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I’m near Kidderminster seeing a client today and next door to them is....






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Put 914 on rolling road at Rawspeed in Plymouth. Around 130bhp at 5200rpm and 115ftlb torque from 3500 to 4500rpm. Makes over 100ftlb from 2700 to 5300rpm - a nice flat torque curve!

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You know Collins of Probus (but in Tresillian next to the Mercedes garage) have a newly installed state of the art rolling road?

Nine One One wrote:Keith
You know Collins of Probus (but in Tresillian next to the Mercedes garage) have a newly installed state of the art rolling road?

Wasn't aware of them, but I use Graham Rawlings as he is the man for working magic with carbs and cars that still have points and coil ignition. His is the go-to workshop for anyone with anything from a blown big-block '57 Chevy to a rally-prepped Twin-Cam Escort. Plus he's a super cool guy who let me drive his front-engined dragster...

Well that's hard to beat for a reccomendation..

About the right time of year to get the 911 out of the winter slumber, sat in the garage since the end of Sept-ish.

Re-connected the batteries and cranked the big 3.2 over, as slow as it always has been, and fired up cleanly on all 6 after 3 seconds of churning and sat there at a rock steady 800 rpm.

150K old engine, never been apart, 8 year old batteries (Silver Bosch from Halfords).
Bought to full temp with the front cooler hot and checked the oil level, exactly where I left it a year ago, mid-way Max/Min.

Tyres held pressures, ready to go seemingly anywhere!

Pic from last year..

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Replaced the front discs and pads on my 987.2 Boxster this morning. Easy task, but the parts are surprisingly heavy.
Had a few issues with the delicate Brembo wear sensors, but all done and feels great.

The old brakes are original parts! This shows how bad the rust gets on the inside face. My Skoda fronts replaced 2 weeks ago, same miles were just as bad.
Both cars stopped on a sixpence.



Every modern Porsche owner needs one of these:



Finally, what angle of the suspension does this to a tyre? Potential MoT fail??

I would say so Graham....

Looks like fairly normal wear on a car with a bit of negative camber. Drive harder on corners and wear the outer edge to match

I wouldn’t worry about a MOT, those tyres are getting a bit thin anyway.

What, MORE money on this car?
Never ends. The steering does seem a bit heavy to me, but never driven any other Boxster before, so might be normal.
In fairness, Zuffenhaus thought the same of the tyres, but also thought a geo job would be good too...

It looks like a the pressures may be a tad low because the centre of
the tread looks a bit deeper than the outer edges as well a bit of
toe out causing the wear on the inside edge.

I agree it’s pretty standard for a car with -ve camber.

The MoT only tests the middle bit of the tread, so you may well pass. Whether you want to bomb about in the rain for much longer on those is another question. I reckon I’d get another 2000 miles out of them.

I'm building up courage to ask for a Permissin for new Bridgestones.
19's are expensive.

Fitted the rear bumper up, now wearing an RS centre section and body colour painted lower sections.




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