lorenolson888

Hi All,

Got my car back from Devek....

got a new suspension installed... bilstein with eibachs... New balljoints... alignment..

I had done the steering rack, power steering lines, Pump, reservoir, Tie Rods, motor mounts, and pan gasket earlier this year. I got new yokahama AVS sports on newly polishes 16" stock 7" dish rims.

I figured that I should all last longer and be safer if I do everything...

Anyway I drove it last night and it really handles... it used to bounce a bit but now it is almost a bit too stiff... but I like the handleing... and the car is not a everyday car just for fun...

There seemed to be some debate over what is best.... which shocks...which coils progressive vs straight... etc... but I liked what I got ... and it is a hell of a lot better than what was probably the original worn out stuff... I imagine that opinion, taste, driving style, are what determined what one thinks is best. I did enjoy the freeway cruise home... (when the road was smooth) and some winding roads I tested it out on....

It is butter smooth and tracks perfectly on a smooth road... but kind of a shame to even drive it on 101 ... that freeway is all torn up...

But 280 is our little auto bahn...

anyone out there have any opinions about speeding on 280... I need to test the car out a bit more???

Joe '87 S4

I had the same reaction when I had my shocks done. It's a bit stiff around town on our bad roads but get it on 280 down past 92 and it just soars nice and comfortable.

You didn't hear it from me, but... there have been some "testing" of various car's speed on 280 going north between the Edgewood turn off and highway 92. It's a big sweeping turn around the hill that opens up to a nice long straight away. Late at night, it's usually pretty deserted.

Ron_H

Whoa!! Watch out for Smokey anywhere near 92 /Half Moon Bay turnoff. Known speed trap there. Particularly Northbound in the sweeping turn just before you come downhill towards the offramp: you will see a truck escape ramp up the hill......after passing that you will begin turning left and if you look in your mirror, you will see a ramp from the top of the escape ramp down to 280. Smokey loves to sit there muching on donuts and shooting his radar gun at traffic going away from him. Lots of action there unless he is eating lunch.

Watch also for low profile cars (unmarked sedans with the lights in the rear window instead of on the roof) and also for the infamous white camaro chase car that CHP uses on Bay Area freeways. The only markings on that car are on the door so no warning from your rear view mirror. Usually it operates with a spotter like the guy on the ramp and then the camaro makes the bust. Bill Ball has some rather unkind and unprintable words to say about that Camaro, and Nicole and I also have run into it at one time, though not fatally.

Both directions on 280 around the Hwy 92 ramps are bear country. I have chased a Ferrari 456 in that area and afterward thought that it was not the brightest idea. If you do it, do it in light to no traffic in the morning, but not without a V-1. That would be like playing Russian Roulette.

Be cool on 280.

Joe '87 S4

During daylight hours I wouldn't try anything there but late at night it's pretty quiet.

lorenolson888

Good advice...

It is nice to talk with other bay area 928ers...

Joe, Did you do your shocks yourself...

I am a bit busy these day planning a wedding and i figured that devek would have to align so may as well get it all done right...

I am so stoked... I wish I could just get ewverything done...ut for now I am going to start working on creature comforts... interior etc... get stereo wokring right...

Do I know either of you?

Ron,

I wanted a 914 to do a /6 project but could not find one work buying... I did find a 74 2.0 ($800) and hesitated for a day to talk with high performance house and by the time I called him the next day he sold it... The car ran and had a decent low rust chassis I looked for two more months and gave up... I was reading up on 928s.... I actually drove a 928 in college.. an 84 and though hmmm not right now but maybe a later when i have mo $$$ ... well here i am I have spent more than I though i would and am getting more stoked as i go...

Joe '87 S4

I didn't do the shocks. Devek does all the work on my car. Take your time getting the car up to where you want it. It took me 3 years to get it to the point it is now and there are still some things to take care of but it hasn't given me any mechanical problems in almost a year now.
I don't think we've met.

m21sniper

There is a little known US federal law that mandates a 10,000 foot straight away for every so many miles on every major highway in the US(so that our planes can use them as emergency airstrips in time of war when all our bases are bombed out).

