Another rust combat

[speednme1]

Wow! really awesome work.....you got skills my friend..

[proffighter]

Thank you, but I have to say, I have never showed you the rejects LOL

@Leichtbauer:

Looks like Säntis at 1st of August (National holiday)

[jsveb]

Originally Posted by leichtbauer

100% Swiss made. The measure of all things.

Yeah, you guys rock. Even your cheese is light weight

[proffighter]

throw-out bearing guide tube (what a long name) raw and then hard-anodized. I know, some of you may now doubt, but I feel pretty comfortable, that there will be no problem, as there should be only little load on it. Further hard-anodized surfaces are quite tough and often used for bearing applications

[BarryJB]

Roland, wow!
Beautiful, obsessive, wonderful... After busily posting on the "Rear crossmember, tower damage pics" thread I started, followed your links over here, and have been going through it all for over two hours... while nowhere near your level of dedication and patience - or skill - it's always reassuring to know there are others that also spend crazy time working on things some of which no-one will likely ever see again once installed, just because they love doing it.

Form & function... a work of art indeed, in the making, IMO way more interesting than the factory produced leather-everywhere last turbo Speedster featured in the PCA Panorama magazine recently.

Like many others, looking forward to more progress notes & pics as it all comes together.

Will post re coilover mods on the other thread!

[proffighter]

I plan to fit a shut-off valve in the rear brake line. As there was none available with M10x1 fittings, I had to machine them. And I found a little weight saving too, the shim which gives the range for lever (black is homemade in aluminum, steel one in silver was before)



Here assembled on the scale, quite lightweight, what you think?



Concerning parking brake I have an issue with street legality. My car is approved with Recaro race seats and 4-point harness. When I am sitting and harness closed, I have no chance to reach parking brake lever. So the fact that I have a Hargett shifter does not matter at all, but I have to remove it, when period approval is made, as they say the shifter is hiding the brake lever. They do not accept the argument of not reaching anyway... Strange world
However I will remove the whole parking brake system and fix the car with the valve, but have to refit when checking next time. A few kg to save for sure

[Andy911sc]

I just had my mind warped by this thread. Excellent work!

[proffighter]

A little time back I worked on the pedal cluster, but was not happy at the end as the bronze bushes I had installed a couple of years ago just aren't like I want. They have way too much play from new (no worn axles/tubes) and they aren't smooth enough. Greasing made them work quiter, but always a mess and dirt catching then.

Now I looked for an alternative, but the measurements aren't regular. So I had to make them myself.

I choosed POM-C, because it's tough, nice to machine and self-lubing. All in all worth a try. Here is the result:

[proffighter]

Oops, forgot a pic

[proffighter]

As I always thought my EFI injector blocks are way too massive, I worked on them now.

Here is the idea. The red areas should be removed:



Because I have no access to CNC machining, a friend of mine offered me to make it in his shop. But no CNC either... The idea is to define several coordinates of the x and y axis to get a bow at the end, which will be machined:





So we spent a long evening in the shop, me announcing the data, he operating the cutter. It took about 30 min for each block

No wonder, read this 3times for each block:



However, block fixed on a selfmade bracket to make sure, everyone is machined equal:



And the result:





Due the way we had to make this, surface was not that nice No pic of that mess, so I will grind a little during this weekend before anodizing

[TurboKraft]

Looks kind of like out current CIS injector blocks, or our revised v2.0 EFI Injector Blocks.

Love the work you are doing, your passion and commitment for detail and doing it right. And yes, WAY cooler that leather-wrapped this and that.

[proffighter]

Thanks Chris!

To be honest, when I was thinking about, your CIS blocks came into my mind too and I borrowed some detail from your block and of course stock blocks

[proffighter]

First ones finished. I choosed black, as the manifold's black too

[MikeD930]

Nice work Roland! I keep thinking you have more time on your hands but knowing you don't just amazes me. Plus you got great talent. By chance have your 930 been weighed before you started this project?

[proffighter]

Originally Posted by MikeD94

Nice work Roland! I keep thinking you have more time on your hands but knowing you don't just amazes me. Plus you got great talent. By chance have your 930 been weighed before you started this project?

Thanks Mike

Yes I weighted the car before starting this time. But some of the work I made before, since I bought the car over 10years ago, I worked on it. When you look at the car in the first post of this thread, then I suggest about 1040kg with full tank. It was that weight a couple of years ago. I made a couple of things since, like RarlyL8 headers and muffler instead of the Schnells and stainless muffler, gas heater mounted, other IC, EFI conversion, etc.. so some weight added and some removed, hard to say how much now. I have no real goal except working on the car and do whatever comes into my mind. Sometimes by all the inspiration from the work of all the others here too

[proffighter]

Assembled for checking everything went as wished (and to have a feeling of success)

[proffighter]

Today I finished the pushrod for brake, homemade everything (Aluminum of course)

Made everything a bit beefier, like the result very much:









I made only right turn threads, but once adjusted, I won't change anyway...

[proffighter]

Received my new seat consoles for the Recaros

Quite a difference between the steel Recaros and the aluminum ones from Sabelt





And here they are mounted on the seat, like the look very much (not only me as you can see...)

[proffighter]

Maybe I should turn the pic next time before posting...

[smurfbus]

Nice wabbit. Did you shop around for light weight mounts? Which part number are those sabelts you chose? I need to get something for my Tillets and hopefully something light too.