Look what showed up today! “Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian. I called my buddy Jay at Fabspeed earlier this week to help us out on the exhaust. We ordered a Maxflo sport exhaust. I have probably installed hundreds of these systems and they sound fantastic. Fitment is great as well. I still need to adjust the tips, I just ran out of time today with other projects that came through. Highly polished stainless steel mufflers with 200 cell HKS cats. …

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GT3RS Brake Pads

After a lot of laps, it is time for new brake pads for the project RS. After talking extensively with Fabryce at GMG, he recommended brake pads by a company called Endless (or at least that is what the pads are called). We had been running the Pagids, and he recommended these over them and the PFC’s for stopping power and still being easy on the rotors. Rear caliper off to change the pads. On the new gt3’s, you have …

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Oct 14 2010 porschedoc 968 1 Comment

Aaron dropped off his 968 the other day because it died on him and wouldn’t start on his way to work.  He had been having some wierd hesitation issues as well, so it was time to take a look at it.  Found the bad fuel pump right away, and started tearing things apart.  Since we are in there, we replaced the pump, tank screen, fuel filter, check valve, and the fuel pressure regulator.  Once inside, we found the reason for …

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Cleaning house, and realized that this post never hit the press!   Actually an August post I had written and must have hit the wrong button when I was done! Did some suspension work on an Audi A4 here the other day.  We replaced all the front control arms (all 8 of them!), as well as new tie rod assemblies.  The owner was getting some clunking in the suspension and decided to get it all refreshed before it got any worse.  …

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Bling bling yo yo

Lol, had a freind drop his 993 off the other night to replace a noisy alternator bearing…..or belt sensor roller……or fan bearing…..oh hell just replace it all! I endured the scorching heat to pull the fan and housing out of the car so he could spruce up the color a little bit. Tim’s process is the use a high temp duplicolor paint. Multiple coats of paint, then you need to heat it up to cure the paint. So Tim uses …

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3,075lbs and 176″ long………soon.

Finally had a few minutes this week to do a last minute repair on my front splitter for next weekend’s DE. I arrived at a gator about 12 inches too early at MAM a few weeks ago, dropped the front right wheel into a pothole, and the splitter caught the edge of the gator, breaking a piece off. The problem, is that the splitter is made of unobtanium, so I decided to do a quick repair to get me through …

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Arrived today 🙂 What is it going in? Wait and see, as soon as it comes off the boat, we will start modifying 🙂 Also on the way are a couple of Schroth 6 point harnesses (hans)

Sep 22 2010 porschedoc BMW 8 Comments

It was service time, so up on ramps she goes. Castrol TWS oil. Porsche guys think your mobil 1 is expensive? You have no idea. After draining the oil out the bottom, the filter was next. On the bolt holding the cap on, there is an o ring to replace, as well as a aluminum seal ring Since the filter housing is right there and upright, you can add almost a quart of oil to the housing/filter to reduce oil …

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996 Cab Repair

A few posts ago I had talked about a convertible top problem on a 996. There were 2 issues, the first being the latch mechanism that kept running in circles, and then the passenger side flap was slightly out of time with everything else, cause it to hang up slightly when the top was opened. I finally got the latch trim piece in so repair was underway. The new piece.  The tip has to operate the microswitch, if it is …

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