5 Speed

I bought the gearbox in 1992 for another project that died regarding

the Squareback, In the year 1994, after the welding of the body was

done, I started to get the old 911S gearbox in the Suareback S.

During the first hours I realised that this will be a tricky job.

To place gearbox and engine more to the front-side of the car to get more installation space for exhaust etc...

I removed the tach drive housing at the shift cover and welded on a aluminium sheet.

First measurements show that the gear change rod is located too low for the rear suspension subframe of my Squareback, I decided to use a IRS one to get a medium negativ chamber when lowering. The solution was to make a channel in the subframe and to build a new shift rod for the floorpan.

To keep the gearbox in place I use the Porsche rubbermounts at the shift cover, my buddy Andreas "Adde" Augenstein milled two weld on adapter that where placed under the IRS mounts. To fix it at the clutch side my buddy Stefan shaped a transmount. I welded on two brackets for the "Quality for Bugs" cup bars.

The 901 Shifter is higher than the stock one so i do kind of channeling for the shifter. This allowes to keep the shifter under the carped for a stock inside style and is better for shift rod built.

For  the construction of the shift rod I drilled off hundrets of weld points to seperate the channel

from the floorpan. In the open channel i integated the oilcooler copper pipes and two 8mm fuel lines

and the new shift rod.

Somewhere in the end of the 90`s a team-mate of me, "Bemsele" @ R&D Porsche do a complete recondition job and I get new synchroniser rings and bearing and a Porsche Classik invoice for the parts, really a haunting moment :-o

Under the Bonnet

There are some new pictures.
I had to install a fuel pump, the Hurst line lock and two of three oilcoolers.

This rare dual circuit brake fluid reservoir was a few years on my wishlist.

Stock but rebuild frontbeam mounted with some super rare beam rubbers with integrated caster balancing.

NOS produced for cars with an accident dammage.

To avoid knocklng from the fuelpump i decide to fix it on the backside

of the frontbeam not on the front bulkhead.

Small rubber mounts hold the pump in position.

For tyredust I mounted a Hurst linelock, hope that the 911

5-speed gearbox can handle the 2.2 Typ1 engine.

TOTEM

To bring fresh and cool air to the oilcoolers I weld in the airintakes from a 1970 suberbeetle deck lid.

The mountingframe was home constucted and made,

the horn can stay at the old place. After testing the fitment its black

powdercoated. Assembly side @ the original front bumper brackets. 

To bring out the hot air the spare tyre well was opend and powdercoated.

Body Lasagna

A few days after I bought the Squareback I decided to check the body. Fenders where removed. What followed was a little unease from the stomach...you know...to know exactly that you bought a scrap heap and in the moment the mates see the desaster you are the buffoon...rightly :-(

All my mades said after they saw the car "bring it to the junkyard and forget it" but that caught  my maleness and I started the restauration. On the fourth pic you see my old mates, Adde, Armin and Stefan helping me to take the body to the side. Our garage, the "ALTE SCHMIEDE" (old blackshmith`s shop) was a grubby, dark and of cause cold place for a restauration. But there is no better way to do all that work, with good mades, a few old cars all-around, everytime a helping hand or a good joke, music from an old radio and have "sometimes" a beer.

After I cut of the rusted areas of the body we brought the body to the sandblast master @ Extra Mobile a company specialized in old british car restoration near by the ALTE SCHMIEDE. After the sandblasting we painted the body with a primer. My job for the next 12 month was to weld, weld and weld.

The story beginns in 1993

Here are the first pictures i took in August 1993 when i bought the car for 1500,- DM on a VW meeting in Kirchheim/Germany. A very different time these days, no mobile phones or digit photocams. I was 21 years old and wanted to drive a different air cooled Volkswagen.

Now I`m straight on the way to become 38 and the car is since then standing in my garage as a never ending project.

But the lazy time is gone, i want to use the car in August as my wedding car so if you are interested to see what happens i would be pleased if you follow me on my walk to Canossa :-)