UN-BE-LIEVABLE!! My new favorite thread. This is such an awesome story - gonna be fun to follow this one :thumbup:

Subscribed!

I don't think you can. You can upload it to YouTube and share the link/url with us.

Thank you the eagle! :thumbup:

Indeed it will be interesting to see what engine and gearbox internals have survived.

Better play it safe and change those belts. I think you are nuts, in a good way. GL and subscribed.

Fascinating thread, subscribed.

Today in the lounch time, 1 and 1/2 hour of disassembling/digesting session...now it looks like a 964 engine block!

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In the evening I am going to remove the three-throat pulley from the crunk, in order to remove the A/C support and what remains of the engine fan, that I really have to thank for having immolated itself, apparently saving a very large part of the engine.

I am in awe, having just found this thread.

I am looking forward to following your project until you are complete! If we ever make it back to your beautiful country - my wife and I honeymooned in Italy - maybe we will be able to see your restored car in person!

Good luck!

me too. Wow. Finishing this project would prove to me that ANYTHING is possible :D

Little Update: Fan and Valve Cover Removal

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The hammer...the ubiquitous solution to any seemingly unsolvable problem


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Air temperature 1 degree centigrade, optimistically speaking ... if it continues like this they will find me under the ice together with the engine :)

In order to disassemble the engine, what should be the next step?

1 of 1 - patina is impossible to replicate!

I don't know if you are aware, but you should have the shell professionally dried, prepped, and E-coated. Water would have gotten inside all the internal cavities of the body shell. All the access plugs should be removed, and the cavities inspected with a scope. There may be major corrosion that is not visible just looking at the bare shell.