The Koenig snorkels have filters in them above the mesh near the inlets. If I ran stacks open through the rear lid like in the picture I would have individual filters on them without question. All it takes is an inattentive driver in front of me to veer onto the gravel shoulder for a second and my engine inhales gravel!
Except standoff through the carbs can fuel soak the foam filters and produce a roman candle if and when a carb sneezes.
There is nothing better than seeing pics of the before and after work of a master craftsman that takes pride in his work.....Beautiful!
That's because the foam disintegrates and gets removed or gets ingested. Mine had foam pads (crumbling) sitting on those screens you also have.
Head light over-spray doesn't surprise me because it just seems to be the way these cars (ferrari's) were done when they had a paint job. Since we painted the front clamshell, headlight buckets, masks and bumper I couldn't leave this and sleep at night. Note wire path to fan motors and electrical tape on ground wires. Proper path is through the brackets above all three fan motors and the red horn hose is attached to the same brackets with a special tie strap as it runs across the front structure. I removed the tape, re-routed the hose and wires then put star lock washers on the grounds since they were missing. 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
After re-paint of clamshell, light buckets and bumper. I replaced the grill screws with the correct ones, originals were long gone which is typical (dust really shows up with the flash!) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Needs final polish so ignore micro-scratches and the rest of the car will get a polish to make it all match. I like to do the final buff and wax after assembly so minor assembly marks are also dealt with because most times you mar something putting a car together. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
This car is lovely due to some very focused effort by Paul. A black carb boxer is pretty cool. Funny how this car is now Soooo sweet but not too long ago it was being dressed down when it was first seen on ebay. Great work Paul.
Pete, Don't be fooled, this black boxer needed a lot of work just as the ebay thread pointed out and this thread shows. The bonus now is the dramatic increase in prices has made it more palatable to deal with while retaining a big upside. It was a great starting point no doubt with no DOT, very original and black but far from what it is now. I believe 1990 was the last time anything was done to it so Dave had the pleasure of making it current which is usually the case when they change hands.
Boxers are very fond of good grounds. Flickering lights and slow windows are just symptoms. Seems any time you replace a wired component, it'd be wise to totally clean up the attachment areas. Car is looking great Paul. It has come a long way!
Some differences in the details. The head light masks are different 365 to 512, a bean counter move in my opinion. The later mask is easier to make without question. The early mask with the lower lip that fills the gap and hides the area below is from the prototype BB512. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The rear grill originally wasn't coming out but to make the rear clamshell rear flat face dent free and remove other improper prep techniques from the 80's we had to remove it. Heres the dilemma. The clamshell now looks great but the rear grill looks bad, a fresh piece connected to a ratty piece, a piece that looked okay before just not perfect but now looks too bad to put back in. The rear grill and inlet grills up top are anodized but shops tend to paint them during a body repaint. In this case they sanded the louvers for the paint to adhere. I used paint stripper to remove the offending paint to reveal the original finish with sanding marks and an area where they went through the anodizing. Not a big deal because they didn't hit it with 40 grit paper. There can be no paint or ferrous metal present during anodizing so it needs to be stripped and prepped before being sent out. The anodizer's stripping process won't remove paint and the anodizing will heat any ferrous metal red hot and damage anything its touching so always remove steel even a partial rivet left behind. The rear grill is ready to be anodized which is a quick and easy process. 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
No different than on the Testarossa when they went from the knock off to the 5 bolt. The 5 bolt wheel was considered by many as an upgrade....... LOL Sure it was.
I would love to know what happened here that resulted in this repair if you can call it that. This is the sort of thing you can't anticipate but need to fix when you stumble across it. Every wire but two that feed the rear clamshell have been cut and then twisted and taped back together! Love the bare extension added in to keep the wire length correct at the plug. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Wire color isnt a match but I soldered the connections and used shrink tube to make it a permanent fix. New harness sleeve and the damage is gone. Ill add an opaque silicone sleeve to the last 18" or so as per original and plug the clamshell in. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Looks great Paul, it is coming together very nicely! I have a sweet TR engine to sell you if you want to pop it in her! hahahaha just kidding!
Choke solenoids have 90 degree hard shell connectors. The RF carb was missing this and had a not so great setup so I replaced the one connector and the 4 hard-shells so they all match color-wise. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
