What Did You Do to Your 911 Today?

[VA_alfa]

Spent evenings washing, polishing, and waxing the 911. Now ready for driving season.

[RSTarga]

3 years and no repaint or powdercoat of the air filter housing!! Your just like me!

Drove my car with Solexes installed for the first time!

Some words of wisdom to those aspiring to do the same: don't expect it to be easy - these carbs are a world apart from Webers. Solexes are a complicated system and getting them sorted, even after being rebuilt is not for the squeamish. This install took three years and more $$$ than I'd possibly imagined to make happen! Here they are:

[edmayo]

I mounted a new set of Hoosier A-6's for the coming season.

[Kris Clewell]

ride height mostly adjusted. I'd like it to come down a bit more in the rear, but it involves taking out the bars. not feeling up to it at the moment. hopefully im done for the summer.


and really really crummy day outside in minneapolis looks like.

[Xavier PJB]

have finished to mount my new lower dash board and RS73 lightweigth caperting. Need to get back to the garage (1,5 km from home) and take pics...In France we say "quand on a pas de tete, on a des jambes" (if you have no memory, then you should have good legs - or somthing like that)
Polishing the car and get it ready for the Porsche Festival concours d'Elegance in Paris within the "prix special du jury" category :



Cheers

[Christian Guthrie]

Spent evenings washing, polishing, and waxing the 911. Now ready for driving season.

Your car looks fantastic, nicely done!

[VA_alfa]

Was talking to a fellow PCA member (Philip) at the Summit Point Driving Event yesterday, looking over his 65 911, and comparing notes. I was telling him that I had an intermittent but frequent miss at idle and at part throttle, he suggested pulling the idle jets (on my 48IDA carbs) and inspect for debris and clean them up. I did just that this morning and the car now starts, idles, and runs fantastic!

Thanks Philip!

[Rich Lambert]

Adjusted the valves...again. I just did this in early March, but some new noises surfaced that sounded like valve clatter. Sure enough, some were tight, some were loose. I can't explain it...

Also on the agenda was chasing down some oil leaks. I changed from silicone gaskets to cardboard on the March valve adjust and some oil drops went away and some new ones appeared. It took a while, but the I found the new leaks were coming from the upper valve covers which had never leaked before. I put the old silicone gaskets back on and still had a few drips. I dug out the original engine much heavier duty 2.0 valve covers, cleaned 'em up, and put them on in place of the corroded 2.2 covers that came with the 2.2. The leaks are gone and the new old valve covers look way better. I can't believe it took me 7 years to think of this.

Also...I took off the PORSCHE CAR N.W. stripes that Bob T. made for me and went with a much simpler motif, that Bob T. also sent me. I got the idea from the "Rally Car" thread. The car looks more like a '66 911 now. I have some 165/15 's on order that will go on my 4.5" steelies to complete the look.

New stripes and no oil puddle!

[kenikh]

Going steelie, huh? The PacWest is gonna be representing old skool SWB goodness en force at Treffen thus year!

[VA_alfa]

Put some new shoes on the 911 today. The "old" tires were about 20 years old and hard as rocks. Much improvement on ride and traction!