911 Targa/993 Coupe RSR project, The hulk!

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Hi!

My name is Petter (located in Sweden) and I have been working with my 911 project for two years now and I thought it would be fun to share the progress here on Pelican in order to get feedback and helpful tips to get it out on the road again (Sponsors are also welcome to support the project)!

Please excuse my English, Swedish is my native language…

Five years ago I finally bought my first 911, a SC coupe from -88. Red with black interior, It was a childhood dream coming true! After updating it to the looks and feel that I wanted I decided to try to get hold of an 911 project car. My plan was to go bananas with wide fenders etc. but I didn’t exact know what I was looking for although the 993 GT2 always been a dream car to me and to be able to build something similar to that would have been great. I love the raw look with the bolted fender flares

So the search started through different channels to find a project car with the right price. Sweden is a rather small country but with a strong Porsche club (4th largest in the world I think) so I started to send email to every Porsche owner that I heard had a car standing in the garage. After some time I got contacted by a guy that had a car that might be the one for me!
I jumped in the car and after a two hour drive I was arriving at the garage. The seller and I than drove out to the countryside where the car (or more like a shell) was standing in a barn on the floor with no wheels or suspension mounted. Without any electricity in the barn, totally dark outside and -10 degrees inside it was not the best conditions to look at a car… After some discussion and looking through the boxes of parts we agreed on a deal. The gay selling the car mounted some parts on the car to get it more or less movable so that I could pick it up a couple of weeks later.

The car itself started its life as an 911 Targa from -83 but got hit it the rear and where bought by a company that specialized in body repair on Porsches. They took a 911 Coupe from -85 with turbo specification that have been smashed in the front and joined the rear part and roof from that car with the front part of the Targa. In that process they also mounted rear fenders, thresholds, front beam, rear beam and windshield wiper panel from a 993 (all new original Porsche parts). The project then stopped, the company went out of business and the car was sold to the guy that I bought it from (who decided to sell it after a couple of year since he had a 911 and a 993 and no time to finish this project)

For me this was what I’m been looking for, a 911 that I didn’t have to feel guilty for modifying instead of restoring. Pretty soon I took the discussion to go for the 993 RSR look since the car had the narrow rear fenders and not the Turbo as the GT2 is based on, in the front the GT2 and RSR is the same. A huge amount of parts where missing, it was/is a big challenge for me to find all the parts and keep the costs down.

So now to some pictures and I will update with text and pictures until I am up to date to where I’m in the progress today.

First a picture from previous owner, this is how the car started its life:


And this is how it looked when I got it in to the garage the first time:





With a lot of parts inside the car:



After a wash and up in the air it looked much better. After inspection I found out that the car was 99.9% rust free! First challenge was to find and fit all the body panels, doors etc.







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Fenders, lights and bumpers mounted, now it was time to order the RSR kit from Renspeed.





Brakes tested





RSR kit test fitted on the car



The fenders where cut, no turning back now…





Flares mounted with bolts

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Roll cage installation
















And finished with new boxes in the floor

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New custom made wiper unit to fit the 993 panel, a lot of work for a small thing…






All the parts for the front suspension ready for “polish”
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Should I change this wheel bearings?




New lip from Renspeed






Front shock-absorber ready

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Rear axle parts ready






Front suspension parts ready








Rear wing test installed, bad fit










I found an 3.2 engine and a 915 gearbox for the car

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Wevo short shift for the 915 gearbox






I started to think about the color of the car






Test mounted the engine with 993 fenders and 993 rear engine mounts. The mounting on the engine needed some adapting.

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New wheels, 19” Fuchs










Started to fit the rear wing, terrible fit from start…







The result




The oil cooler set-up

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The RSR kit mounted after a lot of work

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Oil cooler installation, tight fit with 911 inner fender and 993 outer.








Time to prepare for paint, a whole lot of parts in the garage…










Something is missing

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Of to paint meanwhile a lot of other parts where restored and prepared in the garage.






Final color decided




And painted

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Body spray on

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Start mounting all the parts

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...mounting more parts...

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Oil cooler installed










And RSR kit with bumper covers installed






Roll cage and inner roof installed

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WEVO, painted the house black




Hood crest




Air intake grill












Strut bar mounted

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Some more parts on the car, looks good with more black parts in contrast to the green.

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RS door panels in place.








Tested stickers on the side but I have not decided yet…

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I sold my other 911 so I could focus 100% on “The Hulk” (or Kermit as my girlfriend call it…)




Pictures with almost all the outer parts on the car.





Starting to dismount some panels to get all the suspension parts mounted and checked.

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This is where I’m at today, now I’m searching for some missing parts and it is soon time to install the engine again. Just need to get all the parts mounted on the engine…

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Great work... I love the wheels!