Project 73 911 R/RS -- Week 6
 

Work and travel have certainly taken their toll on progress, but last week was a good one both for getting parts in house and move along the timeline. I suppose I could have pulled an all-nighter last night to get the rear suspension in, but it just wasn't in the cards. Hint: if you are putting rear monoballs in, have someone else do it!

Front suspension parts. Here I decided to go with Elephant Racing polybronze bearings, Elephant front monoballs, 22 hollow bars, Bilstein sports, turbo tie rods, new bearings, ball joints, etc. I've got to say that Chuck makes some great products. Bearings went together smoothly, no drama.

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Rear parts: More Elephant monoballs and polybronze bearings. Getting the control arm cups out was, ahem, somewhat challenging while trying to be careful around the Al. Getting the new monoballs in proved to be equally so and made it a night.

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Front suspension complete. Front Coleman rotors and rear Turbo rotors came in today to mate up with Turbo calipers. Custom, machined hats and rear calipers by James Achard (JPArchard).

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Putting the front suspension together all at once:
1. Attached braces to Al crossmember to body
2. Position steering rack, connect shafts and U-joints, THEN attach rack to crossmember with bumpsteer spacers
3. Build up the polybronze bearings and attach to A-arms
4. Attach A-arms to body
5. Build up entire strut assembly: strut, insert, ball joint, monoball into one assembly
6. Raise monoball up into body, position ball joint into A-arm, a little back and forth makes everything snap-fit.
7. Hold monoball loosely with one bolt
8. Work on new ball joint nut
9. Torsion bars go in next
10. Bearings and hubs complete the scene.

I should have it rolling around tomorrow night, maybe even with F/R rotors.

Once rolling around, the cage can be finished and bodywork should be test-fitted and rear quarters epoxied on this weekend.

As far as fuel goes, after asking and researching and asking some more, it looks like I will have to drop an obscene amount on a made for 911 ATL fuel cell.

Hello Shaun,
very nice work, for me it is a lot of souvenir, it's remember me some nights working in my garage and my wife call me for going sleeping.... during my restauration of RS replique,
can you post a pic of your new 930 front rotors coleman ?
i will need a pair and i not fix where to buy it ...
i love watching your progress !
Thanks
Raynald

Sweet!

I can't wait to see this project once it's rolling.

Very nice Shaun!

very cool!

Ray,

Here are the Coleman rotors. they are 1.25" by 12", stress relieved and gas vented. Great customer service from Coleman. If you need custom hats done to match up to standard hubs, I am sure James Achard can help you.

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Looks great, Shaun!

I can't wait to see it. You working this weekend?

Hey Ali, I've got DE on Friday and Saturday, working all day Sunday. Please stop by if you have a chance.

Last Thursday at Lime Rock was phenomenal!

Nice work, Shaun!

Keep those pictures comin'!

Looks good Shaun! Your car still at James' place? You better not be holdin up my car going in on Sunday! ;)

Looks great Shaun. I love to work with nice clean freshly painted parts.

What's the extra panel welded to the shock tower? A patch?

On the ATL fuel cell. . . it's not strictly necessary to buy the 911-only part, lots of guys make do with a rectangular cell.

This is mine, $,$$$ and not exactly a drop-in thing: you have to fab a plate of fiberglass or aluminum to cover the hole. I STRONGLY recommend going with the ATL in-tank fuel pump, it's a Walbro from the Mitsu Diamond-Star cars that has ideal flow and pressure and they are only $150 or so, so you can have a spare. (Pic shows before the in tank pump, external pump in the smuggler's box tended to cavitate).

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Is that powdercoat on your suspension? Nice.

Chuck,

those patch panels are for tying the cage into suspension pick-ups as well as a welded in cross brace.

John,

Thanks so much for your pic and info. I've been trying to get this type of info for weeks! I am in NYC often (girlfriend, will be down tomorrow night in fact)) and if possible, would love to stop by and see your car. What model # is your fuel cell? for the fuel pump, what are they ideal for? I am putting a stock 3.2 motronic into this to get it going.

The grey on the suspension components is just enamel for now, maybe powdercoat when I rebuild the car next winter.

I don't know what the 3.2 wants for flow, but here's everything I know about the subject:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/160343-everything-i-know-about-atl-fuel-cells.html

Let's get together at Watkins Glen!

From the front trunk top view it looks like your strut top nuts are not threaded in enough to engaged the nylok thread lock. Perhaps they are just finger tight in your pic. If not, take out spacers or make new spacers to get the nuts on all the way.

Looks great. You must be having fun with this.

Thanks John! I'll be at the Glen on Jnue 28 and 29. With any luck, the car may be with me.