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Hells bells, sorry to hear all this Jason. I hope you get to a point you can enjoy the car again as soon as possible. FWIW I can certainly vouch for Greatworth too. They are big on detail / quality and Angus and the team are a pleasure to deal with.
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What he said. With Angus building my 2.5 SR at the moment, and the amount of time I have spent at Greatworth already seeing what they do firsthand, I can absolutely vouch for the exemplary work he and his highly professional team do there, plus they do not seek to charge for every single second (unlike someone between Bicester and Aylesbury!…). Their rates are reasonable at £80 per hour + VAT and Angus is always seeking to invest in new facilities - a dyno and rolling road being the next things on his list.
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willbrown wrote:Hells bells, sorry to hear all this Jason. I hope you get to a point you can enjoy the car again as soon as possible. FWIW I can certainly vouch for Greatworth too. They are big on detail / quality and Angus and the team are a pleasure to deal with.
Cheers Will. Angus does come highly recommend as a proper genuine enthusiast too.
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Of course if you are going to bridge a 3” gap in an oil pipe with an 8” rubber hose maybe don’t fasten the 6 jubilee clips so tight they pierce the hose?

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Also when removing or fitting the rubber S side trim maybe don’t use a screwdriver or similar to prise the trim into place every 1cm along the entire length…..

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Oh dear, that doesn’t look like a permanent fix does it. Where are you upto with the car now?
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If that's sae100r6, then the temperature range of marginal for oil as it's max operating temp is 100 degrees C (from a quick Google).
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Seems bodging pipes with rubber hose isn’t just a uk thing


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Fabulous, who in their right mind would try to fix a fuel line like that? I want to think that the pipe was on its last legs and not actually holed when the bodge was applied, but then I like to think the best of people!
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Or a gear linkage with LX tape and hosepipe…
Still all better now!
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hot66 wrote:Seems bodging pipes with rubber hose isn’t just a uk thing
Yeah interestingly Matt said it was hidden away also, so again you would never be able to know until it failed….
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markm wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 3:32 pm Oh dear, that doesn’t look like a permanent fix does it. Where are you upto with the car now?
Sorry Mark I completely missed this :oops:

No change unfortunately.

It's still in the garage while I continue to get quotes I can't afford at the minute.....

Might have to compression fit repair it in the short term (and see if that works) until a full proper repair is possible/affordable.

Hope the yellow car is all sorted and back running sweet :thumbright: :thumbright: :thumbright:
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Hi Jason, sincerely hope you get it sorted soon, nowt worse than having a old Porsche sat in the garage, unable to use it due to no fault of your own but at your expense, I know too well

Yes, yellow car running well at the moment, starting to enjoy it again just pottering around locally in it
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Managed to get some time to get in the garage and move the cars around and get to inspect this oil pipe repair further…
Alan @ CanfordClassics wrote: ...The rubber pipe is not the repair it was simply used to separate the lines from knocking together.
I ran a light and camera down the sills in both directions and there are no other repairs and no other rubber pipes. I think we can safely say that the above statement was not true and the 9” rubber pipe with 6 jubilee clips WAS the repair to a 3” cut out oil pipe.

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I have had a few quotes now to repair it properly and they range from £5,500 to £7,000 so it’s simply not affordable at present :(

To that end I will try and fit a compression pipe repair to at least try and use the car a bit and make sure there are no other disasters to be found!!

For anyone interested the external pipe diameter seems to be 16mm with internal 12mm.

I’ll update how I get on when we do it…. :)
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Are you able to detail why the repair is so expensive?
You have opened the sill so perhaps a full and final repair should be done to the pipe from cooler to stat.
I don't think you need a Porsche specialist to do that, just a good classic car outfit close to you?

Is the replacement pipe or a new one that expensive?
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Are you able to detail why the repair is so expensive?
You have opened the sill so perhaps a full and final repair should be done to the pipe from cooler to stat.
I don't think you need a Porsche specialist to do that, just a good classic car outfit close to you?

Is the replacement pipe or a new one that expensive?

I see you are located in the Midlands, a large area, Gary uses a good Motorsport restorer by him who I think could do the work, CMS in Bridgnorth may be another?

Hope it will be sorted quickly, but also far more cost effectively.
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