While you're in there - a spiral out of control! 79 911sc Build/Progress

[dgtlhybrd]

Its been a bit! there has been a lot of work i have been doing on the car off and on;
just around the time i removed the wires all out my dad got pretty sick and was hospitalized.
So the progress definitely slowed down a bit, but I am getting things done here and there where and when I can!

I wanted to show here some of the wiring that Dennis returned to me as it came out beaut!




my ignition far right was pretty burnt, cut up, and on its last leg - Dennis did a real clean job whippin up a new one center, along with the lighting on the far
left


Classic Retrofit Fuses all wired up



Cleaned up my oil fan wiring to feel more oem as well!



New Engine Harness since I am going EFI/ITB

New Harness for Link ECU/COP setup




a big reason for going efi was to A. eliminate the CIS B. Start fresh on wiring since there was a LOT going on in this rear corner of the car along with all the CIS
I also have a big problem with not going overboard with this ****



Next up, my piece I worked on is a rather thorough restoration of my tail lights - which will get its own post

[dgtlhybrd]

Tail Lights PT 1

(the contrast/black mismatch on the border of the tail lights were driving me crazy along with the bubble'ish look where the paint was just missing)

I wanted to refresh my tail lights - since I was redoing a lot of the wiring, but also needed access to a few things here and there. I think I went above and beyond a bit on what was really needed for the tail lights here imo - I think the exercise was to

• fix the tail lights
• try some new methods out for restoring pitted metals
• replace the lenses or polish clean/repaint them
• replace wiring completely
• figure out if I want to retain the US spec or Euro spec lenses (the cars red and part of me enjoys the overall red factor + saftey of turning the entire lights into brake/running lights for increasing overall visibility footprint for other drivers)

If you're doing this yourself, id imagine just painting them is more than enough.

Like most of our older cars - the tail lights seen a lot of kickback from road debris as well as just aging in general.

The p.o looks to have setup some tow light wiring and in part cut the wires up a little bit and the harness was just loosey goosey in the hole where the wires come through to the engine bay on the driver side.



the caps were pretty beat from all the chips with a lil rust here and there - simple de-greaser cleaning to get an overall gauge on how they're holding up


the tops were pretty bad on both sides (not horrible) but pretty bad


the inside of the door and tail light housings were pretty good - suprising it was pretty much rust free - just had some nasty caulking or something here that plucked right off no problem.


after cleaning and hitting it with a brillo a hole broke through real easily - just as if it was a cracker - i tried to poke out any of the delicate metal that was donezo


did my best to use some rust stoppers and such and clean this the best i could

At this point I was figuring I would grab some new tail lights just to go easy on myself, and then I saw the price tag.... (I was also contemplating the lightweight housings on ebay that a user here from the forum makes but they'd need different wiring harness etc - however they do sit flush after the lenses on which is rather desirable imo so i think at some point i will swap) so off to the next step




I made the rough shape here in some metal i had left over from the seat pan


blammo

Part 2 soon

[dgtlhybrd]

Tail Lights Pt 2


I used some epoxy here to push the pieces back together as the metal broke over time and whatnot it started to move away and curl



I removed a few more bits of metal and it worked out great

I sanded and cleaned up a lot of the metal - and coated the caps in epoxy; this was the first time attempting this so i wanted to use this as a testing area as they needed to be protected a bit more, and i can learn for future stuff. no real reason to go this wild as its never seen i suppose.


i now know doing this, that this was waaay too much - just need enough to fill the gaps vs building up material.


using sanding blocks i did my best to even this out despite going waaaaay too hard on the X part - that was rather tricky to get. I had to stop myself from trying to make it perfect


was pretty happy with how smooth these now look - like i sad tho its real hard keeping myself from sanding these to get them exactly right.


The tail light housings were real pitted on the tops - so taking what i just learned from the caps i applied the same method here... still trying to hold back


these came out real nice


These painted up real nice as well. I used Dupli-Color Premium Acrylic Enamel white and Rust-oleum bright coat metallic finish ( the metallic paint worked ok, but sprayed a lot of oil that kept me from having a good coat, perhaps more shaking on my part)


I wanted to replace these weatherstrips - but was unable to figure out where to find em, im assuming its just maybe butyl harded over time maybe? I just replaced them with generic weatherstripping I got from amazon per "afternoon garage" on youtube's recommendation - and this was nice keeping it real clean and simple



Pt3 coming soon

[Flojo]

I like how you tackle your project.

some advise though, as you obviously still have to do quite some welding (that A-pillar base will reveal its horror once cut open) I would not proceed adding more sound deadening to avoid fire!

[dgtlhybrd]

i have night sweats thinking about these portions of the body - for now i painted them to slow it down a bit, but once i can get this driving i can get this taken care of