Copperman05
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Ok ok sorry! I started another thread.
what did you do to your 944 today
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944 man
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Fitted a rear hatch bung having removed the wiper mechanism. I have the original Porsche parts somewhere and I recently bought another genuine set, but this is a Bruce Arnn Arnnworx part, which seems to be made out of a 12.9mm industrial fastner if the legend on the face face is anything to go by. Still: theyre cheap.
andy watson
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Removed rear wiper! I was starting to feel the odd one out [
][] just need to order a bung
][] just need to order a bung
andy watson
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[][][] Mind you another 6 pages on the other thread and they will all be going back on [][][]
][][] Mind you another 6 pages on the other thread and they will all be going back on [][][]
944 man
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Removing my rear wiper is the only thing off my list that I have actually done on this car. Removing the all electric seats and fitting race seats, removing the rear seat and fitting the 968CS rear, removing the glass hatch and fitting the polycarbonate one, removing all of the speakers and amplifiers and replacing it all with two speakers and a small amp with an iPod lead, removing the electric windows and fitting manual regulators, fitting polycarbonate side windows, removing the driving lamps and fitting ducts, replacing the electric hatch release with a bowden cable - all fallen by the wayside...
944 man
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Polished the glass inside out (for the first time ever) and applied Rain-X to windscreen and rear hatch. Also polished two small 6" square areas on both polycarbonate hatches to see if I can alter their state from opaque to usable. Success using only T-Cut and Autoglym resin polish! Annoyingly the race hatch with metal supports is far clearer than the 'best' one.
Ex Skyline
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Put it up for sale [] (unless I can find some where to store him)!
] (unless I can find some where to store him)!Veerzigzag
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Micro-fettling today; the mini slider knobs on the heater were loose, so I took them off and inserted very small pieces of rubber (cut up Royal Mail red rubber band) using tweezers, into the spaces between the side of the knob and the central bit. Adds a tiny bit of pressure and stops the knobs from falling off. Micro-surgery but very satisfying to complete.
Treated mine to new belts, rollers and oil service today courtesy of Motortune, Shotts. Excellent service. They gave me old belts away with me and I can see nothing wrong with them considering they were 5 years and 3 months old and had done 14k miles. Might put them on eBay. lol. Alan.
WBray
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Drove 30miles to the exhaust shop to get an all new custom manifold back system made for the car, arrived at 08:30 for the guy to tell me he was out of the exhaust steel piping it was meant to be delivered yesterday but wasn't and he didn't bother to let me know, so wasn't overly happy at a wasted 60mile round trip I have to re-do next friday to get it done. Bought new number plates to fit into the number plate surrounds to find I didn't like the look of the surrounds on the car so removed the surrounds. I do have new plain and simple plates fitted to the car now though.
Veerzigzag
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I feel bad about this as I believe it was my good experience at the Peterboro Longlife place that put you onto this idea. The Longlife places obviously all have their individual fitters and I hope your local one is OK. Maybe think twice about the approach? The Peterborough guys were in touch with me a couple of times in advance, to make sure the appointment was OK and would be kept etc, but you are not getting good signs from your guys there...
WBray
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There's no reason for you to feel bad mate its not your fault in anyway its just one of those things! I'm sure to become a longlife fitter there must be some basic requirements so I am sure they will be fine when it comes to it, just annoying they didn't give me any notice. I shall be phone beforehand though next thursday. What note did you put on yours as they reckon the mildsport note is the best? Cheers,
Hey everyone, I know not the right place for an intro but it's both 1st post plus today I replaced the radiator and feeling good about that. I spent a shed load of dosh when I first bought my car 3 months ago (wheel refurb, belts, air con fix, service, brakes, some electrics, new hatch, tracking, tyres, yep it all adds up v v quickly), it's an '89 baltic blue turbo which I absolutely love, then coming back from IoW last weekend I had the dreaded temperature gauge creep, got the system pressure-tested and the radiator had sprung a big leak. Decided to get to grips with it myself due to having already spent a lot and, ahem, being 'in between jobs'. There isn't a lot of info I could find to do this job (cue 'see post xxx' responses) but I can confirm that a) pattern part is identical to official part with 'porsche' ground off (how brilliant); b) the radiator does indeed come out from the top on a turbo; c) a lot (in fact most) of the plumbing has to come out to get the fans out and then the radiator itself; d) it takes quite a while; e) if only the radiator bottom bracket was made in such a way to be removable from below it would have made life easier, grrr! Anyway it was a great job to do (in the end), not so complex just complicated by stubborn bolts/screws etc. particularly those holding on the front under tray (mostly cable ties here though...another fix to do). Finally went for a cruise in the late evening sun and it was with a thankfully stable temperature gauge - beautiful.
WBray
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Hello, welcome to the forum!
Where are you based? Sounds like youve done similar to me got the car and gone to town on getting stuff sorted, peace of mind good job on the radiator! I'm gonna be the first of probably many when I say this now, pics of the car please lol! Cheers,Veerzigzag
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Well, I am an old git so at my age all rules are advisory and it's time to grow old disgracefully. I asked for "loud", and it is LOUD. Not a lot of obstruction between the combustion chambers and the outside air. They deleted the middle box and put a larger pipe all the way back to a small box at the rear. I love it, but it would not suit all tastes particularly if you do a lot of town driving. You also have to choose the tail pipe; I opted for quite a large angle-cut one with inward roll, as per the pic. They didn't have any oval ones, but it looks OK to me. I should add that immediately after the fitting it passed the MoT OK, and in fact the emissions were down on the previous year; I suspect that the gases are moving so fast they don't register on the test meter.....
Frenchy
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Went to remove the drivers seat from the 220, how come it is always the last bolt, bloody thing will not come out, it is either cross threaded or the captive thread is turning could be chisel time which is a headache. Sprayed up some rear shockers that i won on e bay genuine 951 bits £22 delivered and in great order they are hanging on the washing line now with the paint drying and look as good as new, going to get stuck in to the 220 as the "to do" list is getting longer. Turbo S had the wheels fine balanced by Hi Q tyres and is very smooth now, she has swapped places with the 220 garage wise
I changed my radiator by removing it and the fans from the bottom. Took about an hour to swap one for the other and then another 30 mins to bleed the system and put the undertrays etc back on. My aircon system has been removed so there's a little more wiggle room though. My "pattern part" radiator had some half-arsed grinding done on it too, with "PORSCHE" still pretty visible, lol.
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