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Nur-Motorsport Porsche '74 RS Replica.
9th October 2010
The 74 RS is now finished and is sitting on the correct wheels at last. As you can see below at the Porsche Picnic the car looks stunning and the wheels fit the rest of the car well. The car attracted a great deal of attention at the show and we hope some of this will lead to orders of carbon parts for this and other Porsche models.
30th August 2010
We went to the Ace Cafe in London to test the water with our recently completed 1974 RS replica among the perfectionist crowd that forms the Porsche Owners club. The RS was well received as being a step away from the norm and a lot of interest in upcoming projects was displayed.
28th August 2010
The RS is now complete and running, as you can see below it looks very much the part and should stand out in any crowd, and we hope to put this to the test soon. Orange highlights have been used throughout the interior and body in order to make this very much a unique car. Also below are the wheels for the car, these will be made into 9.5in fronts and 12in rears.
21st July 2010
The RS is now coming along well, we have now completed development of our big brake conversion kit as you can see in the pictures below. These utilise modern calipers with Nur-Motorsport quality machined parts and period discs to ensure easy installation with amazing stopping power.
3rd June 2010
The RS has moved forward well since the last update, the bumpers have been painted and the orange trim added to them as well as the other features on the car- grille, mirrors and door handles.
The interior has been installed- dashboard is in, as are the seats and sliders. We also carried out a refurbishment on the oil system, cleaning up corrosion and repainting it throughout.
We are about to install Plexiglass windows and the rubbers for the door trims are about to go back in.
11th May 2010
The '74 RS has now returned from the paintshop where the majority of the body was painted in black for the orange and black RS theme we are looking to achieve. At the same time the underseal was given another coat of paint and the roll cage paint was completed.
We are very happy with the finish and now work continues on the car where the parts below including 930 brakes, braided brake lines throughout, GAZ Dampers as well as bucket seats and doorcards are going in.
2nd April 2010
We have now received and installed the roll cage which originally is a OMP 6 point item. It has been painted 997 RS Orange as we are going to aim to replicate the colour scheme of a modern Black and Orange GT3 RS in our car. We have tied the Roll cage into the chassis at all possible points in order to attempt to increase the stiffness of the car throughout.
The interior has now been painted black and the car has now been sent to the bodyshop for painting of all other panels. We had to do some work to the front bumper in order to completely flush it to the edges but as you can see below this was successful and they line up flawlessly. We have also secured a 74 RS rear whaletail engine cover and will be moulding this for carbon production in the coming weeks.
15th March 2010
The undersealed components and chassis have now been blacked out with high strength paint which will blend them in with the black and carbon car.
12th March 2010
The car and new extended arches have now been completely undersealed which should hopefully prevent any re-occurrence of the rust problems. The underseal will now be painted black to blend in more with the car and then this area is complete. The interior has been prepped and primed for painting.
5th March 2010
Welding and patching work has been completed on the RS replica, and the rear end is seam welded around the passenger area and all paint has been removed ready for priming. Etching Primer has been used on the arch areas and the car is now waiting to be undersealed. We chose to underseal due to the salty UK roads, a thin layer will be used to protect but keep weight to a minimum.
17th February 2010
Work is progressing quickly with the 1974 RS replica, nearly all the corroded metal has been replaced and new quarters, wings and arch extensions have been stitched on in all corners.
An important step that we are taking with this car is the conversion to a full coilover setup. Early Porsches such as this chassis are suspended on Torsion bars in all 4 corners. This has its advantages but does not cater for the scope in customisation that we require, so this car will be converted to using solely coilovers whilst retaining the original mount points. We will be supplying this as a service in the coming months.
The jacking points have been replaced with strengthened versions from a newer donor car and suspension parts that are being re used are being restored.
27th January 2010
We are converting a Porsche 911 Carrera 1988 with G50 gearbox to a Replica of the IROC '74 RS model Porsches, but we will be making our own modernisations, such as keeping the EFI, reducing weight through carbon fibre and upgrading suspension and interior components.
We have received RS 1974 bumpers along with the inner and outer sills to replace the rusted items which will soon be installed on this car and have sourced the front wings and rear quarters from a donor 964. The car is being completely stripped down to remove any trace of rust from it before we rebuild it as the 74 RS replica. We have replaced all rusted areas of the inner arches with genuine parts sourced from a donor car. Also the front dampers for the impact bumper are being removed as the RS bumper is lightweight without this feature.
The car has had only 2 owners since new with full documented service history from new and drives beautifully, the engine and gearbox run very well and our only modifications in this area will be Exhaust, Intake and remap. The suspension is also solid but we will be enhancing this by installing a Front and Rear coilover conversion and Boxster front and rear 4 pot brake conversion.
12th January 2010
We have just received and started work on this 1988 Porsche Carrera, as you can see it is in desperate need of an overhaul to the sills and areas around the wings which have suffered badly due to rust caused by the car being stood for two and a half years with mud and grime trapped in the sill and arch areas.
This shows the importance of steam cleaning early Porsches regularly underneath the car. With these early Porsches there are no arch liners supplied with the car, which explains this problem. We will be fabricating custom wheel arch liners for this car, these will made available to the public in the near future.
