Winter Projects - Lets see the results!!!

[Guest]

First to admit, my projects are really only just gathering momentum but I did experiment with the RSR pattern Fuchs masking up one wheel and spraying a couple of coats of silver to see how it looks. The wheels need refurb anyway so it was just an experiment.

 

[Guest]

It needs a polish to get rid of the raised bits near the masking and the leprosy of the clear coat needs fixing but its not too bad.

I have no idea how to do multiple pictures in one post so lets move on to the next topic. Other projects. Well a parcel arrived today:

 

[Guest]

Ahh, what a lovely surprise. All nicely packaged and all of 7 days to ship from the US at a price well under the £925+VAT I saw quoted recently - talk about gouging given the current exchange rate, I landed them for circa £700 all in.

Many people say it but these really are a work of art. Hope they fit and perform as well as they look.

A better pick is below.

BTW, other weight reducing projects got as far as removing the rear wiper and mechanism [&:] So much for lots of winter projects. I blame the house move. Note however that the SSIs are photographed in a lovely dry double garage []

 

[Guest]

Will post some pictures once the car is all back together!! By the way Richard, how do you manage to get pictures that big uploaded? I can only manage small pictures like below with the 200kb limit?

Cheers

Dave

For some reason that worked out a decent size!!

 

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My pictures are all on or about 200kb. Those were 216kb.

I have to use my crap camera and set the size and resolution down in order to avoid having to resize them all before posting. It would be great if the site had an automatic resizing feature like Pelican.

RB

 

[Bazgillie]

Richard
Wheel looks very nice! Very fiddly though I bet.
Exhaust looks very very nice and a great big saving. We are ripped off over here. Did you buy from Pelican and how much hassle is it? Are you liable for import duty? or is there ways round this. Opens up a whole lot of suppliers with much cheaper parts.
Baz

 

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I try to buy from Chuck Moreland at Elephant Racing. He can source a lot of things that are not on his website.

If you email me offline I can give you details on the duty/tax, but with the weakness of the USD right now its cheaper however you do it (richard.bernau "at" rbos.com). Shipping by USPS was all of USD80 for the big heavy box.

I understand some UK Porsche shops are currently buying in bulk from the US to take advantage of the exchange rate. Things like GT3-look kits for Boxsters etc.

The masking off on the wheels takes lots of time - like a whole evening per wheel. The spraying takes 30 minutes.

 

[Diver944]

Richard forgive me for being dense [&:] Is your wheel picture a before or after? I thought you were spraying it all silver, or was it just the central 5 spokes? Which paint did you use?

 

[IanHighfield]

A pair of 84-89 SSI are £475 at Pelican. You also need £100 of oil lines according to their site. That is just £575 plus shipping as 'engineering parts' if my maths and assumptions are correct.

Richard - any idea on shipping costs for engineering parts ? They will look swell - as Wayne says on Pelican - "shame they are hidden under the car" !

 

[Guest]

Price is about USD950 plus shipping at circa USD100 plus customs and duty. So, not wanting to overstate things, you can be all in at under GBP700. You have to add the heater backdate parts to this (LHS and RHS ducts, backdate tinware etc).

There are ways of fitting them without the backdate oil lines if you prepared to "massage" the heat exchanger with a big rubber mallet.

 

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ORIGINAL: Diver944

Richard forgive me for being dense [&:] Is your wheel picture a before or after? I thought you were spraying it all silver, or was it just the central 5 spokes? Which paint did you use?

After. I experimented with the RSR pattern by just masking and spraying the petals. Used Mercedes Brilliant Silver as it is a very light silver similar to the raw anodised finish on the real RSR finish wheels. I have two sets of wheels so I can play around a bit. The full silver option is much easier so that is one option I am thinking about - plus most of my wheels already have silver centres, though some need redoing.