10Aug2010
Project 997TT For Sale SOLD
With the addition of the GT3RS, Jack has decided to sell his 997TT project to move forward with the GT3RS project. The build has been covered 100% on this blog over the last year. 2007 911 Twin Turbo Miles: 13,000 Price: 130k Location: Kansas City Contact: dockarl (at) wilen.us Car will include open car steel tilt trailer, 2 sets of wheels (CCW’s with hoosiers, and Champions with PS2’s), and the stock parts. The build: GMG adjustable sway bars front and …
08Aug2010
New project car
Got a call last Friday from good friend to come up with him to test drive and take delivery of a new 2011 GT3RS from the local dealer. Spent some time with the car on the road, and it is absolutely amazing. Now time for some mods! We will get a GMG RSR Rollbar ordered asap along with a set of harnesses. Also will be doing a Laser Intercepter Quad install along with a Valentine 1. It doesn’t get any …
27Jul2010
993 Rear Wheel Bearing
Brought in a buddy’s 993 tonight to fix a rear wheel bearing that was making some noise. Brake caliper and rotor off. Axle nut removed. Getting the axle out is the tricky part as the inboard end hits both the subframe and the transaxle….. Outer hub off, and the outer section of bearing in pieces. Hard to tell by the blurry picture, but the outer race is pretty chewed up. Old bearing completely removed. Pressing the new bearing in place. …
27Jul2010
997TT Oil Change, Brake Flush…and…..
Mobile service calls again. Had to get the car ready for MAM this Friday. Started by changing the oil….. Unfortunately, when I got underneath the car, this is what I found. Dried coolant everywhere. The culprit. A loose hose clamp under the intake manifold. It was so loose, that either it was not tightened from the factory, or someone else had been in the motor in the first 3k miles of it’s life. The hose is stuck between two pipes, …
26Jul2010
944 Electrical Issues
Yup….electrical issues. Joy. There is nothing cheap about paying someone to diagnose an electrical issue. I had a 944 come in today which the owner had just purchased. It is a nice 60k mile, 1 owner car, but it has sat for the last 5 years. The windows didn’t work, the blower motor didn’t work, the sunroof didn’t work, etc. Another shop had diagnosed it as a bad ignition switch. The problem, is that it is really rare for an …
26Jul2010
Timesert or Helicoil?
So you have damaged the threads in something really important and you need to fix it. What do you do? Probably the number one answer you will get is to install a helicoil. A helicoil is a spring like insert which you install in the hole which provides for new threads that the bolt can catch when installed. In my honest opinion, the fix will last about as much as the helicoil costs….not long. Helicoils are notorious for pulling out …
26Jul2010
The Doc Travels As Well
Recently I heard a rumor that a good friend of ours was too busy to fix his broken 951, so a group of buddies decided to pack up and show up on his door step to help him with his problem, lol. The only issue, is he holds South Dakota residency 🙂 Friday night myself an a couple of buddies loaded up and took off on the 4 hour trip to SD. Saturday morning we were ready to go 🙂 …
18Jul2010
Busy Weekend Again
After the Donkey left on Saturday, a few more rolled in. I had some quick work to do on our 997TT project to get it ready for Hallett next Saturday. Then came in a 996TT (also headed to Hallett) for a clutch accumulator and a brake fluid flush. I should take stock in 996TT clutch accumulators. This will be the 3rd one this month. If you didn’t catch my update on the previous accumulator job, the bulb in the accumulator …
05Jul2010
996C4S Oil Change/Rattle in Engine Bay
Had a buddy drop off his 996C4S tonight for an oil change in preparation of a trip. As soon as I started the car, I noticed a rattling coming from the engine. Immediately IMS jumps into your head, but I didn’t think it could make that much noise and keep running, lol. The quick diagnosis…..shut the car off and close the driver’s door…….rattle. So definitely something not related to the motor. My initial thought was the baffles had come apart …
05Jul2010
PSS9 Adjustments
Saturday morning I knocked out an oil change on an 05 Boxster right away after PCA breakfast, and then had a buddy bring by his 996TT that was having some erratic suspension behavior when it would hit bumps. The kit had been adjusted previously to try and stop this behavior before it came to me, but they were definitely adjusted incorrectly. The rear settings were at full soft or the “9” position (pss10’s are opposite). This was causing the car …