Hey John, Looking good. Those tail light lenses look GREAT on the car! I'll try to swing by soon to help turn a wrench.

Ok, I'll admit that I have done a horrible job keeping this thread up to date. I've been too busy slapping this thing together to take pictures. So, here is a bit of an update.

The car is just about done. Everything is re-assembled except for needing to repack the CVs and mounting up the axles.

I fired up the motor today and did the 20 minute break in. Posted a little vid of the action on YouTube:

Twin Plug 3.2SS Engine First Start - YouTube

Here are some pics as well...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1369799173.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1369799230.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1369799278.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1369799426.jpg

It takes some work to come up with a good way to mount all the bits for twin plugs. This is what I came up with. I ended up fabbing up a bracket to hold the 2 MSD boxes.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1369799319.jpg

I'm hoping to be on the road by early next week!!!

Yeah! Car looks awesome...

Logging some miles in the car. Feels so good to be back in her and on the road. Going for an alignment/corner balance on monday and then hitting the dyno on tuesday to get as much power out of this baby as possible. I'll post the dyno results.

The alignment had no surprises, which is a good thing. With 1/2 tank of gas, the car weighs 2545lbs. Not too bad of a weight reduction considering that I wasn't slapping fiberglass bumpers and such onto the car.

The dyno went pretty well.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1370555713.jpg

Came up with 225HP at the wheels. That would be something like 259HP at the crank. The AFR is a tad lean (but nice and flat), so I'm going to change the main jets. I was also running only 25-26 degrees of advance. I'm going to hit the dyno again on tuesday with the new jets and spend more time tweaking. Still hoping to hit 275HP at the crank. We'll see...

Might find more power with air to fuel at 13:1.

Respectable #'s for sure!

Agree on the AFR comment. But I'm sure your attention to detail will continue over to the fine tuning on dyno!
To many build threads close without the dyno results posted, so thank you for posting up the results.

Absolutely stunning

Cheers Jason

Yeah, looking to shift the AFRs down to somewhere around 13.2. I'm running 145 mains right now and will swap out for 155. Also going to push the advance up to 27-28 degrees.

When I did the dyno pulls, my linkage wasn't adjusted quite right and I wasn't hitting WOT. I fixed up the linkage today.

The cams should be able to pull all the way up to 7200rpm, so I'm looking to spin the motor up to 7k+ next time.

Very nice car, and props for doing a complete restoration.

Hit the dyno again today, this time with Chris Powell helping to dial things in. We swapped out the main jets for 155s, but it was still running a bit lean. Went with 160s to get this:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1371000624.jpg

We found a bit more horsepower, but not a lot. The AFRs are definitely in a safer range now. We also adjusted the advance up to 29 (from 26) with zero improvement. We tried retarding it to 24 and lost power. So, we know that 26 is the sweet spot. Steve Weiner called 26 as being optimum before we tried it on the dyno, so props to him. I think he has probably done this a few times before.

Overall, I'm quite happy with the results! Much thanks to Chris for helping me tweak today and teaching me a bunch about carb voodoo!

Nice work. I would feel more comfortable ringing it out now without worry so much for changes in weather taking it too lean.

Love the color....bold choice!!! Way to resist the graphics, a true sleeper. The Duck is the only clue.I've only seen a pic of one that color and loved it. Scott

Congrats on a beautifully done Porsche.