Well, we took the P-car out Saturday when my scheduled photo shoot bailed on me. We took my daughter for her first top-down ride, about 30 miles away for breakfast. She loved it

she fell asleep on the way back home, which was cool too. The motor/g-pipe doesn't bother her at all

Any of you make memories over the weekend?

 

I drove her hard in the rain on Saturday and put her away wet. It was fun!

Also installed this gauge face:

 

We got to do eight runs autocrossing yesterday.

Doc

 

office worked days, both, this weekend.
Took car out nights, both, for drives, after lawn chores.
(Just to keep seals whetted.)

 

My first Time Trials with the incredibly friendly Maverick Region.

What a great group to be around. Makes it worth the 260 mile drive/trailer from San Antonio.

HOWEVER, unfortunately I had the same results as in an my first AutoX with them back in the Spring: Valve train noise and obvious damage after only the first series of laps! Man I need to hire a better mechanic.

Since there was oil leakage first, then noise some significant time later, I've theorized that one of the rocker shafts backed out of the cam housing, even though I installed all new shafts and through bolts and carefully torqued them to spec. during my Spring repairs. I did not need another experience like this. The Spring AutoX event wound up being about $250 / minute counting gas there and back, trailer rental, repair parts, etc. I'm really not in that income bracket! I'm thinking that amount of money could buy a real fun time - that doesn't involve cars - in Las Vegas.

The Spring AutoX breakage turned out to be a mysterious piece of metal that looked like 1/2 of a valve keeper set that had worked its way down between the intake valve and seat on #2. Must have been dropped into an intake and left there by the previous mechanic beacuse I accounted for all of my parts during last year's repairs. Surprisingly, no real damage, but I used the engine-out experience as an excuse to replace rod bearings, wrist pins, rocker shafts / through bolts and valve springs. Most everything else had already been done last year.

Even considering the continued "bad luck", I am HOOKED on the Time Trial format. Much longer course, faster speeds and multiple laps all result in more fun than those patking lot AutoX's. If I could just get an entire event in, maybe some day I could move up to a DE!

It will take a few days to get my spirits up enough to take a look inside the cam housings.

 

Went for a run with 20 other Porsches (including a Carrera GT) and an F430 through the mountains.

 

PCA Timeline event (my car was 1 of 2 964's on display) coupled with Oktoberfest in the local mountains. I posted a pic in the Random 964 Picture Thread

 

More track time for me. I spent Saturday at the track.
The more I do it the more I like it.
Just not sure I want to keep doing it with this car. I am getting faster.... Guess that's why it gets more addicting.
Decisions decisions...

Bill

 

Sounds familiar.