What Did You Do to Your 911 Today?

[Jens]

Really Xavier! The White car?!?

[Flieger]

Did the brake problem turn out to be too serious to fix?

[Kris Clewell]

I really love those old brick buildings, not much of that was ever built or still survives west of the Mississippi. Perfect background for your really neat car.

minneapolis and st paul is full of those old warehouses!

[Xavier PJB]

Really Xavier! The White car?!?

Yes Jens. The beautiful white car. am a bit sad, but wishing to turn to another projects.

Cheers

[Xavier PJB]

Did the brake problem turn out to be too serious to fix?

No max, no big fix : changed both front discs. The issue was the high temperature + I did not properly made the first kms with new pads...
Cheers

[Mr9146]

YESTERDAY was Porsche Owners Club PDS #6 at the Streets of Willow. It was frickin' hot out there, boys and girls; we're talking 100* in the shade and up near 120* track temp. Everyone was struggling yesterday and it seems that the majority of folks were +2 seconds off their average (at least, that's how it was in my class). The water-pumpers were overheating like crazy and the air cooled crowd was WAY down on power, but the worst of it was that there was just no traction. It seemed like I was constantly letting air out of my tires to get them to bite, and they'd be okay for a lap or two, but then they'd heat soak and turn into goo and the car would just start sliding around. It was really frustrating, and I had numerous 2-wheel offs throughout the day and my first 4-wheel off in almost 10 years. All in all I did okay and my 1:31.2 proved to be good enough for second in class, but with almost 5 seconds between myself and first place (for the entire season thus far) I'm just happy with the consistency of the driver and car.

So it was hot. Really really hot. Operating temperature would go from 180* to 220* on the out lap, and by the end of lap two the car was running at 250*. I'd back out of it a little bit and the temperature would come down to 230* or so, but it would rocket back to 250* if I started to tip back in. So I decided to test my motor ... and I mean REALLY test it. I figured I'd run it hard and if it lived, great! If not, I have AAA 100mi towing and my shop is only 60mi away.

I ran the motor HARD for the three remaining 20min sessions and the temp needle stayed locked at 250* for the duration of the sessions. Today I racked the car to check for damage from my off-roading sessions as well as to change the fluids and I was SHOCKED at how clean the oil was. Brad Penn 20/50 with 2000mi of driving - about half street miles and half track miles with the last couple hundred spent at 250* - and the oil came out looking new. I was expecting it to look/smell a bit burnt, but it was gorgeous.

So even though I ended up with only a 2nd place finish on the day, I didn't grenade my motor and I gave Brad Penn Oil the gnarliest first-hand test I could and it passed with flying colors. All in all it was a great day...yesterday.

[Kris Clewell]

got some stuff back from powdercoating... spent most of the afternoon cleaning the case halves.

[kentf14]

Looks CLEAN. Bold move not going with turbo lower valve covers. Care to elaborate on the decision?

Kent

[Kris Clewell]

Looks CLEAN. Bold move not going with turbo lower valve covers. Care to elaborate on the decision?

Kent

Not sure I guess. I've never had a valve cover leak problem on either of my 2 3.0 cars? maybe later... I'm pretty damn broke at this point.

[Mr9146]

Not sure I guess. I've never had a valve cover leak problem on either of my 2 3.0 cars? maybe later... I'm pretty damn broke at this point.

Early SC lowers are aluminum. If it ain't broke...

Fwiw, I run early SC lowers on all my cars for "the look".