Don Nguyen | My Porsche 911 V8 Build
03-07-2013, 02:39 PM
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Not really an update on my Porsche, but I have had a lot of requests for pictures of my widebody E36 M3, so instead of PMing everyone back individually, here are the pictures of it.
This is basically a recap of the past 4 years in 3 pictures, with the red black and white being the oldest and the car in black being the most recent.
I do automotive vinyl wrapping professionally, so changing the color of the car is easy for me. The original colors of red/black/white were painted. However, the matte white and matte black are vinyl wraps. Had the matte white for a month before going matte black. Just felt right. May just get the car painted gloss black later on, or if I feel ballsy enough, I'll redo the red/black/white theme again.
If you really want to follow more oft the progress on my other builds (my widebody M3, motorcycles, etc.), pretty much all of my pictures and updates on those will be posted through instagram, since I don't really feel like they deserve their own threads.
Instagram: @don__nguyen (double underscores in between the name).
Direct link: http://instagr.am/p/WgKZ5DBLgd/
-Don
This is basically a recap of the past 4 years in 3 pictures, with the red black and white being the oldest and the car in black being the most recent.
I do automotive vinyl wrapping professionally, so changing the color of the car is easy for me. The original colors of red/black/white were painted. However, the matte white and matte black are vinyl wraps. Had the matte white for a month before going matte black. Just felt right. May just get the car painted gloss black later on, or if I feel ballsy enough, I'll redo the red/black/white theme again.
If you really want to follow more oft the progress on my other builds (my widebody M3, motorcycles, etc.), pretty much all of my pictures and updates on those will be posted through instagram, since I don't really feel like they deserve their own threads.
Instagram: @don__nguyen (double underscores in between the name).
Direct link: http://instagr.am/p/WgKZ5DBLgd/
-Don
03-08-2013, 01:39 AM
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Is that the police guy w/ the matching 4x4 golf cart and trailer, or is there another V8 934/935 around north Texas?
03-08-2013, 06:53 PM
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03-11-2013, 01:50 PM
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Didn't work on my Porsche this weekend. Waiting one some more parts to come in before real progress can start. Most of the car is already apart. Instead, I spent time playing around with my gopros and video editing some more.
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03-12-2013, 11:52 AM
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Here is the short teaser/trailer video I made of my BMW E36 M3 V8.
Full feature coming soon.
Vimeo link:
https://vimeo.com/61602082
-Don
Full feature coming soon.
Vimeo link:
https://vimeo.com/61602082
-Don
03-12-2013, 06:19 PM
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interesting built. Wish I had the skills to do something similar.
if you are keeping your 3.6 you may down the road do what Princenton did and his 993 engine.
Check out his thread from the past and if you do a further search you will find more of the built he did which is pretty remarkable.
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-foru...0yws-ride.html
if you are keeping your 3.6 you may down the road do what Princenton did and his 993 engine.
Check out his thread from the past and if you do a further search you will find more of the built he did which is pretty remarkable.
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-foru...0yws-ride.html
03-12-2013, 09:09 PM
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Thanks for the link. I remember seeing pictures of that car years ago. Awesome looking car. I also built a custom turbo kit for my other E36 M3 before. Although it's pretty cool, I just didn't like the complexity of it and the amount of heat (heat soak) that would accumulate, especially if you're tracking the car.
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04-03-2013, 07:19 PM
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Deal. I love pizza.
Only pictures I can post right now. The internet server that I am connected through won't let me access my host/server, so these instagram pictures will have to do for now.
I feel like the interior is stripped to a good point now. Whatever is left, I will just end up covering with sound deadening and carpet anyways, so getting every last glue adhesive/residue out is not too necessary imo. Sorry about the lack of updates. I've been doing more work than actual picture taking.
Got most of parts necessary to start mocking up the engine to make the mounts/brackets now.
There's only so much left of the car, sometimes I want to take everything off and go through a complete cleaning of all of the parts so they are like new again. However, the car is going to be a driver, so I am probably going to focus on the actual building of the car versus the cleaning of parts that you are never going to see anyways.
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These are the old coilovers off of my car that I am going to be selling. They worked good, but I needed something different with everything else that I was doing to the car.
The suspension that will be replacing them. Moton Motorsports 2 way adjustables. I most likely will just have to add camber plates to for the front struts, and everything will be just dandy.
-Don
Only pictures I can post right now. The internet server that I am connected through won't let me access my host/server, so these instagram pictures will have to do for now.
I feel like the interior is stripped to a good point now. Whatever is left, I will just end up covering with sound deadening and carpet anyways, so getting every last glue adhesive/residue out is not too necessary imo. Sorry about the lack of updates. I've been doing more work than actual picture taking.
Got most of parts necessary to start mocking up the engine to make the mounts/brackets now.
There's only so much left of the car, sometimes I want to take everything off and go through a complete cleaning of all of the parts so they are like new again. However, the car is going to be a driver, so I am probably going to focus on the actual building of the car versus the cleaning of parts that you are never going to see anyways.
Direct link:
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These are the old coilovers off of my car that I am going to be selling. They worked good, but I needed something different with everything else that I was doing to the car.
The suspension that will be replacing them. Moton Motorsports 2 way adjustables. I most likely will just have to add camber plates to for the front struts, and everything will be just dandy.
-Don
any news or you just to busy having fun? 
08-13-2014, 10:36 PM
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Can't believe it's been over a year since I started. Finally getting underway again after putting it off.
Any suggestions on getting this old carpet/gunk off? I am going to be relaying new carpet over the interior again, so I am assuming I don't need it perfect, but I also don't want it to be lumpy after going through all of that trouble putting in new carpet.
Seems like the most popular option or route is using dry ice?
-Don
Any suggestions on getting this old carpet/gunk off? I am going to be relaying new carpet over the interior again, so I am assuming I don't need it perfect, but I also don't want it to be lumpy after going through all of that trouble putting in new carpet.
Seems like the most popular option or route is using dry ice?
-Don