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Originally Posted by 81turboporsche
Spoke to Scott the other day on the phone very nice and knowledgable, hoping to pull the plug and do the ls1 swap sometime in the summer
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You know, I only ever spoke to Scott once. I've been dealing with Steve. And Melba, of course. It's a first class operation that for sure. Their lead times are a little long but I think that's just good business on his part. This is a custom business so there's no point carrying inventory.
Now, I will tell you this. So far, I'm very impressed with everything I've received with one exception. The fuel parts are waaaay overpriced. The fuel pressure regulator is a $25 eBay part. Oh well. They probably have a legitimate need to pad their margin. Some of their stuff is probably underpriced for what your getting.
H
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Originally Posted by 911JeffS
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That's what I was finding, a lot of while your in there,, I better do it now stuff ! I always think "geez I'm not 17, and my wife & kids will be riding in this car" I did the same working on now a third boat.
Make it new, make it safe, so I can be stress/worry free. You are doing it right, moving forward is great! I wanted to throw it out there. I don't like going back. Or at least, I try not too.
I bought some summit aluminum lines & bent my own lines and fed them through the tunnel. It was a little aggravating but it worked out very well. I did have a flaring tool kit and used it . You might be able to pull the fuel lines through intact, out the rear then just use them as a template.(I cut the ends, easy way) It works well.
I also rebuilt the pedal cluster, all shift bushings, short shift kit, Seine systems 1&2 gate shift ( tbd) cleaned up a bunch of wiring. A refresh on the interior, etc.. etc... I wish I were done, but sooner or later I will get there. I said in another post " I'm having just as much fun working on the beast, as dreaming about it"
Driving it will be the ultimate satisfaction knowing I built it, and its done right! 
As you know excellent resources at RH and of course right here on PP Thank you all !!
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Agreed. Although I always intended to go through the whole car.
H
Started cutting.
As you can see and as I had shown previously, I had originally installed a TRE oil cooler panel to give additional clearance to a front mounted oil cooler. The first step is to undo this earlier modification. In the pictures that follow are this short project.
I also finished cleaning up the motor. Time to start putting it back together.
Note that this isn't the final cut for the installation. This is just removing the panel. I still have to expand the hole laterally to install the v-panel and vertically up the front to let more air in.
I also purchased - see above - a new nose pan and will use that to fill in the parts that were missing from the previous modification.
Of course, that panel needed to be modified. It came with the early style tow hook and that had to be removed. I'm not sure what parts I'll be cutting out of this - in fact, after I removed the tow hook, I did some measuring and I'm pretty sure that I didn't need to do that. Oh well, it let me practice my spot weld drilling out technique.
Here's the photos.
That's it for this weekend. I need pictures of the hole for the v pan. It appears that I need to cut into stuff I don't want to cut. I also need to make up a cardboard mockup of the radiator.
Hal