65 Porsche w C5 Drive

[67turbostang]

i really like this project ... keep the pics coming

[Garage Dog 65]

Christmas present from my wife Julie arrived today. Does she know she's supporting my addiction with stuff like this .... ??

[krptonite]

thats cool! your wife really supports you or she is trying to drop a subtle hint you spend too much time in there!!! lol!

[Garage Dog 65]

Took some vacation time so I could work on the car. Backbone and lower A-arm pickups almost done. Should get the a-arm tabs from the water jet guy tomorrow - that is if the nascar guys will stop it with the last minute orders for Daytona....

Rodger at www.ironworksspeedandkustom.com stepped in at the last minute and bent some hoops for me - benders in my area had a 4 - 6 week lead time and I waited too late. Thanks Rodger !!! (and shipping in a Budnik box was perfect !)

I've never done this before - and it took a couple (now scrap) tubes to get the hang of bending offsets. I could bend 2 in a row, but when I tried to do the entire piece with 4 bends on this style bender - both sets would be on different planes and dog legged something awful. So I split it in half and will stub in an insert.

Going to complete the backbone tomorrow and finish clearing the underbody for the perimeter tubes that connect to the backbone.

Jim

[ironworks]

Wow that California tubing sure looks great. But i'm not sure if you would call that a budnik box, more like an envelope.

Project is looking good. Almost done.

[Garage Dog 65]

Back Bone in. Time to get the tube notcher setup. No parts from the waterjet guys today .... bummer.

[Garage Dog 65]

Little slower then I wanted - but it's moving along. Learning a lot of new stuff. Math formulas for bending offsets and hoops (and I remember why I hated math class), using my new bender, and notching tubing while staying in-phase with the other end. This is much harder then the chassis guys on this site make it look.....

Tacked some stuff together and built the upper set of tubes. Had to cut away all the shifter brackets and wire clamps - so I stuck it in with plastic ties to help locate the upper tube. Put the exhaust back in to check clearance there. Seat clearance is 18 inches now. I'll have to cut 2 inches outta my stock touring seats - and also get some other race/street seats.

Question: should I run the upper tubes as high as possible - or does it matter ? The dual perimeter tubes will be 4 - 5 inches apart. Would it be best to match that distance with the backbone's upper and lower tube too ?

Thx for any feedback, comments, concerns, ideas....

Hope to start getting suspension tabs next week....

All in all - it was a fun week and made some progress, Jim

[c10addict]

Great meeting you at Indy... Subscribed!!!

[Garage Dog 65]

Thanks much ! Great to meet the crew from RPM and put more faces to the names from this site. I really enjoyed the discussion on the Nova and that you guys drive that bad boy !! Beautiful work

Hope you had a great weekend in Indy and caught some sales to keep ya busy !

Jim

[Garage Dog 65]

Little update for you.

Going to make a carbon fiber Hood and GT Porsche Seats from my steel originals.
Needed to media-blast, seal, fill, prime and topcoat the parts so I could pull a mold off them. A lot of work… really good to have friends that do this kinda work daily !

Hood

20 year old primer was chem-stripped.

Found sub-primer rusting

So I had it media-blasted


Then body work and sealer.


Then top coat in black



Jim