inkyboy911

I will sir, it's being documented thoroughly I'm so excited as I've never done anything like this!!

I am going to keep original front & rear seats and get them done in black leather with black suede centre inserts so I can have a comfort version spec if I want to change it back as the Recaro seats might just be too hard, but it gives me the option.

It's the brakes, I'm into just powder coating them but I might just get that painting kit if it's easier to keep them on whilst doing it.

C24FUN

Marc,

Did you re-do the lettering on your calipers or paint around it? I have been trying to figure out the best way to re-paint the raised PORSCHE letters on my front calipers but haven't come up with an idea that is 1) fairly easy and 2) good quality. Because they are raised cast letters on my '90 C2 the stick-ons available from places like xenon-mods won't work.

Lookin good!

Jim G.

Marc Shaw

Jim,

My 1991 calipers had flat lettering so I just painted over them and put on the decals.

I think others here who have done the same mod. but had the raised letters just used a grinder to remove the raised letters and then applied the decals.

Marc

Kahdmus

Marc S. - Did you just move the spoiler control from the center console to the lower dash? I am thinking that the 91's had the spoiler control to begin with (unlike my '89)?

Gorgeous cars BTW!

Cheers,


--Howard.

Smokin

Jim... Another thing that you could try is to lightly sand the raised lettering so that it is uniformly raised. (Make sense?) You could buy a brayer to apply paint to it after you paint your calipers. The brayer, or braying tool is a smaller, hard plastic version of a paint roller. Since it's hard plastic (or hard rubber) you could apply paint except to the very top, flat surface of the lettering on the caliper.

When I was a kid my Mom would make her own X-Mas cards by using a woodcut block. She would cut the reverse design in the block... Use the tool to apply the paint, then press the block on paper to transfer the design. It's basically the same principle.

Kahdmus

Well, not really all mods per se, but also upgrades/fixes I did last year:

Brake pads/sensors
Replacement Bumperettes
Clear side lenses
Replaced all black center console inserts
Shift boot recovered (say less about this the better)
New hand brake and sensor
DME relay
New coils
Glove box ****/lock (whopping $116)
Silver bonnet badge
Rocker sill rubber replaced
Aero mirrors
Cup II wheels
H&R springs
Bilstein shocks
4 New S02A Tires
Door handle gaskets/seals
Amber turn bulbs
Trunk and engine lid interior bulbs
Drilled Air box and replaced filter
Replaced Distributor caps and rotors
All window switches replaced
Steering wheel badge replaced
Front grill replaced
New left and right front undertray pieces
New rear undertray (not yet arrived)
Wiper arms
Wiper blades
Misc. filters, oil, transmission etc.
New rear view mirror
Replaced ruibber seals for rear light housings
Replaced Engine Shroud
New trunk carpet
Optima red top battery
Spare wheel hold down clamp
New front seat belts (still in box)
New door sensors and rubber boots
Replacement CCU (used but STILL $300)
New interior door handles
Replaced Sunroof seals front and back
1 Coffee cup holder (Rennlist group buy)
Replacement key handle (old one was scratched to hell)
Duel horns replaced
Seat handles and clips replaced
Painted taillight and rear side lenses

I still have a long way to go. In fact to get my car looking as gorgeous as some of the ones above is going to take a long, long time! Still...I'm young!

hawk911

Howard, what size wheels and tires are you running, and do you have spacers on there?

Kahdmus

Hawk, 17" cup II's, no spacers.

hawk911

What size tires? they seem to fill the arches quite nicely.

Kahdmus

Sorry Hawk, I can't remember what size they were...they are Bridgestone SO2 N4's. I'll post if I can pull out a reciept or something!

kgorman

Kahdmus,

Really nice ride. Just a beaut!

Kahdmus

Thanks man!

We need to get that C4 of yours out to play on hwy 35 one of these days! You taken it along those backroad twisties yet? Tom W originally got me hooked on that drive - 92 onto 35 thru Big Basin redwoods to Santa Cruz and then back along the coast on HWY 1.

kgorman

I have done that drive. Not in the C4, but in the S4 coming back from Laguna Seca. It was the moment I knew I had to get a p-car. My S4 was broken (again) from the track (long story). But the cool part was we started following two black 993 C4S's coming back up HWY 1. We could hear that flat six over my v8. It was just stunning. They were ripping through the corners. Of course on that kind of straight hwy they could not drop the S4, but it didn't matter. The romance of owning a pcar had set in. < me pops out of my glossy stare >.

Yeah! anyways, I am up for a drive. Is there any club GTG's or things by there? I would love to go. I think I might cut the day short tomorrow and do just that drive now that you mention it. Good op for some photos.

Marc Shaw

Hi Howard,

No, the switch to control up/down is still in the lower centre console.

This switch allows me to bypass the speed sensor input into the spoiler contorl unit so the spoiler does not go up/down based on car speed. Like Garrett, I found it a pest to have the spoiler going up and down at the track so this allows me to keep the spoiler either up or down where I want it.

Marc
p.s. Very nice looking car - you've certainly done lots of work on it!