DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

I finally got my car back on the road today after 2 months off the road. Due to other commitments I wasn't able (read too scared) to investigate a possible broken headstud problem and mis-fire on #6. Eeek.

Anyway I managed to take all the valvecovers off the car and re torque all of the headstuds. Also the the one loose barrel nut I found on cylinder number 6 torqued back on with no problems. I also found that the bottom barrel nut on number 6 was also in the bottom of the valve cover but also that torqued back on with no worries.

A full service and good clean and repair of my 3.2 dizzy using a 356 dizzy (yes true) my car is running better than EVER!!!

The car is smooth and responsive pulling hard to the redline and running so clean. The car has been transformed. Hooked up with Darren today at the ACE for some runs of our cars and man it was awesome to drive. Also sat in Traffic for an hour with no problems at all. Even my dodgy feul sender came back to life.

I'm ready for LeMans!!!!!



Speacial thanks to fellow DDk'rs Darren, Barry and Chris Turner who pushed me and helped me overcome the issues I had.

Cheers to Barry for finding the problem and advising to retorque the headstuds rather then cry quietly to myself in a corner.
Darren thanks for comming down and pushing me to wrench on the car and thanks to Chris Turner (who runs a Porsche workshop) who brought some spare dizzy's to his home after work for me to collect and use for parts. The 356 dizzy cured all.

This forum is great and the members all good chaps.

Yeehaar

Great news m8

got your PM ...I feel an outlaw R Gruppe type convoy to leMans in the offing

Top man: I'll look foward to seeing it again at the next Fairmile

higs356 wrote:Yeehaar

I think I might have muttered something like that on today's passenger run

I can confirm that Alam's car is running better than I have ever heard it run. Such smooth power delivery, a lovely exhaust note through the whole range, bags of torque, it's just awesome, i really enjoyed that today thanks buddy

All credit to you again for rolling up those sleeves and getting on with it, that hard work has paid off and you've got to know the car a bit more which is never a bad thing, you should be pretty pleased with yourself and rightly so

Now all you gotta do is enjoy it

Great news Alam, I feel a 'southern blast' coming on!

Great news - SB sounds good Mike!!

Thanks chaps.

Its such a nice day today I feel we have to go for arun.



You call it Mike and we will a gather and follow you as we always do.

Higs.. its your car down in England still.. if so lets get it up for a run.. but you had better raise that suspension, otherwise you will lose all your fillings

congrats! mine's still in bits but will allegedly be done today......

Well done Alam.

Let's get the Southern Blast arranged