[jarrodblake]

Originally Posted by ghalperin

Nice work. I like the dimple die holes on the doors. Where else are you putting them? How about the leading edge of the hood? I spy a LWB P-Car on a rotisserie. What's up with that?

Thanks! I like how they turned out. What do you mean by leading edge? The very front of the hood where the emblem is? I don't think you can get a die in there. I have thought about doing a row on both sides of the center line down the hood kinda like this but closer to the center line. But I would have to make some kind of rain drainage catch under it and I just don't know if I want to do that.



As far as the 911 it's my long term project. It's a 83 targa that I am converting to a Midengine RSR Backdated coupe. It has 05 911 C2 front suspension 01 boxster rear unibody section and rear suspension. The hubs are almost flush with the stock rs sized fenders. So I am going to probably have to make some RWB or wider flares to tuck the wheels.

Here is a link to the build.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...d-find-12.html


Anyways sorry I have been slacking on the updates.

I suppose it is time for a photo dump.

Well I Picked up the engine from fedex the other week!

IMAG1741 by jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr

I stopped by harbor freight on the way home a picked up a new engine stand rated at 1 ton. Along with a few other things.

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I also killed my engine hoist... well it blew out an O ring.

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Then the next day, I had to drive a hour and a half to my closest fastenal for a set of bolts, because the cummins engine uses metric and they were the only ones that had that size of bolts in stock.

Anyways I got it on the stand.

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I popped one of the valve covers off to see what kind of condition the engine was in and to see how well it was taken of, and to see if there was any build up for lack of oil changes, and it's super clean under the valve cover. But only time will tell when I start getting into it.

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So I finished up the engine test stand and sold it, the engine and trans.

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I quick video of it running.

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Back to paint prep. I got the doors down to bare metal.

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I was going to have the brushed marks going down the side of the truck horizontally but with the body lines it looks better going vertically.

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Getting ready for clear coat.

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And some clear!

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My bell housing came in yesterday!

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Test fit!

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I have a 95 GM NV4500 so the lower two bolt holes are wrong and I will have to have the input shaft retainer turned down to fit the trans. But the 95 GM uses the same gearing as the dodge so I won't have to swap the gears out.

So I bolted the two bellhousings together and drilled out the lower two holes.

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Then I taped the new holes.

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So I may have messed up. I probably should have bought a dodge Nv4500 bellhousing instead of the adapter housing. And bought the engine adapter and starter. As I can not find a clutch fork as the adapter bellhousing I bought you are supposed to use the Getrag 360 clutch fork and it is pretty much impossible to find one and the last listing I found for one for sale was $400 for one. So if anyone knows where one is for less then a $100 let me know. So my plan for now is to cut up the chevy one and see if I can make it work.