Building a Porsche 917 Recreation | The LMK Porsche 917K

There aren't many workshops in the world building road-going Porsche 917 recreations. LMK in Melbourne is one of them. I spent a morning there with Tim Keiller — one half of the father-and-sons team behind every LMK 917 that leaves this shop — to walk through the Gulf-liveried #20 Tim finishing right now. LMK was founded in 2001 by Tim's late father Andrew, an aeronautical engineer whose CV includes three years on the Concorde supersonic program before he turned his hand to designing a 917 short-tail recreation from factory drawings. Andrew, brother Anthony and Tim have been building them ever since. LMK 917s have gone to owners in Austria, Germany, the USA, Mexico, England and South Africa. Andrew unfortunately passed in 2023 — Tim is finishing this one for the Australian customer, with this Porsche for the first time staying in Australia. The build is next-level. Tube chassis, fibreglass body pulled from originals, Penske shocks, red suede interior stitched by Currier Trimming on Phillip Island, oil cooler up front with the lines running through the passenger side ("make the passenger suffer, not the driver"). This isn't the first icon LMK has recreated either — they've built the famous psychedelic Hippie Car livery for another customer, using a rare book the customer shipped in as reference. If you love race Porsches, this one's for you. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 This is a Porsche 917 — meet LMK917 0:45 Tim Keiller + the family business 2:30 The Gulf 917 in front of us 5:00 Building from scratch — tube chassis + fibreglass body 9:00 Compliance: US roads vs Australian regs 11:00 Inside the cabin — Penske shocks, red suede, pedal box 14:00 The Albins 6-speed sequential 915 gearbox tangent 17:30 Flat fan engines + why flipping a 930 case is hell 20:30 Other LMK917 builds — the Hippie Car 23:00 What's left before this one hits the road 25:00 Sign-off ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 MYPORSCHEAI — the app I built for Porsche owners Built by a Porsche owner for Porsche owners. Scan your receipts, keep every service record in one place, stop losing paperwork in drawers. Cars from 356s through 992s already registered from owners in Australia, US, UK, Poland, Netherlands and 8 more countries. 👉 Sign up + name your garage before Oct 1 → https://myporscheai.lovable.app Best-named garage (voted 1–8 October) wins a hand-picked prize from me. Highest app user through the contest wins a second prize. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thanks for watching. Subscribe to the channel for Porsche news, drives, adventures, and owners' tours weekly. 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outlawgarage2013/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OutlawGarageGear/ 🌐 Website: https://www.outlawgarage.com.au ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ More from Outlaw Garage: ◮ 3 Days, Nine Porsches, One Island — Tasmania's Best Driving Roads ➤ https://youtu.be/4Dx6weLTY00 ◮ Porsche 911 SC Backdate | Outlaw 911 ➤ https://youtu.be/7RhDLxQF0Ds ◮ RWB Build Australia #11 Shumokuzame ➤ https://youtu.be/xZjYw6XhwVY ◮ Sunday Morning Drive: Bare Metal Porsche 356 at Cars and Coffee ➤ https://youtu.be/seGCFHMeddg ◮ Modified Porsche 911 964 — Owner's Guide ➤ https://youtu.be/klgQnf5AEoc ◮ Porsche 911 996 Mods and Upgrades — Owner's Guide ➤ https://youtu.be/pLQksgiLepU ◮ Owning a Porsche 928 S4 ➤ https://youtu.be/AyphZzaWfV4 ↤↤ ✿ ↦↦↦↦↦↤↤↤↤↤ ✿ ↦↦↦↦↦↤↤↤↤↤ ✿ ↦↦↦↦↦↤↤↤↤↤ ✿ ↦↦ Social Contacts: ➥ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outlawgarage2013/ ➥ https://www.facebook.com/OutlawGarageGear/ ➥ website: https://www.outlawgarage.com.au ↬↬↬↬↬↫↫↫↫↫↬↬↬↬↬↫↫↫↫↫↬↬↬↬↬↫↫↫↫↫↬↬↬↬↬↫↫↫↫↫ #Porsche #Porsche917 #LMK917 #GulfLivery #Porsche917K #LeMans #PorscheBuild #AircooledPorsche #OutlawGarage #AustralianPorsche #PorscheRecreation #Porsche917Gulf #RaceCar #PorscheAustralia #Melbourne #WorkshopTour

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