Nice looking example Jerry, dusty but nice.

 

Looks good, congrats!

 

Thanks Tom. I have the driver's door fixed, but waiting for some white panel clips to put it back together. Then I'll refresh the passenger door panel before starting on the interior clean up. I have the shifter out and will be making a new boot for it with one of my new GTS shape *****. I still have a little tooling to develop for the shifter **** leather covering process.

 

Nice "L908 YZ Manual S4"

L908: Grand-Prix white
YZ: Burgundy partial leather interior.

Once cleaned, I think that you will like the combination of the two colors.
It took me a moment

 

Nice car Jerry I would suggest to contact Rob Budd and have him make you a Alcantra pod cover its pretty easy to install with some weldwood cement and I think he has a match for the Bgundy or go with black.

For the door I would lubricate the window pivots and the lock latch mechanisms.
this make the windows operate faster, and the door handle will require less force to open,
this translates to less force used on the latch.

NOTE The door panel has 2 screws installed along the bottom edge at the rear edge, this is factory.
Use a pick to find the holes after you have fitted the panels.

I like to use clear shower curtain and Weldwood cement to make new vapor barriers and water drip panels. The door will sound like a drum when its closed with fresh vapor barriers

I have found some panels with an additional screw that sits at the rear edge of the panel and is covered by the arm rest

 

Thanks Stan. All excellent ideas, especially about Rob Budd, particularly since he is FBA Certified. However, I found a thread by some amature about how he and his buddy Doug covered a 928 pod with leather. I may follow that thread in redoing this pod.

Interesting about the screws in the bottom of the door panels. Now that I think back it occurs to me that the ones I have found in the past have always been in about the same locations. Using screws in the door panels is so tacky that I had never thought to give the Porsche Factory credit for them. Perhaps they were an afterthought, and perhaps done by the dealers based on some kind of service bulletin.

 

Nice buy. Looks to be quite solid...

 

I think the 2 screws is standard - it is a bit tacky, but you really can't normally see them..

Alan

 

All door cards have those two screws. If they aren't there then they were removed somewhere along the way.

Just typical belt and suspenders thinking by Porsche.

 

I suppose so; and this one also has the one hidden under the aft end of the armrest.

 

Great addition Jerry. My track car was a '89 five speed, pre-GT as well. I actually liked it better for the track than a friends GT, as the slightly lower numerical rear axle ratio gave a higher speed in 4th gear. The GT owner had to change to 5th, an on the uphill areas of the track(s) we were driving, there was no acceleration in 5th gear for the GT.

Also, I think I remember there were fewer manual trans '89 S4's than there were '89 GT's, so they are quite rare.

Cheers,

Gary

 

Jerry,
Congrats on the new car. We need to put a Colorado "meet in the middle" weekend this year. It would be good to see you.
Ralph

 

Hi Gary. Thanks for posting. I think that based on the percentage of non GT 89 S4s in the Registry that are 5-speeds (about 23 percent) there are probably just less than 250 89 S4 5-speeds in North America. In some sense that is probably rare, but not so much in the 928 sense.

 

Hi Ralph. Good to hear from you. I hope you are doing well. That is a good idea. I will be interested in hearing what you might have in mind. I have a little thought about it - - something like a drive to Vail, dinner and hotel for the night, then a tour back to the top of Vail Pass, then over Shrine pass with a view of the Mount of the Holy Cross (have you ever seen it?) then down to Red Cliff, then maybe over Tennessee Pass to Leadville for a tour of the Healy House and maybe an old mine, then maybe down to Buena Vista and 285 back to your area, and me or us from over here back thru Minturn and I-70 home.

Or, something less could be done in one day, a Saturday - - meet at VAil Pass, then over Shrine Pass to see the mountain, then Red Cliff and, battle mountain to Minturn and Vail for lunch and then home.

 

I wonder when this addiction will taper off. I recently got back from SoCal where I finally picked up an 85 that has pretty much been stripped out, but which was given to me mainly for the torque tube that I was still in need of for the 5-speed conversion in the Radical Custom. It's still in the trailer; but now I have to unload it so I can go to Denver and pick up the Bamboo Beige 82 I just bought.