DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Went to a rather damp breakfast meet at York OPC on Saturday. Rewarded with a nice bacon sandwich and coffee, car is running well too.


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Finishing touches now happening. The fuel pipe from the tank pipe to the t piece was fitted with a filter inline too.

The oil pressure sender had some ptfe tape applied to try to stop the sweating.

The stuff that was on the boot lid and roof was tidied up and put back where it belongs.

The boot was cleared out and the engine run for a minute.

Following things need doing before i take it out for a drive

Front wheels bearing need nipping up a touch.
The boot lid catch needs adjusting as that isn't locking down.
The left header needs looking at to see where there is a blow.

After 1st shakedown drive i need to fit the auxillary fusebox, the temp and pressure gauges. Then put the interior back together.

Took the ST for a 65 mile drive around Oxfordshire and Glostershire yesterday. It's a thrilling drive when there is not much traffic around. Managed to find roads without too many potholes.Stopped off at the barn outside Stowe for breakfast. Nice grass paddock in which to park up. Usually a few cars in there but today I was Billy No Mates.

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Perfect, I do love your car

great looking car .. hope you didnt pay much for that meal though !

A nice run out on great roads. Interestingly if you had been there a day earlier, for lunch, you would have shared the paddock with a dozen other early 911s on a PCGB Early 911 Register meet.

Did some more local miles today bedding the Brembo pads in. Still not inspiring confidence, but have tracked down some Pagid pad for classic 911's, so will wait and see what the MoT man says, but I can see some of the Pagids being bought soon.
Have to say the car ran superbly, really nice and smooth, the new tyres are great compared to the Dunlops.

BILLY BEAN wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2026 8:52 am Took the ST for a 65 mile drive around Oxfordshire and Glostershire yesterday. It's a thrilling drive when there is not much traffic around. Managed to find roads without too many potholes.Stopped off at the barn outside Stowe for breakfast. Nice grass paddock in which to park up. Usually a few cars in there but today I was Billy No Mates.

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That's a lovely stop, we both had sausage egg n chips. delicious. great pic alone on the grass too.

911hillclimber wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2026 5:35 pm Did some more local miles today bedding the Brembo pads in. Still not inspiring confidence, but have tracked down some Pagid pad for classic 911's, so will wait and see what the MoT man says, but I can see some of the Pagids being bought soon.
Have to say the car ran superbly, really nice and smooth, the new tyres are great compared to the Dunlops.

What do your pads look like, I have some new, but old stock Mintex race/rally pads from years ago, in compounds they no longer do. They don’t squeal and stopped very well.

Current pads are all new Brembo, as are the discs.
After the Carbone pads, they have little bite.
Need to drive the car harder to see if the fronts will lock up.
I’ve tried several makes and specs of pads, none match the Carbone, but they are noisey…

A hill climb friend has the Pagid pads and loves them, silent too.

Bootsy wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2026 8:57 am Perfect, I do love your car

Thank you.
You like it because of the colour Bootsy.

fcd911 wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2026 11:28 am A nice run out on great roads. Interestingly if you had been there a day earlier, for lunch, you would have shared the paddock with a dozen other early 911s on a PCGB Early 911 Register meet.

I attended the PCGB talk on MFI by Mike Champion but not the lunch afterwards. Also in a different car to the ST.

I fixed (hopefully) the leak on the gear change plate on the gearbox. Emptied the oil filter as I had overfilled slightly too much.

The front bearings have been nipped up and the exhaust manifold was refitted with a dab of assembly paste. It's back on the floor again ready to go for a test run when the rain stops.

Did the plugs and air filters on the sensible family car. First time I've done it and it took about an hour all told, but that includes cleaning everything and also not betraying my maintenance engineering background with a green paint marker:












The LHS rear was a bit of a sod, and I have a suspicion it wasn't bothered with at the last scheduled change. It was certainly drier than the rest when it came out. Done now, though.



Good for another 60k, but that's only three years away the amount this gets used...

Long drive home from the office beckons this evening


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