my take on 911r / R Gruppe lightweight hot rod

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Figured I was far enough along to finally start a thread on this build. Most of the 911 guys might not know me as I have not posted much in here.

Here is a picture of my backdated 930 I just finished




So this all started when my buddy Brendon (IMR_Merlin) came to visit me for Turbopalooza last year. After consuming my first bottle of Kettle, I somehow agreed to purchase a 1979sc from him that was sitting around for quite some time.

My plan was the purchase a airline ticket from NJ to Boston, then drive the car home 7.5 hours. Now, driving a car home 7.5 hours that has not been on the road for 10+ years was not the smartest idea, but I figured if it made it, then I had purchased a decent car, if not, it would make for one hell of a story

Here is what I started with




This car made it home 7.5 hours, with not a drop of oil on the motor, zero smoke, and zero hesitation...

My goal is to build a 2200-2300 pound car with roughly 200hp

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First day of tear down and found this little guy right up by the steering wheel



I have torn down about 5 of these cars now, and I have to say, this was by far the worse. Every single nut and bolt fought me till the end


first thing was to get the new latch panel in

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test fit


and were in!

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Next thing that showed up was my full Carbon Roof from Helion, This thing was amazing!



I can not believe how freaking heavy the sunroof is

so its gotta go

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Okay, back to the front for a minute. I decided to remove the impact bumper mounts, 1. cause they are heavy, 2. there was some rust I wanted to tackle up there.

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drivers side was a lot harder with the curves

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so, this was not on my list of **** to do, but after removing the rubber sill, rust, paint, and body filler came with it! I should have peeled the other way

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quarter panels were a mess, so off they came. Decided to go with full fiber quarters. I was pleasantly surprised at how well these fit

[Steve F]

Fantastic work there!

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back to the motor. I thought long and hard, but I figured after driving 7.5 hours and not leaking a single drop of oil or smoke, perfect compression and leakdown numbers, just to leave the big port 3.0 longblock alone.

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housing and fan back from powder coat

EB Motorsports Shroud

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While motor is out, I decided to replace as many seals as possible and that I could access. I also replaced all the oil lines and hardware




I made the decision to run a port matched Jenvey ITB EFI set up and these things are amazing!

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never made any AN lines before, but its not as hard as I thought it was

[LJ851]

Nice work, Jim !

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WOW! You saved that car. Amazing job - more pics of the finished care PLEASE!

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I did not have any problems what so ever shifting, but figured while it was out, why not go through it!





Cant be lightweight without RSR lightweight pressure plate and flywheel

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stock shifter base, bead blasted and powder coated clear, Wevo shifter, 917 knob



rear wing arms cleaned