Originally Posted by BlauerStahl

I took her out to a couple of events over the weekend. First was the RADwood show then the monthly meetup for Cars und Kaffee with Der Faszination. The black one is for sale at Gaudin Porsche in Las Vegas. It only has 11,500 miles. It's a 5-speed, with sunroof, original everything and I think it is an '81 or '82. They want a pretty penny for it but dang it's nice. Looks like a showroom time machine dropped it here in 2019

Originally Posted by 928 GT R

I have seen some wildly prepared engine compartments, but this is over the top! How on earth did you do that? Please start a thread showing the process. Please! dd





Well I didn't take pics of the process....but basically it goes like the rest of the intake refresh threads with a few changes:





I sent the intakes to mirrorfinishpolishing.com (no affilliation)...it was a lot of labor on their part...the polishing goes all the way down to the bottom of the intake and even the undersides of the plenums are polished like the top.





Of course the "mini projects" got to happen (let's see...one of the cooling fans was nearly frozen..I'd seen evidence of overheating on the electrical connections and again when I refreshed them...so the fan assembly got to come out....I had to replace the fan grilles with ones that had some of the "fins" removed so I'd get another 20% more airflow....added the supplementary wire for Greg's alternator (twice)...rule here..put it on the alternator FIRST....then gently pass it through where the other electrical comes back...and zip tie it to the others as you come around to the starter....I put Greg's wire underneath the standard one on the starter since the connectors were copacetic with that arrangement.





Also, I used the upgraded intake gaskets...metal with the rubber O'rings..cause I decided I'm only going there once...bought a small torque wrench that would go to 25Pound max so I could torque the intake bolts that I could reach...





Roger of course provided the special hoses and along with Greg was my cheering section.





Greg kindly planed the intakes when they came back from the polisher...they were beautifully done and Greg thank you again for taking your life in your hands and grinding down on some magnesium





Greg's baffle requires the water bridge to come out. With the headers now on I could reach the drivers' side block plug and a ton more coolant comes out..filling it back up it took pretty much what the specs read...which is what I went by when purchasing the coolant. (standard manifolds made getting at that one basically tough enough that I gave up with the fear I'd wind up screwing up the head of the bolt)





When I did the water bridge I took two weeks to get all the bolts out...I didn't break any of them...but a daily WHAM, WHAM WHAM! with a hammer fitted into the hex head..plus a daily wet with P Blaster...then as others said...rock back and forth...a little more each time.... Got all new bolts from Roger and treated those and all bolts with anti seize ...I also added a coating at the top of the water bridge bolts of red loctite...it stays flexible...and I did it because the second I broke the first bolt loose...even though I had drained the radiator...wet came out...everything went back together with torque wrench I got ...it's a cool one..maxes out at 25 ft pounds (measured on the wrench as inch pounds) in 1LB increments... nifty right?






great buy at Harbor Fright.



I decided all new coolant was in order since it'd been a few years...so new thermo/seal/rear seal and Pentofrost NF coolant....





Water bridge...got some light sandpaper and took care of the water inlets..they had corrosion and gunk on them like others our age...inside it looked like a brand new part so that was good to see.





I used drei bond slightly on the inside of the most deteriorated coolant hoses to give them a little extra, but I've never had difficulties with any of the hoses leaking coolant...and it went back together the same.





All told it was off the road for almost 5 months...I was sure the lifters would clatter like a diesel when it was started but they were completely quiet...not sure if this is why but I've treated the car with Motor Silk (no affiliation) and it really made the oil disgusting in less than 1,000 miles...but upper end power came back so I'm assuming maybe the lifters sealed better cause the gunk was out of them?





Used drei bond on the fuel connections and so far no leaks or anything....





Was a really long slog for me...the polishing took about 2 months, plus the planing etc....but it went back together nicely.





The "stripper stockings" (tee hee) are available from a company called Thermo Tec (do I really have to say "no affiliation" every time?) and reflect radiant heat and can keep the air tubes 30% cooler..made a huge difference...in the S3 the airbox temp sensor will de-tune the engine if temp goes over I think 107 degrees or something....which is pretty easy with the stock manifolds in place and stop and go traffic...





I think thats most of it...sorry I didn't do more documenting and picture taking...I had a couple then my phone crapped the bed and I had to do a factory reset..I did have a great "nightmare" pic..the one with the intakes out and hoses and dirt and everything EVERYWHRE....the one that makes you just want to run away...I had that one ...



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Originally Posted by drooman

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