John McM

PB Blaster and a propane torch will be on your Christmas list in my opinion what you are doing is smart as you can pace your self and avoid the big issues when a repair is needed and a bolt etc costs time and money to sort. I had one of those problems with my driveshafts. Two nights cutting bolt heads off.

There are a lot of smaller parts that I wouldn't hesitate using aftermarket e.g. The non loaded items like body screws. I wouldn't use aftermarket for anything requiring large torque values as y need to know the full spec which isn't on the parts catalogue.

993 Targa

So we have taken delivery and it fits inside, only just She's quite the beast and very slow! Oh well.

Ha the photo is not sideways for me and I am uploading from a PC! Sorry about that people, just showing off it's amazing off road capabilities.

964X33

What was wrong with Mr Black?

Maxem

That sits pretty well, what are the wheels?

John McM

I covered that in a later post

964X33

"Mr Black is now in that space"? Anyway, these discussions better had over beer than bits and bytes lest responses get misconstrued.

Phil: can we twist your arm for hosting another beer and pizza night? Or has that train sailed?

John McM

Aging memories but I can't remember Mr Black out there much after the gearbox repairs.

Anyway, grass gymkhana in Bb is a perfect way to end the year. Just need a field. If she leaves still running then we haven't driven hard enough. Could we get her airlifted there?

Macca

Yip. Slower to 100 than drying paint! 100kmph that is as it will barely make 100 mph :-)

Now your just need to get it dirty...heres some modern cow sh*t art we created last months in Northland...

shiraz

Macca, most of my car looks like that - 2 km shingle road before I get to a "proper road" such as they are. I've seen better roads in the Sinai (on the Egyptian side of the border !!!) than some of SH1 around here.
Wonder where the $tax goes

Chris_chch

Wheels are Enkei 92's. 16x7.5 and 8. Period JDM 😊

peterC2S

It wasn't red...?

To be fair the guys at Giltraps were raving about Mr Black the other day. They approve of Warwick's taste in mods!

pcarplayer

To be fair Mr Black is a credit to all his previous owners, not least the one prior to me who kept him in fine fiddle for 8 years. He has good bones and i'm just embellishing what is already a great car. If i'm honest i'm proud the enlightened, professional and enthusiast alike, appreciate him for what he is

John McM

I didn't realise Jason's ownership went so far back. Mr Black must have given great service over most of that period.

As Mr Blue was Jase's track car of choice when I first came back and Mr Black was giving gearbox trouble, plus spent some time with Motorscience when you first bought it I assumed it was similar to Herman, the biggest pile of deferred maintenance out there. Sorry Jason, I take that back.

When these were $30,000 to $35,000 cars (manual coupes) just a few years back, and track access wasn't so easy you can understand how cars being lightly used were also lightly maintained and how we ended up with a lot of polished roughies i.e. looked good but didn't last long at the track without breaking or were so far removed from the original dynamic quality that they were a shadow of the drive they should have been.

It's great to see the investment going in to some now and I hope the cars will begin to reflect that in price so that more will be inclined to spend what's needed to refresh what are up to 26 year old cars.

pcarplayer

Sorry my bad Jason owned him from 2008 until i bought him in 2014. When i bought Mr Black, Jason had him in at MS for a repeat fix to the sunroof which took sometime waiting for parts.

Following that i did spend a good deal of money having a few deferred maintenance items sorted, namely replacing the pinion seal on the front diff, a fix to the oil level sensor, replacement and repack of the front CV boots, and a valve service - including the replacement of a broken valve spring. The entire back end was pulled apart and cleaned up including painting as much of the easily accessable engine tin and polishing the exhaust.. I remember MS saying that there was quite some dried muck back there. Many of the fasteners were replaced. Most were things i knew about when i purchased the car so it wasn't unexpected. Some were unexpected jobs performed by MS.

At the time I also fixed a few niggly thing myself around that time including replacing the ignition switch, replacing the front and rear hood struts, both door seals, replaced both rear quarter lights and center reflector, the front "smile" seal, and the front heat ducting. I have subsequently kept on top of all items that get noted when he's on the hoist.

Since this is turning into a tell all, lol, i have added a few items. Full interior recarpet and retrim, Momo MOD 07 streering wheel, Steve Wong chip, Cat bypass, full brake flush with AP racing fluid, new Pagid orange pads, C2 Rear ARB, new transmission mount, Wevo black engine mounts, Billstein PSS10 all round, new suspension top mounts, replaced most strut mounting hardware with new items, Rennline strut brace and full geo

I still have the Renline engine carrier gusset and a lightweight battery and Rennline mount to fit

Probably a bunch of stuff i forgotton but thats quite a list for one year, ahem

kiwi 911

Does anyone know how Magnus' wife passed away yet - accident or illness?