19Mar2010
997TT running
This afternoon I got the car reassembled and fired up. Need to heat cycle the turbos a few times. Tooled it around the block to make sure everything was operating as it should. Unfortunately, a front moved in and the temps dropped with the snow rolling in, so it will give me some time to button up the interior. Still need to knock out the clutch and do the alignment which I am hoping to get done next week if …
18Mar2010
997TT continued.
Over the last couple of days I have been plugging away on the car as I have had time. An hour here and hour there, and things are starting to come together. A pile of parts. New Denso double platinum plugs installed. Old plastic intake tubes need to come out. And are replaced with larger silicone tubes. Old intake plenum. Bigger intake plenum which will be coupled to a gt3 throttle body. I got the new turbos bolted on before …
26Feb2010
996TT Clutch Accumulator
Had a 996TT come in today with a failed hydraulic accumulator. Up in the air. Tall rams would work best as the jack stands sit unfortunately right where you need to be working at. The accumulator is up on the side of the slave cylinder and is a real bugger to get to. You will need to modify a couple wrenches to get at it. Once under the car, I realized the accumulator had been replaced before. A little heat …
06Nov2009
Updates…….
Been banging away at the cars in my spare time. Our 968 braking issue turned out to indeed be front warped rotors even though they only had 2000 miles on them. Lesson learned here is that when common sense and experience tell you something is broken, don’t look past it just because that item has been replaced recently……new parts fail, rebuilt parts fail, new rotors warp, stuff happens. The calipers had been rebuilt recently thinking it was an issue with …
04Sep2009
996TT Fuel Leak
Our big turbo project car came back in after a strong fuel smell popped up recently. My initial thought was that maybe the fuel pressure regulator o-ring was pinched when we installed the bigger 5 bar regulator, causing a small leak. I was a bit surprised when that was not it at all, but rather a completely unrelated issue…….the metal fuel filter had sprung a pin hole leak, and was spraying gasoline out at a pretty darn good rate! Needless …
29Jun2009
930 Turn Singal Switch
After 20 years, sometimes nagging electrical issues start to rear their head. Even though this was a sub 40k mile 930, the turn signals were having problems. In a fairly common failure, when the headlights were on and you used the turn signal, the brights would turn on. This is due to bent armatures in the switch. Now there are two ways to repair this. One, is to go in and to attempt to rebend the arms so the high …
19Jun2009
996TT K16g Turbo Upgrade
Have a car in today for a turbo and ecu upgrade. 2002 996TT with 70k+ miles on it. The old turbos are starting to show signs of leakage, so time to upgrade to a little more power. Turbos and programming came from Tony at EPL. First thing to do is to raise up the rear of the car and get it supported on jackstands safely. I always block the front wheels as well, since your drivewheels and parking brake wheels …