Woodcutter
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Didn't get round to doing a thread for this car.
It popped up for sale in April and I snapped it up quickly, I have always wanted a 968 and they don't come up too often in Sport or Club Sport guise.
It was in a rather sorry state when I got it with no MOT or tax, there wasn't a panel on it that hadn't been marked in some way, there was rust around the windscreen where someone had made a balls of replacing the screen, the side skirts had been removed to check for rust and never put back on, brakes were all knackered, battery was done, drop link was knackered and and it generally just needed some proper TLC.
Initially I was only going to tidy it up and enjoy it, but it pretty much ended up a full restoration job. To begin with it went off to get the oily bits sorted:
Discs/pads all round
New droplinks
New power steering pump
Wiper motor refurb
New battery
Mahle Air/oil/fuel filters
NGK Iridium plugs
Millers EE oil
Millers Nano 75w90 transaxle oil refresh
Gates timing belt & balance belts and INA rollers
After the mechanical bits got sorted, the car went off to AG Automotive in Portstewart for a repsray. I had considered some various colour changes, but the cost of changing the colour was way more than I had to spend on the car, so we agreed to just do it the same colour, Iris Blue.
So AG stripped the whole car, glass out etc and got stuck in. Entire car done using De Beer products, new windscreen put in, wheel refurb with new lightweight wheel bolts, all window/door/sunroof/bumper seals replaced with new ones, mirror base gaskets and door handle gaskets replaced too, and to finish it off a nice shiny new Porsche badge for the bonnet!
The original front bumper was in poor condition too, so I managed to source a second hand one from a guy Ciaran Woods (Woods-911) in Maghera, who had broken one for parts a few years back and still had some bits left over. Lucky strike there!
So here are the pics, going from when I picked it up, right through the repair process until how it sits now.
When I bought it:
MOT Day.
Off to AG Automotive:
In primer:
Paint:
It popped up for sale in April and I snapped it up quickly, I have always wanted a 968 and they don't come up too often in Sport or Club Sport guise.
It was in a rather sorry state when I got it with no MOT or tax, there wasn't a panel on it that hadn't been marked in some way, there was rust around the windscreen where someone had made a balls of replacing the screen, the side skirts had been removed to check for rust and never put back on, brakes were all knackered, battery was done, drop link was knackered and and it generally just needed some proper TLC.
Initially I was only going to tidy it up and enjoy it, but it pretty much ended up a full restoration job. To begin with it went off to get the oily bits sorted:
Discs/pads all round
New droplinks
New power steering pump
Wiper motor refurb
New battery
Mahle Air/oil/fuel filters
NGK Iridium plugs
Millers EE oil
Millers Nano 75w90 transaxle oil refresh
Gates timing belt & balance belts and INA rollers
After the mechanical bits got sorted, the car went off to AG Automotive in Portstewart for a repsray. I had considered some various colour changes, but the cost of changing the colour was way more than I had to spend on the car, so we agreed to just do it the same colour, Iris Blue.
So AG stripped the whole car, glass out etc and got stuck in. Entire car done using De Beer products, new windscreen put in, wheel refurb with new lightweight wheel bolts, all window/door/sunroof/bumper seals replaced with new ones, mirror base gaskets and door handle gaskets replaced too, and to finish it off a nice shiny new Porsche badge for the bonnet!
The original front bumper was in poor condition too, so I managed to source a second hand one from a guy Ciaran Woods (Woods-911) in Maghera, who had broken one for parts a few years back and still had some bits left over. Lucky strike there!
So here are the pics, going from when I picked it up, right through the repair process until how it sits now.
When I bought it:
MOT Day.
Off to AG Automotive:
In primer:
Paint:
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