Ac changes

 Air conditioning  No Responses »
Jan 122014
 

I’m putting air conditioning into the Porsche and I bought a kit to install it but I’m not happy with the way the kit installs below the knee pad on the bottom of the dash. I decided that I’m going to try and build a custom knee pad that has the ducting built in. It should leave me more leg room and also look a lot better than the scab on kit. I’m also going to fabricate a custom heater box. I thought I could install my heating elements in the existing fan box but it turnabout not to be that simple. Project is growing a little bit every time I go out and work on it. List is getting bigger instead of smaller. I also found a lot of rust in the trunk that I am wire wheeling out along with removing the factory goop on the floor.

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Frunk rust repair

 body, Mechanical  No Responses »
Jan 102014
 

Started to wire wheel away the rust in the front trunk. Gonna take a while to get it all cleaned up and I’ll probably have to hit it with the sand blaster in some of the tight corners. Definitely need to do some sheet metal repair. The car was in several front end collisions before I bought it and repairs were not very good. I’ll add to the amateur repairs.

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Sick during work week

 General  No Responses »
Jan 012014
 

So I had the week off between Christmas and New Years, and I planned to get a lot of work done on the Porsche. So for the second time I’ve taken time out to work on this project, I got sick during the days I was going to work on it. What a drag. Well, I did go to the store and got an upgrade kit for my welder so that I can MIG weld with gas instead of just the flux core that I have been using for projects around the house. This will make for much better looking welds on the car. I also got a portable sand blaster and some sand to remove some of the rust I’ve found after removing some of the components from the car. I’ll wire wheel it first and then use the sand blaster to get into the corners, and then I also bought some Rust Doctor to neutralize the rust before applying the Rustolium Primer.

I also ordered a tow bar bracket to put on the car for when I need to take it to specialty shops for drive shafts and other items. I also ordered the motor and gearbox “cradle” that I will be modifying to use with my drive-train. The one I ordered is for a Subaru conversion, but it will work really well as a starting point for my conversion. It should save me a lot of time, as well as now I don’t have to build a temporary unit and have a shop custom build off my temp jig.

So even though not much happened on the car itself, I got a lot done in the way of ordering parts and such.