I'm out.
09-02-2004, 01:29 AM
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Cody, I've got an idea for a place where you might be able to keep and work on your 928 just east of downtown (call it "the batcave") if that would make the difference between holding and folding.
If that wouldn't make the difference, I may take it off your hands and stick it in the batcave myself. Email me a list of the things you think it needs.
If that wouldn't make the difference, I may take it off your hands and stick it in the batcave myself. Email me a list of the things you think it needs.
09-02-2004, 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by heinrich
Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus;
Post jucundam juventutem,
Post molestam senectutem
Nos habebit humus!
Juvenes dum sumus;
Post jucundam juventutem,
Post molestam senectutem
Nos habebit humus!
While we are young;
After our youth,
After a troublesome old age
The ground will hold us.
God, I love Google.
09-02-2004, 02:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Richard Lang
Do you have pictures of the car ? I have a soft spot for 83's
Richard
Richard
It should go to someone else, perhaps another '83 fan who only this week twice stepped hard on the floorboard looking for a clutch that wasn't there...if such a person could be found, I mean 
Emanuel
09-02-2004, 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by MBMB
Let us therefore rejoice,
While we are young;
After our youth,
After a troublesome old age
The ground will hold us.
God, I love Google.
While we are young;
After our youth,
After a troublesome old age
The ground will hold us.
God, I love Google.
09-02-2004, 03:39 AM
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Ah heck, I may as well post what needs to be done to the car here. I've gotten several requests.
Current condition, runs, has a lack of power over 4,000 rpm, and a strange oil leak somewhere on the frount side of the engine. Rough idle.
Repair work, known: (ASAP list)
0. Repair strange oil leak, and fix lack unknown reason for lack of power over 4 grand. And rough idle.
1. New a/c compressor. (with associated dryer, etc.)
2. New a/c rubbers.
3. Replacement vacuum resevor.
4. Replacement coolent expanshion tank.
5. Replacement passanger running light.
6. Replacement/repaired frount and rear bumper covers
6.a. Repair frount passanger fender, and rolled drivers rear quater pannel.
7. Recovered felt window guides.
8. Additional screw needed on passanger widow, on the plastic bar guide.
9. Repair cruise control. unknown problem.
10. Replacement viscus clutch fan.
11. Repair of dash pod guages. Known bad pod plastic printed wireing on the tach., unknown problem with the oil pressure guage.
12. Repair dash pod lights.
13. Repair reverse light switch.
Less Critial list.
1. Rebuild transmittion, 1st and 2nd syncros are shot.
2. Retreat rust on rear quater pannal, beside the bottem of the window.
3. New trim for the rear window.
4. A spoiler of some sort.
5. Replacement seal along lower edge of window, and key seal.
6. Replacement lower door pannals, and replacement drivers door upper pannal. (moisture dammage caused be the slightly leaking window and key seals.
7. Repair passanger side lock, interor **** removed, includeing the shaft behind it, and the key cylinder does not connect to the locking mechnism, broken plastic peice.
8. Rebuild final drive. Currently it is not misbehaveing, noisie, etc, but I suspect dammage to the two main gears.
9. Replacement shocks, all the way around.
10. Brake job, all the way around.
11. Repair of several warning circuts, for example the low oil circut, and the low coolent circute. (suspect bad sensors.)
12. Find missing interor trim peices. The floor mats don't line up exactly right, and there is no cover for the L-jet ECU.
13. Find bolts to attach wooden door to fuse/relay pannal.
14. Find out why that one injector is so da** loud. (possibly going out.)
15. Replace rear hatch lower lock assymbly. Plastic linder decentegreated, will not hold hatch completely closed all the time. May have dammaged reletivly new upper lock assymbly.
16. Trouble shoot mechenical linkage for the rear windsheild wiper.
17. Replace/repair center console tape tray.
18. Replacement exauste. The current flowmaster is very LOUD, and sounds like a Camaro.
19. Replacement paint, all of the paint is flacking off.
I'm sure there are other problems, that I just don't remember.
The current price to beat is 2,000 as thats what I've been offered for a trade. I almost break even with that. Like I said...
I can't own two vehicals. I don't have the cash to allow that much money to be tied up in two vehicals, as well as the maintance budget for two vehicals. Even assumeing I had the space, I don't have the money. And I would feel very bad takeing up someone elses storage space. I also have a sigificant need for something with a pick up bed. I almost bought a Ford Ranger tonight, but the dealership didn't want to work on the price, so I'm going to let them sit on it.
Current condition, runs, has a lack of power over 4,000 rpm, and a strange oil leak somewhere on the frount side of the engine. Rough idle.
Repair work, known: (ASAP list)
0. Repair strange oil leak, and fix lack unknown reason for lack of power over 4 grand. And rough idle.
1. New a/c compressor. (with associated dryer, etc.)
2. New a/c rubbers.
3. Replacement vacuum resevor.
4. Replacement coolent expanshion tank.
5. Replacement passanger running light.
6. Replacement/repaired frount and rear bumper covers
6.a. Repair frount passanger fender, and rolled drivers rear quater pannel.
7. Recovered felt window guides.
8. Additional screw needed on passanger widow, on the plastic bar guide.
9. Repair cruise control. unknown problem.
10. Replacement viscus clutch fan.
11. Repair of dash pod guages. Known bad pod plastic printed wireing on the tach., unknown problem with the oil pressure guage.
12. Repair dash pod lights.
13. Repair reverse light switch.
Less Critial list.
