Summer of 2022, I disassembled complete front and rear suspensions, removed the steering rack, original tunnel fuel lines and scrubbed the pan clean of grease and 40+ years of road grime. First item back in was the BoxsterGT fuel line kit that was well-made and fit perfectly from tank to engine.
Next up was disassembly of steering rack, inspect, clean, and grease pinion bearing and rack. Installed a replacement “puck” for steering column as well.
Everything that I was going back under the car got a full cleaning, sanding, painting, or whatever was needed to give the bottom of this 912E a little pop. Note the undercarriage of my LS swap Miata – I like my builds to be sanitary and attractive to my eye, lol For example, the Bilsteins on this car are dated 1999 and in solid shape. Painted these John Deere yellow with lower A arms painted some Ford Engine Blue – both old & just sitting around on the shelf in my shop. Ft crossmember, rear trailing arms, etc were painted with some Eastwood alum silver paint.
With the steering rack out of there, I wasn’t happy with the look of the front hard brake lines as they had a crusty exterior. I purchased some copper-nickel alloy tubing, metric fittings, and used Mac Tools double flaring tool. Removed the 3 old pieces with care and duplicated the lengths and bends to match. I cannot stress how easily this went together with the right flaring tool and this bendable compliant tubing. Having tried to bend steel tubing on another project, this nickel-copper tubing is very easy to work with.
