Even if progress is far away from plan, there is some:)

Made new brake lines and Booster/MC installed

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No worries Roland.
Ah, I envy you the "clean sheets" opportunity it is with an empty and newly sprayed shell. Looks gorgeous, and I will follow your progress. I don't envy you that tiny garage thou. Be careful when you hang the doors ;-)

I will be driving through Switzerland this summer with my 930. Me and my son are doing the "Grand Tour" this summer on our way to Italy: Nurburgring, Porsche museum, Davos to Stelvio (Top Gear best drive), Maranello and maybe some other stops. Are you far away the path between Stuttgart and Davos?

Good luck on your project. I did my engine this year with many of the same parts you have, from TurboKraft and RarlyL8. This winter I'm doing the suspension with parts from RSR, as well as carbon 935 seats from Zimmerman (DP)....

Thanks Arnljot

I am near Zürich, so depending on your choosen route, I am on the way. Give me a PM maybe a few weeks before, so I can tell you if I am at home. Then we can meet upSmileWavy

The last days were full of issues. First I wanted to mount the rear trailing arms, but had some clearance problems. The torsion tube area is inforced with welded pieces. Therefore the aluminum brackets for the uniball did not fit anymore. So I had to remove some material there. Also the clearance between the inforcements and the "spring plates" was very little to nothing.

Further I wanted to cover the the firewall at the engine bay like before with a reflecting sheet material, kind of coated fibre cloth. Unfortunately, the one I bought was too stiff, could not be draped like the one I fitted the firts time. After an hour of trying and swearing, I pulled it off and throwed it away. Have to buy some new old one now...

To have at least some little success , I made the rear brake lines and mounted the shocks

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Problems again...
 

Today I re-assembled the rear hubs. Because it's easier to fit the CV joint gaskets before, I wanted to fit the outer ones, but I can't:mad:

One side is normally self-adhesive, but those I received from Pelican don't seem to be....

There is something like a protective sheet, but I cannot remove. If I try, I will destroy the gasket, they simply won't come off:(

Does anyone of you had the same problem here?

Part is 930-332-297-00-M260

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Last ones I bought from Pelican had the peel off covering.

:confused: I would swear mine had sticky on 1 side , just got done changing boots a few months back . Kozmo

Hi Roland, I just bought a set and they didn't have the sticky side as well.

I just used some 3m spray adhesive to give them a light coat before assembling.

That's what I will do as well...

Because I have a binding issue at the front with the RSR bushes, I decided to fit spherical shims like used at the front bushes. As there is no room in the crossmember I had to machine the blocks to fit the shims. Further I had to shave-off 1mm of the flat surface to avoid contact with the crossmember, as the aren't parallel when fitted (anti-dive)

For testing purposes I used DIN pieces, but I ordered some others. What I don't like at the DIN parts: The male shim has a ball surfaces, the female is conical. So the contact is only at one small line. I want some with contact surface over the whole ball area...

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OK Roland, I just finished 9pgs of reading - all because like Ronnie noted about 10000pages back your post's subject line was misleading and I don't have any rust issues sooooooo...

...d'oh!

LOOK @ the outright insanery I've been missing out on!!!

So, 330posts later... if I wasn't feeling bad enough about myself and my total lack of madskillz (as seemingly everyone ELSE here appears to have but me)... now I feel even more werserer!!!

8-)

Your build is truly bonkers over the top completely ludicrous - LOVE IT! What an outrageous attention to detail. And golly, you fab and coat everything yourself. Again, I have trouble putting gas in the car and here you are. I feel about 2' tall.

And the time you have - holycrap don't get married / have kids heh heh!!!

What, you're not drilling your new brake lines?

Oh.

8-)

Damn again good sir... this is truly beyond impressive. <---------UNDERSTATEMENT OF 2014!!!

Keep up the good work, can't wait for all the impending updates. Great time for me to tune in, you've rounded the reassembly corner! Heck, in the time you started this I sold and rebought my car. Crazy. Hope your arm is fully healed.


ps. I literally lol'd @ the rabbit picture (and the surrounding scat). And moreso over the chic next to the bike that appeared to have a tiny hermaphrodidic penner peekin thru her bikini? Crykie!

pps. lotsa American iron found in your body shop there - go figure?

ppps. I'm still quite literally flaberghastted by all of what you've done / are doing. Gotta run, time for me to go vacuum the house again.... arrrrrrrrgh... while you go and be further awesome... d'oh me!

pppps. I too thought you were some sorta mixed martial arts badarse or something with your screen name, even after spying your last name / flag on the car window.

ppppps. further ROFLMAO @ the key chain and your GF knowing why... argh now there's a thought I need erased from my head STAT!

pppppps. might you email / PM me the specs of them hats for the disk vents? Could use a set and my bud's got all the laser / water jet equip...

