With the Prepared RWD class secured there was nothing holding us back from removing those big and heavy rear bumper over-riders from the car.
It's a bit rough looking with all the holes and we still need to illuminate the plate (later) but still, 17lbs saved and it looks "cleaner"?
Weight loss can be addictive and now we are into Modified Rear we can go nuts. So, another 11lbs saved:
and then another 14lbs:
and what does all this weight loss get you?
only by 8 seconds this time with a lot more competition. 2014 is going to be fun.
Storz
Dork
11/20/13 6:47 a.m.
Car looks great! I miss the MI RallyX scene 
Please come to nationals next year in Nebraska and beat us all in MR.
By the way, this car works effectively for advertising. I'll be ordering wheels from you for my RX7 after the first of the year. 
Talking of wheels, can you do the Fuchs replicas in 17" for a 930?
mazdeuce wrote:
Please come to nationals next year in Nebraska and beat us all in MR.
By the way, this car works effectively for advertising. I'll be ordering wheels from you for my RX7 after the first of the year.
Thinking about Nationals. This car is so good even I might do well.
Wheels for an RX7. We can do that.
Adrian_Thompson wrote:
Talking of wheels, can you do the Fuchs replicas in 17" for a 930?
I wish. Keep pushing the factory to introduce them but they "don't see a market".
Twelve months ago to the day we took delivery of this fine 84 Carrera with a view to turning into a Rothmans 911 SC/RS tribute and to RallyCross the wheels off it. Well, if you've been following this thread you'll know it's been an interesting year with a few ups and downs but we can now declare this project COMPLETE.
We still intend developing it further as a RallyCross monster but as far as the initial goals of the project go, we have reached them. The car has been a joy to both drive and work on and there has been some work to do. You may remember the torsion bar breaking after just a couple of miles of ownership. Then the alternator failed and there was that oil leak necessitating the removal of the engine. But the highs have more than made up for the lows and, to be honest, fixing these issues was part of the fun.
Just a week after replacing the torsion bars the car scored its first RallyCross victory in essentially stock form. It went on the win every RallyCross it ran in and the Detroit SCCA RallyCross Championship. A co-driver took it to second place in almost as many events and the championship as well. What a car! It's also showed its prowess in ice racing and autocross and has proven no end of fun on two or three track days as well. Last week it completed its first TSD rally without missing a beat.
Here's a little montage of its development throughout the year.
No Replacement For This Placement - YouTube
Of course we will continue to improve the car especially as we will now be competing in Modified class. A class the car has already been successful in on two occasions by the way. Look out for further weight reduction and performance tweaks during 2014 and also maybe the cars replacement (or partner) ;) Stay tuned.
Thanks for all the help and advice from the forum members
Enjoy the holidays.
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In reply to teamilluminata:
Great build thread, one of the best I have looked through recently. I have growing interest in an Evo 8/9 winter DD/rallyX/autoX car, seems like too much fun and this 911 certainly seemed to do well in these different environments!
turtl631 wrote:
In reply to teamilluminata:
Great build thread, one of the best I have looked through recently. I have growing interest in an Evo 8/9 winter DD/rallyX/autoX car, seems like too much fun and this 911 certainly seemed to do well in these different environments!
Thanks turtl631.
It is a lot of fun. I would certainly recommend it and you can't go wrong with that EVO even if the engine is in the wrong place LOL
Looks like it's time to remove the bumper shocks and replace them with aluminum brackets. That'd save a few good pounds.
In reply to teamilluminata:
and about 50lbs of muffler bearings but no serriously, only porsche would have bumper shocks.
We continued to take some weight out of the car this past week. It's kind of fun concentrating on these free mods. Feels like cheating though my wife did say I'd ruined another perfectly good car. She might have a point LOL.
Managed to remove the stubborn seat belt latch allowing removal of the seat bases and carpet.
This revealed water damage in the seat pans. Fortunately it's not too bad. Nothing a little POR15 can't handle.
Looks like another 30lbs gone.
This insulation residue will be fun to remove. NOT.
An angle grinder with wire brush reduced it to this.
Just need to remove the glue now but first RALLYCROSS :)
Not exactly your typical suburban driveway but I guess not everyone has a RallyCross tomorrow.
:)
I finally beat my co-driver :)
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Nice work Paul!
Is the car right hand drive?
teamilluminata wrote:
I finally beat my co-driver :)
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Why is someone standing on the roof? ISn't that a moveable aerodynamic device? I think you were cheating :)
cghstang wrote:
Nice work Paul!
Is the car right hand drive?
LOL no, I had on a stealth helmet.
Adrian_Thompson wrote:
teamilluminata wrote:
I finally beat my co-driver :)
Why is someone standing on the roof? ISn't that a moveable aerodynamic device? I think you were cheating :)
We are in Modified now so we can do that.
We've been cracking on with tidying up the rear of the car we stripped a few weeks ago. It was a bit of a chore but is complete now. We had to wait for a gap in the schedule as we had to remove the seats, harness bar and harnesses to get back there but we managed it.
The first thing we had to address was this surface rust from a yet to be found water leak.
We hit it with a wire brush and some rust treatment.
The next challenge was to remove the old dry glue residue. We tried many solvent products but settled on decal remover, a scraper and many, many Scotch pads (not shown) as the best solution. It took a while as working in the confined space with the chemicals required many tea breaks.
Once it was cleaned up we brushed on a couple of coats of Rustoleum and job done.
We only did the rear for now. There's not much weight savings to be gained in the front and it's less beneficial than what we removed from the rear. Plus there's a lot of stuff to deal with to get at everything so it can wait for now. We did clean up the transmission coupling cover by applying a sheet of carbon fibre look vinyl. I know it's pretentious but its the holidays.
If anyone can make use of the parts we removed let me know. Most of it is in at least serviceable condition.
:)
Is the rear deck cover the same in the Targa and the coupe? If so, I am interested.
MrJoshua wrote:
Is the rear deck cover the same in the Targa and the coupe? If so, I am interested.
Sorry, I Don't know but suspect so.
teamilluminata wrote:
MrJoshua wrote:
Is the rear deck cover the same in the Targa and the coupe? If so, I am interested.
Sorry, I Don't know but suspect so.
This page would suggest not :(
http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/shopcart/911M/POR_911M_INTpnl_pg6.htm#item23
