27Jun2014
Porsche 997TT Turbo Cooling Line
Had this turbo in the shop for a coolant leak. Seems to be the theme with these cars lately. With a gazillion rubber hoses there are a lot of places for these cars to leak from. This car with under 70k miles has had numerous hose leaks which it shouldn’t have at 70k miles. The passenger turbo cooling return line runs from the turbo to the connection at the oil cooler. Most places would drop the engine to replace the …
27Jun2014
Mike’s CT70 Rebuild
Remember this old girl? Well it has been a slow rebuild while I have had time. When I stripped the paint off the frame our painter took a look at the frame and we found it was extremely bent…..like run head on into a tree bent! That presented a bit of a problem! Here you can see the dent at the neck of the frame. It is far worse in person! With the frame as is, you would always feel …
25Jun2014
New Lift?
Running on a bit of a limited schedule this week as we had a lift start to act up (ok, I should have died under it long ago), so we have pulled it out and are waiting for Myers brothers to install a new Rotary next week. Should be back up to full capacity early in the week!
24May2014
Parts Trip To Oklahoma Foreign
Hooked up BWT to the trailer on Thursday and headed down to Oklahoma City to Oklahoma Foreign auto parts to pick up some much needed parts. Probably not good to get spoiled driving a brand new rig that can roast the tires with a 24 foot trailer behind it. It just don’t care what is behind it. HP sells cars, torque wins races 🙂 Jager ready to roll! 5 down, 5 back, and a few hanging out at OK foreign. …
24May2014
Mike’s CT70 Rebuild
Since the Honey Badger is having custom pistons made we are at a standstill on that project, so after seeing the orange bike, Mike brought his 1978 CT70 that he has had since new by for a refresh! This bike has about 3500 miles on it, so it is well used! His kids grew up on it, so it has it’s share of dents and bent handle bars etc, but in true Mike fashion, everything has been well cared for …
24May2014
Val’s CT70 Rebuild
With the orange CT70 out of the way, we found another beat up example to get running for Valerie. This example is a 1972 CT70HK1. The H models came with the 4 speed manual engine, but well, that is out of here. Wes was able to get that engine up and running after a little carb work, so it will be set aside for another project. To help with the learning process of being on a bike, we decided to …
28Mar2014
Fabspeed Porsche 911SC Install
Man it has been a boring winter, but glad we are getting some performance work back in the shop and making cars faster! The 911SC project is up and running, but just didn’t sound very good, so we added a Fabspeed cat bypass and muffler to the car which greatly improved the sound! Old system off the car and ready for the scrap man. New exhaust installed Thumbs up approval!
18Mar2014
Porsche Cayenne Fuel Pump
Had this little Pepper limp into the shop yesterday with a bad primary fuel pump. The 955 has dual fuel pumps, one on each side of the tank. Often times the primary will die, causing stalling issues with the vehicle. Pumps are located under the seats and under the carpet. You actually have to cut a hole in the carpet to access the pumps, but Porsche was kind enough to draw an outline of where to cut 🙂 Following the …
18Mar2014
Porsche 997TT Turbo Cooling Pump Hose
Had this little 997TT in last week for a coolant leak. Wasn’t the cooling pipes as we have already done those, but rather we had a pin hole leak on the rubber hose running from the turbo coolant pump to the turbos. Was able to quickly reproduce the leak by pressurizing the system, unfortunately getting to it is a different story 🙂 Behind the oil filter housing, underneath the junction of the left intake and center plenum pipe is the …
11Mar2014
Honda Trail 70 Rebuild Part 2
Had some time over the last couple of days to start prepping and cleaning parts for paint and powdercoating. Front forks, rear swing arm, and chain guard ready for paint. The main frame cleaned up and ready. And a bunch of chrome pieces sanded and beadblasted, ready to go to powdercoating. Front shocks disassemble easily, so those were torn down before going to paint. Hopefully I will have the new headlight bucket by the end of the week and then …
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