1974 Porsche 911 DIY Budget Build - Rust Repair

[slamitall]

this is so wicked, cannot wait for updates

[Benwalsh91]

I fucking love this.

[SebastienPeek]

Nice work man!
Seriously putting some ideas in my head now about re-doing the frunk area.

Glad to see all the wiring cleaned up too, but might want to look into replacing the fuse panel with something more up to date (and includes headlight relay).

[white out]

Looks so much better in the frunk.

[JP911]

Finally installed everything back in the car for the front end. Just need to repaint the smugglers box cover I got at a swap meet. The Zinc looks great. Over all happy with how it turned out for a DIY job. I dont know if I'd do it again, it was a lot of work but I learned a lot. :

A little "Before and After" :

[leaferiksin]

call me crazy, but the car looks pretty cool wit it all beat up looking.

[Queef|Chief]

This is awesome dude! Also if your looking for some new and yellow zinc plated bolts ive had really good luck with belmetric. Ive been replacing bolts left and right on my 80 911

[SebastienPeek]

Love the shit out of this man, nice!

[tylerlb]

Love this kind of R&R.

Keep it coming!

[JP911]

After driving the car, I felt that the brakes pulsated a lot. if I braked hard it would pull left violently. Didn't feel really safe driving it so I decided to just overhaul everything. Don't want to cut corners on brakes.

Horrifyingly I found out whoever owned this car last thought it was a good idea to put two different brake callipers in the front. The driver rear caliber was seized completely. I decided to get front rotors and pistons from a late model Carrera (24mm thick rotors) and brakes. and for the rear new rotors and rebuild the existing callipers. I heard you could use this setup without a prop valve if you use older style callipers in the rear, which is what I had already.

The miss matched callipers that caused the pulling.





The brand new callipers, rotors and Textar pads.










Cleaned up the rears with all new hardware, pads, and seals!



Drove the car for a bit after that - wow night and day. Pedal still feels a bit spongy so I will bleed it again soon. No more pulling or pulsating. Felt like a new car. Money well spent.

[JP911]

Took it out for its first drive a few weeks back. Still lots of work to do but was good to give it a run down. First drive - brakes felt horrible. Shifting felt pretty bad. But I didn't care - felt so good after sitting for 6 months!

[anti.engineered]

Mad

[FowlerE30]

awesome documentation and really great project man. Right on for pursuing the dream and choosing to work on your own car to get too know it. skimmed through quickly but looks like the panel replacement was solid work.

[Hugger]

Wanna know the worst feeling? When you find a killer build thread on one of your favorite cars, and it ends abruptly

But seriously, awesome job so far. Extremely impressive work. It's giving me a little hope because I'm beyond torn on diving into a project for myself, a classic BMW. Will definitely be looking forward to updates!! Awesome work and good luck with the rest.

[JP911]

Took off the headers to get sand blasted and Coated them with VHT rattle can paint - I think Ill end up going with stainless units in the future so not too worried about em. As long as they work for this year.



Cleaned up the Torsion bar plates. The tow hook was barely held on, so I decided to just grind it off and find a bolt on solution later. Also gathered all the hardware I could find to get Zinc coated...





My OCD kicked in:









Hardware for the heat exchangers from Pelican Parts! new barrel nuts and solid copper nuts are a must after my troubles getting off the old ones.



Reassembly. Back on the ground for the first time in 8 months!