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  1. #11

    Are you keeping the battery boxes?

    Hi Max,

    I spoke to a knowledgeable person who has inspected many of the original cars. Based on review of his old notes from those inspections, he recommended that the RH battery box be shaved but that LH box be retained. Here are the pics of the batterry boxes post-surgery. Other opinions may dffer but it is already done...

    Where did you source steel front and rear flares?
    The front fenders, complete with flares as well as the rear flares came off of another 71 coupe that had been dealer modified for its first owner here in the Hartford area.
    Like all old parts, the fenders and flares required a fair amount of repair and tlc to make them nice again.
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    Wow! Fantastic I had been planning on building a ST and I searched high and low for steel style ST Flares, nice going finding those.

    Awesome Car! Can't wait to see it completed!

    Jon W.
    72T Coupe - hotrod.
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  3. #13

    comments on coolers

    Jon W: glad you like the old steel fenders; the donor car just appeared in the shop one day as if on cue. We had been searching for steel factory ST flares for quite a while - without success.

    Hi Raj; thank you very much for posting the 911R oiling system diagram. I had not seen it before and it will be a big help to us. The 2.3 ST oiling system is quite similar to the 911R, albeit with a rear mounted tank (to answer Bert's inquiry). Thanks again for sharing the diagram - a very cool document.

    As to your question about how in the world we expect to mount the RH cooler without the batt box in situ - well, it will require fabrication of suitable tabs to weld into the RH wheel well to mount the cooler on that side.

    OliveR: yes, the coolers for the project are indeed the same as the S version cooler in your photograph, except that they are still in bare aluminum.

    Before getting into the oiling system in any greater detail, I hope you guys don't mind that this thread will focus for the time being on getting all the body work sorted.
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  4. #14

    final shape on front fenders

    Here are some pics of how the front flares look in their final shape.

    There is more to getting these flares looking the same side to side and in the same spot on the fenders then one might think. Once that part is done you need to get the contours just so and most importantly, pleasing to the eye.

    All this hand work may help explain why seemingly no two ST cars look exactly alike.

    Here the primer shows evidence of final attention with hammer and dolly to get a nice shape.

    Headlamp buckets are being checked for gaps and alignment.

    The RH headlight bucket was water damaged and badly rotted underneath the old paint. It required replacement with a solid bucket.
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    Gaps for alu skinned doors

    This is a hot rod, so the shop does not want to just throw it together like a real race car!

    Checking door gaps after re-skinning the doors revealed one or too proud surfaces that required attention to make them look street car nice.
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    Balsa front lid trial fit

    The balsa front lid was surprisingly straight and aligned nicely when first bolted on. The lid is seen here on the car for a trial fit prior to being stripped of its old, but still lurid, Signal Yellow and Blutorange livery.


    Underneath the old lid there is fair amount of tank blow-by and fuel permeated gunk accumulated during long-term storage. The 2.3 ST donor of this old balsa lid was written off somewhere in Germany. There are a few more bits from the same unknown donor that will be used on this project.

    You can see the balsa wood reinforcement strips let into the grp on the underside of the lid in the second image.

    These lids are shockingly light - more like grp reinforced balsa then balsa reinforced grp.

    911.511.901.00 Hood front materia artificiale
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    first primer coat

    First primer coat gets shot on the sides.

    Green metal etching factory-look primer is now on the doors.
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    Nice looking project you've got there Tom!

    Thanks for the detailed shots
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  9. #19
    Hi Cam:
    Thanks. Hope it will be appearing shortly with Peaches in the Show Your Ride thread!
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    Tom

    Very very cool, it must be very exciting where your at right now,

    Im a couple weeks behind you and am getting very very anxious and seeing thread like yours don't help!

    What color are you painting it?
    72T Coupe - hotrod.
    72S "Tangie"
    73S Poop Brown
    69T Irish Green
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