Pit lane technical demos at the Porsche Festival, Brands Hatch

[nfearn]

Dear all The demonstrations of 944 servicing and repair work are happenig only on the Sunday, not on both Sunday and Monday as I previously reported. I am looking for a volunteer to provide a car - I can do the "chat" that accompanies it You would need to get your car there for about 9:30am on the Sunday, with the actual demonstration taking place from 11:10am for an hour or so. After the demo you're free to move your vehicle as required, as I understand it. IMPORTANT: Please contact me at nfearn(at)saratoga.co.uk if you would like to provide a car for the demo. Details again are:
****************We have three pit garages for the Technical Arena, in one Parr Motorsport will be showcasing Boxster , GT3, 996 and 997 road and track cars (the modern era), in another pit Chips Away will have a continuous demonstration of repairs to paint dings, wheels and the like and in the third pit garage the club in partnership with a Southern based Independent Porsche Specialist 'Carrera Performance' will put on a demonstration of maintenance and discussions about options and modifications for Classic Porsche including 356, 944, 928 , 911 and 964.
There is as you can see from the attached itinerary an hours slot devoted to the 944, rather than just take over the whole thing I want to include the specific car register members in the activity related to their car. What I am looking for is a little bit of back up on the days and also some one such as yourself who would be willing to commentate on a mike to the spectators about the demonstration in progress, this would obviously require some technical knowledge and mostly enthusiasm. I think this will be a great opportunity to have some fun working on our cars that we love so much any help especially on the commentating front and the supply of a car for an hour would be a great help. You can design your own program based on the list below or add to it, There would have to a little chat with Jez Parsons Of Carrera Performance (mechanic on the day) before the event just to tidy things up.

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Car Basics

Descriptions and demonstrations of:
How to jack up your car safely
How to check the oil level and change the oil and filter
How check and tension the fan belt
How to change the air filter and what's a pop off valve?



Car Advanced

Descriptions and demonstrations of:
How to change your distributor
How to check and change your spark plugs and leads
How to change you fuel filter
What's the air pump for and how to remove it.

Brakes

Descriptions and demonstrations of:
How to change the pads and discs
How to bleed your brakes and fit new hoses
How to adjust the hand brake
How to upgrade your brakes

Suspension and tyres

Descriptions and demonstrations of:
Why have your geometry checked and what's involved
What tires are available and what wheels fit 944
Suspension parts what's a bilstien or a Koni?
Lowering a 944



Electric Basics

Descriptions and demonstrations of:
Testing your alternator and which one is fitted to
your car
Testing your battery
Care and maintenance, fuse cleaning etc
Changing your clock blubs

Electrics Advanced

Descriptions and demonstrations of:
Upgrading your head light power
problems with 944 electrics
Changing your alternator


Cosmetics

Descriptions and demonstrations of:
Wheel renovation
Rubber Care
Polishes and waxoils (possibly preparing your car for winter)


Exhausts
Upgrades

regardsNick

 

[Helen Goff]

would volenteer mine but its entered in the concours on the sunday.

 

[John Sims]

Would volunteer but I don't recognise half of the things on Beaky and I have endeavoured to remove most of the annoying bits from under the bonnet - what is that big hot noisy metal thing? Do I need it?

 

[Diver944]

I'd volunteer our S2 but it doesn't really need any of those things doing.

Now if you had a machine to rebore 2.5 litre Turbo engines I'd be there like a shot []

 

[944Turbo]

Have you got a car now?
They could demonstrate front wheel bearing swapping on mine and also that some cowboy has filed the brake pads instead of refurbing the calipers - I will sort them properly soon, though it seems to work well as a temporary measure.
Tony