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stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

Thought I might put some pictures up of the project car. It was going to be just a clubday car but these plans change...

I should have saved my pennies and bought something that was running and in fairly good nick but then I would have struggled to pull it to bits and turn it into a racecar. 924`s arent all that common in Tassie and this one was cheap.. as you can see by the pictures..

Delivery day.. rough as guts!

That should buff out...

Sound deadener.... uuuuggghhhhh

I tried Dry Ice but was a bit dissapointed so it was out with the heat gun, a chisel, a scrapper, screwdriver, parts cleaner, rags, razors, scrubbing brush, wire wheel attachment, metho, acetone and beer.. Ive only got the passenger side to go...

Ive always wanted a bumper sticker that says "My other car is also a Porsche"...

Test fitting the A9X flares

We`re starting to seam weld it on the weekend, then getting the cage in and giving it a squirt of paint.. Oh, and hopefully, getting it to start..

In hindsight, I should have just stripped everything out of the shell and had it dipped.. but we want it on the track by december.. hmmm
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daniel · Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 686 Location: Sydney, Australia

Good on you for scraping all the tar of the floor. I purchased my car in August and had it running in November, so what you are trying to do is not impossible. I did the following:
- Strip the interior, including tar
- Fit 2x OMP race seats
- We made our own cage, I made a sample cage from PVC pipe, took it to fabricator who made the bends up for me. We then cut and welded.
- Fitted 28mm torsion bars and 250lb springs, bilstiens all around.
- s/s brake lines
thats it, purchased the car for $6000, put another $5000 into it.

Good luck, let me know if you need any advise!
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1989 944 Cabriolet

stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

Thanks Daniel, I`ll definitely be hitting you up for advice. I really want to run it in Improved Production depending on how we go with convincing CAMS that it should be so... there is a "Targa" class here in Tas I can run it in as well though.
Are you happy with that suspension setup? Once we`ve got the cage in I`ll be tackling the suspension.
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chax · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject:

Hey ! Your parking lot just looks like mine

stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

Beautiful cars Chax!
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chax · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:54 pm Post subject:

Thanx

hayeslewis · Joined: 21 Aug 2011 Posts: 74 Location: Alexandria, VA

Beautiful work, I skipped it and bought a racer-but I admire it greatly. I've helped remove sound deadening on other cars, a truly miserable experience!

stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

To be honest, in hindsight, I would have been better off striping the car to a shell and having it dipped, then painted, then just install the bits it needs to be a racecar.
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Ian89C4 · Joined: 01 Apr 2011 Posts: 561 Location: North Carolina

Plus one on the miserable experience!!!!

I have been overseas for a bit so work has stalled on the racer project, but I feel you pain. I have all of the melt sheet out - but all of the resedue is still in there - that part I am dreading!!!!!!!!

Good luck!!

Looks great so far =-)
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1981 924 SCCA/ChampCar Weissach Race Car ("Serenity")
1987 924S ChampCar Endurance Car ("Der Weg")
1980 924 Euro ("Wahala")

stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

Some more progress... trying to get the cage in before the end of the year so we can get it log booked..

Bit of pretty lights welding..

Stitching up the seams

Rear cage in.. still got to put the horizontal bar from left to right in though

Hopefully we can start on the front this weekend.. if the steel arrives in time...
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stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

Well, its been a few months so here are some progress pics.

Cage almost complete

More of the cage

Front panels removed ready for a tidy up, and fitting a turbo badge panel

We got the engine running and it will do for a couple of Club days. Next phase is to pull all the suspension off and the gearbox out and then get it painted. Then reassembly...
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stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

Oh, and yes, some of those welds look a bit ugly, we`ll clean them off and run another bead over them. We were having trouble with the welder.

Also, for the Aussies, I got the roll cage "grandfathered" under 2011 rules. Basically I paid my Cams fee`s and sent a heap of photo`s of the tubing and installation diagrams and got it approved in concept under the 2011 rules.
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stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

Oh, and a quick video of the engine running...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWP-jBvDhzE&list=UUCX4gdcdcy8YEFHvUNngzvQ&index=4&feature=plcp

yes, noisy tappets...
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lordam · Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 46 Location: New South Wales

What changes to roll cage design are coming in 2012 that you have been able to avoid by "grandfathering" into the 2011 regs?
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stuartbrs · Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 54 Location: Tassie, Australia

Not a lot actually...the roof only has the one center bar, 2012 rules say an X. And there is some measurent on the front legs which it turns out wouldnt make a difference to a 924/944 anyway. There was a lot of doom and gloom about 2012 roll cage rules but most it relates to rally cars and road rally cars.
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