69 911 RS Style Restore

[911SauCy]

Car is gorgeous in white...

Black, really

[crashtest22]

Originally Posted by 911SauCy

Car is gorgeous in white...

Black, really

It was nice in White and will look great in black too.

Here is what started it all

[Bob Harriman]

Simply Stunning

[crashtest22]

For the Record that black one is Jenson Buttons real 73 RS

[crashtest22]

A few Action Shots!!

[crashtest22]

car is now at the stripper

[crashtest22]

Well car is still at the stripper.
Spoke with Chuck at Elephant about some suspension upgrades and such.
looking into the GT3 front end with coilover kit and running torsion bars in the rear.

[GaryR]

Why not have the rear shock towers reinforced and run coil-overs all around?

[crashtest22]

I am going to reinforce the rear shock towers as well and we may go that way too.

This rebuild bill is quickly climbing and we could use the current rear TB's and shocks just change out the spring plates and be done with the rear for now.

But yes will probably do coil overs on all 4

[crashtest22]

Well, Got the car back from stripping....
It's going to need a bit of work

[proffighter]

Hmmmm those pics remind me on my car when I stripped it for the first time, bad feelings I had....

What an idiot did those welds???

But the good thing is: It can be done

[crashtest22]

yeah some of the prior repair was done really bad
its off to the body shop this week to get some estimates done.

[crashtest22]

well...car is still at the bodyshop and I think we are going to get a new wheelhouse, fenders, driver rocker, rear quarters

going to be a long road to fix all that old bad repair

[vintagecarlover]

Subd. Where are u located? If close id like to watch/help a lil.

[RWebb]

you should stiffen the unit body while you have it all stripped down

find the thread on the Framboise (or was it Fraise?) where Dave B. (TRE Cup) did that to a 911

[crashtest22]

We are in Santa Cruz, Ca.

We will be adding some stiffeners to the chassis.
torsion tube reinforcement, front sway bar reinforcement, and rear shock tower reinforcement is what comes to mind.

Changing to Alum banana arms, New Elephant sways, triangulated strut bar, and all new poly bronze bushes

Found that thread too and am looking it over.
so far lots of cool little tricks

[RWebb]

Dave used a lot more than that - give him a call.

We need to up the sample size on stiffening old 911s...

Post pics on your work - it keeps everybody happy

[crashtest22]

will do for sure RWebb,
both my boss and I are racers so we come from stiffer is better in chassis setup

He races a few vintage and a few modern cars I race modern

[crashtest22]

Got some rear quarters today from Parts Heaven up in Hayward along with a few other bits needed for the chassis.

Went down to Einmalig over the weekend to get the inner wheelhouse where the dead pedal area is.
Also got a recovered Dash with out the speaker hole, under dash leather parts (whatever they are called). and the dash trim

[Joe Bob]

Einmalig.....does your bunghole ache?