Restomod 944

[white out]

Have you destroyed any awd systems with those yet?

Not yet. Literally have nothing to do to the cars right now. So they sit.

[TeckniX]

Not yet. Literally have nothing to do to the cars right now. So they sit.

[LCG]

Not yet. Literally have nothing to do to the cars right now. So they sit.

Well buy another! you are good at that too

[LCG]

Since I have no real updates to post and some people are calling me out on FB on lack of commitment,
I present to you:

WELDING 101

This guide will help you get started on the world of UV tanning, the graceful smell of molten metal and many other great self-confidence building matters.

First, get a welding machine.

Break the piggy and count all your pennies/pesos, if you got many of them you go straight to the welding shop and ask for advice on what machine is best for the work you will be doing, then, ignore it and ask for the best one you can afford. Don’t worry about spending the whole budget on the machine alone, gas cylinders, masks, gloves and other accessories are irrelevant.

Wait a couple of days for it to arrive and go pick it up in a "sports car" so it won’t fit in the trunk and finally have a real reason to make a 1st world problem meme.

Now that you have a welder you can follow the next steps, some of them can vary between machines or users.

Step 1: Take the manual out.





Step 2: Give the manual a quick read – I know how you feel, manuals are for sissys but we all have underestimated manuals before, being an expensive piece and a safety concern just man up and do it. READ.





Step 3: If you are God and you understood everything, skip to step 4. If you are a Human Being and after 3 pages you don’t understand, give up and skip to Step 4.





Step 4: Open everything and mesmerize on all the cool stuff you just got.





Step 5: Try reading the manual again. Extra points.



No my keyboard isn’t crusty, it’s just a lot of MDF dust from the CNC, I will clean it as soon as I machine a dust shoe.



Step 6: Fail and go back to Step 4.





Step 7: Try reading the manual again but this time you just go page after page just looking at drawings, they can explain better than text. – This one tells how the user thought that if you rub the gas tank 3 times a genie will come out and grant you a wish, instead, he got nose fisted by a giant crab.





Step 8: Repackage and store everything but the manual.





Step 9: Look at the manual every once in a while. Look at it!, if you actually open it you get extra points.





Step 10: Store the manual.





Step 11: Wait a few years.





Step 12: Buy a worthless car. Your results may vary





Step 13: Unpack everything again, clean it first.





Step 14: Repeat Step 4





Step 15: Download and print a new manual. This time do it in your native language, no need to overcomplicate a learning task.



94 sheets of lava hot paper out of the printer. I DO NOT condone taking advantage of work supplies but I do not have a printer at home. So, if you have one, don’t be an asshole. Print at home.



Step 16: Check your electric supply and laugh.





Step 17: Google “how to tig weld”



Discover that Google has an easy guide with just 3 steps, what I am doing here.



Step 18: Watch youtube guides till your eyes bleed.





Step 19: Dream of welding like a pro.





Rest of steps will be continued in another update.

[rice4life]

Good shit man. This is hilarious.

[Bronzit]

Top notch professional welds. Just like that.

[E46Jake]

This is amazing, and so theatrical, i love it. Also, beginning to think the seemingly never ending coolant leak and lack of replacement parts on my e24 is a far cry from serious.

[LCG]

GOOD TIMES

Not really Porsche related sorry.

So why would you bump your own thread out of the dead if you have no Porsche updates you may ask?

AH HAAA!

I know, I should not have done it. Porsche is still hiatus until the new house is done, you can check this thread HERE. It’s the one getting updates from me right now.

BUT I have a good reason, you may judge me after you see it.

I bought another car.

Posting about it on the thread of another car of mine is like telling my wife I have a new girlfriend, but on this particular case I don’t think they care as much or even.

If you ever search for my posts (why would you) you would find that every time someone posts something about a long wheelbase e38 I just lose it. Most of the time I want to say “I wish I had your car” or “jeeeezzzaaaaaas help me!” but I end up just posting “one day, one day”.

You see where this is going?

For the past 5 years I have been looking for one. Here in Mexico the e38 is such a rare car, first of all, 90% of them are armored so finding one of the 10% is quite an achievement, finding a long wheelbase model is even more difficult, and when you finally find one, they are on the last leg of their life or very poorly maintained.

For that particular reason E38s are way more expensive than the newer, uglier E65s+

Whenever a unicorn popped out it was just way out of my price range and they had a lot of Kilometers, worn out interiors, non long wheelbase, or fugly color combinations.

A family member runs a used car lot so I told him way long ago that if he ever came across one he should tell me.

3 weeks ago he messages me. –“Look what I have here” and attaches this picture.



Mixed emotions filled my heart/stomach, I always wanted a facelift model, never cared for the pre-facelift front but then again maybe I was asking too much, I immediately call him back and ask the big question.

Is it armored?

With a laugh he answers –No, and that isn’t even best part, it has 29,000 kilometers. ( that is 18,000 miles for those of you on the imperial planet )

Now this is at a time I can’t make any stupid expenses because I am finishing a house and it is consuming all my pesos!

