How Porsches are made...

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2010/04/08 @ 6:06 pm
Category Energy

Rolling off the assembly line and taking the world by storm in 1964, the Porsche 911 is now one of the world’s iconic sports cars. From the modest 911 Carerra with a top track speed of 185 mph to the 911 GT3, a street legal racecar that tops out at 194 mph. This Ultimate Factory can offer a color, style, and speed for even the most fastidious driver… At least two-thirds of the approximate one million Porsche sports cars built in the last 50 years are still being driven.

BY Phillip Torrone

Editor at large - Make magazine. Creative director - Adafruit Industries, contributing editor - Popular Science. Previously: Founded - Hack-a-Day, how-to editor - Engadget, Director of product development - Fallon Worldwide, Technology Director - Braincraft.

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6 Responses to How Porsches are made…

alex.s.myopenid.com on April 10th, 2010 at 12:01 am said:

I saw this in my RSS reader and expected an article on building extensions…

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Phillip Torrone on April 10th, 2010 at 12:25 am said:

my spell check seems to be MAKE-ified

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Alan Parekh on April 10th, 2010 at 5:56 am said:

I had never seen a vehicle get a full primer dip before! I guess that is one way to ensure you haven’t missed a spot. It sure shows the growing pains that a company can have, I can’t imagine the meeting where they were pitching the idea of building a new paint shop across the road and connecting to it with a huge bridge!

There was a company here in Winnipeg that built the bodies of buses in Winnipeg and had all of the mechanical parts (engine transmission, wheels, etc) installed in the states. Large flat bed trucks would transport them 3 or so hours south for this step and back again for completion.

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- cranky_EE on April 11th, 2010 at 11:17 am said:
  
  Usually, because importing “parts” incurs less of a tariff than importing “stuff that’s built by foreign people.”
  
  Singer sewing machines were often shipped over sans-motor as “parts” from the old country, and “built” in .ca by installing a 60Hz motor.
  
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Simon on April 10th, 2010 at 1:57 pm said:

I think that dipping process, called E Coating, is pretty common for most cars made today. Even re-manufactured body shells for old cars (MGBs, Minis, Midgets, etc) get that treatment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophoretic_deposition

The water based top coats are becoming the norm too now I believe. Much safer than the nasty isocyanate based ones.

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charliex on April 10th, 2010 at 11:04 pm said:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1490722406989097831#

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