Made it back to California with the starter. Bosch model EED 0.5/6 L44 and date code is “9Q” which I think translates to Sept 1959. So the date isn’t completely out of bounds. However, looking at the DerWhites Bosch reference There’s no mention of this model starter for a 356. It appears the correct model […]

While sorting through a small stash of 356 parts, I was very pleasantly surprised to find two headlamps that appear to be T5 correct. Given we only have two 356, and the T5 headlights are pretty unique, it can’t be coincidence that these are meant for our car. I’d been looking for months to find

As I had started evaluating our engine electrical components, it appeared our engine was without a voltage regulator. Inspection of photos, and the firewall of the car, seemed to indicate it was missing. Much to my delight, we had two vintage regulators in our stash of parts. It was unclear which was correct for our

Back on location with the chassis for a few days. Finally time to check for more matching numbers, now that I know where to look. The hood flange for the hinge on the driver’s side had the correct numbers as I recall, though I neglected to take a photo of it. The driver’s door number

Quite a lot of parts came back from Soren’s machine shop this week. Heads: Key among them the fly cut heads. The original black coating is mostly intact. The valve guides in place, new valve springs, and new intake valves. Crankshaft, flywheel, pressure plate all balanced Cylinder head studs that were badly corroded were replaced

Our Solex 40P11-4 carburetors came back from restoration by Jim Kaufmann of 356 Carburetor Rescue. It took about 4 months, but they look great and seem like a lot of care was taken with them. Thanks to Candace Delaney for keeping track of things. I originally considered trying to rebuild them myself. Both for education

I finally received my refurbished generator back from Zims. Certainly miles better than the way it looked when I took it off the car. The process was not without pain. After a couple months of waiting, I received a shiny generator from Zims. Unfortunately, it was not my original generator. It wasn’t even the right

Based on the advice of John Jenkins at 356 Carburetor Rescue, I went to Klasse 356 for my ignition wiring needs. In the words of John “Ed at Klasse 356 very knowledgeable about our 356’s. He restores them, fixes them, buys them, sells them, and helps others.” John Jenkins Ed has been very responsive to

Now that we have all of the mainline spinning components, I’ve dropped them back with Soren to be balanced as a unit. Crankshaft, flywheel, pressure plate, and the crankshaft pulley. Hopefully keep this a tight, vibration-free engine.

Our crankshaft came home from Soren’s today. It is super clean and nicely bagged. He was able to lay claim to the 912 (counterweighted) crank we looked at before. Including rework, it will ultimately cost the same as a new AA crank, but is a Porsche original part. The numbers appearing on the lobes are

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