FRporscheman

LMAO

I'm going to bed, we just got home. I'll post my story tomorrow.

nh7cy

Hey Arash, Ashkan, sorry I had to bail before we made it back to your place, I realized what time it was and had to rush because I have to go to work in about 7 hours. I'll post pics in the morning.

959Lover

Thanks Jason and Chris for the escort home. I got home in one piece, but i don't the tranny did . I'll take a look at it later on.

luckett

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Andial951

That was a BMW Dinan 8 that went into a ditch on a BMW run I was at 2 years ago. I didnt have any pics of our run yesterday so I was just having some fun posting a few pics.

luckett

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nh7cy

nh7cy

I love this road, not one of my pictures though.

959Lover

I'm going to get my film developed in a few mins. Roger, I'm sure i speak for us all when I say thanks for letting us chill at your place and thanks to Patty for the delicious food.

I think I took about 20 pics total as I was using a 35mm and couldn't change rolls of film mid driving.

nh7cy

+10000000000000

959Lover

Dropped off the film at Walgreens. I'm a cheapo, so I opted for 24hr developing so you guys' have to wait until tomorrow for me to upload them.

nh7cy

I think I finally found out where all of my coolant was leaking from. I haven't physically checked it to make sure, but I was thinking about it this morning. When I finished up my engine after the head gasket job, I couldn't find the bolt that closed up the coolant drain hole at the rear of the engine block. I ended up using a regular bolt I had lying around my garage instead with the intent of replacing it once I found the proper plug. Anyway, long story short, I completely forgot about it until now. I'm guessing that either the bolt got loosened up a bit or the threads were slightly different in pitch which after heating up the engine considerably, allowed the now highly pressurized coolant to escape.

I'm hoping this is it, as it would be in just about the right location in regards to where the coolant was leaking from under the car.

billthe3

I'm still pissed off that I wasn't able to do the entire run, so we will have to do this again once my car is working.

FRporscheman

The drain bolt is on the opposite side of the engine though...


Sweet pics everyone. It was good hanging out with everyone and meeting Dan for the first time. Dan, your car will be a bit of an inspiration for me when I decide to jump into turbo-ing my 968.

There was quite a bit of 'excitement' in the form of car trouble. Dan's suspension, Jason's coolant leak, my brother's tranny is eating itself, and Bill's BMW seemed to be running a little hot. Ironically the Mazda was perfect.

billthe3

Just to clarify, the bmw was fine. The engine bay gets heat soaked because of all the bmw sound deadening, but all it does it kill the performance. The car still runs perfectly fine with everything showing normal inside the car.

Oh, I figured out that the whistling noise appears to have been the car turning on the vent fans to circulate air inside the car because it was so warm. Or something like that. I got in the car and even though there was no key it showed the vent fan as running and the control setup in the radio cluster showed an option to turn it off. I absolutely love the computer in that car.


Btw, did you get my pm about dates this week Arash?