supark

I honestly don't know why a sports car comes stock with a wheel gap as wide as my palm. This is my first foray into wrenching on a porsche, and I was a little nervous. Got a tip from bimmerforums that I don't need to remove the front struts to do the springs. Took a bit of thinking to figure out how to align the strut rod through the top mount. Ended up needing to use spring compressors on the spring to get an extra inch of clearance on top of it and just removed the top strut mount/spring perch - easy as pie once I figured that out. The rears had their own challenges - had to get a longer breaker bar for the bolt on the bottom of the rear shock, and figuring out how to remove the rear blower motor when the brass threads the bolts holding it on came loose from the intake manifold. Anyways on to the pics - taken with my latest toy purchase, an HTC Evo. Not horrible, but obviously limited by the lens size.

Next step - porter cable random orbital buffer on the way to get rid of the microscratches and a set of wheel caps.

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LastMezger

Car looks great. Who makes the replica LMs and where did you get them? Thanks.

Oracle

Nice car but to appreciate better try with the sun behind you cause it looks too dark.

supark

Thanks - I actually purchased the reps secondhand and the guy didn't remember the manufacturer. Bummer because they're pretty decent quality replicas.

Ryan360

nice!

CT944

Looks great. Post more pics in better light.