Sanky

1 hour ago, edc said:

Spyder / eporsch can probably sell you the camber bolts too. They stock these for the workshop. Just call them. They don't have an e-commerce site yet so main channel is eBay. 

They didn't have any when I asked.

1 hour ago, ½cwt said:

Picked up 4 new camber bolts form OPC and recip saw from Screwfix.  Toe links delivered from Spyder Performance too.  Hopefully I now have all I need to complete the rear suspension.  🤞 

Get some decent blades for the saw, and cut down the metal bush not just the bolt.  As you don't want to damage the chassis, Its a bit of slow process.

I just need to get my hubs back on to the hubs, then I can start fitting my new suspension arms back on.  Just need a day off and some dry weather.

46 minutes ago, ½cwt said:

4 new Koni Special Active dampers, ARB drop links and rear bump stops have been delivered today to go with the coffin arms and tuning forks that came last week.  Plus Gas soaking into all the nuts, bolts and joints as I write.  £920 into suspension refurb project....  Now (in no particular order) for the blood, toil, tears and sweat!  🤞 😨

I'm doing the same work in about £1600 so far, your not doing bad.  Good luck with it

2 hours ago, Berni29 said:

Hi

I think the best matching ones come from the VDO range. I think the 5 bar versions are most appropriate. I wanted to do this but have done the console delete. I would like to find somewhere else to put the oil pressure. 

All the best

Berni

I didn't really fancy splashing out for the VDO ones, as I am unsure if I would be happy the final result.  But yes a 5 bar oil pressure gauge would be the appropriate choice with a volt meter.

On 7/24/2020 at 7:57 PM, myfirstboxster said:

Oil pressure / temperature gauge part 2 , I thought the single oil pressure gauge looked a bit off so I added a oil temperature gauge just to balance things out a bit

Any chance of getting a picture with all of the dash?  I have contemplated doing this my self, but cant find a decent set of matching gauges I like.

They could have used the facelift model, or at the very least stuck all the options on for the asking price.

3 hours ago, the baron said:

Exactly, I never lock the door as the red light drives me crazy

Don’t they all lock when you drive off?

1 hour ago, the baron said:

Having it flash when raising is a good idea but would drive me mad if it was on all the time when the spoiler was up.

Would be just like having the door locked light on...you wouldn't really notice unless you looked at it.

14 hours ago, Stiffkey said:

Tell me about it! That wasn’t even all of it. Bodes well to me reassembling only to find a coolant leak right by the pump! 🙄🙄

Some people shouldn’t be working on cars

21 hours ago, Stiffkey said:

Made an interesting discovery on my car while breaking the engine down. It seems that one of the pervious owners upgraded the water pump. Looks to me to be a Febi Bilstein aluminium water pump from a quick google search.

Did he put enough silicone on there 🤣

1 hour ago, the baron said:

Swapped out my drab black internal grab handles and door handles from black to silver:

Looks good

Fitted leather door cards

27 minutes ago, edc said:

The finish looks good but what colour is that, it's hard to tell. 

It’s Plastidip with Matt black paint on top.

A picture can tell a 1000 lies, lol.  It’s not a bad finish really 

Painted the centre console, I’m happy with the end result.

Today I painted the wiper arms a nice satin black

Today I repaired the holes that were split on the rear carpet that goes behind the seat.

Sewing on the first wasn’t brilliant, until I worked out a sequence 😆

45 minutes ago, Darren Sapsford said:

It's kept at a friend's garage. I don't really need to go there as it's a weekend car and I,m busy delivering loads of food atm.

Fair play to you sir, keep the country going in these difficult times.

3 hours ago, Darren Sapsford said:

Got myself a new backbox but can't get to the car because of lockdown. 

Where is the car?

So today whilst working from home, I've manged to fit some 5mm spacers on the rear that I had purchased on here.

On 3/7/2020 at 6:26 PM, Sanky said:

Your probably right, I had the issue last year but the tester got to pass eventually 

Anyway today gave it a minor service and booked it in for retest this coming week.

Booked a day off work so I could take it run before it’s retest.  The bloody amount of road works going on around the area is something else.

Anyway it passed just.

Got it booked in with Revoultion Porsche, for them to give it once over, just so I know it’s all running like it should be.

19 hours ago, ½cwt said:

If it has been parked for 4 months a good blast putting lots of heat through the exhausts should clean it up and burn off any residues thay may have hardened on the lambdas without any additional special (snake oil??) products.

Your probably right, I had the issue last year but the tester got to pass eventually 

Anyway today gave it a minor service and booked it in for retest this coming week.

Took it for its MOT...failed for emissions, lambda sensor was reading a little high.

Going to try some Cataclean and take it for a blast before a retest, only problem is that it has full tank of VPower in it.  So not sure if the Cataclean will do anything.

Cars been parked up for the last 4 months, so not sure if that has anything t do with it.

13 hours ago, edc said:

That's basically what he does. Buy in the eBay one and modify it. 

Wouldn't take much to modify my eBay one, to add the extra bearings. But just not sure if the effort is worth it...does it real add anything to a greased one?

2 minutes ago, naim22 said:

It was one of Benjamin Nenert's SSKs

https://benautodesign.fr/en/home/19-short-shifter-porsche-911boxstercayman.html

Thanks, so it’s like the eBay ones with couple of extra bearings added on the ends.

On 2/15/2020 at 12:50 PM, naim22 said:

Ben's Short shift kit fitted

Very impressed with it, has that lovely notchiness now

Function first gearknob on the way too so hoping that reduces some of the side to side play

Was this pre assembled short shift, or something modified by someone on here?