1. Rebuild transmittion, 1st and 2nd syncros are shot.
2. Retreat rust on rear quater pannal, beside the bottem of the window.
3. New trim for the rear window.
4. A spoiler of some sort.
5. Replacement seal along lower edge of window, and key seal.
6. Replacement lower door pannals, and replacement drivers door upper pannal. (moisture dammage caused be the slightly leaking window and key seals.
7. Repair passanger side lock, interor **** removed, includeing the shaft behind it, and the key cylinder does not connect to the locking mechnism, broken plastic peice.
8. Rebuild final drive. Currently it is not misbehaveing, noisie, etc, but I suspect dammage to the two main gears.
9. Replacement shocks, all the way around.
10. Brake job, all the way around.
11. Repair of several warning circuts, for example the low oil circut, and the low coolent circute. (suspect bad sensors.)
12. Find missing interor trim peices. The floor mats don't line up exactly right, and there is no cover for the L-jet ECU.
13. Find bolts to attach wooden door to fuse/relay pannal.
14. Find out why that one injector is so da** loud. (possibly going out.)
15. Replace rear hatch lower lock assymbly. Plastic linder decentegreated, will not hold hatch completely closed all the time. May have dammaged reletivly new upper lock assymbly.
16. Trouble shoot mechenical linkage for the rear windsheild wiper.
17. Replace/repair center console tape tray.
18. Replacement exauste. The current flowmaster is very LOUD, and sounds like a Camaro.
19. Replacement paint, all of the paint is flacking off.
I'm sure there are other problems, that I just don't remember.
The current price to beat is 2,000 as thats what I've been offered for a trade. I almost break even with that. Like I said...
I can't own two vehicals. I don't have the cash to allow that much money to be tied up in two vehicals, as well as the maintance budget for two vehicals. Even assumeing I had the space, I don't have the money. And I would feel very bad takeing up someone elses storage space. I also have a sigificant need for something with a pick up bed. I almost bought a Ford Ranger tonight, but the dealership didn't want to work on the price, so I'm going to let them sit on it.
09-02-2004, 10:45 PM
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Ah Jeez, VU,
I was going to post and say keep it in your one parking spot and do it up slowly while you have another cheap and reliable daily driver, but that list of 'to-do's' is pretty awesome - more so in the 'less critical list' than the former...
I think you're probably right to walk away from it at this stage, unfortunately. And then come back when you're more cashed up after completing your studies and into full-time work.
The risk you run is that in the meantime you may get married, have kids, mortgage, etc., and not get back into a shark until about 2024...
I had sports cars until I finished uni., and finally got a shark this year...
Good Luck,
And let us have a post from you occasionally; we obviously all enjoy your company.
Phill.
PS tell us what 'Viribus Units' means...
I was going to post and say keep it in your one parking spot and do it up slowly while you have another cheap and reliable daily driver, but that list of 'to-do's' is pretty awesome - more so in the 'less critical list' than the former...
I think you're probably right to walk away from it at this stage, unfortunately. And then come back when you're more cashed up after completing your studies and into full-time work.
The risk you run is that in the meantime you may get married, have kids, mortgage, etc., and not get back into a shark until about 2024...
I had sports cars until I finished uni., and finally got a shark this year...
Good Luck,
And let us have a post from you occasionally; we obviously all enjoy your company.
Phill.
PS tell us what 'Viribus Units' means...
09-02-2004, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by intrepidjohnson
I'm new here and have been reading all the tales of woe so I thought you may like to hear my story. !st 928 was a 1978 purchased in 1977 for 32,327.14 and sold 5 years later for 27,500. Only warranty work. 2nd was a 1983s for 45,051.84 and sold in 1987 for 31,500. Only warranty repairs. Current 1988 cost 79,619.20 and has left me stranded only once with fuel pump problem. I have also replaced water pump and t chain twice. Over 26 years in a 928 as a daily driver and have logged over 400,000 miles. Is this a trouble free record?
09-02-2004, 11:08 PM
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"ViribusUnits" is the misspelled name of the K.u.K. Viribus Unitis. The K.u.K. Viribus Unitis was a battleship of the Austrian-Hungaryian navy. It was particulary good looking, if kinda useless. It's also the ship in my avatar.
No risk about being away for long. I'll get another one, no worrys there. The price of admission into this club isn't steep. But I'll do it when I can afford to have two cars, and when I've got plenty of space.
No risk about being away for long. I'll get another one, no worrys there. The price of admission into this club isn't steep. But I'll do it when I can afford to have two cars, and when I've got plenty of space.
09-03-2004, 12:39 PM
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ViribusUnits, there is an easy solution to this. Sell it and buy another one! With all you know now, you can surely get a reliable one that fits your needs! Mine is older than yours and I just bite the bullet and deal with it. You have to get creative (20" belt for the fan 'cause the airpump is seized... etc. etc.) but these are still worth having. - Ruf
09-03-2004, 03:02 PM
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keep it!!! find some place to park it and just sit on it. throw a tarp over and find a beater to drive. just let it sit and come back to it in a few months. the 2k you get for it wont nearly replace it.
although those 'to do' lists are impressive dont loose sight of all the rest of the car, there is still an awful lot that is both 'right' and authenticaly supercar.
although those 'to do' lists are impressive dont loose sight of all the rest of the car, there is still an awful lot that is both 'right' and authenticaly supercar.
09-03-2004, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by drnick
keep it!!! find some place to park it and just sit on it. throw a tarp over and find a beater to drive. just let it sit and come back to it in a few months.
Emanuel
