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That looks great! I love Patrick and the crew @whitmans & it looks like they are continuing to do fine work across many generations (of both talented crew and of Porsches + all types of vehicles).
They repaired my silver metallic '80SC LF fender to perfection after someone backed into it in Mill Valley (& must not have realized it...right, ugh) as well as my daughters '12 Mini and some other work that was always accomplished with a can do attitude, great workmanship and everything well communicated (especially when I did my part of the clear communication).
In my experience San Rafael is a great place in the bay area to work (body & mechanical) on P cars even though there are many great shops in the greater bay, San Rafael has been most convenient and I've been highly satisfied with the results whether it was using Whitman's, S-Car-Go, Peter Wilms, Hi-Tec etc.
In fact, I need to get the '10c4s into Patrick and have them give the front end some love from road rash and some other patina that has come with the (s)miles. All will be documented as Whitman's also understands how picky some of us can be, but I digress...
Thanks for sharing and hope to see you out in west marin/sonoma/mendo sometime soon...
Installed some classicfx inserts. Now need to finally decide whether to swap out the passenger seat for the other bucket or not. Complicating matters slightly is I also need to decide which seat (if either) to put in a new racing sim I’m building. Seems a little sacrilege to throw carbon buckets on a racing sim but that’d be pretty cool.
Also got someone to paint my console and ac vent trim. Got tired of doing a mediocre job myself. Was only $500 to sand and paint console, cup holder trim and AC vents at an auto paint shop so that’s a plus.
Need to wait a week or 2 before reassembling the vents. At least no more yellow/green which is what I had before.
Installed some classicfx inserts. Now need to finally decide whether to swap out the passenger seat for the other bucket or not. Complicating matters slightly is I also need to decide which seat (if either) to put in a new racing sim I’m building. Seems a little sacrilege to throw carbon buckets on a racing sim but that’d be pretty cool.
Also got someone to paint my console and ac vent trim. Got tired of doing a mediocre job myself. Was only $500 to sand and paint console, cup holder trim and AC vents at an auto paint shop so that’s a plus.
Need to wait a week or 2 before reassembling the vents. At least no more yellow/green which is what I had before.
Nice buckets!
My vote though is to get the other bucket in asap. Like Mr. Miyagi said... you either karate yes or karate no. No karate 'guess so'
Swapped out my stock wheels for @LμL's old RS wheels. Refinished in weiss gold. Center-caps are a work in progress
Great looking wheels. Are they cast or forged? They look similar to my Forgeline wheels as does your whole car package except I don't have the wing. I couldn't see the gold in the wheels at first but saw it in the close up. Nice and discreet. Just right.
Haven't found any videos of these, but ordered them anyway based on convo with Rhonda. Will post video when I get them. Also, just got around to uploading a video of the FVD Sport Cats with PSE and X51 headers:
Seriously, if you could, since I have to do this last tensioner on my car, take some notes about the gotchas and hard parts of the job.
There's nothing special about that one other than having to remove the AC compressor to do it.
Do them 1 at a time so you never have 2 tensioners out at the same time. Lock the cams, lock the crank pulley, then remove one and install the new one, remove the next one and install the new one, remove the last one and install the new one.
You'll need new plugs on hand to replace the 2 that you have to remove to install the cam lock tool on the bank 1 side of the engine as they are sacrificed when removed.
I also found that pumping the tensioners with oil prior to install like some suggest makes them almost impossible to install, so I wouldn't do that.(and didn't). The spring tension should hold the chain tension just fine.
02-03-2023, 11:59 AM
