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A trial fit to the car and the offset is wrong! way too far in.
I wanted them to sit "in" as I plan to drop it but not this far!

They were on a later porsche and my early car is a different offset.

(the rim in this pic is not finished yet)





So, as you can see I need spacers.. (as they are from a late offset strosek 928)
My god ! they are expensive, on ebay a new set costs around £300 for what I need

But..i found a second hand set on ebay, and the gent agreed to end now for half that figure. Still a lot, but when you are up the creek with no paddle....

Anyway a few days later a box arrived-

2x 35mm and 2x 42mm hubcentric spacers.



sorted.

Got the look i was after and the car was tatty but reliable.

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Building up the new shell
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Didn't realy want ripped pinstripe seats in my minty shell so i bought Recaro, electric/ heated porsche logo seats, mint & no wear as from a LHD 964. .
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Also did not want a red momo wheel in there as before so..



I have a plan for the rear later.

It worked well, and used some black vynal door cards





Im skippping all the pics and details but.. assembled MOTd and tidy-

I was happy at this point.
A rust free 944, undersealed, new water pump, clutch, belts...and tidy inside.
I had built what had seemed impossible to buy at a fraction of the cost.

BUT

The wheels - impossible to keep nice on a daily with bare alloy dishes in winter and i didnt like the spacers
also i had to "hack" the front hubs to get the spacers on.

So i changed the wheels, propper early offset (from a 930) so no spacers and they fill the arches.



Rare Azev A, 10x17 & 8.5x17.

I wanted the old spacers gone so i could fit these-
86" turbo brakes (hubs/discs/ect and had to swap legs as my oval dash ones didnt bolt up.

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Re built including link pipes/nipples/seals.

Brakes going on-


Also got a 26. somthing rollbar

Rollbar mounted


All the nipples were seized or broken so replaced them & fitted pagid pads (new disks came later)

And went for a chip & cone filter. Not real power, but better.

The car was well sorted, a few niggles at first but i drove it every day.
I did propper euro tour, drove to poland and through the summer it got quite a bit of attention..



Snaps on various forums and in a few mags..
couple-





http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/showt ... 209&page=6

http://www.jt-culture.com/stanceworks-m ... -march-11/

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2011/03 ... eynes.aspx

My pics are poor & in the dark mostly.
Here are clear ones.

All lined up-






Now.

I said i had a plan for the rear, this is some if it..

Cutting shelf about, part way through


I Cut the armrest from the rear seat, cleaned aera, used the original speaker wires from rear speakers int the qtrs (they reached uncut)

This was all too nice, then i hit a fox @ speed..


I had this spare-



I painted it the 1st time halfords gloss black, once fitted to the car I could see this was gloss brown.
Then sprayed it with a halfords aerosol again on my garden bmw black.



don't be concerned.
Flatted with 1200



1500 & wax


Will be better but I don't have any compound atm.

Next was MO30 suspension-

Blessing the BTR.




And re paint the calipers-

Rear


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