23Jan2014
Porsche 996 Waterpump Leak
Had this little 996 in the other day to fix a big coolant leak 🙂 Turns out the waterpump let go and started leaking, which is pretty common with these cars. Typical leak is to the right of the driver side exhaust tip. And looks like this 🙂 While the engine doesn’t have to come out, you do have to loosen the one cat, support the engine, and remove the carrier from its mount. Something like this. Which will allow …
23Jan2014
The Site Is Up And Running
Huge thanks to Shoutcloud Studios for redesigning and implementing the new website! There are a couple new additions including the NEW classifieds section where we will regularly list overstock/takeoff/used parts for sale. While we are still doing some testing and making sure all the links and such work, as of the right now most of it is functional. Hope you guys like the new look, we sure do! Note: And I have just noticed that comments are closed for some …
07Jan2014
Spec Boxster Build Part 7
Ok, maybe one more before they tell me to stop 🙂 Got the call today and picked up the Spec Boxster from the cage builder. Pretty stoked on how it turned out. Now to paint the cage and start knocking off a few final finishing items. With the cage in place, I had to do some notching to make the dash fit again which wasn’t a big deal. While the dash was back out (removed for cage install), I took …
06Jan2014
Honey Badger Engine Rebuild
Well…..this may be the last blog post for a week or so. Our web guys have been designing us a new site, and will start to make the transition hopefully next week 🙂 The new site will be similar, but with more features, one bringing the blog to the front page, and another adding a classified section where we can post not only new and used parts for sale, but maybe a Porsche or two as well. While at first …
06Jan2014
Winter Daily Driver Service
The holidays have come and gone, a little time off, and we are back at it. We have been knocking out a lot of daily driver work the last couple of weeks as the weather has turned cold, and people have put away their Porsches for the winter. A lot of projects ongoing though, a couple of engine rebuilds, race car prep, SPEC boxster cage almost done, amongst endless other work. While we aren’t experts on everything non Porsche that …
08Dec2013
997.2TT 620hp Kit Install
Putting together a 620hp kit for this 997.2TT PDK car. I love modifying TT’s 🙂 This is the same car we did the Escort 9500ci install on. I love the color of this car 🙂 The DFI motors definitely have the old GT1 based TT motors beat for room to work on. You can actually see what you are doing. Fabspeed x-pipe, Fabspeed headers, billet diverter valves, Maxflo air intake, and custom Evolution Motorsports tuning. Air intakes in place, only …
08Dec2013
The Great Debate
I always am a little leery of posting about these models as I don’t want anyone to get the idea that I actually know a little bit about working on these things. The Porsche 928. Insert my favorite Porsche joke here of course: You know, 95% of all 928’s ever produced are still on the road today. The other 5% actually made it home. Har har. Another interesting tidbit. While working on/test driving Porsches over the years and the shop, …
08Dec2013
Porsche 996TT Oil Leak
One of my 700hp builds 🙂 Had this car come in for a bad oil leak. Started out of the blue and was a massive leak. When it came in, a quick peak underneath had me scared we lost the rear main seal, so I got it up on the lift and cleaned everything up so we could see where the oil is coming from. After getting the bottom of the car cleaned up, I could see the oil was …
08Dec2013
Audi S6 Front Suspension
Had this Audi S6 wagon come in after a visit to the local Audi dealer for a vibration at 75mph. After balancing and aligning the car, it still had the vibration, so they found a few bad bushings and tie rods in the front suspension. A quick quote for about $2500 and the customer walked. This is not an unusual story with the front suspension on Audis. There are 8 control arms with bushings/ball joints, plus the tie rods. My …
08Dec2013
1973 Porsche 911T Fuel System
With the motor freshly rebuilt and running, we were still having a hard time starting the car which had not really changed since before the rebuild. The 73.5 911 used a 1 year only warm up regulator which helps the engine start when cold. Unfortunately, unlike the later model WUR’s, they are not rebuild able once they fail, and finding a good one is nearly impossible. Thus we decided to update to a 109 style WUR like the later 911’s. …