Find one of those, and you can pretty much top end any car around.

Around here the 10,000 foot straight is on I-95 just south of the Northern boundry of Chester county.

Whenever i'm near that section late at night i always let the Bwaaaaaah out!

Ron_H

I have a 914/6 sitting in the garage all alone and lonely because it has no engine in it; the original engine is fresh and sitting on the side, and the 2.7L hotrod engine is all apart and waiting to be built. The car needs paint and is all apart except for the harness and some instruments. The parts are here but I need a sportomatic or Boxster tiptronic because I am not supposed to drive a stick shift. So it sits.

I bought my 928 because it was an automatic. It has been a work in progress also and is getting there, but now the paint is going on it and I need to rob a bank or learn how to do it myself. No end in sight. I don't think I have ever met you unless it was a Devek or at one of our BAR drives; there was one this morning but I missed it. They are "spirited". Maybe we will see each other on one sometime.

Before anyone does the 10,000 foot straight, verify that no white lines are painted perpendicular to the roadway. Those are used for measuring distance by Smokey Bears in planes. If they are of consistently uniform distances apart, it is a safe bet that Mr. Bear is there too....unless it is cloudy and raining.

m21sniper

"Before anyone does the 10,000 foot straight, verify that no white lines are painted perpendicular to the roadway. Those are used for measuring distance by Smokey Bears in planes. If they are of consistently uniform distances apart, it is a safe bet that Mr. Bear is there too....unless it is cloudy and raining."

Yeah, the dreaded VASCAR lines.

IcemanG17

Too bad laser or radar doesn't have such a giveaway.....only signs every million miles or so that says "speed enforced by radar"
Brian

m21sniper

Fortunately in Pa the cops don't use HIPO chase cars, just your standard Police Intercepter crown vics...which are DOGS.

I'd be willing to bet money that i've unknowingly outran cops manning speed traps a few times as a result, lol.

Disclaimer: Again, all comments are for entertainment purposes only, and do not reflect any actual events, nor do i mean to encourage any poster on this or any board to willfully break the law(such as the scumridden pols in NO are doing right now).

Ron_H

Someone I know outran a bear riding a Harley in Hawaii and didn't even know it. He was in a 911 and let 'er rip up to about 135 one night on the freeway, uh.....roadway.. or what ever it is over there. Later in a Porsche club meeting that same officer gave a speech on police relations and then asked to meet Mr. X (the 911 driver). The officer said he had given chase and wasn't able to catch the 911 on his hog. The guy never knew the bear was there. They became friends but the agreement was to never do it again in the presence of the officer. Puts him in a "compromising" situation. I don't know anything about any of the actors in this drama and their names have been changed to protect their pensions.

Bill Ball

Loren:

Glad to here you find the Bilsteins a bit stiff - that's good. I need to replace the Koni mush shocks I got a couple of years ago. They have been terribly disappointing - far sloppier than the original sport shocks. Car bottoms out, boings up and down like a Cadillac. I've been fighting them long enough.

IcemanG17

"Fortunately in Pa the cops don't use HIPO chase cars, just your standard Police Intercepter crown vics...which are DOGS."

In general a 4500lb car with 250hp is going to be pretty slow.... I "might" have heard of an officer who G-tech tested a few different patrol vehicles.....the best was a 0-60 of 7.78 & 16.08 1/4 mile & thats with the lower 3.55 axle (stock is 3.27?) Top speed testing is rare...but the 3.27 ratio cars will do about 135-140mph depending on light bar...Honestly they do pretty good for a huge tank with a live axle...just have to remember to steer em with the throttle..otherwise they push like crazy! The rule they teach cops when chasing "suspects" is to drive within your limits, cops don't have to win the race...just stay close enough to radio in your position....remember this...if the CHP is chasing you....better pull over because they rarely give up and have lots of planes-helicopters too! (hint: Its not evading unless you know they are back there :>)
Brian

Nicole

You bottom out? My car doesn't even do this with the standard shocks[since the ride height adjustment]! But then again, I rarely go as fast as you during your open road races...