944 Turbo '87 Young man's first Porsche

[mxputte]

I hope he will sell these control arm bushings!

/Dea

Yes he asked me if i was intressed, so i think he Will sell them:)

[Olli951]

Yes, those pushings will be available from Antti's shop. His caster blocks sold out quite fast.
There will be some other nice stuff for 944 models; we are brainstorming all the time

[Olli951]

Helped friends to to put into parts this wrecked 951 imported from Belgium. At first we planned to take black interior from it to Lauri's project but unfortunately condition of this interior did not pass our quality standards




Antti plans to build some kind of racer off it; let's see how it turns out.


took some bad quality phone pictures of some more winter activities

Heading to Antti's workshop


At Antti's workshop's front yard



Waiting for some clutch work (finished that job about week ago)


More or less in pieces


Antti draw some new parts for me, including this (not ready yet)....



As a side project i promise to change seals to clutch master & slave cylinders for another friends Zermatt Silber 951. Harsh winter we have had has done some nasty things for those old seals. First we had to get some space for Zermatt 951, so my friend fabricated suitable stand which allows move empty body easily.

Antti welding stand together



Empty body on stand



Zermatt 951 ready to be repaired



Finally got some new parts for front control arms (made by Antti)

[Olli951]

We manage to find complete 968 door panels with speakers and also rear side panels as well. Let's see how rear panels fit because the different shape rear side window.
Project car's original panels were fixed but still not the quality level we wanted.

[Olli951]

Had a design session with Antti yesterday. We would like to have a powersteering reservoir which does not leak like oem system does. Found this design from M5-forum. It's nice, but does not eliminate the major problem. We plan to use AN-style fittings which are superior compared to oem design. We toyed with an idea to produce similar style bow and oil catch tank made also form billet with AN-fittings.

Tank from M5-forum:



Bow we have uses already a little bit same design than that PS-reservoir



Few pictures from Antti's place.

Installing a Tiptronic unit under 968



It's almost there My eldest son Lauri making some final installations



Antti tig welding some parts to modified 997 GT2 intake for 996 Turbo engine



Special tool for 951 rear hubs. 500nm is quite nice torque when you have to un-bolt the nuts

[Olli951]

While i was putting Jaybird Hockey tape on some wires, son painted his burgundy dash and some other parts to black.

First he washed the parts and used some silicon remove stuff



Then fresh black paint








Painted parts looks in live like factory new

Next items to be painted are 968 door panels, which are now blue

[Olli951]

Removed windshield which was badly damaged on engine fire. Quite straight forward job to do.




Also Clone Reds arrived

[Olli951]

Junior did some painting.Also this area was damaged by the engine fire. Area was easy to repair after the damaged windshield was removed. Now there is a nice coat of satin black paint. Son also repaired wiring loom section which goes to heater blower and windshield wiper's motor. Now we are ready to install heater/AC unit and 968 dashboard





Got few parts from powdercoating










Got a wiper mechanism from a friend.Original one was sold because 951 was already doomed to be a parts car by a previous owner. Mechanism was overhauled and ball joints were lubricated well.

[watp]

Junior did some painting.Also this area was damaged by the engine fire. Area was easy to repair after the damaged windshield was removed. Now there is a nice coat of satin black paint. Son also repaired wiring loom section which goes to heater blower and windshield wiper's motor. Now we are ready to install heater/AC unit and 968 dashboard





Got few parts from powdercoating










Got a wiper mechanism from a friend.Original one was sold because 951 was already doomed to be a parts car by a previous owner. Mechanism was overhauled and ball joints were lubricated well.

This car is gone look like brand new
Nice work olli.

[jEKKT]

Then fresh black paint



Painted parts looks in live like factory new

Next items to be painted are 968 door panels, which are now blue

How did you remove it? Is it hard?

Did you rubb it before paint? If yes, with what?

[Olli951]

No need to rub it. Just use some silicone remover first. We are not going to use this dashboard even it does look like new. We got a complete dark blue 968 interior which will replace the original burgundy interior.
Dashboard was already removed from this 951 when we got it.




Usually it takes less than hour to remove it, there is 6-8 bolts/screws holding it, depending is car equipped with airbags or not. Air bag models have two extra screws installed on both ends of the dashboard.

Test fitting the new bushings



Some progress






Dark blue 968 dashboard

[YocaL]

I envy you Olli, it looks amazing!
Keep up the good work!

[Olli951]

I envy my son; it's his project
Hope i can build my own 951 even close to the standards junior's 951 have been built so far.

[YocaL]

Then, send him my best regards!

[Olli951]

Also window regulators/motors got some attention





Like guide rails as well, which were re-yellowpassived



As a "side project" changed belts to a 951 & 944. Quite hot work to do when it was about 30 celsius and even more in the direct sun light



My 968 turbo splitter mould is also ready. Just finished a splitter for a friend. Notice a old barbecue grill frame, which is very handy when you do some fibreglass work