Project Mickey Mouse - Build thread of 79 SC I bought on eBay

[jac1976]

The color is on point.

[Focker]

Originally Posted by Flojo

Oh, ist that fashion grey? lovely! (sorry if I missed it mentioned before)

Chalk. But with Porsche so many look the same!

[Hulley]

Good Lord, Chalk looks so good, I can't wait to see the finished product!

[Focker]

I got so excited posting about the beautiful paint work, I didn't share some of the progress I was making in December 2020 in to January 2021.

Turning our attention to suspension and brakes, I wanted to be as prepared as possible so that I could get the chassis sitting on it's own feet as soon as possible.

As you can imagine, the aluminum hubs and banana arms looked like crap. In addition, the front cross member was badly stained with mud dauber nest, with some of the concrete like nest material staying behind.

There's a really cool diy media blasting shop not too far from my house and a stones throw from the Porsche dealer. They have 6 modublast blast cabinets with all kinds of media including soda blasting. I am now in love with glass beading...

[Focker]

Not sure if I mentioned, but the scope of the project expanded to replacing every bearing, bushing and seal throughout the car. There was really no point in putting 40 year old parts back I the car.

[Focker]

Rear swing arms and front cross member.

[Focker]

I didn't seem to take any pictures, but I also media blasted the front control arms and OEM Boge struts.

I painted the control arms and struts with a few coats of POR15.

Before painting, the struts were stripped and cleaned with the old Boge internals getting tossed in the trash. In their place would be Koni adjustable strut inserts. Matching adjustable shocks would live out back.

Pelican provided a lot of the usual suspension and braking pieces including bearings, rotors, caliper rebuild parts, stainless brake lines, turbo tie rod kit etc.

I wanted to improve the suspension articulation as best I could without going down the coilover and 935 suspension, so I placed a call to the fine folks at Tarett.

Ira hooked me up with swayaway hollow torsion bars, Rebel Racing front and rear RSR PTFE bushing kits, rear monoballs and steering coupler.

Finally, I couldn't set the car down on ratty looking wheels, so our very own Jonny042 hooked me up with some lightweight Euromeister wheels cerakoted in RSR style. Jonny would inspire me to try my hand at cerakoting as well.


I need to take some better pictures, but the euromeisters look on point. I still plan on having Augment Wheels make me some custom wheels, but my wallet is still in recovery....

[Coastr]

Originally Posted by Focker

Original Guards Red car.

Well I’m a guards red tragic but then it’s not my car so… paint looks great

[75 911s]

So rewarding to glass bead something clean like those aluminum suspension parts. The paint does look great.

[Jonny042]

That paint finish looks incredible!!!!!

Wheels aren't bad too

Thanks for sharing the journey!!

[Mike Andrew]

More, More!! I am loving this project. Well organized and thorough.

I love glass bead blasting. Are you sealing the blasted parts with anything or leaving them "raw"?
One downside to retiring/redirecting is that I lost access to our machine shop, including the glass bead blast cabinets. Shop guys were always curious when they saw me with my arms in a blaster and Porsche or Kawi parts inside. I think more surprised that a mgmt guy knew how to use the equipment and work on cars and bikes.

[Focker]

Leaving them as is.

[proporsche]

Originally Posted by Locker537

Curious to hear what someone with more experience says about the cage on that wheel bearing.

How did it get like that?

I would imagine some person who was adjusting the front wheel bearings , after assembly he reached with the screwdriver in , instead moving the washer to see it is adjusted correctly, he bended the cage ...


Ivan

[Superman]

Bearing cages are not easy to bend.

[proporsche]

Originally Posted by Superman

Bearing cages are not easy to bend.

true..but the leverage you have while in the hub is big....

Ivan

[ab1752]

Great build thread, I have a similar story about why one should not click around ebay after 4 or 5 scotches on a Saturday night or you may end up with a "rust free" 240Z like I did.

Anyway I'm local, who did your media blasting? Looks fantastic and I look forward to seeing the car on the road!

EDIT: its a DYI media shop? Awesome!!

[proporsche]

yes, the progress looks excellent;-) it will be anice beast....
Ivan

[Focker]

Originally Posted by ab1752

Great build thread, I have a similar story about why one should not click around ebay after 4 or 5 scotches on a Saturday night or you may end up with a "rust free" 240Z like I did.

Anyway I'm local, who did your media blasting? Looks fantastic and I look forward to seeing the car on the road!

EDIT: its a DYI media shop? Awesome!!

Metal work was Auto Bauer, he's in Maple Ridge.

Media blasting of the shell, I can't recall the name, but the painter said DO NOT use TriCity.

Langley U-Blast is where I do my own parts.

[Kraftwerk]

Love the chalk grey, gonna be nice!

[ab1752]

Originally Posted by Focker

Metal work was Auto Bauer, he's in Maple Ridge.

Media blasting of the shell, I can't recall the name, but the painter said DO NOT use TriCity.

Langley U-Blast is where I do my own parts.

The U Blast place is what I am after, thanks! Now if they could only add a dry ice U Blast machine we'd be set...cheers