Another rust combat

[proffighter]

Originally Posted by Spenny_b

Great work as always; planning on doing more machining over the Christmas period Roland?

Cheers
S

Thanks

Mainly I plan to start re-assembly a little. I have made some parts like the plates for bolt down the fuel tank, a thermostat bracket, but they are all not finished yet...

Have a nice weekend guys

[proffighter]

Today I went to the body shop for the last time to pick up some small parts and the stuff he needed to fit like rear lights. Next Monday he promised to deliver the tub

However, I took a few more pics

[911 tweaks]

something about fresh new paint...almost like driving thu the country and smelling freshly cut fields of hay...maybe its just me...great paint job & you painted everything...very nice...happy holidays roland...

[JFairman]

That looks so nice... so well done.
Nice down draft spray booth too.

Merry Christmas and or Happy Holidays!

[smurfbus]

Well done and looks so light too

[pete3799]

Beautiful.
Love that color.

[Kozmo930]

OH Roland ! that does look nice ....
won't be long and you will get to put all those neat little toys in 1 basket ,can't wait to see it rolling. Great color choice and it is the first time I have seen your rear shock support . You have taken a different direction as always.

Kozmo

[proffighter]

Thanks guys

Nice holidays and merry Christmas for you too

[proffighter]

Finally got my tub back. Now I can start assembling (but not today I guess)

[aseem]

Wow Roland, that is nice. You should just tour the country displaying this clean tub as a demonstration of sports car excellence ;-)

That garage is a tight fit. Is that where you are putting it back together?

Have a great Christmas

[proffighter]

Hi aseem

Yes, that's where I work on my car since over 10 years. Thight is correct. At least there is some room behind. Not easy to find something bigger here in Switzerland, even more difficult in the near and payable...

LOL yes, I will go on world tour and sell overpriced tickets just to catch a little look at it

Nice Christmas as well

[ficke]

That is one of the most impressive "Porsche on a trailer" pictures I have ever seen! Porsche should hire you to show case their work.
And I have never seen the wheel flares limit based on the garage width but there is a first for every thing.

[proffighter]

Originally Posted by ficke

That is one of the most impressive "Porsche on a trailer" pictures I have ever seen! Porsche should hire you to show case their work.
And I have never seen the wheel flares limit based on the garage width but there is a first for every thing.

Thanks, but it's not my trailer...

A little wider would fit too...But then the limit is my belly

[proffighter]

Ouch, just saw I wrote aseem, not your name, sorry to you Arnljot

[proffighter]

First issues are already there:

When I fitted the front arms with the RSR bushes, I could not align them to rotate free without binding. Reason is the aluminum crossmember is higher and the front busher lower (more antidive) in a 930 than in a 911. Therefore the rear bushing block, which is only possible to adjust sideways, not in the vertical angle, cannot be compensate the slight downward line of the A-arm. Only if I mount the front bushes without the self-aligning washers, then it will rotate free, because the front bushe is higher then...

The only solution I see, is to make a thicker spacer than stock (about 1mm seems to be enough)on top of the crossmember. As soon I loosen the crossmember, binding stops...

Also I tried to flip the front bushes upside-down, same thing. Does someone else had this problem too?

[Flieger]

If both bushings had the spherical washers then you could enlarge the hole in the female washers by a mm or so and that would give you a little more misalignment capability. However that rear bushing being tight in the crossmember doesn't give you that option. So I think you will have to make the spacer to align the front level with the rear and reduce the anti-dive. Have you talked to Clint? I don't remember hearing about problems with other 930s.

If you really wanted to keep the anti-dive you could probably shave down the thickness of the rear block a little to give you some room for misalignment and put a counterbore for more spherical washers, or just shave it down a lot and not need the counterbore.

[jostein]

Great work, keep posting pictures.

[Kozmo930]

Hi Roland,

Interested in your solution for this bushing problem . I will be putting the same bushings on mine but have not heard of this problem before. I take it that this is the same for both sides ? (binding issue)

Kozmo

[proffighter]

Originally Posted by Kozmo930

Hi Roland,

Interested in your solution for this bushing problem . I will be putting the same bushings on mine but have not heard of this problem before. I take it that this is the same for both sides ? (binding issue)

Kozmo

Hi Kozmo

Yes, problem is on both sides. There are two possible reasons:

-Crossmember is too high, because the rear bushes are right angled to the member, there is not enough space between tub and front bushes. In this case I will make a thicker bush between crossmember and tub (instead of the factory one)

-The rear bush has some play in the crossmember and when torquing, the bush will be lifted out of alignment, wich causes the same lack of space at the front bush

I will check the reason today...

[proffighter]

Now I mounted a 1mm spacer to the stock one to see, how it works. Better, but still not enough. Because I don't want to loose the benefits of the anti-dive and won't change the suspension geometrie, I decided to go a different path now:

-Mount the beam with a bigger but same height spacer to get a more rigid connection

-Shave the bearing block to add spherical shims like at the front bush. This way I am sure to avoid any binding and alignment issue. in this point the ER sphericals are superior, aligning in the rear bearing as well...