What Did You Do to Your 911 Today?

[John Straub]

Went down to check out the local PCA autocross today...

John

[joetiii]

Flogged the old girl and got within .5 seconds of an 06 Cayman on stickies and massive negative camber.

[edmayo]

Now that's what I like to see !!! Put the fear of God in them, they'll know they've been in a fight

[sithot]

Flogged the old girl and got within .5 seconds of an 06 Cayman on stickies and massive negative camber.

Way to go!

[csbush]

Started on the speedometer cable replacement and accelerator linkage bushings while I am in there. Speedometer cable because my speedo cable was not working smoothly, and I ended up damaging it. Bushings because I heard an Ed Mayo talk on replacing them and realized that the clanking of the accelerator linkage was not normal.
Here is the speedometer cable coming off-

Here are the new bushings:

Here is where one of the bushings goes-
See that little tab? There is supposed to be an old bushing there- nothing. All three of mine had turned to dust apparently. There are three- one by the transmission linkage, one under the emergency brake handle are, and another up by the shifter. I finished installing the bushings, but work came to a halt as I had to order 3 new rubber boots as all had disentegrated. I had replaced these before, so didn't think to check them. Oops.
Will also be an opportunity to properly attach the new boot to the throttle rod coupling. All in all, a very fun project- to be finished next weekend.

[Bavaria911]

I pulled off the rusty muffler and sanded/ repainted with heat temp paint.

[John Fusco]

Flogged the old girl and got within .5 seconds of an 06 Cayman on stickies and massive negative camber.

old dog up to its old tricks

[moito]

she touched the ground for the first time in 5 years

[John Z Goriup]

Finally completed a couple of things I've wanted to do for a long time but never moved them up to priority status, but with Monterey Car Week starting in a couple of weeks, followed by Rennsport little more than a month later I simply ran out of excuses.

1. Finished installing original OEM RSR-style "GHE" front lid hold-downs which I purchased from my friends at Kundensport a few years ago.

2. Purchased a pair of opriginal Porsche OEM "made in Germany" '75 flag-style mirrors and installed them.

I am not comfortable driving any car that doesn't have two external rear view-mirrors, because at my age it's just not that easy to turn your head to check the blind corners and as much as I liked the large Aluminum Talbots I bought from Aardvark ( they bought the Talbot Company and are selling Talbot mirrors world-wide ) when I first built Ruprecht in '07 I just couldn't see out the right side mirror. The design of the Talbot is such that it simply can't be turned inward far enough to see a sufficiently large area of the right rear and the resultant blind spot, therefore you still had to crane your neck to visually verify noone was hiding / lurking at your 4:00 o'clock. Maybe I should have mounted the Talbots on the front fenders japanese style, ( like on Bruce Jennings's beautiful Cadillac metallic Autumn Brown 911S with the green leather interior ), but I couldn't bring myself to descecrate my perfect original front fenders with new holes which might have not been necessary if that solution didn't work either. The next step was to install two Porsche OEM large Durants. Major improvement as far as seeing out of the right side as well as aesthetically, but I just wasn't completely happy with them.

Now with the new flag mirrors I can finally take in the entire field of view I have always wanted to be able to see on both sides. The new mirrors vibrate less than the Durants, are tinted to surpress flare and ghost images, offer superb rear view vision and use the same holes as the Durants. I submit the only thing to give some serious thought to is the appearance - a lot of my friends claim my choice of flag mirrors destroys the 'purity' and 'authenticity'' (?) of the early longhoods, but I submit that in this case safety is more important than mere looks, besides, my car is all hot-rod, so how bad can one more 'impure' detail be.

Please take note that if anyone else is thinking about a right-side mirror, think long and hard about the location and mounting of the right-side mirror because it does not mount in the same mirror-image - no pun intended - position as the driver's side unit. I'd be happy to do a detailed post of the part numbers to order the correct mirrors, and how and where to mount a passenger side mirror if anyone is interested, but bear in mind that unless you take the time to fit it properly you won't be able to see a damned thing.

See you at the Werks Reunion.

JZG

JZG

[72targa]

^^^^^^^^ Niiiiice!