2001 911 Carrera 4

Thanks for the kind offer Matt, if I had your car I would go the other way to make it a show queen as it’s such a great car with provenance and the value of it is only going up. I’m more after a car that requires TLC so I can go Outlaw or stripped down B road blaster...

I hope you will be asking strong money for yours where I’m looking 10K max for the right canvas..

Bourbon .... JD Apple, I was given a bottle by my GF to cheer me up as apparently I was miserable on Tuesday..... that be due to 11 hours of Zoom sessions I guess!, it is rather nice with ice and fruitcake with a nice mature cheddar, that’s righ you read it correctly, give it a go and let me know!!!

Enough of my culinary weirdness, went for a spin on Sunday and kept hearing a fatty noise when stationary, as luck would have it the eurocup GT stainless system on my car has a couple of mild steel sleeves that join it together and one has decided to start blowing...... five minutes on the design911 website had the parts ordered, debit card assaulted and the promise over a 48 HR delivery which duly happened. I also ordered new stainless steel tailpipe clamps as mine are different and one pipe messes with my OCD big time.

I’ve soaked the bolts in penetrating oil and have the use of a four poster on Monday so watch this space....... I’m also planning on taking the front bumper off as I have some ducting to replace and may start to remove the air con system starting with the condensers.

Back to that cake!,,,, thanks for reading.....

Cotes du Rhône villages ..... I’ll be reaching for the gaviscon in the morning when this bad boy starts to hurt me, not a bad drop but I’m not a french wine man personally, find them a little to tart and no real roll of taste, more in the nose than on the pallet ..... what do I know anyway 🤡

No photos but the new exhaust clamps installed without drama, in other breaking news my plan to remove the air con was met with a ‘ just get it pressure tested first and see how bad it is’..... Swiss cheese is how bad it is. Remember that wether a few weeks ago when the game was to see how much you could sweat before looking like you had wet yourself..... That and a few words of advice have seen a plethora of parts ordered from rock auto in the US of A after hearing many good reviews from retrowarwick of this very parish...... a pair of condensers, numerous grommets and an accumulator/drier, have to say including shipping saved circa £100 over a couple of the U.K. suppliers I usually use.

Wheels.........

I have been going on about these for a while and they have become my nemesis, a set I want on flea bay the vendor will not ship and I do not want to do the 450 mile round trip in case they are bent or buggered in some other way, I purchased a set of M5 throwing stars for my E34 last year described as mint, no welds or buckles and the only use they have is as an anchor. I have my head set on bronze or gold and nearly ordered a set of Bola B1’s until my trusty mechanics said they were to Japanese and drifty so I have ordered some other gold rims with a polished lip..... WATCH THIS SPACE.... all being well if they have them they should arrive this week.

In other news the GF’s Cooper S is having a coolant leak investigated tomorrow plus a remap and smaller supercharger pulley 😈 the coolant like being an excuse to get it in the garage.....

As soon as the package from America arrives I will be hiring ramp time to do the spannering as I also need to replace some plastic ducting that has cracked......

Have fun and stay safe.......

For my next foray back into Porche ownership it WILL have a set of those or Outlaw 1552 wheels.

Love the gold with the green.

P.

I voted for gold so I'm claiming 000000.1% of the credit for the awesome outcome.

Any chance you could lower it ever so slightly?

Thank you ballbagbagins, it already runs the Porsche lowered suspension kit, maybe high as it just came off the trolley jacks. If I ran 19’s I would get less gap but theoretically a rise in ride height which is the wrong direction for me, it may not look it but it is as low as I would want to go as speed humps become a navigational nightmare I.e I plot drives to avoid them.....

It would be interesting to try and fit air ride, but I’m to old school preferring pace and grace over looks and attitude if that makes sense.....

As a side note just spent a pleasant few hours looking at a friends collection of E36 Alpina BMW’s........

Those BBS Wheels look so good against the green paint work!

Tom

Back to the Garage today for the Condensers as I am working long Days covering multiple time zones, however I was sent a few photos including below which shows the detritus collected between the condenser and the radiator...




The other photo which I cannot move to the iPad had snails growing on the radiator!!!! Hopefully the regas will show no leaks tomorrow so I will be back to nice an cold otherwise it all comes off to increase airflow through the radiators.

I have also sourced a right hand air duct from a Boxster which has the same part number so fingers crossed, I will fit that at the weekend with the lower windscreen surround I have If the weather permits and the BBQ I have been invited to does not happen so I won’t get utterly ruined!!!

I am still loving the wheels and have caught the car at some strange angles which really accentuate it.....

Evening

I’m to young to remember but to old to forget Hancocks Half Hour, fortunately radio 4 extra has several episodes on catch up, why is this of some impirical
importance?

None really, however I drove around for an hour today with the air con working on full tilt While avoiding cyclists and a specific w4nker in a BMW who tried to side swipe me while pulling out of a BP garage...... I think he gave me a ship to shore message of raise the mast out of his window or he was showing me how to toss a pancake in a frying pan?

So the air con kept my San Miguel tepid and ebbed me closer to the conclusion that the country roads in Oxfordshire are positively curse word.... great for my 4x4 but trying to push on in the Porsche is a choppy experience and threading between pot holes a fing nightmare.....

I have reached a crossroads with the 911 now, my list of jobs will be done after Monday’s diff oil change, I have to decide whether to rebuild the engine or do remedial IMS AND RMS Instead but that will be 2021 expenditure but in all fairness that is a peace of mind or performance enhancement and not a necessity.

I’m thinking of putting the 911 in storage and pulling out my 530 or maybe rather then a massive expenditure which I’m nervous of due to the way of the world currently looking for a pug 306 cab or SLK/CLK project......

Thoughts?