WRX/Porsche Karmann cabrio 1303

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The replacement engine is now in and working well! The only issue I have is hitting the fuel cut with overboosting but this should be relatively easy to sort out and is an indication that my exhaust porting and downpipe are working better.

I'm doing some fine tuning of the set-up and found that the air dam was definitely a necessity, rather than put all my time into something untested I cleaned it up with a bit of paint and got it on the car and I'm pleased with how it looks and works.



I wanted the rear seat to look stock over the transmission tunnel so modified the seat framework to clear it.


All in and no evidence of what's underneath!


Time to finish off the dash... Some wooden strips were used as a guide to keep a constant thickness of the binnacle over the instruments


I then filled in the gaps frm underneath with some fibreglass matting


Cavity builders expanding foam was then used to build up the volume without adding too much weight, it is very easy to sculpt to about the right shape too


Then skimmed with filler. I just need to radius off all the edges and do some final finishing now..