That’s brilliant.

Totally guilty of this, had the stereo apart in my car so I could hack it to add an audio input jack within a week of buying it new. Still haven’t figured out how to do it, but no one else is gonna do it for me, and if they did I wouldn’t trust them.

This may come as a surprise, with all of the streamlined JIT manufacturing and assembly systems in use today, but these types of mistakes were made every day 40 years ago. Cars were assembled with engines and transmissions they were never offered with, came out of the factory with different sheet metal and/or badging…

I love the explosion of red spikyness behind the rear tire.

Exactly, you took the wheel off to work on what? Things that are behind the wheel? Better put the tire under the parts you’re touching with your fingers. Besides, where did this guy have the scissor jack mounted? It looks like he had it jammed in the lower control arm. It’s almost like he wanted to lose his foot or a…

They measured it incorrectly at one point anyway. Can you figure out where?

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Stainless

It’s stainless, and it’s cut, because rolling threads on stainless work hardens the material and makes it brittle. It would also gall during the rolling process. Fatigue strength is not an issue here because this is not a highly stressed part. If it were a highly stressed part they would use an alloy steel that can…

Or just WD-40?

In slicks and wets?

It’s a V8, but it’s a 305 from 1979.

The don’t have to be perfect to be better than what you’ve got. Sometimes what you have is a Nazi VW with a Nazi Porsche badge on it.

The fun bit is that you get to make your own. The amazing things you learn when you do research. I know, right?

So you’re saying I can’t weld up a Caterham frame, whack some home made suspension on it and drop a junkyard drivetrain in it and put it on the road? I do believe you’re talking out of your ass my friend.

You don’t need an original anything, nor do you need numbers or papers. A dumpster full of old VW parts, a ton of aftermarket and NOS parts, and a DMV form is all you need. Outside of the body shell, you don’t have to spend a dime at Porsche.

Chances are extremely good that the tooling was on a shelf somewhere and just needed to be fitted to a press. MGB bodies have been available for years from the original tooling and MG doesn’t even exist.

You know you can use brakes in a way that isn’t similar to hitting a parked car, right?

Exactly, I think Gofry needs to be introduced to a stereo lithography machine so he can see what a 3D modeling machine looks like.

The 200 SX SER was just a 200 Sexier. I’m fond of Rustang and Slower/PowerJoke/Choke/Smoke, interchangable obviously. Most Fords are subconsciously, and sometimes verbally preceded with Anal. Anal Probe, Anal Explorer, etc.