http://www.brown-house.net/356project/ Journal for the complete ground-up resurrection of a very rusty 1965 Porsche 356. en-us 2007-02-10T13:45:08-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000089.html The 356 has been sleeping for quite some time now. Yes, it has been about a year since anything was done on the car, and almost that long since my last entry. Looking at my previous post in April of... Other pbrown 2007-02-10T13:45:08-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000088.html It may look grim, I mean, there hasn't been an entry in practically a year. But the project is not dead. Merely stalled. Graduate school work and family has kept me extremely busy for the past year, but soon I... Other pbrown 2006-04-20T23:32:08-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000087.html OK OK, long time no entry. My MBA has kept me busy, but I managed to finish off 1st year classes with the best grades yet. My house construction is almost complete, and we are planning on moving back... pbrown 2005-05-17T20:44:01-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000086.html Phew. Friday was a marathon welding day. I got to Don's at about 11:00, and I worked on getting the nose clip on the car for the whole day, until about 5:30. Net result: the replacement nose is installed,... Bodywork pbrown 2005-04-24T16:55:03-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000085.html Dee spent about 6 hours filing and picking on my nose clip in an effort to make it have less dents and waves than it had before, and in general be a nicer piece of replacement metal that will need... Drivetrain pbrown 2005-04-18T22:07:05-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000084.html Friday I made the trip out to Don Mill's shop in Liberty for about 5 hours to continue working on the remaining bodywork. When I got there Don wanted to discuss the situation with the replacement portion of the right... Bodywork pbrown 2005-04-10T21:15:04-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000083.html Last Thursday I basically finished off the left side rocker panel. The gap between the door and the rocker closed up quite nicely in both horizontal and vertical planes with a bit more work. I think I need a couple... Bodywork pbrown 2005-04-04T23:13:50-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000082.html I finally got out to Don's shop yesterday to do some more bodywork on the coupe. Don had been working on doing a better job pulling out the old accident damage at the rear of the car. Unfortunately, the... Bodywork pbrown 2005-03-30T14:45:40-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000081.html No bodywork progress yet. It is hard to be patient, but I spoke with Don this week. The '40 Ford he was working on is finally finished. I'll be going to the shop next Tuesday to spend the whole day... Drivetrain pbrown 2005-03-26T22:34:05-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000080.html I have added new functionality to the website lately. If you wish to be notified when new entries or other major updates are made to the site, simply add yourself to the notification list. The ability to subscribe (and unsubscribe)... Other pbrown 2005-03-18T15:27:36-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000079.html After waiting what seemed like an eternity to get my "C" crankshaft back from the machine shop, I finally have had a chance to get the bottom half of my engine assembled. The "C" crank returned from being cut... Drivetrain pbrown 2005-03-12T20:41:31-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000078.html I had time today to work on the '59 engine, and I was able to get it started with a minimum of trouble! Here's how it went. I realized that the plastic cast starter housing I got from Energy-1... Drivetrain pbrown 2005-02-22T19:10:39-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000077.html It seems I'm back to once-monthly updates on the progress of the project. I'm sorry to say that there haven't been any major changes in the last month. Much of my free time has been devoted to my family and... Bodywork pbrown 2005-02-17T09:33:41-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000076.html I have the '59 engine more or less back together, although I haven't test started it yet. Today I was putting the fuel line back on, and we got the gland nut torqued town to 400+ ft. lbs. Engine... Drivetrain pbrown 2005-01-17T21:20:06-05:00 http://www.brown-house.net/356project/archives/000075.html I got a call from Tim Berardelli this morning. All of my rocker shafts were galled and worn, so they need to be replaced. That's about $60 a side that I wasn't counting on. Additionally, the adjusting screws for some... Drivetrain pbrown 2004-12-29T22:59:38-05:00