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More progress on my interior. Swapped in a X98 parking brake, 997 shifter with bushings from Phenix Engineering, and the remaining granite grey trim. Also working on Carrera GT style shift **** (that will eventually be wood and aluminum).
The suspension and braking refresh project is complete! Entire new OEM suspension kit from FCP Euro including all the coffin arms, trailing arms, dogbones, etc. New tie rod ends, and sway bar drop links, and sway bar bushings all the way around. Koni active struts, with new mounts, bearings, and bumpstops factory springs reused. Brembos completely removed, torn down and chemically stripped. New seals and dust boots and complete cosmetic restoration. Replaced the soft brake lines while all was apart and reinstalled everything with Zimmerman coated rotors and Textar pads. Ordered the Motive brake bleeder and boy did that make the job easy!
While it was in the air and disassembled I scrubbed years of grime out of each wheel well and off the aluminum bearing carriers. I went through A LOT of Simple Green. I can honestly say I'd eat off of any surface at all four corners. All that's left before I reinstall wheels and set it down is to touch up a couple assembly nicks on the calipers, and then a little more cleaning of some other bits underneath: starting with the front air dam I removed in the process and the bottom side of the engine. Just because there's 109k on the odometer, that doesn't mean it has to LOOK it.
How did you get your lettering back on the caliper? I made the mistake of cleaning my calipers with brake clean. Guess what? No more white lettering! Nice work. Should be sweet.
What an exhausting day! Hah... New catalytic converter time. These are from Magna Flow. One of the few CARB approved cats for our car that is actually available. Certainly not as pretty as the Soul Performance pieces,
Persistent P0430 code and Durametric scan shows trailing O2 sensor was following the leading sensor indicating the consumed cat. Here are voltages before and after the replacement. Look at how the gray line follows the orange in the first graph, but does not in the second. Hopefully California is cleaner today than yesterday.
The question I have is about this bung plug on the left hand side of this picture. Does it have any purpose for long term cat function? One of them got boogered up by a bad thread in the new cat. I cleaned up the threads with tap and die, but the plug is only about half the length. The material seems pretty soft.
How did you get your lettering back on the caliper? I made the mistake of cleaning my calipers with brake clean. Guess what? No more white lettering! Nice work. Should be sweet.
They're hi temp vinyl stickers off eBay. They are perfect as far as size and font. Porsche screenprinted them - something you're not going to replicate at home. I decided to forego the stencil and paint route because these decals were just so prevalent in the market. It seems to be the more common go-to. One word of caution that I wish I could undo: I painted these with VHT hi temp caliper paint in gloss black and then their gloss clear. The white stickers are in between those two layers as a means to "protect" the vinyl. The sticker vendor said that wasn't necessary but lots of DIY's I watched or read did spray clear over their vinyl stickers.
You're supposed to bake VHT's paint at 200F before you install them if you want it to be impervious to brake fluid. Let me tell you; it worked great. I got some fluid on the back side while reinstalling them and there was zero degradation of the gloss. Here's where the problem comes in. The clearcoat yellowed the slightest bit, thereby yellowing my brand new white stickers. If you didn't see an unbaked one next to a baked one you probably wouldn't know. If I did it all over again I'd put stickers on dead last and if they ever chip, fade, stain - just replace them.
I've had my '01 996 for about a month. This week did the gundo/whatever mod on the mufflers, installed a short shift kit, and removed the helper spring from the clutch pedal. Also waxed the car, and bought a CA Covers car cover for it. For me the sound is just right, a little louder and throatier, sounds awesome above 4k rpm. The clutch has a better feel, I like it. And I really like the feel of the short shift kit, firmer and just the right throw. Ordered some new BBS rims but the fronts are backordered till April.
The suspension and braking refresh project is complete! Entire new OEM suspension kit from FCP Euro including all the coffin arms, trailing arms, dogbones, etc. New tie rod ends, and sway bar drop links, and sway bar bushings all the way around. Koni active struts, with new mounts, bearings, and bumpstops factory springs reused. Brembos completely removed, torn down and chemically stripped. New seals and dust boots and complete cosmetic restoration. Replaced the soft brake lines while all was apart and reinstalled everything with Zimmerman coated rotors and Textar pads. Ordered the Motive brake bleeder and boy did that make the job easy!
While it was in the air and disassembled I scrubbed years of grime out of each wheel well and off the aluminum bearing carriers. I went through A LOT of Simple Green. I can honestly say I'd eat off of any surface at all four corners. All that's left before I reinstall wheels and set it down is to touch up a couple assembly nicks on the calipers, and then a little more cleaning of some other bits underneath: starting with the front air dam I removed in the process and the bottom side of the engine. Just because there's 109k on the odometer, that doesn't mean it has to LOOK it.
Those calipers: "chemically stripped" and "complete cosmetic restoratation" - does that mean painted?
I want a garage just so I can spend that much time cleaning it when I'm not driving it.
Those calipers: "chemically stripped" and "complete cosmetic restoratation" - does that mean painted?
I want a garage just so I can spend that much time cleaning it when I'm not driving it.
Yes I made the distinction of chemical stripping vs sandblasting. Yes they were painted but I also replaced the bleeder valves and caps due to rust, replaced the PORSCHE logos, replaced rusty hardware, etc so "complete cosmetic restoration " IMO.
You'll get a lot of time to clean a vehicle with a garage, a daily driver, AND 5-6 months of snow and salty roads.
Spent the day at the mechanic. The soul headers, a low temp thermostat and a new water pump were installed in my car. A lot more work was done on my friends 993, ac is still not 100 correct. Anyway our mechanic is working on a 930 and a 2016 Ferrari F12. If someone trusts him with this Ferrari is just more credibility for him. I cooked Wagyu chuck brisket burgers and Johnsonville beddar cheddars for lunch. Then the wife and son said they wanted to go to hooters last night. What a better way to end the day, bobs, beers and wings. To top it all, that black McLaren was parked in front of the hooters entrance. The 26k mile millennium is also done. The 930 is in process. My car was already done. The 1974 914 911 engine is getting a refresh. F12 under the car cover. Burgers for lunch. My friends 993 it’s giving all kind of ac issues. My old factory headers which will be going up for sale soon. We found this black beauty At hooters. On handicap parking spot!!! To finish the day, bobs, beer, wings. What a day.
Finally got my oil change in, was a few months late and so far under ownership its been every 6 months on the dot. Wasn't happy with what I found, should I just throw my car out? Doesn't seem magnetic. Didn't see any glitter at the bottom or in the oil filter itself when I pulled it apart. Just these pieces.
02-21-2022, 08:36 AM
