What Did You Do to Your 911 Today?

Well done!
Like the new look wheels/tires.
And, I will attest to this fact...Pliney the Elder is perhaps the best beer available in the continental U.S.
Good call!

I dont understand the exhaust.

It has been on the car for years. I'm the only kid on the block with one. It does elicit comments. Mostly "WTF?"

Ciao

Jim

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Originally Posted by Jim Breazeale

Replaced the wheels and tires with a set of 7 and 8 X 15 wheels shod with Toyo R1R 205 X 50 X 15 fronts and 225 X 45 X 15 rears. Would have rather used a taller tire but can not find anything in a performance tire in 60 series, especially 215 X 60 X 15. Replaced the original, 500,000 mile rear spring plates and bushings with new rubber bushings. Replaced the bent RR trailing arm(probably been like that for 20 years) with one from my suspension pile and also replaced the rear 23mm torsion bars with 24mm bars from a 911SC. Yea, this is case of the cobbler with holes in his shoes. Took a 100 round trip run through Napa and Sonoma County with my son, last night, to Russian River Brewing Co (the best micro brewery on the planet, IMHO) for dinner and a beer. Bought 3 cases of Pliney the Elder to be consumed on our RGruppe drive up into the Sierra foothills this coming weekend. Oh yea, I polished up my pipes, too.

Ciao

Jim
PS: The wheels that I removed are not for sale. They will be going back on the car, soon

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Hey Jim,

If the brown bomb is gonna haul 3 cases of suds, you should've gone with 26mm rear t-bars! You're gonna wag like Bella! Polished and loud! Cool! See you there.

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Originally Posted by Kris Clewell

I dont understand the exhaust.

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If you've never heard it then you really DON'T understand. It's sweeeeet.

Tom

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Originally Posted by smedley

Hey Jim,

If the brown bomb is gonna haul 3 cases of suds, you should've gone with 26mm rear t-bars! You're gonna wag like Bella! Polished and loud! Cool! See you there.

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Not just "suds"! I am carrying extremely precious cargo! Will probably fit them in the right foot well to balance out my fat ass.

Ciao

Jim

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If you've never heard it then you really DON'T understand. It's sweeeeet.

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Yep, I think it kind'a sounds like an old piston 'war bird' recorded at 33.3... then played at 78...... ;)

Did a service on the blue car today...


And while entering the service, mileage, and date in the 'log' I started going over some total mileage stats............

My odometer numbers are corrected down 5.2% from when I started running 225 x 50 series tires back in '02....

- 242,000 total miles on the chassis.
- 156,000 miles since owned.
- 77,000 miles on the 'new' 2003 2.7 rebuild... about 6400 per year since the rebuild.
- About 6000 miles per year average for the last 26 years.......

These have not been 'easy driven miles' and the car has never run stronger.... It's just another testament to these GREAT old cars.

Hoping for many more adventures to come.......... :)


Here's a pic from my first day with it at the track June 1989.......... ;)

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Originally Posted by Jim Breazeale

Replaced the wheels and tires with a set of 7 and 8 X 15 wheels shod with Toyo R1R 205 X 50 X 15 fronts and 225 X 45 X 15 rears. Would have rather used a taller tire but can not find anything in a performance tire in 60 series, especially 215 X 60 X 15. Replaced the original, 500,000 mile rear spring plates and bushings with new rubber bushings. Replaced the bent RR trailing arm(probably been like that for 20 years) with one from my suspension pile and also replaced the rear 23mm torsion bars with 24mm bars from a 911SC. Yea, this is case of the cobbler with holes in his shoes. Took a 100 round trip run through Napa and Sonoma County with my son, last night, to Russian River Brewing Co (the best micro brewery on the planet, IMHO) for dinner and a beer. Bought 3 cases of Pliney the Elder to be consumed on our RGruppe drive up into the Sierra foothills this coming weekend. Oh yea, I polished up my pipes, too.

Ciao

Jim
PS: The wheels that I removed are not for sale. They will be going back on the car, soon

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Can we hear the exhaust? It looks like what was on the Cyclops.

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Originally Posted by Chuck Miller

Yep, I think it kind'a sounds like an old piston 'war bird' recorded at 33.3... then played at 78...... ;)

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ha! thats funny.