Beautiful job Ravi ....
Beautiful job Ravi ....
Chuck Miller
Creative Advisor/Message Board Moderator - Early 911S Registry #109
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Hildegard got her first outing on new CN36s (N5 version). Dry, cold roads, but they handle quite nicely. Didn't do anything crazy in terms of driving till they get scrubbed in a bit, but I do like them. 5 tires mounted and balanced at the dealership, along with an alignment. They couldn't quite get the front caster and camber to hit spec, despite being a more or less stock height. Of well, drives just fine, stays centred and the wheel dances as it should. It's all the tire I need on this 222 hp car.
cheers,
Ravi
Early 911S Registry # 2395
1973 Porsche 911S in ivory white 5sp MT
2015 Porsche Macan S in agate grey 7sp PDK
A beautiful car, Ravi, truly.
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This week (June 14th to be precise) marks 10 years since I pulled Hilde out of a shed in Uxbridge Ontario. Hard to imagine. It was quite the journey, teaching me a lot about life, and of course it's never finished. Today's work was getting the door pocket bungees to work properly with the right routing and ordering a bunch of Kroon wiring harnesses in the engine compartment after having some intermittent tach and starting issues. Now that the car is getting regular high rpm use, some of those suspect 49 year old wires need a bit of TLC. Rather than try clean and redo every connection, I took the lazy (and expensive) way out and ordered 3 new harnesses for the engine, regulator panel and CDI.
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Ravi
Early 911S Registry # 2395
1973 Porsche 911S in ivory white 5sp MT
2015 Porsche Macan S in agate grey 7sp PDK
Happy to see that you're enjoying your 911 now! I've also got some intermittent tacho issues but for now, cleaning contacts is easier than installing an entire new engine wiring harness. And I've also got a set of new CN36's, they are great tires. More progressive when losing grip than the P6000s that I had before, and they look just perfect.
1970 2.2S Elfenbeinweiss
1972 2.4T Targa Aubergine (MFI) [For sale]
2002 996 TT Midnight Blue
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My harnesses have been gone through. But there are a number of kinks and broken insulation bits that are wrapped in electrical tape and I have a bad habit of occasionally hosing down the engine or driving in the rain. My electrical issues seem to link to these episodes, though I've never been stranded until last weekend (albeit that was a rotor failing). But as someone who works with electronics all the time, I'd rather replace the stuff and be 100% confident in it over the long haul. The car is going to be with me for a long time I hope. And if the UPS tracking is correct, the Kroon harnesses I ordered on Monday will be here tomorrow, as will a new distributor cap, rpm limited rotor and a few other sundries.
Ravi
Early 911S Registry # 2395
1973 Porsche 911S in ivory white 5sp MT
2015 Porsche Macan S in agate grey 7sp PDK
I know it's 2022 and things are all modern and stuff and Amazon same day or next day delivery rules the world, but it still amazes me that I can contact a company in the Netherlands and my own dealer on a Monday morning and have parts at my house on a Thursday afternoon. Especially exotic parts like the 3 engine harness pieces I ordered from Kroon that are indistinguishable from my 49 year old harnesses.
The benefit of my distributor rotor blowing up was I also took a close look around the engine and noticed an oil leak from a big bulge on the left cam oil line. Original 49 year old line. So I ordered one of those as well from the dealer. Handy timing as I'm going to have to pull the distributor to clean out any small shards that are still in it and you need to pull it to replace that oil line.
I think this is all going to be a full day job this weekend.
Ravi
Early 911S Registry # 2395
1973 Porsche 911S in ivory white 5sp MT
2015 Porsche Macan S in agate grey 7sp PDK
Nice looking harnesses Ravi. Looks very close to the ones I recently made. They will keep the engine going for a long time.
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That exact cam oil line bursted on my T in 2020 when I was on my way to Austria and Stelvio for the ESR Euro 2020 trip. Luckily a local shop in Belgium was able to fix it within a day so I could still join the group the next day. The Porsche dealership in Liege had it in stock which is also quite amazing for a random part for a 50-year old car. You dodged a bullet there!
1970 2.2S Elfenbeinweiss
1972 2.4T Targa Aubergine (MFI) [For sale]
2002 996 TT Midnight Blue
Member #3833
Good to know Ravi as I do have a replacement lock in my 73E at the moment with a black centre and asked about a new lock and as you advised can only buy the 964 part now
also with black centre
I was wondering if I got the lock cylinder out I wonder if I can polish the black off the face to reveal an original looking lock cylinder?
Did you try that on the cylinder you removed?
Clyde Boyer
1973 2.4E Coupe RHD Aussie 5 speed
1973 2.4E Coupe RHD Aussie 5 speed my first ever 911 (1995)
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