02Jun2010
And on to the good stuff.
Trying to get cars schedule to get in an out this week, so far so good. On the chopping block: 944 S2 cab maintenance (timing belt, hard starting issue, oil change, brake flush, etc) 996C4S brake flush and inspection for the Hastings DE this weekend Boxster brake job 996TT oil change 996TT Header installation 930 Annual maintenance 996 Cab top issues 928 front engine job Already Chopped: Cleared the airbag light on a 996 which just had the passenger seat …
03May2010
Audi DE Inspection
Finished an inspection on a 951 last week getting ready to do the upcoming Audi DE event at Heartland park. A quick brake bleed, inspection, and replacement of a few missing door check bolts, and it was ready to rock!
20Dec2009
951 Output Shaft Seal Replacement
Replaced a leaking output shaft seal on a 951 today. It had gotten bad enough that it was leaving a puddle on the ground after driving, so it was time to replace it. Remove the CV axle from the output shaft. The bolts are typically 8mm triple square bits but they may have been replaced with 6mm allens at some point. One the axle is out of the way, remove the 6mm allen in the center of the output shaft. …
01Dec2009
Curse the black cars…..
For some reason, black cars, in particular black 951’s have been known to put up a fight with me. Not just one black 951, but multiple black 951’s, lol. Oh well. It was a project that just kept growing and growing as we got deeper into it. IMHO, the root of everything was for years the car was running 15.5:1 AFR’s under boost after an upgraded turbo and MAF, but still using stock injectors (not my install). We fixed the …
20Nov2009
Update: Black 951
Well it was a slow week in regards to the black car. Sitting waiting, waiting, waiting. Yesterday afternoon though I got a call that the turbo was rebuilt and ready to be picked up. So I ran across town and got it, and came home and got it installed and out of the way. Now I am just waiting on another head to be rebuilt before putting it all back together. The previous head was unusable due to the exhaust …
25Oct2009
89 944TS
With the 88 out of the garage, I had a good friend make his way down from South Dakota to fix some oil leaks on his Alpine White 89 Turbo S. We tackled the belts and front engine seals on this trip, hung out with some good friends and just had a fantastic weekend. Yup, that is an engine Jones…… Removing the cam gear. Steve N. holding the car up, lol Back together after the front end seal and belt …
25Oct2009
88 944TS
Had a rare black 88 Turbo S (one of 60ish 88’s in black) in the garage for some maintenance this past week. We repaired a non operational sunroof, camtower leak, oil cooler leak, lower balance shaft housing leak, along with a new timing and balance shaft belt and few other misc. items. The car was leaving a pretty good puddle of oil under the car after being driven, so it was time to get a few of the more major …
12Sep2009
Piggyback Tuning
Since I put the new motor in with larger injectors to deliver more fuel, I have really put off getting the car tuned properly. The problem was, with the bigger injectors, it was running so rich, it was actually causing the plugs to foul on wide open throttle (WOT). Needless to say, the fuel economy was horrible as well, lol. So I finally got around to installing a Vitesse Racing SMT6 piggyback tuner. Since I am already running his MAF …
27Jun2009
Saturday Maintenance
Knocked out a few cars today in the 95 degree heat 🙂 Thankfully, between the cooler morning hours and the garage, I stayed fairly cool. Tomorrows project….plumbing an ac vent into the garage….muhahaha. Should be a nice short term fix until I install a separate AC unit for the garage. Forgot the camera, but this morning knocked out an ignition switch on a boxster along with an oil change. Down the road it went….. Then I had an oil change …