512 BBi Resto

Great pics, this is what I want to do to mine one of these days. Ill have to save the pics for inspiration.

 

holy crap, this boxer is a work of art!!! wow!

 

An enthusiasts table of jewels!

 

Great thread, its like a good movie, I have laughed, giggled, cried, and smiled, yet I feel complete and all alone.

JK Great work

 

.....in how beautiful it is.

Anybody else suddenly feeling.......um, well......."inadequate"??
I even feel like I've been neglecting mine, only doing a little touch-up and polish yesterday.

I've got to see yours in person someday.

 

whats funny is these aftermarket parts that dress up the car are probably 1/4 the cost of OEM replacement parts

 

Yeah, I'm starting to feel like I own a 30 year old ox cart. Well, not really.

 

Mark, how about meeting in Chicago, a weekend sometime in September, to see the finished car?

 

Your car is AMAZING

I love Boxer's.

Thank you for the the pic's.

 

1/4 the price of stock parts?

Not sure which parts you're referring to J.P.

So far the only parts / systems not stock on my car are:

- Seats - mine will end costing around $10K
- Brakes - parts alone $8500. Quite a bit of custom work to install
- Radiator - being that Ferrari wants $4200 without fans, mine will come in just shy - only with fans.
- Wheels - Kinensis were arond 8k - new stock looking f40's arent finished yet.
- Steering wheel - still being constructed but will be arond $1500
- Shocks - Koni adjustable - $ has been published here before - not sure what we paid for them.
- Stereo - McIntosh amp, head unit, speakers - $4k for parts alone
- Tubi (I wish I had known of x-ost

Everything else is stock. There is unfortunetly nothing on this car that was inexpensive in my opinion. In some cases as you can see - the aftermarket parts are quite a bit more expensive than stock.

We have purchased so many stock parts as well - way to many to list but:
- Clutch
- Master cylinders (clutch and brake)
- Entire AC system
- Steering rack
- All hoses
- Countless trim pcs (a few still to go)
- All rubber seals

All irrelevant to me however. We want to make a great car. Quality and design are everything to me. The parts we chose and the decisions we've made have been based on creating my vision of what this car can be.

 

i'm with ya brutha! good thing mark likes us otherwise the hazing would have begun long ago!! lol.

i keep saying it but this is really a fantastic car.

newman will have a similar resto'd 308...it is a complete and detailed as mark's boxer!!

 

While I really don't want to go into to much detail on things but BB calipers if you can find them are outrageous, same with rotors, same with other BB parts if you can find them.

In particular I was referring to some of the hosing you are using such as the blue stuff compared to OEM parts.

I am not trying to pick on your car to each his own, I have used after market parts on my BB as well such as ignition and wires which is a big improvement over stock, my dash has been modded by Zender as was the entire car at great expense in the 80s, everything returned back to stock except the interior which is of superior quality than OEM IMO for road view and the leather quality and I can't bring myself to return it factory either as I like it better

 

I understand.
I'm tempted to reconsider my strategy of hanging on to some of my stock parts. Sounds like my rims and tires and rotors and calipers alone could bring some big dough.

 

Ill give you $50 a rotor, throw in the calipers and ill pay shipping!

 

Beautiful attention to detail....well done.
In the pic with the blue hoses, it appears as if you did not repaint the birdcage members...easy task even if you do it by hand with brush..
I cleaned and brush painted entire sub frame by hand on my ex bb.

 

What brand of hose clamp did you use on the coolant and fuel pipes? Im going through this issue with my 308 right now. I was looking at Wurth clamps, they come in metric sizes and are narrow like the originals (and the ones you used). Im not going to bend over the barrel and pay for the right clamps made in france so Ill go with what looks the same, just curious.

 

A few updates. The seats are finished. Way beyond my expectations. Perfect fit, great detail. Still installing suspension and brakes.
The birdcage was painted - see earlier shots. I think thats dirt maybe in that shot Michael - been awhile since we painted.
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Wow! Those seats are a work of art!

 

omg...i'm shocked! those seats are unreal!!!! this car just keeps getting better. i am shocked at how crazy this car is.

this will be THE boxer and it should be the subject of forza and other magazines as there will not be a better example on the planet. mark, i am a proud boxer owner/purist and your car is my idea of what the car should be.

thank you for your work.

 

those seats are out of control!!!

 

We made a new aluminum pan - mine was pretty beat up. There is also no indicator as to where place to put a jack near the front end (which is where mine had so many dents) so we made aluminum plates in the ideal spot.
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It almost makes me tired looking at the photos. The effort, level of detail, organization AND THE REMARKABLE KINDNESS to share it with sympathetic and equally possessed brethren. I ain't even talkin' 'bout the dough spent either - this is like watching Michelangelo Does Maranello or something.

Please know that for every high five you get here in words, there are dozens, hundreds even, of applauding, supportive F-fans (like me) who think this thing is the end-all be-all of "properly" modded Boxers. Sure, we could all bicker over details, but my gosh, this is book-worthy. I said that about 2 months ago, and still say it: I'd buy the ebook, download, or coffee table wonderlust pictoral of this project.

You're very generous to your highly qualified techs and artisans, but most especially to us who somewhere deep inside kinda wish we were doing a project like this... yet we can get our kicks through yours! Keep it going...

 

Tell me about it! I was depressed for 12 hours after I heard about the brakes (my stock brakes are, um, ..... ) When he does the motor....

 

I don't know where you are getting all these trick carbon fiber parts - the interior lamp surround?!!! Unbelievably cool. I want some. And, yeah, those seats gave me a stiffy too. What a dream...

 

The Completion of this car will certainly be evidenced by the Colorado institute Department of seizmology ....

This car is OFF THE CHARTS !

Cant wait to see completion....

Bravo!


BTW... if they were my parts, I would clear coat matt spray all A arm and sup. castings...they will stay that way much longer!