Avar928

Congratulations and Happy New Year.

Let her drive it for a bit. Pretty sure she won't be bored.

Dutch 928 fan

Congratulations! 2x! What a great way to start 2014. Glad you made it in time and thanks for posting the before and after pictures. All we need is wedding pictures now!

AO

If she's bored, tell her to give you some road head! You can thank me later...

syoo8

Driving to Las Vegas, stopped by the filming locations of 'Breaking Bad' before spending the night at the Grand Canyon.

An 'old style' gas station on Route 66



Walter White's car wash



Walter White's house. The owner ran out and yelled at us for disturbing her.



We ate lunch at Los Pollos Hermanos.



And stopped by the commercial laundry meth lab front before heading towards the Grand Canyon

syoo8

Alice and I just arrived in Vegas last night. The drive is over.

Driving impressions:

1) Boy, the wind noise is very noticeable in both of my 928s. I hear the rubber door gaskets are really, really inexpensive!

2) The temperature needle on the '86.5 has been parked on the second (upper) white line the entire trip. I brought an to check the hose temperatures while refueling. The upper large radiator hose (the one that comes out of the water bridge) always read between 177-180 degrees. The coolant temperature sender was harder to read but I was getting 135-140 there.

3) That damn cruise control worked all day yesterday. Not at all the day before.

4) My headlights had a hard time popping up. Something was stuck there, so when I gave the manual headlight lifter **** (at the very front of the engine bay, covered by a rubber boot) a little nudge, the headlights would pop up. I think it is because I put a new alternator cooling hose in, and for some reason, something is catching. I need to take a look at that after the wedding.

5) The uncapped exhaust holes in both manifolds is annoying me as well.

6) I just bought a new shift boot (from Bob Budd) and frame (from Roger.) The frame snaps into a plastic square perimeter between the center console and the transmission tunnel. When shifting, the shift boot frame seems to want to come off its mount.

Question: is it possible that my worn motor mounts have lowered the shift lever to the point that it has altered the geometry of the shift boot?

westija

In regards to your shift boot have a look at the rear coupler bushing once you return. Very easy once the car is up. My boot was also popping out constantly, then one day the shifter was so wobbly and I decided to replace the bushings of the (rear) coupler. What a difference! I haven't done the front one yet but it is on my to-do list.
Good work and enjoy your trip

Avar928

Temperature is about normal. I get 180F on mine and my sender will sometimes peg at just under the upper white line, will go down to the middle, will go to just over the first while line...it doesn't know what it wants to do. Depends on the drive. She doesn't generally go over but I'll going to do my due diligence and sort out electrical.

My fan clutch may need its silicone refilled.

+ EDIT

Scott,

Check this out. Post #37 by Merlin:

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...rip-out-3.html

syoo8

Hi Avar,

The fan clutch is only 2 years old- it was bad and needed to be changed. I've driven the car over 1500 miles since the TB/WP/intake refresh, and it has behaved exactly the same way every time- parking itself at the upper white line.

Is there an adjustment pot for the temperature gauge in the instrument cluster? Is it possible that perhaps the temperature sender's two electrical leads being "clean" for the first time in 10 years... perhaps someone "calibrated" the sender before, and now it is off? Or perhaps I destroyed the temperature sender when I used Evapo Rust on it?

Avar928

I don't believe there's an adjustment for the temperature gauge or calibration as it reads off that two-pronged sender. If it's original I'd probably change it. If it's parking at the upper white line all the time and not even moving, and the car is running at normal operating temps, it must be the reading.

syoo8

It starts off at the bottom (off-scale low) reading, but quite quickly rises to the first white line, then to the second (higher) white line. I think it must be the temperature gauge. I'll change it.

Hilton

The wind noise is from the windscreen edges - the GTS fixed it with the rubber strips which fill those huge gaps at either end of the winscreen, and can be retrofitted to earlier cars at much expense. I think Roger or someone posted before about silicone equivalents which can be pushed in and will stay there to reduce the noise.

If the exhaust holes are where the emissions test pipes came up to either side of the airbox, they can be closed using a pair of old lug nuts - just screw them on and be done. You can probably get 928intl to ship a couple to your hotel and fit them before driving back (just run one side of the car up onto a kerb and slide under with a 19mm wrench).

PorKen

S3 headers have an internal thread. (I don't recall what size.)


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syoo8

Correct. I showed the threads to a couple of hardware stores and they didn't have anything in stock. There is a 911 part that fits, but I looked it up and it is something like $40- a piece. I'm going to keep on looking.

I know some people have put a lug nut on that approximately fits, then used JBWeld. I may end up doing that, although I don't like solutions like that too much.

heliflyer

Ref number 4 - Check the C clips carefully on the linkage from the electric motor - if the arm comes loose it can puncture the radiator.

Hilton

Ahh ok, I didn't know that. S4 is easy, M14 lug nut just screws on both sides. I've been using up the crappy ebay lug nuts with the wrong taper as I come across cars which need them