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

[Ian 2.2S]

Brilliant Chris, must feel great after all your effort.

[squirejo]

I went for a bloody drive- all weekend. How glad I am to have the car back with it's "new" engine.

Drive one- Neil Bainbridge to London. Started carefully, nervously. With the miles so the nerves dissipated and the car felt strong.

Drive 2 - took the boy to pose down the Kings Road. People like old Pork.

Drive 3 - West Sussex and back. Delicious A and B roads. Oh the rush to the redline. It's like a vtec power kicking in at 5500. TERRIFIC.

[jwhillracer]

I took our 911 hillclimb car to Clay Pigeon Raceway across the border in Dorset for a shake-down at a Sprint meeting there.
Met up with Andy (haasad) again, which was great. Had a bit of a character-building morning trying to cure a severe misfire which started in the queue for 1st practice............ Cleaned the new plugs - slightly better, but still not right - in 2nd practice. Changed them out for the 5 (!) spare Bosch Black Platinums that I have been carrying around for the past 15 years or so in my box of bits, and instantly sorted, pulling like a train! Now I need to find one more.....
Other than that, the brakes bedded in really quickly, and were really solid, the handling was spot on straight out of the box, and the rebuilt gearbox was really smooth and precise - thank you Crispin!

Wiscombe Park next weekend, and then the first round of the new Porsche Club National Hillclimb Championship at Shelsley Walsh on 2/3rd May. That will be 30 years to the week-end from my first competitive run in this car................................

A very smiley JW

PS - Did you get any photos, Andy??

[sladey]

Chris - can see the video. Much better than on your gor pror (is that how you spell it? )

Car sounds great and with that light weight will be fast

[Darren65]

That will be 30 years to the week-end from my first competitive run in this car.............

Now that's an achievement!....way to go

[911hillclimber]

Good start!
See you at Shels along with the big Porsche hitters
Graham.

[KS]

Wiscombe Park next weekend

See you there! Better remind me at the end of the week, though...

[Ian 2.2S]

Saturday - fitted replacement oil return tube (thanks Gary). Went in surprisingly easily, no removal of anything for access
Oil slick on garage floor doesn'tseems to be getting bigger now - result

[haasad]

Jon', photo efforts were frankly useless I'll do better at Wiscombe.....honest.

[jwhillracer]

Never mind - it was a good day! I sorted the bits that were needed, and have a fairly short list of things to do before Wiscombe.

JW

[stuarts]

Well, yesterday, I had my first proper drive in my car, post restoration.
Had an invite to a clay pigeon shoot from a pal, and went in convoy with another mate in his Boxster.
The back roads between Northampton and Kineton in Warwickshire on a quiet Sunday morning are absolute heaven.

So, how'd it drive?
I was expecting to have all sorts of teething troubles and had packed a pretty comprehensive tool kit and spares package.
Happy to report that I didn't need to get the spanners out at all!

Not perfect though, a few niggles appeared:

Desperately need to get the gearbox oil replaced (what a tool to have forgotten to replace it when the 'box was out), I have the oil ready, but the bl00dy drain plug rounded on me Friday night, so didn't get that done. 'box was fine when cold, but got a bit notchy when really warm, which would suggest to me that it's down to crap oil needing changing. Also think I may need to slightly adjust the linkage, as on one or two occasions, snicked reverse going from 5th to 4th. I'm also going to rebush the linkage whilst I'm at it.

Did drop down to five & four cylinders at low revs for a couple of miles as I set off back, cleared itself after a good revving. I suspect that a couple of the refurbed injectors I put on are not up scratch. Though definitely running rich, so may have been a bit of plug fouling. By the time I'd got back, I noticed the idle speed was higher by about 200rpm, was ticking over at 1200. Need to get the mixture and idle sorted.
Temperature and pressure remained great though, the thermostat to the front oil cooler hadn't opened, oil temp remained at the low side of normal, and all driving had been on open roads, no sitting in traffic.

Only other problem was a broken drivers side window mech (hence the window down the picture!
I took the door card off when I got home to discover that the metal bracket at the bottom of the glass holder had cracked through stress (probably caused by years of non lubrication). Should be a relatively simple fix.
And must strip the paint off the cooler pipes, bad mistake in painting those silver. look so wrong!

Overall, a great first drive, finished off with a lovely pint of IPA

[MdR]

I found this at the back of the garage yesterday

[Lightweight_911]

Dropped my steel/alloy wheels fitted with Avon CR6ZZ tyres in to KK today.

Car is progressing well & hopefully will be MOT'd next week.

Discussed a few ideas for harness rear mounts with Ritchie & Lionel & I think we've come up with a neat solution.

Apologies for the poor quality phone picture & the cr*p framing but room was tight ...

[jb]

It looks wonderful Andy

[anglophone1]

Dropped my steel/alloy wheels fitted with Avon CR6ZZ tyres in to KK today.

Car is progressing well & hopefully will be MOT'd next week.

Discussed a few ideas for harness rear mounts with Ritchie & Lionel & I think we've come up with a neat solution.

Apologies for the poor quality phone picture & the cr*p framing but room was tight ...

Love the carpet in your garage!