Wall of Shame

Who needs that cross member anyways?

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Here's a really quick way to have your 911 die a miserable Death. Take the rear cross member and cut a foot wide chunk out of the middle of it.

Another Pic. We are HUGE fans of More Horsepower, but when you hack up the only structure holding all of horsepower in the car... I think we'll pass.

Here you can see some more horror on this car. They tapped into the head to help cool the motor. GREAT Idea! Unfortunately they put the water inlets on the wrong end of the head. The cooling water that flowed into the head ran Directly to the thermostat and never went through the rest of the head. At least they didn't ruin Aluminum Heads, just cast iron ones.

When we started digging inside the car, we found this. Apparently when they put the 930 transaxle in, it hit some sheet metal. They usually do, and most people do a little creative clearancing with a Hammer. Not these guys though.... Why clearance the sheet metal, when you can just cut it out?

Now we get to the front of the car. We can forgive the wiring, it's not a Huge issue. The Exhaust for the radiator is a little small, but again no big deal. The issue is the "plumbers tape" holding the gas tank in. Yes, that little strap hanging there (actually there were 2 of them) was all that was holding the 20 gallons of highly flammable liquid in the car. On top of that, the strap was just wrapped around the strut support bar and when you would step on the brakes real hard, the fuel tank would rotate forward. I Have no idea how anyone could have deemed this car safe enough to give to a customer.

Another pic of the Fuel tank supports. We had already loosened up the "plumbers straps", so the fuel tank had already dropped down from it original location. This time I will mention the wiring in the background.... YIKES!! Some one needs to be told they make wire in colors other than red.

Attention Plumbers!!!!!
This abomination was pulled from this car and we must say the plumbing is nicely done. Whoever did all of this soldering is rather talented. If they had used 1" tubing instead of the 3/4" pictured or just used their talents on a water heater, it might have worked. We have no idea what the ball valve in the center of the picture was for.

More misguided plumbing. On the back of this water pump some one used a copper 90* fitting, a galvanized "T" fitting, and then a threaded pipe nipple. They then slid the hose over nipple, and used RTV silicone to attempt to seal off the threads.

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	Here's a really quick way to have your 911 die a miserable Death. Take the rear cross member and cut a foot wide chunk out of the middle of it.
	Another Pic. We are HUGE fans of More Horsepower, but when you hack up the only structure holding all of horsepower in the car... I think we'll pass.
	Here you can see some more horror on this car. They tapped into the head to help cool the motor. GREAT Idea! Unfortunately they put the water inlets on the wrong end of the head. The cooling water that flowed into the head ran Directly to the thermostat and never went through the rest of the head. At least they didn't ruin Aluminum Heads, just cast iron ones.
	When we started digging inside the car, we found this. Apparently when they put the 930 transaxle in, it hit some sheet metal. They usually do, and most people do a little creative clearancing with a Hammer. Not these guys though.... Why clearance the sheet metal, when you can just cut it out?
	Now we get to the front of the car. We can forgive the wiring, it's not a Huge issue. The Exhaust for the radiator is a little small, but again no big deal. The issue is the "plumbers tape" holding the gas tank in. Yes, that little strap hanging there (actually there were 2 of them) was all that was holding the 20 gallons of highly flammable liquid in the car. On top of that, the strap was just wrapped around the strut support bar and when you would step on the brakes real hard, the fuel tank would rotate forward. I Have no idea how anyone could have deemed this car safe enough to give to a customer.
	Another pic of the Fuel tank supports. We had already loosened up the "plumbers straps", so the fuel tank had already dropped down from it original location. This time I will mention the wiring in the background.... YIKES!! Some one needs to be told they make wire in colors other than red.
	Attention Plumbers!!!!! This abomination was pulled from this car and we must say the plumbing is nicely done. Whoever did all of this soldering is rather talented. If they had used 1" tubing instead of the 3/4" pictured or just used their talents on a water heater, it might have worked. We have no idea what the ball valve in the center of the picture was for.
	More misguided plumbing. On the back of this water pump some one used a copper 90* fitting, a galvanized "T" fitting, and then a threaded pipe nipple. They then slid the hose over nipple, and used RTV silicone to attempt to seal off the threads.