CHAPTER I
A friend told me about this 911 for sale that had been sitting for over 2 years in the outskirts of San Diego CA. I bought it a few weeks later.
Interior was in decent shape - except for the seats and some holes in the carpet.
The reddish stuff was merely surface rust and some glue overspray.
Here is a shot of the 2.2 liter engine. Rain water sipped through the air filters and into the carburetors seizing the engine.
It didn't take long before I started taking it apart! I'm pretty good at that :)
No more wiring or gas tank. As you can see, the original color was white.
Complete interior is also out. Those seats were heavy!
The engine is also out at this point. Look at what 35 years of grime, grease and dirt add up to.
It was a lot easier to work on the car without the doors. All the floor's undercoating was taken out using a heat gun, grinders and putty knife.
This is what happens when you don't pay attention to the heat gun.
This picture is at the sandblasters. They were nice enough to let us take the suspension off at their location so we could roll it up a tow truck.
A better shot of the front. It was definitely a SHELL at this point.
Good bye... with the shop's busy schedule, I wouldn't see the car for another 5 weeks.
This is the end product. Notice the roof wasn't sandblasted, I was affraid it would warp.
Overall an excellent job and the epoxy primer really seals the body well.
No more grease or dirt!
Excellent job in the cabin.
Compared to what it looked like originally, it was nice to finally work on a clean car.
Epoxy-primer sealed interior.
Since I didn't have the roof sandblasted, it was time to break-out the chemicals! This aircraft paint remover stuff is serious business.
I used a tarp to catch all the paint ships.
Nice and clean just like at the factory.
I took out some of the undercoating from the front trunk and used POR-15 to seal it.
I also removed some more undercoating from the front fender wheel wells and sealed them with silver POR-15 .
Same treatment on the rear wheel wells. Since the color of the car will be silver, the silver POR-15 was a nice touch.
All the left-over undercoating from the engine bay was also removed and more silver POR-15.
Lots of work up to this point. I think I inhaled enough fumes and dust to cut my life expectancy in half!
A master welder and rollbar expert came to my house and custom made these... Sweet!!!
Since most of the original sound deadener was removed, I decided to add a few thin layers of new deadener on top of the epoxy primer.
Nice and protected from the elements and a bit of sound protection.
This is a common reinforcement to the rear shock towers to withstand coil-overs. Notice the gussets on the side.
Battery boxes removed. The battery will be relocated to the smuggler's box