Start from scratch on engines
10-21-2010 | 06:27 PM
#17
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Joined: Feb 2004
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From: Roseville, CA
Unfortunately, when I worked on my '75 S, I relied on my experience and the advice I could gain from the shop I frequented, and didn't get any "book learnin". That resulted in getting to do the rebuild twice when the head studs began to pull out of the soft magnesium 2.7 case after about 5k miles. The shop owner just said "Oh, you didn't install thread inserts?!!", like I was supposed to know that. They didn't intentionally not tell me about this, I just hadn't asked the questions that would have resulted in them telling me this little detail. Afterwards I became aware of Bruce Anderson's book and was a little more enlightened.
I can't say how lucky I was to have cliff dived into this at 18, with some of the first guys I met at the Porsche track events being Bruce, Jerry Woods, Jim Pasha, Terry Zaccone, Walt Maas, Rich Bontempi, Jim from EASY, and non-Porsche guys like Doug Peterson (Comptech, before their IMSA/CART days). And a couple of years later, Pete Zimmerman and Walt his machinist at Redline (who now owns Competition Engineering). Never formally schooled in these things, but they aren't impossible to figure out.
10-21-2010 | 06:35 PM
#18
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Joined: Jul 2005
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From: Livermore, CA
If you are serious about it, Jerry Woods and Bruce Anderson offer (at least used to a couple of years ago) a class on rebuilding an air cooled Porsche engine. Also an additional few days on Transmissions.
I took the class, and it was very good. You still need the advice of books, and listers to complete the job, because there is always an issue or two that need explaining.
The books that I've found, by Wayne at Pelican, and others on rebuilding, don't cover the specifics of the 3.6 motor however, and therefore there are some great posts in here about the process.
I took the class, and it was very good. You still need the advice of books, and listers to complete the job, because there is always an issue or two that need explaining.
The books that I've found, by Wayne at Pelican, and others on rebuilding, don't cover the specifics of the 3.6 motor however, and therefore there are some great posts in here about the process.
