highboy

Looking for some recommendations on a good Porsche shop to perform a PPI on '93 964 C4. The car is located in southeast Portland. I'm also curious if there might be any RennListers out there that could give me the once over on the car...and provide me with some general thots and opinions?

The car is listed as a daily driver with a salvage title...the price makes it interesting as either a donor car or a daily winter beater. Just curious to see if this is a decent car OR a bust.

Thanks
Tom

Laker

Hi Tom,
You are very lucky indeed that the U.S. guru, Steve Weiner is in Portland.
http://www.rennsportsystems.com/

No affiliation.

Good luck

Shamus964

Yep - this is a good area to be in!

I've had good experiences (for that kind of work) at the following:

http://www.stuttgartautotech.com/ and http://www.marquemotors.com/ although I'll mention, be sure that you get a leakdown test regardless of where you go.

Of course Jeff and Steve are excellent at http://www.rothsport.com/ and http://www.rennsportsystems.com/ although my experiences have been in doing performance upgrades not PPI's.

I've never used http://www.heckmannthiemann.com/ but have heard they're good also.

I'm not in the PDX area but there are others on here that are so someone may PM you on that - there is a pacific nw forum on 'that other' porsche centric forum that's fairly well traveled so you might want to check in there.

Shamus964

Almost forgot - I would encourage you to have a reputable body shop eval the repairs to the car - I don't have anybody in that area although Chris at Canyon Auto Rebody is awesome, but he's in Mehema.

highboy

Thank you. I will try to contact a couple of the mentioned tomorrow to see what I can get setup. As for a body shop to look over the repair work...good idea. Shamus964...nice looking C2!

Shamus964

Thanks highboy - just sent you a follow-up PM

KaiB

Yep, I've seen Shamus' car in the flesh...she's even more gorgeous live!

tbennett017

I am in PDX, and happy to discuss your options. Are you new to 911s? (edit: Duh, look at your profile... I guess you know a few t'ings...)

I have an OBD tool that we can hook up to the car to assess any major CELs or other issues.

Marque does honest work, and Stuttgart might be even better.

Rennsport and Rothsport are great at performance upgrades and in-depth development. They'll refer you out for a PPI, they don't focus on road cars that much. Steve W. is perhaps the most helpful person I know, but its best if you can ask him focused questions.

Redcoat

Plus 1 for Stuttgart.

Did an outstanding job for me long distance.

Shamus964

Thanks Kai! I'm still bummed out that I couldn't check your car out in person before it was gone - ah well, it'll be back for that displacement increase right? We'll have to hook up and sample the local barley malt based derivatives when next you're in Oregon.

C-M2

Highboy, I may be interested in the same car. Did you happen to do a ppi on it?

ace17

did anybody ever get a PPI done on this car? I bought out right and was wondering if anybody ever did? the car is awesome by the way... Only issue is the airbag light. Not real concerned about it considering the car is 19 yrs old and I really dont want 19 yr technology blowing up in my face. Will soon replace the wheel with a Momo any way. The car is strong as ever at pulls fast at 120! For 15k i believe it was a steal?

tbennett017

Ace, let me know if you want to try and re-set that light. I have the OBD1 tool to achieve that in Portland.

Don't forget, when you go to an aftermarket wheel, you'll want the wiring plug that turns off the airbag system.

928.612.220.00