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Late Notice trip to the States - What to Buy?

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EddySpaghetti

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Work are sending me on a training course to the States at short notice.

I want to capitalise if I can on buying stuff a bit cheaper on the other side of the pond.

What would be your recommendations? - My car is an unmodified 1990 Turbo SE.

I'm thinking in terms of wastegates / chips / controllers etc - but need to get ordering pronto if the stuff is going to get delivered to the training centre before I have to fly back - so any recommendations would be welcome.

Also need suspension bits (can't find castor mounts from a quick search - any idea what the yanks call them?)

Thanks!

Eddy
 
I love it , years ago folk always used to head off to the States and all they ( including me) could dream of bringing back is a suitcase full of Levi Jeans, Designer Walking boots and perfume but noooooo not Porsche folk , its a suitcase full of chips and wastegates.

Customs man having just seen the X-Ray of Porsche enthusiasts suitcase
" Eer Dave I think we may have a live one here "

I dont know if it's just my humour but you just made my day , More power to your elbow [;)]
 
I was in Florida last year and ordered a Tial wastegate kit and a fuel rail pressure guage from Vic at Puaer Tuning,delivered to my hotel in a couple of days, stuck them in my suitcase and brought them home............luverly jubbly !
The Tial Wastgate is a quality piece of kit BTW.
Jim.
 
Defo a tial dual port wastegate from Vic Timpauer at pauertuning.com and some max 951 chips to match. if you email him he will arrange delvery to whatever hotel you are staying at. [:)]
 
+1 for the Tial from Vic - and it's a reasonably small package to bring home.

Do you mean adjustable top mounts or the rear mounts for the lower arm?

For top mounts, (or any other suspension components) racers edge mights be a place to start
http://www.racersedge-inc.com/racersedge/rehome.nsf/0/6FB36C27F1511A5E8525718E0044D28E?open&id=11.3.4

these ones are a bit cheaper
http://www.ground-control-store.com/products/description.php/II=140/CA=192
- although they seem to have 2 944 products?
http://www.ground-control-store.com/products/description.php/II=646/CA=219
 
I brought back alot of gear from the states when I visited our office out there with my job - and all in my hand luggage! I brought back a Lindsay Racing DPW (but go for the Tial), big black upgrade kit (disks, calipers, braided hoses, associated bolts and bracketry) and some smaller items and none of it raised an eyebrow when going through the x-ray machine. Back then the exchange rate was far more favourable though (2 for 1!).
 
Not half. I have heard some amazing stories of things ppl have brought back from the states via work. Most impressive was a small tractor [:D]. Just stuff it all in a transport case like the Peli cases and say your an engineer and its test/development parts equipment from work [8D].
 
I remember bringing my wastegate back. When the back went through the x-ray machine the operator stopped it, called over about three of his colleagues and they spend a good few minutes examining the screen. By this time I was going through various excuses and explanations as to what to say to explain what the wastegate was (it was not long after the Iraqi supergun affair). They pulled me and my bag to one side and asked me to unpack it. I tool out my laptop, my folders and paperwork, then lifted the wastegate out and paused for the inevitable. The guy looked at me and asked me to continue - I looked back in my bag and all that was left was my toilet bag. I took that out and the guy asked me to unpack that. The item he was interested in was my multi country mains plug adaptor. He took it off me, passed it through the x-ray machine again then handed it back and with a hand gesture indicated I could go. He didn't bat an eyelid at the wastegate.

The brake kit was fooking heavy! Ironically they never weighed hand luggage at Houston airport but it would have been over 20kg's so putting it in the hold was not an option. But it raised absolutely no interest from the people at the x-ray machine. Luckily I was travelling business class so had plenty of floorspace to put my bag rather than putting it in the overhead locker.

I wouldn't fancy doing it again though since all the increased restrictions and measures at the security gates these days.
 
Be careful bringing back anything bulky and heavy. I flew to Italy with a steel bracket in my handluggage (sample for my job, about 5kg) and they made me put it in the hold (with asociated excess baggage rip off charges) as it could have 'been used as an offensive weapon'. I imagine brake calipers or even an external wastegate could qualify for this too if you get the wrong security guy.
 
But then you can buy a bottle of vodka which would probably do similar damage if you hit someone with it - more if you broke it first, probably best not to point that out to the security guy though.
 
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