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After a spirited drive, Blondie just got topped up.
Idling revs, normal. Check.
Coolant temp, normal. Check.
Oil pressure, normal. Check.
Oil temp, normal. Check.
All systems go. She’s ready for the next drive. Loving this car!
After a spirited drive, Blondie just got topped up.
Idling revs, normal. Check.
Coolant temp, normal. Check.
Oil pressure, normal. Check.
Oil temp, normal. Check.
All systems go. She’s ready for the next drive. Loving this car!
Looks awesome. How did you find the fit and quality? Any prep required or just ready for paint?
Also, where did you get the Porsche rear badge? I need to modernize mine
So the body shop said they did have a bit of work to do, to get it perfect, transferring the fan, the release cable and latch, extending the wiring/loom as well. I'd say it was 90% to OEM.
This was custom done by Tony@PrecisionPorsche. 997.2 GT3 wing, NO 3.8 badging on the winglets, with a 997.1 3.6 engine decklid for a single fan vs the dual fan that it comes with as standard.
Went for a 150mi breakfast drive with the local P Club chapter! Highway cruising and B-roads carving rocks. My convoy had 3 C2S incidentally - 997.2, 991.1 and 991.2. Plus 2 997 Turbos.
Oil change, and the first of many rounds of penetrant on the exhaust manifold bolts and other exhaust bolts, in preparation for the swap to Soul Performance head pipes and sport cats.
Had a half day free and wrapped up adding the splitters to @Emc2design's spoiler, and an oil change.
Love the quality of EMC2Design's work. Quality all the way around. Close up of splitter. Oil change. Complete mess as I used a new 16 quart collector with a design that is excellent at deflecting oil EVERYWHERE but in it... End of the day. Watching rain hit the hills of New Hampshire.
I dropped off the car at the dealer for an oil change/service and they found a leaking water pump. I have the Fidelity Platinum, so it was a $250 deductible…happy camper.
Perdido
Did?....still doing
supercharger tensioner pulley failed (grease seal failure, half the ball bearings gone, etc) got so hot, it caused the idler pulley next to it to melt and fail, causing the serpentine belts to to get sticky hot and groove all the pulleys, and snap the serpentine belt once it glued itself to all the pulleys from the heat.
Initially I thought just the plastic idler pulley failed - no fun, because the serpentine belt rides inside the supercharger belt cage. Had to remove the bumper and inner heat shield to get to the bottom supercharger mounting cage bolts by lowering the motor on the mount bolts..
Upon removing the 1st layer of supercharger cage support, I realize there's no way to slide the pulleys off the shaft that's threaded into the motor to support them because the pulleys are thicker than the space left at the end of the shaft to the back wall of the car - hmmmm.
So, I get the vice grips and hope the shaft will unscrew from the motor, which it does 1/8 of a rotation at a time for about 19mm worth of threads.
I get that out and realize what the cause was...
not going to find that pulley assembly at Napa or O'Reilly's, so down to the basement I go and open up the box of the complete spare RUF R-Kompressor kit I have with the hope that the tensioner assembly was included in it, and lucky me, yes it's there.
Also causes me to realize that the mounting shaft wasn't a single machined piece, but an 8mm shaft with the pulley bushings now welded to it because of the heat, and the belt seizure also bent it, so good I have a spare. The spare tensioner pulley assembly also looks good, so no waiting on parts from Germany.
So, I go to remove the tensioner pulley and the front nut is rounded off and so tight that there's no way that's coming off the normal way. Since the new pulley comes with the new outer nut, I decide that if I can get the outer pulley guard off that I'll be able to get more of the socket into it, so out comes the pneumatic grinder with Bad Dog Tools cutoff wheel and it zips through the metal outer cover no problem, but it still won't come off because of how tightly the front nut has it pinched. No problem, I'll just keep cutting since I'm replacing the pulley anyway - pulley and inner bearing are now in 2 pieces, and I can get a 15mm wrench on the back bolt and 24mm socket on the front nut. The supercharger is in the way of removing the whole tensioner arm so reused the existing tensioner bolt with the new pulley and new front nut.
Now moving on to alternator replacement because I'm only getting about 13.7 volts and the occasional generator warning. This is fun too because the modified oil filler neck is right above it where it won't lift up unless that's removed.
And that's where we are as of lunchtime (2:30) today.
06-07-2022, 12:11 AM
