Don Nguyen | My Porsche 911 V8 Build

[Skraight.]

Awesome, this would make sense why I recognized your name from ls1tech as well.

[Arteeste]

Has ls motor in m3 & going to put one 1 in porsche !? Who do you work for I must know lol. Looking forward to the swaps

[Rubens]

Intro post = thumbs up. Will follow this one!

[Oxer]

After riding in Don's M3, I cant wait to go for a blast in this thing.

[FluidMotorUnion]

Very nice! Sound deadening removal is a massive pain in the ass. Did you remove it at room temp, or did you go with the freeze-and-hack method?

[Don Nguyen]

Has ls motor in m3 & going to put one 1 in porsche !? Who do you work for I must know lol. Looking forward to the swaps

I run my own car vinyl wrapping business.

Very nice! Sound deadening removal is a massive pain in the ass. Did you remove it at room temp, or did you go with the freeze-and-hack method?

Room temp The bigger foam pieces just came off. The adhesive that's left behind is going to be a bigger pain to remove. However, it can't be that much weight, so I am most likely just going to just remove whatever is convenient.

-Don

[fivefourzero]

this will be good im sure, please dont make it look like an RWB clone though

[Don Nguyen]

this will be good im sure, please dont make it look like an RWB clone though

I don't think I could if I wanted to. Other than the spoiler (which is from a 993 GT2 design anyways) and the widebody aspect, there's not going to be much similarity.

-Don

[Don Nguyen]

Here's a picture that I pulled off of my instagram, @don__nguyen with double underscores in between the name, for those that use it and if you want to follow me for miscellaneous updates. Sometimes I don't get around to posting all of my updates/pictures on the forums, since it's easier for to just upload directly to a source such as instagram.

Bought a used short block, so naturally I had to take it all apart to check and make sure everything was ok. I am going to go ahead and get the cylinders bored out slightly bigger, oversized forged pistons to match the new bore of the block/cylinder once it gets machine, get the crank cleaned up and get new bearings (con rod, cam, and mains).



-Don

[TruTaing]

Don of vinyl wrapping fame! You're basically on every forum I have ever visited! Cant wait to see the outcome of this car! Good luck!

[bostongrnM3]

really looking forward to your build seems very promising.

[bradp@adaptecspeedware]

looks like a nice car to start with. Some guys use a aftermarket coolant pump, if you need one i have an extra from Jegs. New in the box id cut you a deal on. cant wait to see this finished

[Don Nguyen]

looks like a nice car to start with. Some guys use a aftermarket coolant pump, if you need one i have an extra from Jegs. New in the box id cut you a deal on. cant wait to see this finished

Is it a Meziere? That's what I plan on using.

-Don

[bradp@adaptecspeedware]

No its the jegs 30gps pump. i have an fittings for both sides that are 1.5" i believe and i have a 2 foot flexible gates house that fits on the an fitting. i was going to return it but cant find the receipt anywhere.

[Don Nguyen]

Did not really get any further progress on the Porsche this weekend. Instead, I chose to autocross my E70 X5 with the BMW CCA group. Gotta make sure all of the tools in the shed are sharp. There were a total of 13 cars in my class, I came in 5th. Got beat by three turbo charged 135//335s by about a second and lost out to first place (2013 335i) by 3.5 seconds on a ~60-65 seconds length course.

Here's a video of my run. The video was kind of quickly put together. It's been a long while since I last did any sort of video editing. It was also my first time using my new gopro hero 3s to shoot video with.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-iB3-uhyXI"]BMW E70 X5 - Autocross - YouTube[/ame]

That's not to say I don't have any pictures of my Porsche that I can't share with you guys though. Nothing special, but at least it gives you something to look at.

This picture is from at least 4 years ago when I was first test fitting wheels on my widebody E36 M3 and for fun I put the wheel next to my Porsche to see what it would look like.


Here's a more recent picture of a different, but similarly sized wheel on my Porsche, to gauge roughly how far out my flares are going to have to be.


-Don