Very cool indeed and an improvement in so many ways especially for someone that really likes to drive their cars.
This project has evolved into a full repaint returning the car to its original black paint. Im very excited to see it returned to its original look and lose the resale red. Ill be removing the necessary parts to do a bare metal respray, suspension etc. No boxer trim on this one, gloss black right to the bottom. Pics next week.
So this car was originally black which I discovered when it arrived because I removed one door panel just to see for myself. Glad to discover its no RED! It is possible to get sick of red cars, I'm surrounded by them daily and my boxers are both red, wish they weren't. My 84 will end up black or blue. The car is almost ready to have the paint stripped off. Its pretty thick and they got it everywhere including the black up front that they covered the fans and fan motors with. Not getting carried way with nut and bolt detail because its a driver and Testarossa powered. I just thought of something. If the car was correct in every aspect except for the engine being from a testarossa how many points would one be deducted? If its less than 5 points it possible it could be a platinum car with the wrong engine! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
More carnage. Looks like a bat-yielding individual with an anger management problem had access to the condenser and a can of black paint. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Suspension is in need of attention. I replaced the bushings and rear wheel bearings. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Care was not taken when it went from ultra-cool black to resale red, surprised they didn't get red on the dash. Drip rail trim now red. Should be polished and black anodized on the smooth rounded top part and the lip rail should be painted satin black. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Sequence number on lower drip rails, all boxes have this number. Crud between the front door jamb plate and cowl post. Trim will be stripped and if they didn't sand the top rounded drip rail then I can clean it and put it back on. If they sanded it then replacing it may be the more economical choice. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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Cleaner electrically now that the DOT add-on lighting is removed. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Round bar over-laid on top of frame rail beside rad is the amerispec DOT reinforcement. The bar has provisions to mount the factory fog lights but they didn't install the bar far enough forward so the fog lights interfered with both outboard rad fan blades (had to see in the pic). The lights are supposed to be just forward of the fan blades so they just clear. The solution was to point both fog lights outward on a 45 degree angle so the fans cleared! Note black overspray on fog light. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is where the DOT gets ugly and uglier when the wrong person hacks some of it out to fit a regular bumper on the car. This will be undone and OEM in appearance. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
thank you for all the nice pictures here paul and to show us how bad somebody makes his work ( of course not you ). to the 3 radiator fans in front of the radiator: I always had problems with my BB koenig ( 450 PS ). the engine get to warm after hard driving and then driving in the town or stopping at a traffic light. so I changed those 3 fans and put 2 high blow fans behind the radiator. since then I never have any problems. I think thís also would be better for the TR engine because this engine produces a little more heat then the BB engine. only an idea from me
Exactly how I felt but it feels great to be the one fixing it! This is how it will look. Image Unavailable, Please Login
More nice stuff. They painted the car and didn't tape anything off. Left headlight assembly is missing the surround and the other side they painted it red, should be satin black. Cleaned off the paint from the lights with reducer but didn't go further than that. Looks like sander marks on the chrome trim! Just undoing the damage not detailing over the top. Drip rails that are anodized black have been sanded with 40 grit paper and painted red so Im debating how I should address those. Right side is available new for 80GBP which is less than I can fix it for but the left side is NLA. Original black paint where back widow was. Its unbelievable that someone so incompetent would be allowed to paint a car like this. Unfortunately this is a pattern that I see over and over again and I just don't understand it. It seems that exotic cars suffer more in this regard vs run of the mill domestic cars and the service shops are worse than the typical shops that repair daily drivers. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Rear clamshell modification has been reversed. We made a center section from flat sheet using a beed roller to reproduce the step that surrounds the air boxes. The center bars were also replaced with the correct metric steel tubing but we had to put a gentle arc in it since the rear deck isn't flat although it looks it. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hello Newman, First off Amazing work, but i have a question, do you know why the Rear clamshell was modified in the first place it look like a taller intake was in place before
Thanks Patrice The car was converted to bosch CIS fuel injected with twin turbos and needed clearance for the intake and plumbing.
The car is in first primer, the darker stuff is epoxy where they went to aluminum while making it straight. The structure front and rear is going to be sand blasted next, primed and then the body moves to the main shop for more primer then block sanding etc. Front bumper was damaged pretty badly but the main fiberglass work has been done and its strong. RR inner fender had a hole cut in it to accept an injected boxer coolant tank. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Starting to look like a BB engine! Making sure its ready to install once the body returns from paint. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
