Hello from Highbury

[philosborne]

I really can't understand why it's taken me so long to join DDK.
I started looking at it in earnest last week in desperation as I needed to locate a replacement air box for my car and I was amazed at how responsive and helpful you lot were to my Wanted post.
Back to basics - I have 1971 RHD 2.2E which I bought in '97. It's gone through several phases starting as restoration basket case to daily driver, stored away for a while, body restoration phase 2 and most recently full engine rebuild.
I've documented some of the story in here if anyone's interested:- http://www.cumbriancarnut.com
Cheers,
Phil
NB: I've corrected the model year on my car to '71 thanks to guidance from a DDK'er. It was manufactured in Oct '70 which means it fits into the 1971 model year. It was good of Porsche to run their own independent calendar!

[johnM]

Hi Phil

Welcome to DDK.
Car looks fab.
Do you have any connection to Cumbria then?

Kind regards.

[jb]

Welcome
You have a really nice site and a lovely car

[Ferry Man]

Phil, I really can't understand why it's taken you so long to join DDK.
That's a great car you have there and a really great blog too. Hats off to you Sir.

[Mitch]

Welcome Phil and yep that's some cool blogging right there.

Enjoy DDK!

[Ant22]

Hello Phil. I'm just down the road in Islington but I keep my car for weekends in Suffolk. Your car looks amazing, can't believe I've not see you driving around the area. Great blog also. Congratulations. Anthony

[210bhp]

Welcome to Ddk. You have a mighty fine looking 911 there.

Regards
Mike

[Darren65]

Great place Highbury, go there often

Lovely looking car and cool site......welcome.

[Bootsy]

Welcome, good to have you on board

[neilbardsley]

Welcome.

Nice web site / blog

I liked your bit about getting the engine dynamo tested after the rebuild. In particular the bit about taking time to test and setup after the build

http://www.cumbriancarnut.com/911-2-2s- ... /#more-803

I must admit that it's one part of engine building that had me completed confused. I used to be a c++ coder in a previous life so I'm very used to developing something then spending more time testing and refining the code. I couldn't believe when I had an engine built and someone said they would give it back to me without testing it! I guess you could agrue they are different problems with the engine build having really only a handful of good solutions while the code has many, many possible solution, but none the less ..

[Slope330]

seen ur car in both establishments many times ...........i used to have my salary paid direct into their bank accounts .............they re working on a 2.2 s of mine right now and did a 2.4 s now nearly 10 years ago .........do it once ,do it right ..........2. 4 still looks pretty good after 10 years, virtually daily driver........they ARE worth it