Deanger's 959 project gets very good news!
09-05-2003, 06:12 PM
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Deanger's 959 project gets very good news!
Been a while since I posted on the project...
I got a great phone call from Wallace Labs in Houston. The car has passed all their tests and done so WITHOUT having to add an electric-air/fuel pump (which normally you have to add to pass CA emissions). Apparently, they used a new cat design, and combined with an exceptionally clean engine (smile) the car passed and should not lose any HP!
In a few weeks it'll ship to Northern California for offical CA testing and paperwork, then to me! Or Andial... and then me.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Deanger
I got a great phone call from Wallace Labs in Houston. The car has passed all their tests and done so WITHOUT having to add an electric-air/fuel pump (which normally you have to add to pass CA emissions). Apparently, they used a new cat design, and combined with an exceptionally clean engine (smile) the car passed and should not lose any HP!
In a few weeks it'll ship to Northern California for offical CA testing and paperwork, then to me! Or Andial... and then me.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Deanger
09-06-2003, 01:45 AM
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No you are right. I was just a kid when I was given this early-concept looking posted (around 85-86?) and it hung on my wall forever. Still is my all-time favorite Porsche
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09-09-2003, 01:47 PM
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Dean,
How does the process your conversion specialist is using differ from the approach Bruce Canepa is using? See the recent article in Excellence? Does your specialist retain the Motronics, or is the ECU replaced with another aftermarket unit?
How does the process your conversion specialist is using differ from the approach Bruce Canepa is using? See the recent article in Excellence? Does your specialist retain the Motronics, or is the ECU replaced with another aftermarket unit?
09-09-2003, 06:31 PM
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Bruce re-invents the car. He turns into into a twin turbo (as opposed to a sequential TT), changes a lot of the internals...etc...
All we are doing is adding the necessary hardware (cats, oxygen sensor...) and adjusting the factory electronics to make it EPA friendly. So my car will be a 959 with all its faults, whereas if I go to Bruce, it will be a super-modernized 959 with fewer of its quirks and faults...
What Bruce does is very impressive, and something I would consider AFTER driving it as is for a while...
All we are doing is adding the necessary hardware (cats, oxygen sensor...) and adjusting the factory electronics to make it EPA friendly. So my car will be a 959 with all its faults, whereas if I go to Bruce, it will be a super-modernized 959 with fewer of its quirks and faults...
What Bruce does is very impressive, and something I would consider AFTER driving it as is for a while...
09-10-2003, 11:00 PM
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Deanger,
I just received my Autoweek today and there is a beautiful red 959 on the cover. Plus, a full article on the car and what Bruce is doing to bring them to the US.
I just received my Autoweek today and there is a beautiful red 959 on the cover. Plus, a full article on the car and what Bruce is doing to bring them to the US.
