new guy and my project

[village idiot]

Hi all! I'm new to this forum and would like to share my current project: A 1978 Porsche 911 that I'm slowly turning into a replica of an 1973 911RS. Since I live in Hawaii, early Porsche body parts are non-existent so everything has to be shipped, so the cost escalates accordingly. Any way on with the pics
Here's how she looked when I first got her. very rough, but it ran well.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/Coupe025.jpg
Bondo poorly applied in a few places
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/Coupe011.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/Coupe013.jpg
Missing some trim parts(actually alot of them)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/Coupe004.jpg

[village idiot]

The wheels that came on it were mismatched 15" on the front and 16" on the rear so I moved the 16x7" wheels to the front and had a set of 16x9.5" made for the rear. This involved me finding and sending a set of 16x6" donor wheels to Trudesign wheel in Colorado, where they cut the centers out and dropped them into new 9.5" wide barrels and welded them.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/Newwheels001.jpg
Now on to the ugly, I had to find out what was under the filler and it wasn't pleasant
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/weldintime015.jpg
you can see how thick the filler was here
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/weldintime014.jpg
patch panel welded in. I was teaching myself to weld as I was working on this car using a borrowed mig
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/weldintime050.jpg

[village idiot]

Some more surgery as I started on the passenger side as the rust in the door jamb was just as bad as the drivers side. I had to drill out over 118 spot welds to remove the outer rocker, fortunately, the inner was in great shape.
new outer fitted
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/Rockerpanel012.jpg

Had to order two early fenders from two separate sources and one didn't fit so well. Apparently, the vendor had repaired but not fitted the part to a car before shipping so the bottom kind of stuck out.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/semi-newfender009.jpg
After calling the vendor I received a credit for the shipping($350!!!) and had to repair the panel myself, which means I had to butcher my late fenders for the needed section
offending area removed
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/semi-newfender036.jpg
repair section added
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/semi-newfender040.jpg

[village idiot]

Teaser of the front end with one of 2 different bumpers, headlights and horn grills
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/RS%20project/RSbeginning035.jpg
more to come!

[Len]

Looks good! Be sure to use a "good" seam sealer on the back side of all your seams and a moisture resistant filler to seal the face of each seam.


http://autobodystore.net/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/fus802ez.jpg
Seam Sealer Link (http://autobodystore.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=FUSSS&Category_Code=JASS)

http://autobodystore.net/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/US14060.jpg
All Metal Link (http://autobodystore.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=US14060&Category_Code=FM)

[village idiot]

Thanks Len! i have been using all metal over the welded areas as well as Por15 on the exposed backside. I also plan to undercoat anything that sees moisture under the chassis.
pic of the other bumper I'll be using. This one I had to narrow 1.5" to make it fit. I really hate working with fg:(
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pencilnek/My88Carrera031.jpg
The other car is my 88 Carrera semi-daily driver