Hi All; I hope everyone is well. Clyde and Phil - looks like you must be in seventh heaven! Also, good luck to the runners in a fortnight. Enjoy your taper time!
I haven't posted hear all that often since joining but I do take a peek quite regularly, and I should put something to rest right now - no doubt about it, I am the dullest crayon in the box with respect to technical nous associated with early 911's. Learning slowly, but a looooong way to go.
That stated, here is where I am at: Shortly I am hoping to have accumulated a modest sum of money that I have been planning on putting into my 69S. The idea is to do the engine work that I knew the car required when I bought it about a year ago. It's leaking oil significantly, has some bearing noise, timing chains are worn (I've replaced the tensioners already), probably requires having the fuel pump recalibrated etc, and it would be great if cold starting was no longer an issue. I plan on having it pulled out and opened.
Being a 2.0S, bringing it back to spec won't make it the quickest car going around by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm not particularly concerned with this. My daily driver for the past four years has been a WRX and whilst it is a better car than I'll ever be a driver, I find it a bit sterile and unless I want to risk my license (Idon't), it's hard to enjoy the car in the way it is meant to be enjoyed......(or maybe I'm just not trying hard enough!) But the Porsche, even in it's current state, is different. As you already know, and I have now discovered, these cars have real character. I don't need to be keeping up with WRX's or HSV's being driven hard to be having entirely enough fun, and I'm not interested in "tracking" it (don't have the skill or the finances to risk it). I took it out past Healesville last Saturday afternoon (before the rain of Flemmington on the Sunday - nice to have met some of you and great cars....I felt for you in the rain) and had a wonderful time. Such days epitomize the experiences I want with the car.
But....I don't want to be pulling the engine out regularly and I don't want to be missing all the obvious "little things to take care of" because of ignorance. The old "you don't know what you don't know until you know it" seems apt right now. Are there some aspects of the rebuild I really should be taking care of that are cost effective and whilst not straying too far from original, will make a difference in terms of reliability and usability?
Any feedback would be great. Thanks.....
I haven't posted hear all that often since joining but I do take a peek quite regularly, and I should put something to rest right now - no doubt about it, I am the dullest crayon in the box with respect to technical nous associated with early 911's. Learning slowly, but a looooong way to go.
That stated, here is where I am at: Shortly I am hoping to have accumulated a modest sum of money that I have been planning on putting into my 69S. The idea is to do the engine work that I knew the car required when I bought it about a year ago. It's leaking oil significantly, has some bearing noise, timing chains are worn (I've replaced the tensioners already), probably requires having the fuel pump recalibrated etc, and it would be great if cold starting was no longer an issue. I plan on having it pulled out and opened.
Being a 2.0S, bringing it back to spec won't make it the quickest car going around by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm not particularly concerned with this. My daily driver for the past four years has been a WRX and whilst it is a better car than I'll ever be a driver, I find it a bit sterile and unless I want to risk my license (Idon't), it's hard to enjoy the car in the way it is meant to be enjoyed......(or maybe I'm just not trying hard enough!) But the Porsche, even in it's current state, is different. As you already know, and I have now discovered, these cars have real character. I don't need to be keeping up with WRX's or HSV's being driven hard to be having entirely enough fun, and I'm not interested in "tracking" it (don't have the skill or the finances to risk it). I took it out past Healesville last Saturday afternoon (before the rain of Flemmington on the Sunday - nice to have met some of you and great cars....I felt for you in the rain) and had a wonderful time. Such days epitomize the experiences I want with the car.
But....I don't want to be pulling the engine out regularly and I don't want to be missing all the obvious "little things to take care of" because of ignorance. The old "you don't know what you don't know until you know it" seems apt right now. Are there some aspects of the rebuild I really should be taking care of that are cost effective and whilst not straying too far from original, will make a difference in terms of reliability and usability?
Any feedback would be great. Thanks.....
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