PORSCHE 356 NOS Green Metal 101

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[Jack Staggs]

That has not been my experience with the procedure that we have developed. We have fitted dozens of Dansk mufflers over the years, including new installations on overhauled engines, (test run on the bench), replacements done on installed engines, and repair of gasket failure on installations done at other shops or DIY guys. Failure rate is less than 5%, and the majority of those are at the slip joint of the J tube. That being said, we dry fit every muffler, Liestritz, or Dansk, or otherwise, to check for tension on installation. If excessive tension is noted, we will re-bend the attaching pipes to allow an easy slip fit. On used mufflers with bent flanges, we may file/grind just a bit.
Ciao!
PS AFIK, Altadena burnt down twice!!

[jim nelson]

If it was mine, my old C would have never left the garage until it had new underpinnings...sad but true.

[JTR70]

Thanks for posting those shots Jim! Absolute "Porsh-porn" for T6 owners I'm sure.

Bruce, You could very well be right about that hood. My buddy got it from Gary Emory way back in the early 80's so who knows what the origins of it are. That is great news! My thanks and deepest gratitude goes out to you for helping me get those out into the world and for spreading the good word!
Justin

[DG58INNM]

This is not a particularly exciting piece (yeah, I get excited about NOS sheet metal, what can I say?) but I don't think anyone has posted one of these yet.

NOS T6 door jamb, passenger side. Much nicer and crisper shape than the available repros, and extends all the way up the B pillar. Also has the support for the step plate. BTW, just posted it for sale ($175) on the R site, in case anyone is interested



Thanks,
DG

[jim nelson]

Thanks for posting those shots Jim! Absolute "Porsh-porn" for T6 owners I'm sure.

Justin

Argh, I just saw the corresponding rear piece of that T6 front tub, but couldn't get a shot. Another one of those " I didn't know you could get a piece like that" moments. There really are some amazing green metal pieces out there.

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Been away....a 'house call' for two 356s, one being my last Speedster.
The day I was to leave last week, the 'emergency' fix of a blown-out exhaust gasket on #4 turned out to be a stud that took one last careful torqueing and then heat and 50 years of steel into alloy did a strip-tease, requiring a Heli-coil fix. Dummy me blamed the gasket and had to do it twice after seeing the 'spin' on my first reassembly. Hey, the nut came off the stud when I removed the new muffler, I just couldn't tighten a new nut on enough before it stripped.....and it wasn't my first time at that procedure!



Here is another picture that may sort of apply in "green metal" as it is of an original floor in a '56 Speedster. 1956 was a period of change where pre- and A parts were co-mingled in a most random way, but I had not seen this combo before. Note the stamping differences between the front and rear halves.



The later "horse shoe" pedal reinforcement also didn't quite clear the round depression and crushed one part of the radius edge. Again, the pedal cluster was changed from pre- to A, so a mismatch was handled by a simple force-fit for the workers using up what was on-hand.



-Bruce

[JTR70]

Hey Bruce, You mean the soft shouldered reliefs on the forward section from the dies wearing out?

I have that same feature on my '57's original pans. I never noticed the difference until you pointed that out.

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Actually, I think there were two sets of dies. Shapes of indents differ, too, from pre- to full-A.

But back to soft dies; about 1973, Jack Heron and I were going to invest the princely sum of $5k in steel 356 floor dies to be made locally. Long story (told too many times) shorter.....I was talked out of that by Brad Ripley telling me that he was going to be selling those floor stampings "very soon...and there isn't enough demand to support 2 vendors."

It turned out that he was going to Stoddard and Chuck financed 'prototype' epoxy dies. The first few were pretty good, but as they pressed more, they became a 'hint' of a floor and hardly worth the cost of shipping from Willoughby. Hummm. Who could have seen the future?

Justin, your example is only the second time I have seen (or maybe noticed?) that front/back floor stamping difference, and yours is a '57 Coupe. I wonder if anyone else will chime in on this? My late-'57 (T-2) built/'58 model year Speedster still has it's original floor and it's crisp in the front like the rears on yours and the 4-cam Speedster floor I showed.

Hey, I wonder if that's a 4-cam difference, as your Coupe is one and this Speedster is, too. Hummmm, again.....

Thanks!
-Bruce

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Brand new part left sitting in a shed, so even this part suffered from rust on the pedal area.
My friend D.Hyland was saving it for a speedster, and he was nice enough to sell it to me for our GREEN METAL speedster project.







Looking for gas tank floor and trunk floor VIN panel, anyone have one for sale?
Will trade RIGHT HAND DRIVE version or $.

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Anyone familiar with the "scalloped" sides of a T-5 tunnel like the above?

-Bruce

[John Pierce]

Drool!!!