a very nice surprise when you guys showed up. According to Mark I missed your departure from Sharktoberfest by only a few minutes.
Originally Posted by William A
The color is "silbermettalic" according to the guy at the shop whose sole job is vintage Porsche wheels.
I think that will be the ticket for #277 - refinish the phone's that came with the '80 since that car will never be stock.
Originally Posted by William A
The Minerva paint is very bad, but even so I would not be opposed to leaving it if it was original. From what I can tell, it seems only the roof is factory paint (and it is rough) but everything else has either been touched up or resprayed (poorly in some areas). So since so little is original and it looks pretty ghetto, I am 99% decided to have it painted.
Bummer, if it was bad but original I would leave it too. You can always paint it, time to get it on the road and put some miles on it. At least you can do this out there, we are strapping everything down for the 5 month hibernation.
That's it! OK, now that I see that pic I have a question: That car has an aluminum fan and lower ball joints ('78 only, right?) and the car above the drivetrain has a front spoiler? What is wrong with that picture or my understanding?
I hope to have a picture similar to that when it goes back together!
OK, now that I see that pic I have a question: That car has an aluminum fan and lower ball joints ('78 only, right?) and the car above the drivetrain has a front spoiler? What is wrong with that picture or my understanding?
I'm thinking it must be a ROW model, since you can see the steel fuel lines (csi) and the manifold tubes seem larger diameter. Didn't they offer a spoiler earlier on the euro models, 80 or 81, than here in the states? I believe they had the aluminium ball joints all the way until mid 84 or something like that...but I'm not sure when they did away with the aluminium fan blades.
Will definitely fix the tensioner bore if at all possible. It should clean up with a small ball hone. Alternatively, Mark may have a good used one with the right date code There's a recurring idea in the Rennlist archives that the tensioner bore is teflon coated, I can't find any documentation of that in any of the factory lit.
11-09-2015, 01:56 PM
