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what did you do to your 944 today

Successfully loosened the spline bolts on the driveshafts as I continue to strip down the rear suspension. Broke my ratchet, knackered my knuckles and several other body parts. Amazingly the spline tool survived and none of the bolt heads stripped.
 
On the Dyno today at CFM engineering, despite the car trying to escape the rollers twice, it made 251bhp @7psi. No chart yet as the printer packed up. Not sure why the boost was only 7 psi. its normally 9-10 psi.
 
fitted my modified hockey sticks and adjusted the headlight panel gaps
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Front arch liner on,wheel on rolled her out,swept the floor,moved her back in more central. Jacked up,cut off catalyst as cracked. Found cat front section has melted! Started fitting cat by-pass,just needs to shift forward 10mm then clamp it up
 
Got her completely covered in mud whilst rallycrossing around the outfield of Cadwell Park circuit. The hosepipe ban means I may need to call in "Time Team" to excavate the wheel arches. Even a 200+ mile hoon home in the rain didn't shift it.
 
Took out the rear lap belts ... Gave them a good dose of WD40 and adjusted the spring tension.. Good job ! Discovered the wash motor i shot - must have died after the NCT ! [:D]
 
My old girl is having a new Crank sensor fitted at TWG today, after throwing a tantrum on the A5 new Shrewsbury on Wednesday Lunchtime. Even my Wife said that for that age and mileage car to go 3 years and 36,000 miles before her first breakdown is pretty impressive! Strange thing is that we have been trying to move house since we sold ours in November, and my plan has always been to retire her to an easier life with someone to spend a little love & attention on her as soon as we move.... ...Well I was driving through Shrewsbury and my Solicitor called to say that the exchange of contracts had finally happened, and within 15 minutes of that call she threw her strop and coasted to a halt, it's as if she knows Porsches have feelings too
 
Failed to sort out the washer jets. One had plenty of oomph, the other was pretty lacklustre. Found that the lacklustre one was missing the one way valve (how does a part like that just go missing??!!), put the valve in line, no joy, changed the washer unit, the drivers side starts suffering low pressure passenger is working fine, swapped the outputs around on the t piece, passenger side not working, drivers side has huge pressure so both washer units work fine (no blockages) it's just the pipework which has no leaks and creating poor pressure on one side. T Piece is fine too so I'm stumped! Also took sunroof off, checked all the downpipes for flow and changed the sunroof seal.
 
Managed to clean her this evening after the rain stopped
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She's now ready for a potential viewing next weekend from a chap who seems keen to buy
 
Checked out the sunroof micro switch all okay, hopefully Alasdair will be sending me a console switch as it all points to that now, fitted a new drop link to the door handle as the original had sheared, FOOOKED if i can refit it, struggling to get the ball joint on let alone see it [:mad:] Fitted a new crested centre cap which the OPC sold at trade as this the second one i have had to replace in 12 months, one thousand miles, the crests keep coming off, it is a 993 part, i will not be replacing again should i lose another !
 
Forgot to say went to my other garage which is at my old Mam's, fired the Turbo S up with a view to her being taxed next week and ready to roll for summer, i have a perspex blank wher the cubby is for auxillary gauges, just got me an Innovate Motorsport AFR kit so will be cutting a 52 mm hole in this for the gauge probably tomorrow. Very busy with 944 stuff at the moment.
 
Given it's been raining heavily non stop all day here........ absolutely nothing at all in mine today, other than stare out of the lounge window at it like some kid looking in a toy shop window[:D] Norm Oh, and hoping the swopped over sunroof is not leaking[8|] edited to remove word the swear filter didn't like ( only a mild one though )[:)]
 
Started scraping the anti stonechip coating from the nearside sill, relieved to find the galvanising still intact, amazing really for a 29 year old car.
 
Went round all the welds with sealer and sealed all the joints.Totaly covered in the stuff.Painting interior and under the floor tomorrow.Also fitted more of the front suspension.
 
had mine serviced and koni rear shocks fitted by pie-perfomace big thanks to chris and craig and i now have a working rear wiper now :)
 

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