It's about damn time - Al's 964 thread

[rhd racer]

Love the carbon tinware - very snazzy. Never seen that before - standard steel is like carbon prices so prob easy man maths!!


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[misteralz]

Standard steel stuff is ridiculous - I think it's close to three grand for the full set from Porsche! This was 800€ from DP Motorsport. Still not cheap, but it'll never rot!
I'd like to do the bonnet as well - it's got a few stonechips so needs painted anyway. I wouldn't even need to replace the struts as they're growing weak now...

[rhd racer]

Wow that’s good value - I remember I got away with buying two bits and that was about a grand


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[misteralz]

https://www.dp-motorsport.de/produkt/mo ... sset-dp64/

No idea if they'll ship over the North sea nowadays, but you'll be over for Techno Classica in a couple of months anyway...

[misteralz]

Thanks James. Going to try and get it out at least once a month this year. We'll see how that goes.

I'm on seven for seven now! I need to update this...

[misteralz]

Did some stuff today. It fought me ALL THE WAY.
























I'm now at the stage where I can check the valve clearances, so that's tomorrow's job. I'm mildly worried about the flange for the cat sealing again, but we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

[hot66]

Deffo going to be interesting bolting that back together ! Whilst the cat is off, check its seams as mine had split. I got it welded back up so I can use when needed

[misteralz]

The sealing faces are still good, so I think I might be okay. There's an old school metalworking shop in my village, so I'll take the cat along and see if he can build the flange face back up with weld - he did a cracking job on my wife's T5 exhaust manifold.
If I can't get it to seal when it goes back together, then the Porsche shop down the road have stainless cats in stock, and Design911 do repair flanges. I could cut one of those in half and use longer bolts to clamp it back up that way. Definitely not a fan of having to replace the whole exhaust, as that's 6½k€ and probably a day of my life...

[rhd racer]

Thanks for the inspiration Al.

I have been struggling to get through emissions and reckon I have either a low cell cat or bypass that looks like a cat - also no heat shield. So by pure chance have just bought an OE cat that needs a flange repair for very sensible money so will repair and replace, and at the same time put some paste in the main oil union to block which is my only oil drip source.

All for another day but gets me on the right path…

Cheers
Wayne


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[hot66]

From experience, a cat bypass is no where near passing mot emissions. I’ve read a 100cell won’t pass either

[rhd racer]

I’ll let you know when I take it apart - it is def aftermarket


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[misteralz]

I'm not going to lie Wayne, I've been dreading doing this, but I've never actually done the valve clearances and I don't trust the very thick history file that claims they were done 15k ago. At least doing it myself I'm going to know for sure where it stands and I'm dealing with it on my own terms rather than having it done at an indy who could've gotten this far then said 'yeah, new exhaust time. That'll be 8k including labour'...

James, that's interesting. Mine was registered on the 1st of January 1992 so I think I can still run it cat-less, but if a 100 cell still won't pass emissions then that's pointless. At least until 2032, when it'll be APK exempt!

[rhd racer]

You are right as far as I know - I think cat is mandatory from 93. I’d forgotten about the impact of MOT exemption and equivalents. Only another £3k of road tax to go!!!

(Knowing my luck the exemption will be amended or removed before I get there)


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[misteralz]

I woke up this morning with a severe case of DOMS. I'm middle-aged now, physically if not mentally, and I'm usually the same after a day throwing myself down and around mountain sides on silly bikes. I could barely lift my pint of tea this morning. Now, a lot of yesterday I was cursing the 'maintenance' this thing had had before I bought it, and earlier in the week I'd cleaned everything in sight whilst doing the plug and air filters change on the (admittedly twenty years newer, but already considerably higher mileage) sensible family car. You know where this is going.



Manky! But getting there.



Cleaning this up a bit has exposed some cracked welds, but they're on the inlet side of the second silencer which is isn't a 'proper' flange so it should be okay.

[hot66]

G-pipe needed