I'm finally getting back to working on my 911 coupe, Butters. Doing a 3.0 to 3.2 engine swap. As it always happens, when you do this sort of thing you get a bad case of "while I'm in there..." The purpose of today's project was to make the engine bay look nice and get rid of the factory sound mat (as well as all the 30 year old glue residue). I'll put sound mat on the inside of the car, leaving the engine bay clean.
So I decided to pull the filter, accumulator, mount, rear power distribution and associated wiring harnesses so that I could clean and paint everything. I actually used a bed-liner material tinted the same color as the car. Spent SEVEN hours cleaning and sanding to ensure good adhesion. This pic is after pulling the tape off. The tinfoil is still on the main harness and the fuel lines. It's OK to leave that stuff until tomorrow, the tape has to come off because if you don't take it off NOW when you shoot bedliner, you will NEVER get it off - LOL!
Next step is replacing all the a/c lines with modern barrier lines and putting a new rotary type compressor in. It's about half the size of the old 3.0 compressor.
Got to do some re-wiring in the back for the 3.2, then stuff the drivetrain back in.
angela
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