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I've always loved the Porsche Safari Rally cars especially the Martini and Rothmans sponsored cars. Since both of theses cars have already been artfully cloned, I decided to go a different way. What if Gulf Racing had sponsored a Rally team as well as the ground pounding 908's. A friend of mine told me of a DE car that was available a bit of a track rat but much of the heavy lifting had already been done. The car drove great, lots of power, and the price was right. So I have a new project









The starting point a 1977 911S

From the seller:
These are older photos new one would show European headlights H4
the usual mod pop off valve
pressure fed chain tensioner
2.7l cis engine with 3.0l intake manifold S cam rebuild 5000 miles ago
heat works( as you know )
breakerless ignition 16x7 and 16x8 fuchs wheels with extra set of fuchs 16x8 and 16x9 if wanted
original leather seats included
extra front cross drilled rotors
suspension rebuilt less than 1000 miles bilstein as seen in pictures
turbo valve cover with heat shields
turbo tie rod and adjustable f and r sway bar
poly urethane engine and transmission mounts
Hargett shifter
shock tower brace (Renn Line)
free flow intake with K&N filter
magna core ignition wire
back dated exhaust (loud)
roll bar bolted in
sc flare on 1977 body
fiberglass ducktail and rear engine cover
fiberglass yellow bird bumpers by MA Shaw












Rob,

Great project concept.

Do you plan to delete the sunroof? That would (as you know) rid the car of almost 40 lbs and achieve the desired look. Blending the roof paint into the A and C pillar is easy or you could get creative with painting just the roof area gulf orange.

I have found it very easy (using the removed sunroof panel as curvature guide) to shape a light steel sunroof delete panel out of the same ga steel on leather sand bag. Little filler is required but much block sanding is needed in all directions.

I remember the last time i had to skim coat and re sand 8 times to get it perfect.

Good luck and i look forward to your results
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Last edited by The Fixer; 07-10-2015 at 08:21 PM.. Reason: nom 40 lbs on sunroof delete not 50
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