I jumped of my chair, asked for permission to leave work and took path to the lot.
On the way I had the good angel bad angel on my shoulders moment.

It was a very intensive back and forth moment with myself but this the resume of it.

Good – Don’t do it, you have so much expenses and you don’t need another car.
Bad – You have been looking for this too long, take it!

So I take a decision, fix an amount in my head that I would be comfortable paying for it and prepared to be heart broken in case it didn’t work out.

I arrive and make my best effort not to run around the car like a ballerina.

It is the real deal. Euro Spec 740iL with a big list of options installed.

Car was solid, of course as steel is. But the odometer was real, interior was clean, suspension felt firm, all electronics were working.

Yet 18 years are a lot of time and it took a toll on the car.

So… We negotiate.

Start, we discuss the condition of the car and some evident hits.

I make some calls asking for prices on some parts that will have to be replaced.

I receive the quote and as I hang I suspire and with the horror of losing the opportunity and getting beat by an old man out of disrespect I make my offer, which is almost 50% of asking price.

His eyes pop out and says no way.

Again with my heart pumping to offer a lot more I stay firm and leave. ( not like superhero leaving an explosion, we actually say goodbye and stuff ).

Few days later I get a counter offer, after dealing with my inner demons again, I accept it.

So that one day I always said is today. Well not today today... but…

Today I present to you not only what is my e38, but what is a vehicle that I always wanted, I always drooled about and finally got it. Good Times.





The Good,

Interior is in excellent condition, a bit of grime and grease here and there, all plastics need some nivea.



Full individual electronic rear seat and rear entertainment console with adjustment of front passenger seat, this will come handy for my daughter if she wants to piss off her mother.



I know it’s dirty, I won’t detail it till I finish doing some repairs to it.




The Bad

So, what does it take to make a low mileage e38 affordable?

1st – Delaminating protective glazing.









It’s like Christmas between 2 layers of glass. I will need the 2 front ones and a rear one. Realoem lists them for a grand total of 3500usd +. I hope I can find a better deal on those.

2nd – Dead pixels



Somewhere there you can see the odometer. Same for the rear console.

3rd – “small” hit



May look superficial but the bumper is out of place on the rear quarter so something is bent inside.

4th – the big one.

When I was looking at the car for the first time, owner told me the car was hit by a motorcycle. It must have been a tomahawk because driver’s door is a crooked and the car lacks all airbags on that side.





Also shows the handy work of another type of Dr. Frank. Or maybe even the same one! This is a small world after all.

Most likely the car had no insurance and was fixed by the owner on the cheap.

And that’s it, yeah I know you may be thinking that I could have bought a better car, reality is that maybe I could, but I did not want to let this one pass and then not finding THAT one. Kind of like Shrek and Fiona. She was hot at first but turned fat and green at the end. I did it on reverse on hopes that I can turn a fat and green car into a hot redhead one.


I’m sorry for the long read, I just wanted to share my utter happiness and didn’t think it deserved a thread of its own. I have many plans for this car but I have no idea how to tackle them, so most likely if you own an e38 I will be messaging you in the next months.


If you feel cheated because this post had no Porsche content here is a picture of the two, sharing common ground.

[19birel]

That car may have some flaws but that interior looks beautiful and the mileage is so low! Great find! I'd love to get an E38 one day too, but I would have to swap a 6-speed manual into it haha

That's very interesting that most E38s in Mexico are armored, why is that? I don't think I've ever seen an armored E38 here in the states.

[loekaaz]

TLDR:


Fuck you. Go read this shit. It's awesome.




OT: great find man> Best of luck with it. Very curious to see what you'll turn it in to.
Those prices for the windows sounds quite rediculous. Here in Europe you can buy a whole e38 for that money

[stanhayward]

Love this whole thread, also have a soft spot for long wheel base 7s. Carry on sir!

[white out]

GOOD TIMES

Not really Porsche related sorry.

So why would you bump your own thread out of the dead if you have no Porsche updates you may ask?

Welcome to the club.

[LCG]

That car may have some flaws but that interior looks beautiful and the mileage is so low! Great find! I'd love to get an E38 one day too, but I would have to swap a 6-speed manual into it haha

That's very interesting that most E38s in Mexico are armored, why is that? I don't think I've ever seen an armored E38 here in the states.

I really don't know maybe all the non armored ones are stored away. Armored ones go for really cheap, no one wants them.

TLDR:


Fuck you. Go read this shit. It's awesome.




OT: great find man> Best of luck with it. Very curious to see what you'll turn it in to.
Those prices for the windows sounds quite rediculous. Here in Europe you can buy a whole e38 for that money

I know! If insulated double glazing is the same thickness as the protective glazing I may buy those instead.

Love this whole thread, also have a soft spot for long wheel base 7s. Carry on sir!

Thanks Stan

Welcome to the club.

I thought about you.

[Bronzit]

Again, another car I lust for. I've even bought a 420g in plans of 6 speed swapping one.
It just sits in storage, though.

[190Evan]

This gives me a fucking b o n e r.

Where in mexico are you? I was just down the for the last week.