Somebody call 911 I'm working on a Porsche!

Chris_Hamilton

Chris_Hamilton

Trying to be the best me, I can be
Clever title huh? :D I was contacted by Dan of Touring Car Inc. in the Charlotte NC area back in January about painting a Porsche 911 he had. It's an 83 911 SC in Quartz Grey. Fairly straight but tired paint. Drove down to Dan's Shop in Matthew's NC on Tuesday to pick it up. Dan gave me a Shop tour while I was there and had a lot of interesting German cars there in various conditions. Got to meet his employees who seemed like a great bunch of guys, as well as his two Shop dogs.

Got it loaded up and made the trek back to VA Arrived home in one piece and will be starting on it soon. I plan to not be so lazy this time and do a proper thread on it.

Plan is to R&I everything on the exterior, pull all the glass, pull the fenders, repair some minor crash damage from years ago then strip the exterior to metal.All the seals will be replaced as well. Dan was specific in saying that he wanted to minimize any filler used and didn't want any filler used in a couple of places. So I plan to metal finish as much as possible. I will be repainting it in its original color Quartz Gray which was a one year only color for the SC and fairly rare. I will be using Glasurit 55 basecoat as well as Universal Clear and of course SPI Epoxy. I plan to only use Epoxy. No 2K or poly primer on this one.:) And of course I plan to cut and buff.

I also will be replacing the dash and redoing the Headliner myself. Should be a fun job. Currently finishing up my albatross of an MG for fellow Forum member MikeGee (sorry Mike) so I hope to start on this one in a week or so.

And thanks to Barry for letting me use him as a reference. I will try to not let you down.

Going back to Va
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Back home
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A few of the problem areas
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I will post more when I start on it.
 
Love the plan. I'm a fan of epoxy only surfacing. I'll give you credit for tackling the head liner, that would be where I would get off.
I like to metal finish as much as possible also. Get out the slapper, dollies, shrinking disc, blocks and a big fat marker.
Hate those loading dock style rubber bumpers on the back bumper.
 
I'm glad you're a religious man, cause you're going to need all your prayers answered getting those front fenders off. Not an easy task.
 
MJM said:
I'm glad you're a religious man, cause you're going to need all your prayers answered getting those front fenders off. Not an easy task.
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Not my first set of 911 fenders so hopefully I'll remember what to do. Doing the Headliner is going to be where I'll need some prayers. :) I've assisted on a few but it's been awhile.
German cars are strange to work on until you finally "get it" then you realize how brilliant the engineering actually is. The stuff they do then actually makes sense. They are very different than American and Japanese cars in how they are put together.
 
I got hooked up with a German car mechanic from Germany at one point, he sent me a lot of work over a few year period. Then he let me refinish his personal ‘58 Porsche. That was a fun job. It was very elegant in its simplicity.
 
Chris_Hamilton said:
Does anyone have a good rubber renew product they like? Something that works and lasts?
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What I do on the old convertibles is wipe baby oil but that is not forever and needs to be done every year.
Years ago I had three land rovers for business and in 3 years with 180 to 240,000 miles they looked new but all the rubber parts were faded.
So I would spend half a day before slowly with a heat gun SLOWLY heating each piece and it brings the oil up and looks like new.
 
Barry said:
What I do on the old convertibles is wipe baby oil but that is not forever and needs to be done every year.
Years ago I had three land rovers for business and in 3 years with 180 to 240,000 miles they looked new but all the rubber parts were faded.
So I would spend half a day before slowly with a heat gun SLOWLY heating each piece and it brings the oil up and looks like new.
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Thank you Sir. I'll give the heat gun a try when it comes time.
 
Chris
How's this project coming along? I visit a shop in Hickory NC and want to swap stories. The shop just sprayed some ss black on one of their Porsche projects
 
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