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Got the new wheels/tires mounted. She is a dusty. dirty beast but you get the idea. The wheel color is amazing, pictures don't do it justice. Offset is perfect, a little more aggressive than stock, can't wait to take it for a spin!! Hopefully some better pics after a bath. Thanks again David @ Wheels Boutique!
Truly my pleasure helping you acquire them. I've already saved these photos. Please email me any cool new ones that you take so I can keep adding to the folder!
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I believe I will set - if I haven't already - the WORLD RECORD for the most expensive color change on my instrument cluster.
Here is how it went down:
- Investigated buying yellow gauge faces and having them swapped out. I believe the total is about $900 and the tach does not read "turbo S", plus labor.
- Found a full instrument panel on electronic bay (ebay) with yellow gauges out of a wrecked car. $1,400 with shipping. I thought "not bad'; OEM, factory turbo S on the tach".
- So, I bought it.
- Went to Porsche dealer to have them swap out the instrument cluster from my unit (black gauges) to the new one and have the chrono swapped from Black to Yelllow). Well, doesn't work this way. The odometer is in the cluster and key programming is tied to it, etc.
- I will likely get a bill for $1K for labor for the swap of black to yellow gauges.
So, guessing $2,400+ all in for the cluster alone.
They say "costs money to go to school". Well I went to school.
Anyone top a bonehead move like this?
TK
Last edited by 991TurboTim; 09-14-2021 at 07:41 PM.
First 'sports' car I ever owned was an 81 VW Desert Wind... LOVED IT!
How much of a project car...?
It’s not a hunk of junk. Interior and exterior in good condition. Recent(-ish) repaint. Stopped using it when the clutch cable linkage inside the transaxle broke - about 10 years ago - with the intention of “getting to it” at some point. Too many other personal Porsche and Porsche client projects between me and it now. Also, my standards have changed to the point where I couldn’t touch it without starting down the slippery slope of a full functional restoration.
It’s been stored in my climate controlled garage/shop; never outside. Looking for a Scirocco fanatic…
I believe I will set - if I haven't already - the WORLD RECORD for the most expensive color change on my instrument cluster.
Here is how it went down:
- Investigated buying yellow gauge faces and having them swapped out. I believe the total is about $900 and the tach does not read "turbo S", plus labor.
- Found a full instrument panel on electronic bay (ebay) with yellow gauges out of a wrecked car. $1,400 with shipping. I thought "not bad'; OEM, factory turbo S on the tach".
- So, I bought it.
- Went to Porsche dealer to have them swap out the instrument cluster from my unit (black gauges) to the new one and have the chrono swapped from Black to Yelllow). Well, doesn't work this way. The odometer is in the cluster and key programming is tied to it, etc.
- I will likely get a bill for $1K for labor for the swap of black to yellow gauges.
So, guessing $2,400+ all in for the cluster alone.
They say "costs money to go to school". Well I went to school.
Anyone top a bonehead move like this?
TK
I'm not that vain, but it does sound like a pain...
It’s not a hunk of junk. Interior and exterior in good condition. Recent(-ish) repaint. Stopped using it when the clutch cable linkage inside the transaxle broke - about 10 years ago - with the intention of “getting to it” at some point. Too many other personal Porsche and Porsche client projects between me and it now. Also, my standards have changed to the point where I couldn’t touch it without starting down the slippery slope of a full functional restoration.
It’s been stored in my climate controlled garage/shop; never outside. Looking for a Scirocco fanatic…
I believe I will set - if I haven't already - the WORLD RECORD for the most expensive color change on my instrument cluster.
Here is how it went down:
- Investigated buying yellow gauge faces and having them swapped out. I believe the total is about $900 and the tach does not read "turbo S", plus labor.
- Found a full instrument panel on electronic bay (ebay) with yellow gauges out of a wrecked car. $1,400 with shipping. I thought "not bad'; OEM, factory turbo S on the tach".
- So, I bought it.
- Went to Porsche dealer to have them swap out the instrument cluster from my unit (black gauges) to the new one and have the chrono swapped from Black to Yelllow). Well, doesn't work this way. The odometer is in the cluster and key programming is tied to it, etc.
- I will likely get a bill for $1K for labor for the swap of black to yellow gauges.
So, guessing $2,400+ all in for the cluster alone.
They say "costs money to go to school". Well I went to school.
09-13-2021, 03:42 PM
