02Nov2012
Porsche 911 Rear Sway Bar Bracket Repair
This is a fairly common failure on the older 911’s. The rear sway bar bracket that is welded to the body where the sway bar bushing sides likes to break off, leaving the sway bar hanging loose and negatively affecting the rear end handling of the car. Here you can see it has broken off, and dropped down over an inch. The passenger side has broken at some point, and the old bracket was actually rewelded back together. Not the …
Took some time today to tear down this M96 motor to show you the internals of the 996/Boxster Engine: On the stand ready for dis assembly. First thing we do is pop the cam plugs out of the end of the cam housings so we can see the orientation of the camshafts. Starting with bank 1, the intake camshaft notch should be pointed outward when the crank is at TDC. If it is not, rotation 360 degrees and it should …
My buddy Dan finally received his man card in the mail the other day, so he decided to pick up a center muffler delete pipe that we had on our GT3RS project for install. I had installed the custom GMG headers on the car last year and all was good, but it just didn’t have the sound a new GT3 should 🙂 While here, we also needed to swap in new rear pads for an um…..event coming up. It came …
Work continues on with our Project 996. The list kind of keeps growing on this car. New parts arrived and waiting for install. With the tranny out, I replaced the OAS since access is as good as it will get. New IMS bearing in place along with RMS. Measuring bolt length for the new lightweight flywheel. And the lightweight flywheel in place. And the clutch disc. Since the tranny is now back from Gbox for it’s rebuild, I will put …
Had my buddy Mark bring in his 997 the other day for a little sound upgrade 😉 He had already done the fister/lpmm/gundo bypass mod, but wasn’t happy yet with the sound. On the watercooled motors, the bypass mod on the mufflers just doesn’t provide the deep throaty sound like it does on the 993’s. Instead, the best solution for these cars IMHO is to get rid of the center muffler using a bypass pipe. In this case, we are …
Had this little C4 in the shop this week to fix a couple of nagging oil leaks. One of them was a leaking oil line from the reservoir tank to the thermostat. A real bugger to get out actually. Then we had a nagging leak from the main oil line from the case to the reservoir. The old style line was rubber crimped, which ran right next to the hot exhaust. That doesn’t work over time. The downside is that …
Had this 996TT in this week for an HPDE inspection and to fix a few minor issues he was having. He was having a clunk under the rear of the car at times, and a quick inspection found the captive nut on the strut to be broken loose, which was fixed quickly. The owner had done a spark plug change and was having trouble getting over .5 bar boost. He had changed the F hose and diverter valves as well, …
Plugging along as parts arrive for the 964 C4 project. Pulled the distributor so I could replace the belt. I noticed once I got the center pin out that someone has replaced the belt at some point, and miss drilled on the pin. The easy way to avoid this is to drill from each side, then pop the gear off once you have drilled past the gear body on both sides. Once that is off, then you can punch the …
With the big race this weekend, and our local HPDE next weekend, we are busy prepping cars for the events. Had some brake and tire work to do on the C4, so I got that up in the air and ready to go. A new set of front brake pads, and some replacement rear rotors that we have laying around should get us through the weekend. Like sheep, all the tires head over to the tire machine. A well trained …
My buddy Nic brought in a new to him 964 C4 that he just picked up. It was bought knowing it needed a new clutch, so while the motor is out we are going to go through the major things that might need attention in order to turn this into a nice daily driver. Starting to get the motor ready for removal. And on the way out. I haven’t made that big of a mess in a long time pulling …