GTS clone rebuild

A close up of the compressed assembly including the oil sender, oil pressure line, and all of the NOS goodies that were moved.

A longer perspective of the mods. It looks very similar to the original pictures although everything was refitted. I had to modify every line that was attached to the center cluster.

The stock original tub did fit. He chose to put in the new hide-the-wax trunk tub with a clear front to show off the NOS baby snake nest and fuel injection.

Great work Kirk!
Good to see you working hard.
Need to stop by some time this summer.
Tom

Thanks Tom, any time.

I do have a question for our group--is there a time protocol to adding information to a specific thread so you do not step on the others who are posting in the same topic?

A day, 2 days, hours, just don't what to kick off others posts to soon.

Yes its a lovely job.
Being a relative new owner 4 years I was told that the sump (Oil pan) couldn't be removed with the engine in place.

So I took the engine out to do the sump plug leak and a rear main oil seal too.

So can the sump be removed on a standard Euro GTS with the engine in as you say?

You can lift the engine a bit and pull it or cut out the cross member and install a removable one. I simply do not like working up-side-down on an engine. On a dirty car contamination is possible but making sure the gasket, seals and corner goop doesn't slide as you putting in the bolts can be difficult with only one person.

I install long allen set screws in every other 2 holes to keep the gaskets aligned and help position the pan while the bolts are being installed. Then remove the set screws and replace them with pan bolts---makes it easer to keep everything straight.

There was many more hidden surprises with this one but lets focus on some good things for a bit.

Here is the front trunk area as it was originally recovered at some time earlier. No good close-ups.

The material was installed in one continuous piece. It is quite tough to damage but is stretchable so with some effort and patients, it will come out great.

Freshly plated lines and a bead blasted block. Like to put everything back to a new look when possible.

Close now. The booster was re-plated and all of the lines except the break MC are installed and ready to go.

All done except the washer tank strap and temporary hot wire on the positive battery cable. This was installed to drive the front fans for testing.

NOS is for the dentist, right???

Found some rust repair that made more rust that it repaired.

"Beat it low and fill it with dough" don't you know. But first lap on more metal over the top of the old rusty rocker.

Anyway found some more surprises so here is the first shot of the outer crappy repair skin being found and cut off.

A shot of the two rocker panels lapped together before they were removed. Nice nest. Surface rust with a tiny bit of rot but not to bad so far.

On the floor ready for the center rocker and door post clean up.

Scrubber up before the POR 15 work. Still need to open up the bottom of the post.

Part of the nest still in the post. This must have been dads bed away from the kids.

Open and cleaned inside. The upper rocker underside needs a bit of handy blasting work and the area to the right of the post where the door jamb transitions into the rocker gets removed and rebuilt without the water and dust catch in the transition. This is a bad design and should be repaired on every Pantera rocker.

Here is the door jamb transition area rebuilt and ready for primer. Just need to check the alignment bezel fit.

Bezel fit and now we're ready to go. The quarter panel has issues that needed repaired before we primed. Will this be another surprise???