As the build is soon coming to a close, I drove up to
Speedsport Tuning to grab all the parts taken off the car to move into storage and snap some recent pictures of the build. Although the transmission housing came from the machine shop over a week ago, the transmission rebuild hit a snag when the new bolts for the differential arrived from Porsche with the wrong dimensions (a bit too short).
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| Scarlett - Speeedsport Tuning - 3/16/2020 |
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| Um, that new diff bolt is too short (left) |
Well, at least the new, correctly sized bolts have finally arrived so they can finish the transmission build this week and it can rejoin the engine and the whole thing can be remarried to the chassis.
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| Transmission housing fresh from machine shop |
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| Gears back together with fresh synchros |
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Wavetrac diff installed -
everything fits nice and tight! |
The DAS rollbar is all bolted in. Fitment is really good as expected. Rear seat backs and seatbelts deleted. The Rennline black aluminum pedals and billet adjustable decklid hinge is also in now.
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| DAS rollbar installed |
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| Rennline black aluminum pedals |
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| Rennline billet adjustable decklid hinge |
Finally the KW Classic suspension is installed. The bushings were still good so those were left in. The upper strut mounts and ball joints were replaced. The tie rods were also replaced with new turbo tie rods which are beefier and recommended upgrade. Ride height still needs adjustment along with corner balance/alignment of course.
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| KW Classic shocks installed |
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| KW Classic shocks installed |
Although there isn't much left in the build, there's still a few details that need sorted. For instance, once the engine is back in the car, there's likely be more adjustments made to the EFI tune to make it run correctly. Wiring also needs to all be checked out including the installation of the new classic retrofit fuse box up front. The new radio also still needs to go in. Right now the focus is on getting the mechanicals sorted. Optimistically we're looking at the end of March before she'll be street ready then off the body shop to get her freshened up.
