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Received it back from Georgia sojourn. Took it out for the first heat cycle.
As Jake says in the coming home letter, everything is different about the car. New sounds, new feel. Clutch seems heavier, alot of new low end grunt, engine spins up super fast, really nice growl.
Now to break-in! Heat cycles for 1500 miles. If I do 2 heat cycles a day at 50 miles each, I'll be done in 15 days.
3.8L Stage1, 82mm throttle body, IPD plenum, UAOS, CTS radiators.
Thanks to the Flat Six Innovation crew! The project moved without a hiccup. All the decisions were made up front so things could move automatically, and it did! Excellent work!
Bored after I got done with work, I decided to poke around the car a little. I already detailed yesterday, and it looks great. So I start looking around in the trunk, I already knew there was an aftermarket amp and head unit when I got the car. But then I notice these fake covers that someone made, then I see these crazy looking contraptions underneath one of the makeshift covers?, then I notice there are Sheetrock screws holding things together, one of them screwed into one of the cross bars (I’m not sure exactly what it is?), and I notice an auxiliary battery and ginormous wiring and harnesses, in line fuses, etc. worst, is they use spray foam insulation to seal holes around wiring
Nicely fit makeshift cover for amp Another nicely fit cover Covers What exactly are these? I mean I don’t know much about audio but these look to be audiophile-type stuff? Aux. battery with 100amp in line fuse. Monster wiring. Amp removed. Drilled into this bar here. What exactly is this bar called? The same spray foam I use to insulation around doors and windows More spray foam - plus some nice rats nests residue. What’s up with this mess of silicone? If it’s supposed to be there I can only gather it’s to stop the battery from rattling around?
EDIT: not sure how I could have ever missed it. There is a dual sub box behind rear seats! Can’t believe I had no idea.
Its all car audio stuff that someone spent way too much money on and got a crap install.
Thats bar is a strut bar. The screw hole wont effect it.
I took all that crap out. I ditched the head unit, the amp, the subwoofer box, the aux. battery, the in line fuse, all the wiring. Still gotta clean up all that spray foam. Now gonna order a storage tray to take the place of head unit, and do a GT3 Console Delete.
I probably dropped 50 lbs. maybe more removing all that. I’m gonna weigh everything tomorrow.
I took all that crap out. I ditched the head unit, the amp, the subwoofer box, the aux. battery, the in line fuse, all the wiring. Still gotta clean up all that spray foam. Now gonna order a storage tray to take the place of head unit, and do a GT3 Console Delete.
I probably dropped 50 lbs. maybe more removing all that. I’m gonna weigh everything tomorrow.
Good for you! I would break out into hives at finding spray foam and drywall screws. Please post pics when you get it all cleaned up! That will be so satisfying.
BTW, the BATCAP isn't a battery, it's a capacitor. People use them on high power audio systems to buffer the power draw from the battery. But 'audio' capacitors are ridiculously overpriced for what they are.
Bored after I got done with work, I decided to poke around the car a little. I already detailed yesterday, and it looks great. So I start looking around in the trunk, I already knew there was an aftermarket amp and head unit when I got the car. But then I notice these fake covers that someone made, then I see these crazy looking contraptions underneath one of the makeshift covers?, then I notice there are Sheetrock screws holding things together, one of them screwed into one of the cross bars (I’m not sure exactly what it is?), and I notice an auxiliary battery and ginormous wiring and harnesses, in line fuses, etc. worst, is they use spray foam insulation to seal holes around wiring
Nicely fit makeshift cover for amp Another nicely fit cover Covers What exactly are these? I mean I don’t know much about audio but these look to be audiophile-type stuff? Aux. battery with 100amp in line fuse. Monster wiring. Amp removed. Drilled into this bar here. What exactly is this bar called? The same spray foam I use to insulation around doors and windows More spray foam - plus some nice rats nests residue. What’s up with this mess of silicone? If it’s supposed to be there I can only gather it’s to stop the battery from rattling around?
EDIT: not sure how I could have ever missed it. There is a dual sub box behind rear seats! Can’t believe I had no idea.
dude you have a bunch of amps, and sound power. Someone spend a huge amount of money on that. Is that the only speaker set you have in addition to factory seems like amps are over kill. I would take it to sound specialist and sell some of that.
Good for you! I would break out into hives at finding spray foam and drywall screws. Please post pics when you get it all cleaned up! That will be so satisfying.
BTW, the BATCAP isn't a battery, it's a capacitor. People use them on high power audio systems to buffer the power draw from the battery. But 'audio' capacitors are ridiculously overpriced for what they are.
Good luck!
Yes I am very annoyed, at myself and PPI shop, because PPI should've picked all this stuff up. Should have seen the spray foam, the rats nests, all that extra crap. The wiring, etc. Makes me nervous about what else was missed.
It is all out now. I gotta do some more clean up under there but I got rid of all that weight. My wife in insisting on having a radio, but I'm not so sure yet. I like the whole "radio delete" + gt3 console delete idea. Just feels die hard to me.
Originally Posted by 3/98 911 coupe
dude you have a bunch of amps, and sound power. Someone spend a huge amount of money on that. Is that the only speaker set you have in addition to factory seems like amps are over kill. I would take it to sound specialist and sell some of that.
I am definitely going to look into what its worth, but it is old stuff I think. And yes, I still have all the speakers in the car and the wiring. So if I do decide to get a new radio setup I'm not redoing all that as well.
I changed out all four sway bar drop links and felt like I was crack mechanic...then I saw the engine swap post on this same page and now I think I'm just a butt-crack mechanic...
I did figure out the cold start crappy idle problem I had...it was the oil filler hose had developed a split in the corrugated tube portion. A little research shows that me and around thirty thousand other 996 owners have had the same problem. I did see that changing out the filler tube can be a real PIA so I went with black tape instead. But I did a really, really good job of black taping it...goes back to the "butt-crack" mechanic analogy. Anyway, all's well now with the idle stutter and the fresh drop links gave the car a much more planted ride, especially when cornering. Here's a pic from the next day after giving her a bath, I'm just a proud 996 parent.
Im sure deep down u know this but fix it correctly by replacing it. Even a small vac leak creates fuel trim issues that lead to much worse. Suck it up and be a real mechanic or lake it to one. It wil make u feel better, at least your subconcious will feel better.
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