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Loaded the parts hauler (!) and headed south to strip down the bargain basement 996 engine, and everything suggests it was a well looked after 71k mile car as described
No bore score, bearings all in fine condition, heads not cracked. The perfect base for a race engine. All we found were worn chain guides and a collapsed chain tensioner
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93 964 C2
99 Boxster 2.5 > 3.4 hill climber
71 914/6 3.0 - gone
'You see Paul, hill climbing is like making love to a beautiful woman. You get your motor running, check your fluids, hang on tight and WHOA..30 seconds later it's all over!' Swiss Tony
1970 911T, Signal orange (Restoration thread)
1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
I'm looking for a pre-impact bumper 911S or other high-revving 911 to restore - please let me know if you see one.
So big day today. A rare event when I wash a car. Got out all the equipment: two buckets, grit guard, soft washing mit, special micro fibre cloth, snow foam, very expensive shampoo, special wheel brush, hose pipe etc. Not really! My usual builder's bucket, cheap sponge, washing up liquid and a chamois leather. Forced into washing the car as the builders did not shut the garage door as instructed three weeks ago and the car was covered in dust.
The pile you can see behind the car is my next door neighbour's as they are having extensive work done.
To take advantage of the dry weather/roads today, took the 911 out locally to run everything and be ready to put it to sleep for the winter, unless we have some good dry salt-free days...
It has been standing for about 7 weeks, so filled the small tool box with the bare essentials as usual ( do this every time i go out in it, never used a single tool out and about in 34 years) and down the local village-to-village lanes to to the local airport.
Started after the usual 3 seconds of churning and to 6 pots straight away, no blue or other smoke, so good.
It just simply worked.
What a great simple car this is. Always surprises me how nice it is on the roads despite some hard hillclimb bits still in the chassis, even the brakes seemed ok!
Found a local land mark to pose in front of.
73T 911 Coupe, road/hillclimber 3.2L
Lola t 492 / 3.2 hillclimb racer
Boxster 987 Gen II 2.9
Put led bulbs in my 914. I couldn't replace the top two on the Speedo. I didn't want to take off the Speedo cable.
However, almost ready for a road trip soon but the rear right brake is rubbing. Whoever, designer these brakes in Porsche or VW owns many people an explanation
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“A REMINDER. I would be grateful if those members who have borrowed bits from me in emergencies (e.g starter motor, oil cooler, etc) would return them and/or contact me”. – Chris Turner RIP
not today but sunday. i stripped down the starter as it has always been slow and recently steuggled to start at all. thought I'd have a look inside before i took for a rebuild.
Turns out what little grease that was left inside had gone hard.
So a liberal smearing was done, put it back together and bench tested.
Holy shite it sounded like a jet engine! going to fit it and hope it's all good. If not it's off to the rebuilders.