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

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Post by 911hillclimber »

The long long queue was made or made worse by the incoming traffic being set into 2 lanes at the entrance, which then became 1 lane up the hill, then 2 and again to 1 and this repeated for the loop round to the bottom of the area then a single flow to the marshalled parking. Last bit was quick after the car check/book/tokens.
All staff on the site were FJ people, but it needed more.

Never had my 911 that hot before which was a worry, but the car cooled and the run home was clean if hard work in the traffic to Kidderminster.
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Never experienced that queueing problem when they used to host the hillclimb there ...

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Getting the car ready for Megaphonics on Sunday.

The apparently inocuous task of tacking on the nuts holding the seatbelt to the tunnel grew from a 30 minuter to all day, finally finishing at 9:30pm.

I had to use all my ingenuity to get the nuts into position to weld.

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Protection from sparks
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Since the seats were out and the carpets up I stripped any loose paint and sound and heat insulation, repainted the floor and back seat Wells.

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The paint didn't dry quickly enough to put new deadening down so that will wait for another day.

I sanded and painted the gear stick and inserted two new rubber washers into the G50 linkage to stiffen it up a bit.

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Interestingly, I knew the G50 linkage can rattle and that the official Porsche fix was to cable tie
some foam insulation around it. I didn't realise until now that had already been done on my car.

The gear change feels a lot tighter with the extra washers.

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Evening drive in the 914 with my best friend. My log book said I last drove the car in April! When I straighten the steering wheel.

I took care not to let the engine start immediately and didn't press the accelerator. This meant that I saw the oil pressure build to 50psi before I started.

I had forgotten how much I enjoy driving this car. Engine comes alive from 3-5k

Unfortunately, the steering wheel pad dropped off so I glue on and left to cure overnight.

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Cleaned it :)

It’s on display as part of the Pistonheads birthday bash tomorrow at Bicester Heritage. Mum only lives 6 miles away so came down tonight and covered it in dead things :)

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I dropped the 996 Turbo off for its MOT yesterday. Took a photo of the mileometer when I did.

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And when I picked it up.

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Comments invited. Passed first time.

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Lot of brake testing on the dyno...
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Somebody has taken it out for a blat
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Next time weigh it before and after so you know how much filler has been added...
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I'd go back and make a noise about that. They'll deny of course but if nothing else might deter them from joy riding again.
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Blew the clutch (I hope) on the Lola doing a 1G start off the line at Shelsley Walsh.

Heavy duty driven plate needed asap.

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911hillclimber wrote:Blew the clutch (I hope) on the Lola doing a 1G start off the line at Shelsley Walsh.

Heavy duty driven plate needed asap.

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Bummer. Hope it’s just the plate :)
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Gary71 wrote: Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:42 pm Cleaned it :)

It’s on display as part of the Pistonheads birthday bash tomorrow at Bicester Heritage. Mum only lives 6 miles away so came down tonight and covered it in dead things :)

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I saw your car at the pistonheads event. Looked lovely. People were talking very favourably about it.
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Post by Gary71 »

I parked in a hanger today at the Pistonheads 25th Birthday event. Fabulous mix of machines from every angle. Image

Oh and they gave the car best of show, which was a bit weird as I just went to look at all the other cars not win anything… happy with that though :)

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