Rusty bucket into Solo toy, Some highlights of my budget autocross build from rust to rocket |
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Rusty bucket into Solo toy, Some highlights of my budget autocross build from rust to rocket |
Han Solo |
Sep 30 2013, 10:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 30-September 13 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 16,456 Region Association: South East States |
New to this forum but I've been around 944s, 924Ss, Boxster and Cayman forums for years.
This one is going to take some time. Purchased for $900, non-running but otherwise complete '73 914 2.0. Certainly just beyond a viable restoration car but probably okay for what I plan to do with it. Here's some highlights of the tear down... On the trailer going to the house. Attached thumbnail(s) |
Han Solo |
Jan 11 2014, 09:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 30-September 13 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 16,456 Region Association: South East States |
It finally warmed up enough Thurs. for me to get a few hours in. I decided to go ahead and strip what was left of the right suspension console. I started by cutting some of the engine shelving out to the rear of both suspension consoles. There was some rust in those areas and I'm not worried about keeping that intact anyway. Then I drilled out the spot welds at the rear of the assembly. There appeared to be more spot welds along the top edge and the front but the corrosion made it really hard to ID those. I just got busy with the grinder and within two hours had that joker off. That assembly wraps under the long and joins where the trailing arm bracket attaches. It appears that is all one piece fitted at the factory (there must have been a notch where the seam under the long passes). However, the fine replacement part from RD stops at that seam but more on that later.
I got back into grinding this morning and cleaned up the area under the long. There's a pretty good rust hole under there and that will have to be fixed. In fact, the underside of the long is missing from about 10" forward of the firewall to close to the suspension bracket. I'm going to attempt one long patch under there but first I'm dealing with the top in the hell hole. There's a rust hole in the wheel house I patched first. That went well and hopefully tomorrow I can patch the top of the long. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496723.1.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496723.2.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496724.3.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496724.4.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496725.5.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496726.6.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496726.7.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496727.8.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496727.9.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i1336.photobucket.com-16456-1389496728.10.jpg) |
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