1976 Porsche 912 build with 993 motor swap by freedomperiod

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The pre-op photos

This is how I first saw the car. The previous owner updated the car's appearance quite a bit. He got rid of the cookie cutter wheels and got a proper set of Fuchs. Carrera tail replaced the standard decklid.

He hated the chrome trim and door handles, so he changed it all to black, which was what's on the newer Carreras, of course. 

Fortunately, he kept most of the orriginal chrome stuff in storage and I was able to get my hands on it. 

Yes the car's interior looks black in the pic, but it's the same beat up red stuff i posted. Looks like the owner before the previous owner had it wrapped in black vinyl. It was beat up and weathered, so we just pulled all that stuff off. As I mentioned, we have some UV resistant suede to wrap it up in now. That ought to look pretty nice... not necessarily period correct, but it'll look nice. 

Some surgery pics...

Rust by cowl and windscreen chopped out and repaired.

It would have been nice to get all the body work right the first time, but to do the RS flares is only a (max) 2 week setback. I might even be able to drop the car off on a Friday and pick it up on a Monday or Tuesday.

It drives me crazy that I let that happen.

Since we need one more surgery here, my plan is to road test the car using the standard (no tail) decklid. It'll look a little odd with the '73 RS bumpers and no ducktail, but it'll be a total sleeper! Besides, I haven't found the right RS wheels yet and with skinny fender flares, the look just won't be complete.

ProtoSport has been kind enough to let me road test the car with those polished Fuchs in the pictures. They have basically donated those tires to the project. I intend to fry the back ones off while road testing the car.

Then, when I get a proper set of RS style Fuchs with the proper offset, resolve the tire situation, and have the RS fender flares put on, I'll put the ducktail spoiler on.

No duck tail, but I'm gonna wait until the wheels and flares (medical punn) are resolved. Then I'll throw on the duck tail. 

Oil cooler for 993.

Got this little beauty at a local Army/Navy store.

It's supposedly came from a Russian Mig fighter jet! Any aviation experts feel free to chime in. 

I've had my eye on this little piece for years, and it's been sitting in a display case for a very long time. Amazingly, the timer runs without any electricity to the leads. I guess it was designed in such a way that the timer can always be activated if there's a loss of electrical power. 

The shop owner said no one has pressed the buttons in years, so I'm amazed that there's still energy stored in that mechanism. Perhaps it's self winding, like a self-winding watch, where only movement is required to store energy in the spring. Maybe people picked it up just enough times over the years to keep it alive

Whatever the case, I plan to have the needles painted to match the rest of the gauges. It'll make a sweet lap timer and replace the factory clock. I never did like the factory Porsche clock much. 

Many thanks! I'm deeply flattered. Glad you like

^^ Seems like it ought to work in theory. Apparantly that's kind of the same way a 993 oil cooler sits in a 993 (see video explanation). 

We're going to need to put some heat reflective foil on the inside of the bumper there... don't want it to start melting lol!

Went with Carrera brakes in the rear. (Boxster brakes in the front)

Nice little RSR conversion in the background there. That wide body looks hot, but there's something so cool to me about the narrow body '73 RS look. 

Widebody is played... I'm on to the brand new sh*@ now... NARROW BODY