moots

Hi
I am about to move from Los Angeles to NYC. When I moved NYC to LA I drove cross country in my old 911sc I like the symmetry of driving back to NYC in my 993.
It's a long trip, I just had a full tune up plugs wires, new battery etc I have never had a problem with the car but want to be prepared in case. Any advice? Things to take? Routes? What to look out for? And finally places to keep my car around NYC (I am going to be living in 89th st, in case Mr Seinfeld is reading &#128521

Thanks
Anthony

msw

radar/laser detector w laser shifter

Quadcammer

meh, i did it in my then new to me 993TT. I found the drive boring since I did it 5 days with only a few fun stops (vegas and dallas).

I went LA to vegas in day 1, vegas to middle of nowhere texas hill country in day 2 (snowed in albequerque), MNTHC to dallas in day 3, dallas to knoxville, TN in day 4, and knoxville to NJ on day 5.

Car used maybe half a quart of oil and experienced no mechanical breakdowns. The route was generally pretty smooth and i hit almost no traffic. Minimal police coverage, but I didn't go all that fast.

In terms of advice, try to find decent porsche shops/dealers along the way in case of an issue, bring a spare DME and remote battery. I like the southern route better, but at this time of year, the northern route may be prettier (till you get to illinois/ohio/pa, etc).

make sure your spare tire compressor works also.

JPP

... and bring a can of 'fix a flat' .. you're gonna be 'out in the middle of nowhere without a signal' at some points for sure .. better to be safe than sorry when you find out your 15 year old collapsable spare won't un-collapse for you .. heh ...

levtron

belts and 12 point tool to change them...

g_murray

+1 on making sure your spare works. EVEN if it works, you may not be able to change it! Reason? The scissors jack is NOT ideal. I had a flat myself, a while back, on the Long Island Expressway, and the heat of the morning softened the blacktop SO much that the base of the jack was resting on 'mush'. I was 'forced' to call AAA and have a guy come with a Sears hydraulic jack so we could change it.

A fellow R-ler recommended you stash a couple of 8X8" pieces of wood - to act as a 'base' for the jack. Awesome advice, IMHO.

+1 on the spare DME relay and battery remote.

If you haven't already I would *seriously* put a colgan bra on the front. The 'nose' of your car is going to take a beating on this trip and it would be sad to have to get a front re-spray all because you wanted to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime W-->E drive.

One day (bucket list) I am going to do this trip - or 'do' route 66.

Have fun and be safe!

Gerry

kjr914

I've done the same and it is NOT the way to do it. Newport Beach, CA to NC in 4 days...sucked. To make it much worse, i was on I-40 for 3 days from Flagstaff AZ to Greensboro, NC. Worst way to do it.... I've also driven across TX on I10 and that sucks big time as well....to be avoided unless you really have to get to New Orleans on the way from LA.

I did 2 weeks on the way out to CA and had a blast, saw lots of the Oregon Trail, some old frontier era forts in Wyoming, Rocky Mountain National Park. I hit Memphis on the way back as the sole bit of fun in my 4 day drive....nothing better than blues in the park just off Beale St. Things I'd hit on my way if I did it again, no particular order or driving route: Memphis (Beale st at night and Graceland for the cheesey factor), Lynchburg TN (for reasons that should be obvious), Glacier National Park, New Orleans, Death Valley.... Oh, and I'd love to do a few PCA driving events (tours/AX/DE/TT) in random places along the way, so bring the helmet!

Take your GPS and make time to hit random roads, things that just look fun (local festivals), and stop and visit old friends you might not have seen in 20 years. Enjoy!

e9stibi

Should be a fun trip. I remember a similar posting where the forum developed a nice list. You might find it via search. Instead of fix-a-flat, get plug set. And do not speed in Arizona. When I made the trip from Palo Alto to Houston, I had a longer unplanned break over there.

JPP

The Dakota's are awesome .. :-P

Peqoud

+1 on the Dakotas. Take the northern route. 90 I believe. It goes through the Badlands in South Dakota. One of the most beautiful drives I've ever done.

Dryfly57

If you take I-40 reach out to me. I'm in Albuquerque. I'd take the Northern route or ship the dam thing and save the milage for the Bear Mountain run w/the NY boys.

jakfrost

Hmmm...I picked up my 95 in Costa Mesa last May, headed north thru Vegas, into Utah, Colorado, forget the Interstate numbers but I guess it would be considered the 'northern route'...

I took 6 days to get to Massena N.Y. Enjoyed ever minute of it with the possible exception of the rain south of Chicago.

Some of the most beautiful country, EVER.





No problems, no regrets. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Oh, yes, there is a 1969 Chev C10 4x4 350cu MINT in Ramona Ca, that I am considering...now that drive home might not be QUITE as much fun

Jim

Howdy993

If you go through the Dakotas, you *may* find more traffic than you'd expect.
Dakotas is now Kuwait of the US and truck traffic has gone from zero to miserable if oil fields are nearby.

Best of luck on the relo.

Edward

Buy a book called "The Next Exit" ...it is worth its weight in gold!
It kicks butt all over a GPS, believe me. ...from a guy who has done countless long family road trips and who has just (as in "just" a couple of weeks ago) finished my wife's plan to see all the 50 states!

This book covers all the major highways (and lots of minor ones) across the nation, and gives you exit-by-exit info on gas stations, food stops, shopping, etc. FAR more accurate than the GPS (which we travelled with so we could compare head-to-head), and easier to look up since it's all on a page: just follow your highway and see what's there; yes, exit by exit ...super niiiice! Sure a GPS has its uses, but trust me when I say this book (updated yearly, btw, so get a current one) has given us far better info and utility than our GPS ever could when moving across this country of ours. Just sayin.
Take your time. Lots to enjoy across the country (then again, lots of corn through the mid ....oh, nevermind. Just go have fun

Oh, and brace yourself for parking in NYC ...just came from manhattan, wow! Am I ever glad we did not have a car.

Edward

nile13

All depends on how much time the OP wants to take. I did two CA - MA trips, one in a 993. 2 weeks for each trip, second one was 4,700 miles meandering to places like Carlsbad caverns, new Orleans, San Antonio, etc.

it's fun to do and good memories. Much better than trying to do it in 3-4 days.