DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

In the spirit of the 75th. Last week got an invite to have the car inside the local Porsche garage, where in exchange I was allowed to abuse their BBQ and bar, and even got a goody bag too (obviously they hadn't been counting the trips to the BBQ!)

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Brought Gina back to my new-ish tiny rented house near Woodstock briefly for the first time today…

But I’d really like a garage

Prepping for Classics at the Clubhouse tomorrow.



I went to fill up but couldn’t get the release knob to lift the filler flap.



Tried contorting my body to do both simultaneously but sadly not going to work.



Luckily a near neighbour (ex Ford Sierra Cosworth racer) saw the car and came over. He caressed the flap and I pulled the knob (ooooh matron) and hey presto it lifted. So I will be going to Classics at the Clubhouse after all.

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It's a very tense moment when you realise that something so small is about to royally screw up your day.
Glad it worked out

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Broke something but don't know what, yet...

https://youtu.be/hFxq76Ef2R8

Whoops! Did you lose all drive?

JW

g3ngs2 wrote:It's a very tense moment when you realise that something so small is about to royally screw up your day.
Glad it worked out

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Too right. People have mentioned the shoe lace trick. Not sure just what that is though!

jwhillracer wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:12 pm Whoops! Did you lose all drive?

JW

No - I drove the car home. I think it’s a failed engine mounting, so will get it up on axle stands this week and take a look…

g3ngs2 wrote:It's a very tense moment when you realise that something so small is about to royally screw up your day.
Glad it worked out

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Coincidentally I set out for the Porsche 75 years meet at Bishton Hall today. At the petrol station, the petrol flap wouldn't open either on my 996. A quick Google revealed there's a backup cable above the door hinge. I reached in and sure enough there it was, and I pulled it clean off in my hand. Petrol flap still wouldn't open
So I canned the trip and returned to my DIY.

Which didn't go much better.



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matteo68 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 9:33 pm Brought Gina back to my new-ish tiny rented house near Woodstock briefly for the first time today…

Nice car.
Original paint or restored?

180 mile round trip to Classics at the Clubhouse yesterday without any dramas.

Great show as always and well worth the effort.

As it's LMC next week...... busy, busy...

Repaired the cup holders (not the ally ones, the 3D printed ones from T911) fixed and now adjustable

Properly dealt with the elastic in the passenger door pocket.

Located an issue in the RPM transducer and found the last remaining new Bosch replacement on the planet. Much more than it should have been, but a lot less than the Porsche part that's most likely made by Bosch too, currently monitoring it's progress towards me.

Became thoroughly fed up of the recurring rich AFR numbers I was seeing on the MFI (how this came about is a mild source of irritation, but my plan was to be lazy amd outsource it t so I could be lazy and fiddle around the sides). See above on non functioning transducer and add in a fishing expedition to check prior work to find rod lengths on the p155.
Corrected, correlated and rebalanced.

Wrote a query for ChatGPT to divine the relationship of my part load and idle adjustment based on AFR data I'd collected whilst driving around and get recommendations to adjust. Checked the maths, implemented, checked the outcomes against the average recommended ignition curve, am now confident that I won't be pissing petrol out of the back.

Result 12.9 WOT, 14 cruise, idle improved to a steady 11+ but suspect I can improve this by using functionality of the 123ignition.
A good place for a road trip and looking forward to some good numbers on the overrun if the transducer gets here in time, may richen up a click post LMC

Adjusted gear linkage and beginning to think I may not need that gearbox rebuild.

Found and bought laps for LMC (will richen the MFI for that).

Added a wide rear view mirror, 2.0 Cup style (and that's where the similarity ends!) to mitigate the pointless passenger wing mirror

Located and sorted the source of the speaker vibration when cranking the music up, it's a roadtrip after all!

Had a small oil drip, located at the crankcase end of the crankcase breather pipe. Got and fitted new pipe

Found away around the annoying too long Genmo replacement speedo cable, waiting on parts to arrive to augment the cable, but if it doesn't get here an app will do just fine.

To do, change oil, pull plugs and give them a clean, try sleeping rather than lurking in the garage all night for two nights straight....



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Careful with that ChatGPT it wrote "employer will match like-for-like an employee charitable donation of any size" into a customer's draft policies for me recently which it just magicked up out of nowhere. Thankfully very cautious proof-reading prevented publication.

That's LLMs for you Someone, somewhere must have a very generous charity policy

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