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impmad2000 · Post by **impmad2000** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:06 pm

Yeah Good to meet alot of you guys. It is good to put some more faces to names.
Ace Cafe is certainly a mecca for an aweful lot of classics.
Good drive back with the roof off too.
Cheers
Tim

higs356 · Post by **higs356** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:25 pm

Sorry i had to rush off guys

Had a meeting in Bracknell at 9 ...made it a 9.01.
Left the Ace at 8:23

Didnt have Stevieboy revving me down throught the Nth Circular this evening but got the welly down and made pretty good time and only touched the M4 in spots.

It was great to meet again and 'specially Tim who did the big trip this evening. Man ...wish I'd got those glas fenders

Heres a picture of the 300sl taken with dodgy phone cam (has to be said its technically a Deutschen Klassiker )

And the ddk crowd looking on in Awe ...

...not !!

...too busy talking about Porsches

Cyall next time

impmad2000 · Post by **impmad2000** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:23 am

I've been wracking my brain 'cos I recognised the driver of the Merc... Celeb chef James Martin I believe... Very tidy car, even had the luggage !

hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:17 am

I do love those mercs... unfortunalty closest I will ever get to driving one is GT4

Dyno Soar · Post by **Dyno Soar** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:22 am

It was a very cool night out and there was lots of very nice cars present.

If you look at that pic of us next to the Gul Wing you can see that we are too cool for school.. Merc Gul Wings don't freak us at all.

I really enjoyed it and got really amped up to finish the 911 in time for the next show. Thanks for all the encouragement fella's.

912uk · Post by **912uk** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:32 am

my fav car nice......

Gilbert '71 T · Post by **Gilbert '71 T** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:06 pm

t'was a great night gents, once again most grateful for the present steve, i really owe you one for that.

dyno wrote:If you look at that pic of us next to the Gul Wing you can see that we are too cool for school.. Merc Gul Wings don't freak us at all.

too busy talking about what your gonna do to your car to notice, i might have some time next week to help you out, i'll give you a call if i can do it.

impmad2000 wroteCeleb chef James Martin I believe

cheers Tim, i knew i'd seen that fella somewhere before as well, good show for making the trip from leicester too

veryporky · Post by **veryporky** » Thu May 12, 2005 1:47 am

Pleasantly suprised to meet a bunch of clubbies into early cars. My local TIPEC are into post classics, I'm the only pre 74 there. I felt more at home with you lot, especially as so many of you have / had bugs like me.
I look forward to meeting you DDKers again at Beaulieu.

I seem to have the spark box blues again though. Took it up to the red line for the first time since the rebuild. Pulled like a train all the way to 7K.

Let it settle down again for motorway cruising when it began to pop and bang. This is the second CD box I've had on it. Need to find a permenant fix as these 2nd hand ones just fail. Any ideas? I'm going to steal one off the T but this can only be tempoary as I want to get that up and running soon.

impmad2000 · Post by **impmad2000** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:00 am

I have had some dealings with CDi boxes and problems recently, Both seemed not to be the CDi box itself, but the triggering of the CDi and the Tacho feed.
Two fellow DDK'ers were having trouble with lack lustre performance, one put it down to the CDi box, the other the tacho. I collected all the parts and built them into a test rig. Both items , the CDI and the Tacho seemed to be fine. I then tried both in my car. Again, both seemed fine.
In an evening of fiddling, with oscilloscope etc, we re-fitted the tacho into it's own car. instead of feeding the tacho from the points, as it had been, we fed it direct from the output of the cdi box, as it had been in my car. Bingo, the car was perky and with a tacho.
In my car ('69), the tacho feed should be via a "switching scr" from the cdi box output (This is some kind of buffering circuit). This device is missing, and the tacho feed is fed direct to the tacho. It works fine. This is how we ended up wiring both of the "lack lustre" cars.
Pehaps you just need to try the car with the tacho feed disconnected.

Tim

Luke · Post by **Luke** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:04 am

sorry guys definately won't be able to make it this month, don't get back from Helsinki until 8pm, keep me posted on next month's meet

tanick · Post by **tanick** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:46 pm

Missed Husbourne Crawley because I was in Istanbul for work and ditto missed this one because I was tanking it down the M1 from Newcastle from a meeting. How much do you need to have in the bank to retire and just play with Porsches? £20m? Helsikinki sounds better than Newcastle though!

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:50 am

I broke down on the M25 the other day at 3 AM. Being form Nottingham and not having any porsche magazines with me for adverts for independant porsche fiddlers, I was towed to Porsche Centre Hatfield. Very friendly, excellent mechanic, but a replacement ignition unit and new coil: a cool £ 1022,66!!

I therefore find it usefull to have this with me in the car:

http://www.356-911.co.uk/links/independentservicing.htm

Right, Mittelmotor however offers new ignition boxes for 399 euros. They do speak English but the "new items" are only available on the website in German. An ignition box is a HKZ geraet(sound like: Ha Ka Zed chereid).

http://www.mittelmotor.de/deutsch/startdeutsch.htm

If you need any help, send me a PM. I speak five languages (but not a single one properly, I say whotwhot ) Ah well, at least I found something I can thank my German mum for.

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:56 am

Sorry, that above link of mittelmotor:

http://www.mittelmotor.de/deutsch/startdeutsch.htm

You have to go to "Angebote", then "Ersatzteile" then "Neuheiten" and then scroll down for a piccy of a box and "HKZ Geraet fuer 911"

HTH,

Bert

veryporky · Post by **veryporky** » Sat May 14, 2005 7:33 pm

Bertroex wrote:Sorry, that above link of mittelmotor:

http://www.mittelmotor.de/deutsch/startdeutsch.htm

You have to go to "Angebote", then "Ersatzteile" then "Neuheiten" and then scroll down for a piccy of a box and "HKZ Geraet fuer 911"

HTH,

Bert

Thanks for that mittel motor link. BTW A handy little tool for translating foriegn texts is babel fish. Just clip in the text or let it translate the whole web page. The grammer is way out but you get the jist and it even does Japanese. Do a search on babel fish and give it a go it's fun.

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Sun May 15, 2005 1:42 am

Do a search on babel fish and give it a go it's fun.

Its even funnier when you translate it back into your original language;

"I am self employed and like to see my daughter horsejumping."

"Je suis art de l'auto-portrait utilisé et comme pour voir ma fille horsejumping"

"I am art of the self-portrait used and like seeing my daughter horsejumping"

On the other hand, The dialectizer provides an even better tool: a choice of translations such as Redneck, Elmer Fudd or Swedish chef:

"I em selff impluyed und leeke-a tu see-a my dooghter hursejoompeeng"

http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectt.cgi

The DDK forum translated into Swedish Chef gives it a totally different dimension

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