Devin D Porsche Race Car Project

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#46 Post by C J Murray »

That's good Gary. Special thanks go to Adam.
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#47 Post by dennis kazmerowski »

looks very nice --kaz

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#48 Post by C J Murray »

Hi Kaz, do you use wheel spacers on your car? It looks like the rear tire will be very close to the top shock mount area at full compression. I see your car at Monterey very compressed so I imagine you have the answer.
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#49 Post by dennis kazmerowski »

cliff ---its very close --- however if you use the hoosier speedster tires it seemed to be ok if anything you will need a 1/4 in spacer thats it no more ---i assume you are running the short axles it is turning out great ---kaz

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#50 Post by C J Murray »

Yes, to the short axles. We have the shock bolts recessed in also to avoid cutting a tire.
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#51 Post by Jim Nelson »

Your frame builder looks like he may have done this before....very nice, the car looks like a lot of fun in the making !

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#52 Post by C J Murray »

He is very good to work with, very clever. Here is the pedal mount in progress with some welding to do yet.
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#53 Post by Michael Foster »

Nice work, what brand and model of pedals are you using. How is gas pedal operating throttle/cable or rod?

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#54 Post by C J Murray »

Hi Michael, the pedals are Tilton 600 pedals which are available in a number of versions. The throttle actuates a cable that can go forward or to the rear and the ratio can be adjusted to suit any application. The clutch is hydraulic and many hotrod VWs are hydraulic so there are many suppliers of slave cylinders that can also be used on Porsche applications. The main reason to use these pedals is to be able to adjust the braking bias front to rear while driving.
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#55 Post by C J Murray »

I just installed another pedal assembly into the 356 racer also. The brake bias adjustment is the knob on the tunnel by the seat.
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#56 Post by C J Murray »

I was surprised to see the price paid for a Devin D Porsche at Sotheby's Amelia Island Auction. This makes me a little less nervous about spending money on mine.

http://www.rmsothebys.com/am17/amelia-i ... al/1701939
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#57 Post by Neil Bardsley »

C J Murray wrote:I was surprised to see the price paid for a Devin D Porsche at Sotheby's Amelia Island Auction. This makes me a little less nervous about spending money on mine.

http://www.rmsothebys.com/am17/amelia-i ... al/1701939
hopefully yours will have a bit more than 90bp?

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Neil, somewhere around 170
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#59 Post by C J Murray »

I found some in car video of the Amelia Island car at a track day in Europe. It seems to run quite well.

http://vdsmaza.com/movie-video/Porsche-Devin-1957

Sorry, I couldn't get the direct link to work but it is the 3rd video on the list and you have to choose the type of video you can play.
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#60 Post by Jean-Luc CRIADO »

What a chance you have....luv the DEVIN sport car !
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