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It's been a while since I update this thread so felt like giving it a wrap-up.
It's been a little over a year since the car was delivered on a flat bed (not it's last flat bed ride as it turned out). Long story short after a year of working to get it back on the road it finally started this past May.
Now that it ran, and after about 10 drives and one trip to Colin to fix the AC, motor mounts, and some other items, I decided to take it on 5,000 mile road trip from Seattle to Pittsburgh (for PVGP) and back.
Picking the car up from Colin's with the boy.
The road trip was perhaps too ambitious in a car that hadn't ran in 10 years and I only a few hundred miles on before setting off. I got as far as the border of Montana and the alternator failed due oil ingestion from an oil pan fastener leak. After a 3 day strand in Missoula I had to turn around and head back to Seattle.
Second flat bed trip in a year. My rental van on the left.
After getting back to Seattle with a new-to-me alternator (thanks Dave Cooley and Ed Rice!) I drove the car up to Colin who fixed the leak.
More TLC from Colin and crew
With the oil leak fixed the car has been trouble free. In fact it drives incredible and had it not been for the oil leak I have no doubt it would have made the cross country trip.
Date night with the wife who suggested we take it out for dinner 3 days after returning back from the alternator failure and before Colin fixed the leak. She had more confidence in it than me!
Just 2 weeks ago the wife and I went to a friends wedding in Whistler BC. We took the 928 and it didn't skip a beat.
Somewhere beneath the smoke north of Whistler
For the past couple of weeks I have been enjoying the car as my daily commuter. This winter I will do the TB/WP and some other odds and ends.
As far as a cost summary, I bought the car at auction for ~$4500. I spent ~$4800 in parts I installed myself and ~$5800 in parts and labor to professionals. Total invested in a little over a year ~ $15,100. This is seems to be par for the 928 course. At least those of us playing on the sight unseen non-running tracks. I expect a significant reduction in MX costs this next year. Fingers crossed.
Nice journey recap Nate. Took me about a year and a half on old blacky (84) to get caught up on everything, important. Now, it's turn the key and go. Granted, it could use some interior work...but old red (78) and a different type of project, Land Rover Discovery trail rig build, has sucked up any funds for that. But, that's fine...it's just a driver...so all is good.
It's been a while since I update this thread so felt like giving it a wrap-up.
It's been a little over a year since the car was delivered on a flat bed (not it's last flat bed ride as it turned out). Long story short after a year of working to get it back on the road it finally started this past May.
Now that it ran, and after about 10 drives and one trip to Colin to fix the AC, motor mounts, and some other items, I decided to take it on 5,000 mile road trip from Seattle to Pittsburgh (for PVGP) and back.
Picking the car up from Colin's with the boy.
The road trip was perhaps too ambitious in a car that hadn't ran in 10 years and I only a few hundred miles on before setting off. I got as far as the border of Montana and the alternator failed due oil ingestion from an oil pan fastener leak. After a 3 day strand in Missoula I had to turn around and head back to Seattle.
Second flat bed trip in a year. My rental van on the left.
After getting back to Seattle with a new-to-me alternator (thanks Dave Cooley and Ed Rice!) I drove the car up to Colin who fixed the leak.
More TLC from Colin and crew
With the oil leak fixed the car has been trouble free. In fact it drives incredible and had it not been for the oil leak I have no doubt it would have made the cross country trip.
Date night with the wife who suggested we take it out for dinner 3 days after returning back from the alternator failure and before Colin fixed the leak. She had more confidence in it than me!
Just 2 weeks ago the wife and I went to a friends wedding in Whistler BC. We took the 928 and it didn't skip a beat.
Somewhere beneath the smoke north of Whistler
For the past couple of weeks I have been enjoying the car as my daily commuter. This winter I will do the TB/WP and some other odds and ends.
As far as a cost summary, I bought the car at auction for ~$4500. I spent ~$4800 in parts I installed myself and ~$5800 in parts and labor to professionals. Total invested in a little over a year ~ $15,100. This is seems to be par for the 928 course. At least those of us playing on the sight unseen non-running tracks. I expect a significant reduction in MX costs this next year. Fingers crossed.
Congrats! Nate. I really enjoy this thread. I am curious as to the 5800 spent on parts and labor to professionals. You seem to do so much of the work yourself. What did you pass on to pros and what was the biggest chunk of change ?
Congrats! Nate. I really enjoy this thread. I am curious as to the 5800 spent on parts and labor to professionals. You seem to do so much of the work yourself. What did you pass on to pros and what was the biggest chunk of change ?
Thanks Guy! Yeah I would have preferred to keep that cost to $0 but because I was trying to make PVGP this year I knew I wouldn't have the time to do it myself. Also there were a couple things I couldn't do myself (at least not well). These included A/C, front end alignment and front bumper cover painting.
Colin has a really good paint guy who I wanted to repair and paint the front bumper cover. Well since he was doing that and would have the cover off I had Colin replace the front bumper shocks and front spoiler. I also had the motor mounts replaced, oil pan resealed, RR LCA replaced, both rear wheel bearings, brake pad install on all 4 corners, rear CV rebuilt, sunroof fixed, speedo swap, antenna replaced, cruise control fixed, diff and tranny fluid changed, and a handful of other smaller stuff.
The biggest chunks were the A/C fix,MM replacement, and bumper repaint in that order.
Of course your wife has more confidence in it than you do.
#1 - She wasn't in Montana with you when it quit, right?
#2 - Isn't she the one who actually started it the first time? She was in the car turning the key, while you stood outside, right? Stuff like that tends to build confidence. If it had conked out on you, I'm pretty sure she was certain that her "magic touch" would have gotten you rolling again.
Nice journey recap Nate. Took me about a year and a half on old blacky (84) to get caught up on everything, important. Now, it's turn the key and go. Granted, it could use some interior work...but old red (78) and a different type of project, Land Rover Discovery trail rig build, has sucked up any funds for that. But, that's fine...it's just a driver...so all is good.
Keep up the good work, enjoyed following along.
Brian.
Originally Posted by elgy
Congratulations on a happy ending, well done!
Originally Posted by Socal_Tom
Fantastic, and thanks for the update!
Thanks guys. It's been a fun journey. Even more fun to be driving it now.
Of course your wife has more confidence in it than you do.
#1 - She wasn't in Montana with you when it quit, right?
#2 - Isn't she the one who actually started it the first time? She was in the car turning the key, while you stood outside, right? Stuff like that tends to build confidence. If it had conked out on you, I'm pretty sure she was certain that her "magic touch" would have gotten you rolling again.
Seriously, thanks for the update and the pics.
Haha! Great points and very true. I think I might just have to have her do my TB/WP work this winter.
08-20-2017, 04:29 PM
