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turboquattro  



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ideola wrote:
turboquattro wrote:
93A0153365 is alive and enjoying the sunny day today.
http://picasaweb.google.ca/ralleyquattro/1980Porsche924Turbo?authkey=Gv1sRgCKHNnpCZ8djuqgE#


Decided to keep her, eh?


Not much choice, I am not going to "give" her away
Plus it's the only one I have with working A/C..
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Fifty50Plus  



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Another one bites the dust.
Rear quarters are now in the spare parts bin.
Chuck
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Grenadiers  



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

save rear quarters? Interesting. I have that Arizona '81 931 losing it's parts. Gonna pull doors, most of interior, anything unboltable. So, body panels worth saving? No rust on car at all. Title was signed by, like, 3rd and 4th owner, and never submitted to DMV. Free to anyone who hauls it away!
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ideola  



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chuck, can you provide some instructions on where/how you cut those off? I tried with a sawzall on one of the earlier cars I scrapped, but gave up.
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Fifty50Plus  



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan,
I'll post some more photos tomorrow with a description.
Chuck
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's the car prior to starting to remove the rear quarters. I used a plasma cutter on the passenger rear and a sawzall on the driver rear.



The shot in my prior post shows the plasma cutter side. As it turns out, it was a pain with my plasma cutter because of the undercoating in the fender well and multiple coats of paint along the roofline. I then decided that I'd do the driver side with a sawzall.

Here's the driver side.



I didn't take the time to drill out the spot welds on the inner wheel arches and just cut them both sort of in the middle of the inner fender wheel arches with the sawzall. I figured it would be easier to dip the panels to remove the undercoating and expose the spot welds if I need to prep them for transplant onto my racecar. I also didn't take the entire C pillar up to the roof on the driver side.

BTW I only used a 6 inch blade (24 teeth per inch) on my sawzall - not the long ones you see at a chop shop. All in all, the sawzall method was about three times as fast as the plasma cutter (undercoating, bondo and paint issues).

Here's a shot as I say Adios to the '82 931.



Chuck
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turboquattro  



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fifty50Plus wrote:

BTW I only used a 6 inch blade (24 teeth per inch) on my sawzall - not the long ones you see at a chop shop. All in all, the sawzall method was about three times as fast as the plasma cutter (undercoating, bondo and paint issues).


I also use a sawzall for my car cutting (cordless is best for junk yards), and if you use good cutting lube (Wurth), one blade can last a very long time.
What I love about it it will go through everything, steel, plastic, wireing etc. etc.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fifty50Plus wrote:
Here's a shot as I say Adios to the '82 931.



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Vince Ponz  



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please retype. Your fingers are on the wrong line.

maybe?
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Mike9311  



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have two 931's

One complete and another that I bought most of the parts from a guy that was building some sort of a race kit car and quit.

EDIT: I should also add that I have a spare 931 snail shell so another car must have passed on to give me the opportunity to buy that one.
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ideola  



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ideola wrote:
Well, I can account for five complete ones, three still intact (if you count the UWB as intact) and two completely parted out with carcasses sent to the boneyard. I have had the better part of 3 additional complete engines pass through my hands, some of the parts stockpiled on my shelves. So that makes a total of 3 out of 8. I have enough to assemble a 4th complete motor, but it won't be going back into a 931 shell unless something dramatic happens. So 3.5 divided by 8 ~= 44% Crude math, but it's probably not far off from the reality for the entire fleet...


Add two more to my list: the 81 Euro from PA and the 80 "S" from Saginaw that I just picked up earlier this year. The Euro will be resurrected. The "S" is on the bubble.
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emoore924  



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Patand, is that air intake in the front below the radiator closed off? If yes, how was it done and what's the thinking there?

Just looks like it in the pic. Not sure what I'm looking at...
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

emoore924 wrote:
Patand, is that air intake in the front below the radiator closed off? If yes, how was it done and what's the thinking there?

Just looks like it in the pic. Not sure what I'm looking at...


Well spotted!

But no it is not closed off. I had my radiator punctured at two different occassions one year by small pebbles (stones). So I decided to put a fine mesh in front of the radioator instead of having a huge hole (I don't have the original plastic bars for my car unfortunately).
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patand  



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike9311 wrote:
I should also add that I have a spare 931 snail shell so another car must have passed on to give me the opportunity to buy that one.


I have 4 (yes it is true!) spare snail shells, so I guess 4 924 Turbos have died to give me these...

(I haven't killed any 931 so don't blame me!)
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Tas931  



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have one, it's the only one that i know of in my state... i know of only 2 non-turbos as well
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