Resto/Mod Backdating costs...

[Cheib]

GT Two said:

That is so so bad.

I’d got some rather stronger vocabulary in mind !!

[julian987R]

Cheib said:

GT Two said:

That is so so bad.

I’d got some rather stronger vocabulary in mind !!

interesting though to see huh. Makes a change from the 911 mods.

[stichill99]

So bad it hurts

[julian987R]

Following on from the Boxster mod, hows about this Boxster GT1 mod

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/11/porsche-boxster-...

[julian987R]

Recent documentary on how Ruf go about things

[2mpete]

Mumsn3t said:

For £200k???? Bonkers

I think it’s nice to make some upgrades on the older cars, some take them a bit further than others and it’s easy to see how you can rack up the £’s. As with much of the advice on here, I’ve bought one already done - the Oshe car that I think was previously mentioned on this thread way back. It’s a fabulous thing. No doubt I’ll start making my own changes (well, already started) but that’s all personal taste. As for value - that’s also down to the individual - as long as they see VFM, what does anyone else really care? It’s all about their own passion - motoring isn’t an investment class.

Enjoying mine to the full.

[Filibuster]

julian987R said:

Recent documentary on how Ruf go about things

I have seen this on lately in german. Absolutely fascinating!
Bearing in mind that RUF has the German type approval for being an independent car manufacturer (try getting that approval in Germany).
This is just another level from all other builds we have discussed here. Although RUF's use Porsche parts and design ideas, they are newly designed and developed cars.

Here is a great video about the 2018 SCR

[GTRene]

Filibuster said:

I have seen this on lately in german. Absolutely fascinating!
Bearing in mind that RUF has the German type approval for being an independent car manufacturer (try getting that approval in Germany).
This is just another level from all other builds we have discussed here. Although RUF's use Porsche parts and design ideas, they are newly designed and developed cars.

Here is a great video about the 2018 SCR

mmm that sounds lovely :-)

[julian987R]

£160K!! madness surely?

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1521140

[GTRene]

were is the trunk space :-) EV Home

[Mumsn3t]

julian987R said:

£160K!! madness surely?

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1521140

I find these projects really bizarre. You've ripped away everything that's wonderful about that car. You now have a pretty silhouette to look at.

And every time I see/ hear the ones with a sympathised engine noise, a piece of me dies inside. Desperately sad.

If this is it, if this really is the future, I think once ice is priced off the road, I'm done with cars. A track car, if possible and a soulless electric skateboard for the shop run.
Sad times.

[ChrisW.]

I think electric cars can be fun but there is little point to my mind, in removing what is so lovely about a classic car of its time to create a sub-optimal mule.

My concern would not be with the batteries or the electric motor ... it would be in the management of the operating temperature range of the batteries in "normal" use.

Look at the challenges McLaren have been having ... and no Alpine 110 electric ?

[Cheib]

julian987R said:

£160K!! madness surely?

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1521140

Madness indeed…which is why it is still for sale, probably will be for sale for a loooong time.

[Mintbird]

Heres mine.. 2.8 RSR hot rod.
Donor was a mint rustfree 1988 930 Turbo in orginal black.
Used that to get the correct strengthened RSR shell ...

3.25L Longstroke on AT Power ITBs and Motec..
316 BHP...shortened ratios G50.. should fly...

spent around 250k on getting it here.. will I get that back if I sell..
maybe, maybe not... been a fun process though

[Filibuster]

Mintbird said:

Heres mine.. 2.8 RSR hot rod.
Donor was a mint rustfree 1988 930 Turbo in orginal black.
Used that to get the correct strengthened RSR shell ...

3.25L Longstroke on AT Power ITBs and Motec..
316 BHP...shortened ratios G50.. should fly...

spent around 250k on getting it here.. will I get that back if I sell..
maybe, maybe not... been a fun process though

Tasty!

So this means the rear flares are original 930?

[GTRene]

that is going to be a fantastic base, nice work.

[Cheib]

I was told by Tuthill and have since been told by others that acid dipping can lead to problems….the acid can linger in the seams where the rain gutter runs down to the engine lid and come back to haunt a few years down the road. Can’t be got rid of without surgery !

[Slippydiff]

Cheib said:

I was told by Tuthill and have since been told by others that acid dipping can lead to problems….the acid can linger in the seams where the rain gutter runs down to the engine lid and come back to haunt a few years down the road. Can’t be got rid of without surgery !

That shell was dipped back in 2008, before it became clear that the dipping process caused problems at a later date.
The wanted to put it through the pyrolysis process. I refused point blank, which meant I had to strip the seam sealer, underseal and sound deadening manually myself ...

[Pflanzgarten]

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1983-porsche-9...


Nice.

[Cheib]

Slippydiff said:

Cheib said:

I was told by Tuthill and have since been told by others that acid dipping can lead to problems….the acid can linger in the seams where the rain gutter runs down to the engine lid and come back to haunt a few years down the road. Can’t be got rid of without surgery !

That shell was dipped back in 2008, before it became clear that the dipping process caused problems at a later date.
The wanted to put it through the pyrolysis process. I refused point blank, which meant I had to strip the seam sealer, underseal and sound deadening manually myself ...

Yes I guessed it was a long time ago. The hot rod I went to see at Tuthill (it was a car they’d worked on rather than a build of there’s) had been dipped which had also destroyed the insulation for the heating pipes in the sills….so every time you pulled the lever up for hot air you got dreadful wind noise in the car.