While sorting through a small stash of 356 parts, I was very pleasantly surprised to find two headlamps that appear to be T5 correct. Given we only have two 356, and the T5 headlights are pretty unique, it can’t be coincidence that these are meant for our car. I’d been looking for months to find …
Back on location with the chassis for a few days. Finally time to check for more matching numbers, now that I know where to look. The hood flange for the hinge on the driver’s side had the correct numbers as I recall, though I neglected to take a photo of it. The driver’s door number …
Quite a lot of parts came back from Soren’s machine shop this week. Heads: Key among them the fly cut heads. The original black coating is mostly intact. The valve guides in place, new valve springs, and new intake valves. Crankshaft, flywheel, pressure plate all balanced Cylinder head studs that were badly corroded were replaced …
Our Solex 40P11-4 carburetors came back from restoration by Jim Kaufmann of 356 Carburetor Rescue. It took about 4 months, but they look great and seem like a lot of care was taken with them. Thanks to Candace Delaney for keeping track of things. I originally considered trying to rebuild them myself. Both for education …
I finally received my refurbished generator back from Zims. Certainly miles better than the way it looked when I took it off the car. The process was not without pain. After a couple months of waiting, I received a shiny generator from Zims. Unfortunately, it was not my original generator. It wasn’t even the right …
Based on the advice of John Jenkins at 356 Carburetor Rescue, I went to Klasse 356 for my ignition wiring needs. In the words of John “Ed at Klasse 356 very knowledgeable about our 356’s. He restores them, fixes them, buys them, sells them, and helps others.” John Jenkins Ed has been very responsive to …
Our crankshaft came home from Soren’s today. It is super clean and nicely bagged. He was able to lay claim to the 912 (counterweighted) crank we looked at before. Including rework, it will ultimately cost the same as a new AA crank, but is a Porsche original part. The numbers appearing on the lobes are …
Rods. Originally this post was to be titled “rods”, but then I thought I might mislead a bunch of porn searches and I’d hate for that to end in disappointment. So I thought it better to be more explicit and title it “connecting rods”. Soren pulled together a nice set of used connecting rods. These …
Received our rebuilt distributor from John Jenkins, the distributor part of 356 carburetor rescue, today. It’s (cast iron) heavy, looks like new, and was very well packaged. The distributor I found on the engine was a Bosch 0 231 129 010, and appears to have been original equipment on 1959-1960 VW Type 2 (Bus). In …
As I am learning is par for the Porsche 356 course, there are details for even bumper guards if you want to buy something original and correct. The A used a single-piece guards, and supported overrider tubes. The B / C cars had two-piece guards, and no more overriders . The rears had a hole …
