My Daughter's 3.4 Build

[irobertson]

Fantastic thread! Great attention to detail Allie. Now comes the fun part, Cam Timing :-)

[Jcslocum]

A quick update that is mostly pictures:

Allie inspecting something as she mounts the heads...



She decided on a black and silver color scheme for easy cleaning and maint. I just picked up some parts from the powder coater today and threw them onto the engine to see how it was going to look.

Manifolds PC with a textured black. You can see where she cut off some of the mounting lugs and then ground them flat and dressed some of the casting partking lines to make it look better



She mounted the fan strap in the mill and cut some lightening and racy looking holes into it so the silver of the fan shroud shows thru.



Upper and lower valve covers were also PC the textured black. On the manifold and valve cover the black will be sanded off the "Porsche" to make them stand out.



Powder Coater did a good job of matching the surface texture of the ground down areas of the aluminum to the original cast aluminum by using a heavier grit in the blast cabinet.



Overall she is very pleased with her color theme.

[JonT]

well done loving the updates

[irobertson]

Cool colour combo. Pretty much exactly the opposite of mine, but yours really shows off the intake better.

[KTL]

Agreed the black accents look really nice. I think the black fan looks great!

Did you forget to take the air guides for the cylinders to the powdercoater? That upper piece that overlays the case thru bolts is all rusty......

[Jcslocum]

I hoped to get away with the crusty air guides. Being a cheep Yankee, out of sight out of powder coat. I may take them off and do some high temp rattle can. Then again, maybe not....

More updates to come.

[JFairman]

This is a fun thread to look at. It's the first time I've seen a cute young girl building a Porsche motor and obviously she's really into it. Cool!

I would remove the air guides while you can and use a wire brush on a die grinder or electric drill to remove the rust from them and the spring clips. Then spray them with a can of satin black engine enamel.
Hang them with pieces of wire while spraying and drying.
They'll look nice like the rest of the motor and I think you'd be glad you did.

Good luck with the project!

[Jcslocum]

A couple of pics on the Powder Coating update. I sanded (Allie is at her home in DC) the Porsche logo on the valve covers and manifolds, This adds some sparkle to the all black look. 3 minutes with a sanding block. That letters on the manifold are not good. The casting molds must have been a bit worn down.





The air guides are fugly so I have ordered a PC kit from eastwood and will give it a try to see how it comes out. PC isn't cheep and when I added up the bill so far for all that has been PC I figured I could do may of the parts at home with a beginner set and an old toaster oven

[JonT]

looking great!

[Luccia at Pelican Parts]

This is absolutely fantastic! Love seeing a female getting her hands dirty. Great job, Dad! When are you planning to get it back into the car? Are you going to be doing anything cosmetic wise?

[Luccia at Pelican Parts]

I posted your story to our FB here: https://www.facebook.com/pelicanparts

Looking forward to seeing what you and your daughter do next.

[Jcslocum]

Thanks for the nice words. Allie is a real renaissance girl with sooo many fine talents. I'm a proud dad and she's having fun building her car. She's been doing the majority of her own car work for years and has been helping me with my 2 projects. An Alfa GTV 1972 and a '66 Mini Traveler Wagon. On these projects she doing most of the welding. I'm not a good welder.... She's been to welding class at McPherson College in KS for TIG and MIG training.

[Kraftwerk]

Thus is very inspiring, nice to see an engine rebuild mastered by a youngster.

[keitho64]

Excellent story, pass the baton to the next generation.

Subscribing so I can hear it run!

[Jcslocum]

Again, Thanks for the good words!!! It makes Allie very happy to read and be told of your nice comments.

Some mentioned the really ugly air guides and I did feel bad about putting them on but they are 100% hidden so I was going to to leave them BUT I'm project addicted and needed some retail therapy, so I ordered the basic kit from Eastwood. This kit came complete with some powders and I found a really cheep BIG toaster oven, so I set up shop.

I blasted the air guides in the cabinet and then set to doing powder coating for the very first time. The Eastwood gun and powders worked really well and really clung to the part the way they say it will. Some powder goes onto the floor like typical over spray and can easily be swept up. I had the oven pre-heated and ready for the parts once coated. I slid the parts into the oven and because they are thin the heated up and flowed out really fast. They recommend 20 minutes of cure after flow out so I set the timer and cleaned up the gun. After 20 minutes, I opened the door to allow the parts to cool and they came out terrific!!!!

I would have spent $35 to $40 at the powder coater and now the powercoating setup costs me that much less. I have lots of small parts to do as Allie builds the engine and other parts so I'm loving this set up!

Old scabby parts before powder coating. Blasting can't make the metal smooth where the rust had pitted it.



Fresh out of the oven!!!

[rick2]

Looks great. What a fantastic father!!!

[Dr DIY]

Wonderful to see this build take place. Keep up the good work.

[kkinzli]

What a great story! I hope to do the same with my kids once they are a little older. Inspiring stuff!

[KTL]

Originally Posted by Jcslocum

Some mentioned the really ugly air guides and I did feel bad about putting them on but they are 100% hidden so I was going to to leave them BUT I'm project addicted and needed some retail therapy, so I ordered the basic kit from Eastwood.

That would be me, guilty as charged. Sorry I talked you into DIY-ing it but glad to hear it worked out for the better now and for the future. Keep up the good work!

[JFairman]

It's a good thing you restored the air guides. If or when they rust away good luck finding replacements