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> Marv's 3.6 GT project thread, the journey
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post Feb 25 2011, 06:53 PM
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post Feb 25 2011, 09:08 PM
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I will pay for shipping to Series 9 so that I may complete this beautiful car.

I have 3.6 experience.

Give me the address of the "mechanic" and I'll send the carrier.
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post Feb 25 2011, 10:46 PM
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QUOTE(Series9 @ Feb 25 2011, 08:08 PM) *

I will pay for shipping to Series 9 so that I may complete this beautiful car.

I have 3.6 experience.

Give me the address of the "mechanic" and I'll send the carrier.

God that's a sweet offer. Hell, I would send mine there to have you upgrade the 3.2 you did for me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Feb 26 2011, 10:31 AM
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Marvelous Marv!! Love this thread. It was great to read all the pages with progress day by day in 2006, now it 2011...I hope you get re-inspired and are able to get some work done on the car. Honestly it looks pretty much close to completion, just a little more work and I think you are done. Everybody is looking forward to seeing you complete the car. I hope you are able to do it and wish you all the best
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post Feb 26 2011, 10:49 AM
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QUOTE(Series9 @ Feb 25 2011, 07:08 PM) *

I will pay for shipping to Series 9 so that I may complete this beautiful car.

I have 3.6 experience.

Give me the address of the "mechanic" and I'll send the carrier.


Jeez Joe thats a great offer. I remember watching your 3.6 build when you were still in CO. Your work is very nice. My issue is that the car is in pieces all over this guys shop, I can't just pick it up. This guy is a master mechanic but is also somewhat a non finisher he has several projectcars of his own that are all about 50% complete.... in fact he is lovingly called 50% T*m. My car was supposed to be a project we worked on on evenings and weekends, it started out like that but he lost interest at various points in time, you can see this by all the starts and stops on this thread. I will also take some blame for this as I have been busy with my business. But I have asked him several times over the last couple years to prepare an invoice for his work. Originally I was going to trade a high end mountain bike for his services but that is no longer. The custom trans that was built by Jim Patrick was a bike deal like that. I would just like to get the car out of there but donot want to have bad blood as he is somewhat of a friend. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Feb 26 2011, 12:48 PM
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Screw bad blood, how long has the car been there? Half a decade? What a fucking joke, think about it. Threaten to move the car; schedule a uhaul trailer and truck for all the parts. If that doesn't light a fire under his ass, then pull your car out. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif)
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post Feb 26 2011, 02:58 PM
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QUOTE(Series9 @ Feb 25 2011, 07:08 PM) *

I will pay for shipping to Series 9.


Jeez Joe thats a great offer.



It's a standing offer. I'll pay shipping to Florida and charge you a fair price to take the project to completion.

You can fly out, and we can take the two 3.6s out to the track at Daytona and watch some racing.

If you're the adventurous type, drive it home to CA. Otherwise, fly home and ship the car.

I'm known for my ability to get things done. No BS.

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post Feb 26 2011, 04:41 PM
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Reading through the thread, it looks like the longs are bowed due to a reinforcement that was overdone. Maybe that is what is holding up the build.
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post Feb 26 2011, 04:56 PM
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I would just like to get the car out of there but donot want to have bad blood as he is somewhat of a friend. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

You are a man of amazing patience. After over five years, I'd say it's time to move it on and he has no right to feel bad blood over you wanting to take it somewhere else to get it finished. You certainly can't just leave it with him because you fear upsetting him. It's way past that point.
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post Feb 27 2011, 12:53 AM
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I'll I have to say is don't give up and contact me if you need some encouragement.
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post Feb 27 2011, 05:05 PM
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I had a problem like that but it only took 6 months of non work, for me to start picking up the stray parts 'first' so that nothing gets left behind ........... then went over there and had triple A to tow the car outa there. We are still friends after all that but now he gets my work done quicker (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif).

So go over there and start segregating parts that you know are yours and putting them in totes ....... and bring them home ...... if anyone asks why you are taking your parts ....... tell them they are yours and need to be worked on .......

5 years is waaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooo long for anyone to get 'upset' at you ............... pay what ever you legitimately owe and get your teener outa there ......... if anyone gives you any serious problems ........ bring the title to the car and the cops ............. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)
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post Oct 3 2011, 09:20 PM
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Alright Marv,
I guess I will give my favorite thread its yearly bump. I hope you eventually find a way to motivate your mechanic or atleast get it out of there. This car is to awesome to not see finished. 2012 is only 3 months away!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving-girl.gif)
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post Oct 3 2011, 11:28 PM
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Alright Marv,
I guess I will give my favorite thread its yearly bump. I hope you eventually find a way to motivate your mechanic or atleast get it out of there. This car is to awesome to not see finished. 2012 is only 3 months away!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving-girl.gif)
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So Kyle thanks for the bump. As it is now I do have the car and it cost me a fair sum of money plus attorneys were involved (need I say more)......but alas the car is not complete, nor do I have the money now to finish it. Maybe 2012. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Oct 3 2011, 11:30 PM
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Come to the G&R Marv. Be good to see you again.
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post Oct 4 2011, 09:18 AM
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Marv,
Its good to hear that you atleast have it again. What's left on the to-do list? From the pictures the car looks close to being ready to assemble. California build party?

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post Feb 16 2012, 08:56 PM
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Well folks it has certainly been a while since there was work done... I am glad to announce I finally have forward progress. yay. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

After a lot of searching I found who I consider one of the best in my region to finish my car. Don Kravig of Precision Motion Porsche. Don is a master porsche mechanic has decades of aircooled flat six AND much 914 race car building experience. Don has had my 993 engine for several weeks and has been prepping it for the car. Upon inspection of the exhaust valve guides it was decided to pull the heads and have at it. While we are in there we will add some performance mods.... I will post up some pics soon of the trick ass work being done. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif)
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post Feb 16 2012, 09:31 PM
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Excellent news! I can't wait to see the progress. Congrats on the restart of this project.
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post Feb 16 2012, 09:37 PM
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Great news!

This is probably the progress thread that I always wanted to see finished!


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post Feb 17 2012, 08:44 AM
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Glad to see you moving on it again Marv......its going to be a beautiful -6!!!!
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