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by jb
Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:04 am
Forum: Porsche Restoration Threads
Topic: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod
Replies: 2403
Views: 254580

Re: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod

Good luck today
Hope it goes well
by jb
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: Porsche Restoration Threads
Topic: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod
Replies: 2403
Views: 254580

Re: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod

Are you able to take out an injector and put it in a container while you crank it to check you are getting fuel past the injectors?
by jb
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: Porsche Future Events
Topic: Fairmile 2024
Replies: 3
Views: 546

Re: Fairmile 2024

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This one!
I came in stealth mode in the Prius
I had been in the 911 all day as I went to the beach in it.
Shame to have missed you
Lots of noisy new cars there


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by jb
Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: Porsche Future Events
Topic: Fairmile 2024
Replies: 3
Views: 546

Re: Fairmile 2024

Today
Are you going?
Anyone else?
by jb
Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:21 am
Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
Topic: non Porsche vid of the day!
Replies: 926
Views: 112910

Re: non Porsche vid of the day!

neilbardsley wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:37 am https://youtu.be/qc7QnzwrnF0?si=s7YGGY4QCmDGRxDn

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Valentino Rossi interview about WEC
by jb
Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:22 am
Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
Topic: The Great Big DDK Meet of 2024!!!
Replies: 192
Views: 6284

Re: The Great Big DDK Meet of 2024!!!

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Same picture for me


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by jb
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:33 am
Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
Topic: What did you do in/on/for your Porsche today?
Replies: 7947
Views: 659744

Re: What did you do in/on/for your Porsche today?

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240416/5b39394aebc7fd262b84a5a4eff69e27.jpg I took my distributor apart just to see how difficult it would be to lock it and use a cdi+ advance curve. This is not the one on the car but the one I hoped to use before I found that I could not get the insulated conne...
by jb
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:04 am
Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
Topic: Need a gismo for a 73 911 distributor please
Replies: 2
Views: 143

Re: Need a gismo for a 73 911 distributor please

Maybe there is someone out there who fitted breakerless points and removed the insulated block?
by jb
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: Porsche Restoration Threads
Topic: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod
Replies: 2403
Views: 254580

Re: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod

I love your posts Mark.
by jb
Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:05 pm
Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
Topic: Need a gismo for a 73 911 distributor please
Replies: 2
Views: 143

Re: Need a gismo for a 73 911 distributor please

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It the bit circled above
For a 0 231 169 009 unit


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by jb
Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:37 pm
Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
Topic: Need a gismo for a 73 911 distributor please
Replies: 2
Views: 143

Need a gismo for a 73 911 distributor please

Does anyone have a spare gismo, low tension connection, for 73 911 distributor that has a spade connection on both the inside and outside of the distributor - the power for the points It should go through the hole in the side shown below https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240412/627c56965589aacd6d2c...
by jb
Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:44 am
Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
Topic: Ian - ims101
Replies: 14
Views: 858

Re: Ian - ims101

Bootsy wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:47 pm Image


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Raise a glass to Ian tonight
by jb
Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: Porsche Technical advice and help
Topic: Using a snap-on timing light
Replies: 16
Views: 858

Re: Using a snap-on timing light

It has taken me a quite a while to get a photo of it but it is 0 231 184 001 which seems to a later version of the 169 008.168 009, 169 010 but with the points on the other side.
That is a very kind offer perhaps I could buy it off you if you have no use for it and you think it is ok?
by jb
Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:35 am
Forum: Porsche Technical advice and help
Topic: Using a snap-on timing light
Replies: 16
Views: 858

Re: Using a snap-on timing light

I took off the cap and wiggled the rotor and the advance mechanism. There is some up and down movement and a bit of side to side movement in the shaft. However I think the advance mechanism was getting stuck and then releasing as having manipulated it all I got different advance readings particularl...
by jb
Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:34 am
Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
Topic: Your Porsche pic of the day......
Replies: 28506
Views: 1761959

Re: Your Porsche pic of the day......

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Thought it was very nice even if as Neil says it is not what I thought it was but then I thought Andy’s 904 was lovely too.


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