This category is all about the build of a Porsche 917 Replica kit, and fitting a Supercharged VK45DE engine into this race car. I talk about everything I did, to make this setup work and all the issues we ran into with this car. This was a beast on the track.
Everything was coming together nicely. I was giving the mechanical side of things a bit of a rest while I take on the cosmetic side. I had everything laid out so it was like putting together a TECHNICS LEGO set. The first part to go in was the charger cooler radiator in the nose of […]
Now that the car had some paint on it it wasn’t done yet. The car has only been sprayed and has not been wet flat or buffed up. As the car was already very shiny I was looking forward to seeing what the Porsche was going to look like when Duncan was done with his […]
It was time to get some paint down on the body. My good friend Duncan was the only person that I would trust with prepping and spraying of the Porsche. Mike loved his black cars. His Aston Martin DP9 was black and so was the Porsche. The color we decided on for the Porsche was […]
Finally, I started looking at the engine. I knew this engine has blown head gasket from the time when the radiators blew and the engine overheated. I just didn’t want to put the engine back in the car in this condition. The engine didn’t fit my “2 Million Rand Car” picture. I asked my one […]
The build of the Porsche 917 was going really slow. I didn’t get much time to work on the car. It was time to get the body fixed up. This was the most damage we have ever seen on the Porsche. We were lucky in the sense that we still had the mold for the […]
It was about a month before I got a proper answer on what is going to happen with the Porsche. Everyone agreed with me that the Porsche will be worth more in one piece than what they would be able to get for the components. I had to put a list together of all the […]
So the Porsche 917 has been finished for a while now but has not been to the track. My boss Mike has been having some health issues so we put the racing on ice until he was better. The car was in great condition. Mike entered for a race only to pull out the day […]
As we blew the radiators at the previous race it was obvious that the 2 radiators were too small for the 700 Hp beast. The problem we had is we could not get more air to go through the radiators. The only solution was to get some bigger radiators. I had to maintain the coolant […]
I just started back at the company after working at another company for 3 years. Mike was so glad to have me back and he was more into racing than ever. The Porsche 917 has been out for a few races after the upgrade to 700 Hp. The car was very problematic. It hasn’t finished […]
My Ex boss Mike, through another new engine in the works. The issue with the remote oil filter housing was sorted out and all the pipes have been cleaned. At some stage, we bought Whipple W200AX supercharger for one of the engine projects at work. When we got the supercharger it was physically just way […]