Well Paul, a lot of text to read and answer ;)

OK Roland, I just finished 9pgs of reading - all because like Ronnie noted about 10000pages back your post's subject line was misleading and I don't have any rust issues sooooooo...

Didn't you saw the rust...?



LOOK @ the outright insanery I've been missing out on!!!

Need therapy now? Me too



So, 330posts later... if I wasn't feeling bad enough about myself and my total lack of madskillz (as seemingly everyone ELSE here appears to have but me)... now I feel even more werserer!!!

Hmm... What can I say to this? Maybe you can drive your car while me can't



Your build is truly bonkers over the top completely ludicrous - LOVE IT! What an outrageous attention to detail. And golly, you fab and coat everything yourself. Again, I have trouble putting gas in the car and here you are. I feel about 2' tall.

2cm would be worse



And the time you have - holycrap don't get married / have kids heh heh!!!

Neither I do. But my girlfriend loves the car too (what is not that unimportant)



What, you're not drilling your new brake lines?

Any recommendations?



Damn again good sir... this is truly beyond impressive. <---------UNDERSTATEMENT OF 2014!!!

Year just started



Keep up the good work, can't wait for all the impending updates. Great time for me to tune in, you've rounded the reassembly corner! Heck, in the time you started this I sold and rebought my car. Crazy. Hope your arm is fully healed.

Yes, I am happy that it becomes now a car again, even If I have some little issues right since assembly began. Arm is fine, thanks:)



ps. I literally lol'd @ the rabbit picture (and the surrounding scat). And moreso over the chic next to the bike that appeared to have a tiny hermaphrodidic penner peekin thru her bikini? Crykie!

Yeah, the rabbit is producing tiny little pellets all the time, but dry and odorless luckily... No affiliation to the girl...



pps. lotsa American iron found in your body shop there - go figure?

Can't tell anything, but he is doing a lot of US cars too



ppps. I'm still quite literally flaberghastted by all of what you've done / are doing. Gotta run, time for me to go vacuum the house again.... arrrrrrrrgh... while you go and be further awesome... d'oh me!

Thanks, reminds me to vacuum too my castle (remember the rabbit...)



pppps. I too thought you were some sorta mixed martial arts badarse or something with your screen name, even after spying your last name / flag on the car window.

You are not the first, but nothing at all in this direction. I comes from my name and my passion for streetfighters bikes



ppppps. further ROFLMAO @ the key chain and your GF knowing why... argh now there's a thought I need erased from my head STAT!

Not my head:D



pppppps. might you email / PM me the specs of them hats for the disk vents? Could use a set and my bud's got all the laser / water jet equip...

PM me your email and you get the CAD etc...

This week I mounted front suspension. And so some new problems came across. The camber plates from elephant have some tight bearings, which leads to the issue, that the shock absorbers turn in the strut instead of the bearing itself. I am not willing to fit needle bearings between coil and cap, prefer the idea of the bearing will do this... Maybe they just should be "moved" a while until they won't bind anymore.

Furhter I had the idea of an aluminum shifter rod and lighter coupler. Here the work so far, Drilling and a little machining/anodizing of the coupler parts:

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Front coupler. Not sure if I should change the SS bolt with an Aluminum one, because I did a shrink connection, which is quite strong. Bolt is only for safety, guess it would work without.

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After a couple of issues which some are still valid, I decided to mount the front hubs and brake calipers, not because it makes sense now, but to have success:D

Further I thought about the issue with the camber monoballs and checked them again. There is not much more force needed to make them turn, so maybe as soon the car stands on the wheels, there is enough pressure to the springs/hats that the monoballs will turn instead of the shocks... we will see

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Roland, let me first say I'm impressed with your dedication to "weight loss!" However, after looking at your credentials [home town], I finally realized why you are so obsessed with "all those holes" - - See below:




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Somebody had to say it!! SmileWavy

Thanks for your complimentSmileWavy

... But what the F... is that you show?

Swiss cheese has to be like this:

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or this:

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If you like and want to know more about one of my favorites , check this (in English of course;) ):

Emmentaler: Range

That cheese is too heavy! Needs more holes... ;)

They are even heavier than they look!

Not eaten by pussies but real man (did I told you that I eat a lot of cheese?:D )

Progress at the shifter rod. Front part finished, rod bent. Looks not bad I think. Will do a weight comparison at the end.

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Nice progress Roland! I have the same setup on the front coilovers. I noticed the monoball on top of the strut don't turn. I don't think there's enough friction in the strut tube to make the monoball turn. You mentioned about the shock possibly turning within the strut. I may be wrong but I think the rod of the shock turns within the shock's body so it's not an issue.

Let me guess...you saved about 1/2 pound (225 grams) with the alum shift rod assuming both tubes are solid. Again nice work!