Roll call: How many RSR replicas are currently in the works?

[Jim2]

Another one here between my partner and myself. It will loosely resemble a 74 RSR. Track format, not street legal. Partner is providing the auto-body skill, at a snails pace.

[MarkMW]

Heres some more pictures for those who asked -

Ready for trip to paint shop -



In the booth -



Back home -



And this is where I'm up to today - still some detail work to finish , seats and carpets , handbrake , fuel hoses etc. I'm driving the car down to LeMans in June for a week at the 24 Hour - in convoy with a friends Gulf Blue RSR rep ( if he ever finishes it - come on Steve!!) so I've got a few more late nights in the garage!!

[eimkeith]

hothothot.

[gulf blue rsr]

And this is mine .........I'm ashamed to say ....It's gotta be finished for the same trip to LeMan 24hrs as Markmw (orange rsr above) and this is how it looked just 5 mins ago after I finished priming ready ready for Gulf Blue complete with Orange bumpers and stripe later this week Only 8 weeks to go and this is how it looks now !!!

Sorry for picture quality tooo busy working on the car to be standing around taking photo's

More details to follow if you want them!

STEVE

[Facey]

wow....got some long days yet...exciting though, would love more details!!! however not at the expense of not being done...lol..

[AFCuk]

Hello
Steve could you tell me what size and weather your back arches
are steel.
I was told that turbo arches would do for a rsr look-a-like
But didnt think they were 11" .
Did you get your parts in the uk? If so what sort of money are we talking.
Just thinking of doing 1 but a targa
Many Thanks Paul

Chime in too MarkMW 2 nice looking cars btw

[fastbacker]

Turbo and 73 rsr rear flares are both 11". The lips are shaped slightly different though. Turbos have more of a squared off edge as opposed to the more rounded rsr's.

Turbo flares @ restoration-design.com

[MarkMW]

Hi Paul
I'll chip in here , as I know that Steve is currently too busy trying to kill himself whilst welding a central filler neck onto his tank!!

Let's face it he's got a lot of catching up to do!!

Anyway - Steve has used 11" Turbo flares on his car - these are fibreglass extensions , and he has spent quite a lot of time reshaping the outer lip to give the authentic , more rounded look.

Be interesting to see an RSR look Targa - let us know if you go ahead with it.

Cheers
MarkMW

[gulf blue rsr]

More details....... 82 3ltr sc engine box and suspension (for now ) would have liked to up engine, brakes etc but time is sorta short that will all have to follow later in the year,

Fibreglass front wings, bumpers and rear arches, 53" fibreglass tail and front bonnet (hood), sunroof roof panel cut off and replaced with solid roof skin.
Cage, bucket seats and lightweight carpet set and thats it inside.

Centre fill tank with 100mm filler cap, Just come in from removing fuel tank, drained petrol (sorry gas ) cut hole ready to weld new filler neck, put tank in the middle of the yard, stood back with a 12' length of 2"x1" and a burning rag on the end to light the fuel vapour in the tank before welding hoping for a big bang..... nothing happened not even a woof most diisapointed i rekon it's just a myth that petrol is flammable

AFCuk, rear arches as I said above are fibre glass, got them off ebay second hand (cos I'm too tight to buy new )paid about £50 I think, there's a new set on at the moment for way less, front wings and bumpers also ebay secondhand 3years ago can't remember how much.

Turbo arches are similar but not the same, if you want the right look as fastbacker says they are more rounded, I've just used the turbo arches as a base and rounded of to suit, I tried to show it in a photo but it's hard to show but will give you the idea





Tommorow night weld in filler neck, paint interior/under bonnet area black and of to paint shop on Thursday

STEVE

[gulf blue rsr]

Ha Ha! Mark I'm still alive and catching you up by the day, Decided not to weld the filler neck to the tank till tommorow, I'd hate to die on a Tuesday, I've always found Wednesday a much better dying day

see you Tommorow!

STEVE

[SoCal70RSR]

Steve,

You made me laugh about the burning shop rag in the tank It was a good test though. The person who welded the filler neck on mine suggested to have the tank professionally cleaned and even then he threw a match inside just to be sure.

[gulf blue rsr]

SoCal, Your car looks superb, I've looked through all you progress pics and was well impressed! soon I hope mine will catch yours up!!

Any chance of some more information on the changing to coil overs mod, it's something I'd like to be doing in the future but not looked into much yet.

This morning I decided not to go to work (there are some advantages to being your own boss ) I was too fired up to get on with the car...... so here it is filler neck done and old filler neck plugged, and temp back in the car to get it mobile ready to take to paint shop tomorow



STEVE

[HelmetHead]

Just getting started on mine... 77s going to 74 IROC "look"

still working on rust repair and part sourcing

from what i've seen browsing the forum there are several fella's in Houston building RSR/IROC look cars.....

Timeline for this car is minimum 2years..unless my money tree fertilizer starts working....

Helmethead

[SoCal70RSR]

The filler neck looks great!

One thing you may consider (if you haven't already) is to add a "catch" pan to get rid of any water that may enter through the hood. You can use just about anything from the kitchen MarkMW has some nice catch pans on his fuel tank. We added a drain nipple to the catch pan and it gets rid of water via a small hose that runs all the way towards the bottom of the fuel tank. Here is a pic of the catch pan and hose.



The coil-over suspension is a bitter-sweet setup. You gain and lose at the same time. Most people on this forum have mixed emotions about coil-overs vs torsion bars. One of the biggest problems I'm running into is "clearance". In the rear, the coils are very close to the SSI exchangers and the crossover oil pipe. In the front, it's hard to get much negative camber before the coils hit the body. I'm commited to my setup, so I'll run it as is and see how it goes.

[boba]

SoCal70RSR,
Are you running the 935 style control arms with your coilovers? If you are not you are limited to moving the top in, with an adjustable lower control arm you can move the bottom out and not hit the coils.

[SoCal70RSR]

Sweet setup!!!

Sorry no, I'm only running the regular a-arms. I agree, your setup allows for more flexibility... Awesome job you're doing, really dig it.

By the way, I should also mention that I'm running the coils upside down in the rear so that's one of the reasons why the clearance is a little tight.

[chancecasey]

WAYYYY behind all you guys but I'll chime in - going for the 11"/14" RSR on a 90 C2. So far I've only got the front fenders off (which is a MAJOR chore with C2's thanks to the indestructible undercoating) - and just this weekend got the climate control and fuel tank out. I've also only sourced the front bumper and fenders so far (thanks Craig!!!)

[wachuko]

Another one here... I know you probably heard this before... Started aggressively… but work and a bad knee has brought it to a halt for now…





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[SoCal70RSR]

Keep up the good work - casey and helmethead -

Sorry to hear about your knee wachuko, I had knee surgery about 2 years ago for a torn ligament and haven't been very active since then, good luck.

[HelmetHead]

Thanks SoCal. Too bad work is getting in the way of play time....

Quick question for all building WIDE cars...Our host sells OEM metal flares for about ~$390 per corner...when you look at the photo...they say "restoration design 2002".. I do recall reading back a few months that PP was having difficulty getting parts from RD. Are the flares our Host sells RD parts?

I obviously would like to support our Host when purchasing parts for my project, but RD has metal flares for $215/corner...

Can anyone confirm difficulties with getting metal parts from RD...or are there any other sources for metal flares?

Also, I note that the flares on PP for early cars are listed as 9".. are these truely 9" flares or 11" as noted by Fastbacker a few posts up this thread?

Thanks again
Helmethead