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- Mon Jun 03, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Where the magnesium oxide was dissolved it all looked so good yesterday. After a run through the dishwasher I appear to have outdone myself with this very special brown finish. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240603/34fe39c041916ab4de2ee609f6d15f87.jpg "A little knowledge is a dangerous thin...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Very kind of you Gary. I'll bear that in mind nearer the time.Gary71 wrote:Seeing that reminds me I have a Flexhone suitable for 84mm cylinders if you want to borrow it?
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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Can you guess what it is yet?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2240
Re: Can you guess what it is yet?
Next tool... 9mm carbon steel rod. Reduced down to 8.97mm. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240602/2353d3b1b085623664580df28136af7f.jpg Marked about 50mm from the end. Too easy this one. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240602/ab9aba6d92bcf30aeefee2fdd82858fa.jpg Sent from my SM-S918B using Tapa...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Supplies arrived for the next chapter. Awaiting a 9mm/12mm sleeve.
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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Having measured the guides and found one or two substantially out of spec, as large as 9.2mm in some places, I decided if I was replacing one, then I was replacing them all. I already decided the job can be done to a high standard in a garage with basic tools. So given a) I'll be tooling up to do on...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
The magnesium stacks and throttle bodies have blooms of corrosion in all the nooks and crannies, including inside. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240602/4137ab423114d9d8f882c0699053a807.jpg It would have been a lot of work to abrade it all off so I tried using some ferric chloride to turn it int...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Porsche Restoration Threads
- Topic: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod
- Replies: 2572
- Views: 389487
Re: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod
Great news. The reason the screw was stopping (but still turns) is because the nut around it has come back into contact with the rocker again. If you back the nut off a bit more, you get a better feel of whether you're incontact with the valve/cam.
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
In preparation for removing the exhaust studs, I was watching a couple of videos as you do, when I saw one of these contraptions. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240601/b4e3940f85ccf210c61d2c01729f113d.jpg It turns out I have a couple in a lovely old Britool tool set. I'd been wondering what they...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: my non-Porsche picture of the day
- Replies: 22221
- Views: 1468200
Re: my non-Porsche picture of the day
Last week in the San Fernando Valley: https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240530/61ba57bdc424d48dc33113f7ec6fe95c.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240530/b0bd3a06001f719d47822f353465f9db.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240530/6db25563b0daca844505bfff40094220.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk...
- Fri May 31, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
I think the engine rebuild kits from Design 911 also have new guides, but you need to check that Rob. Fresh guide bores may well close things up enough to have a reasonable clearance. Thanks for the suggestion Graham. Sadly it doesn't look like they do the kit for this engine, only the later ones. ...
- Thu May 30, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
I finished measuring up tonight. I read it's the exhaust valves that always need replacing because they wear twice as fast. All the exhaust valves are bigger than the minimum wear spec of 8.928mm, albeit only just above. Whereas all but one of the intake valves are worn outside the wear spec of 8.94...
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:37 am
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 167
- Views: 11923
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
I found half an hour's worth of midnight oil to burn measuring valves yesterday evening. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240530/2ea9ab5a54b2a33a89991f1cf1c080ec.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240530/eb436e85ecefb87bc327c70003078655.jpg All may yet be discarded, depending on measurements, ...
- Wed May 29, 2024 5:55 am
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Road Tripping to the Pyrenees
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2460
Re: Road Tripping to the Pyrenees
Great trip and thanks for the read. I'd love to do this some time.
Sorry about your mechanical woes Gary. At least you have an excuse to do another trip, now.
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Sorry about your mechanical woes Gary. At least you have an excuse to do another trip, now.
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- Tue May 28, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Porsche Replicas
- Topic: A Dream Fulfilled - MY 904FF
- Replies: 147
- Views: 28809
Re: A Dream Fulfilled - MY 904FF
Some of you might have wondered what had happened to the "FF" over the last couple of years. It has obviously been hors de combat due to Jim's "off" at Shelsley Walsh in 2022. The good news is that an improved version - MK16B!!? will be at Shelsley this weekend and its more dila...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Porsche Restoration Threads
- Topic: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod
- Replies: 2572
- Views: 389487
Re: 1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod
ATM I'm fully expecting the cylinder 2 intake tappet to be half a centimetre too far open! Do you recall slacking any off more than you might have expected, when adjusting them?