Macca

I have some pics I can send you too. The challenge is the word limit on TM I find....

Maxem

I'm not sure there are any south of 50k anymore, except maybe real roughies, targa's and cabrio's
I have no second thoughts about tracking the T, that's what it was made for after all.

John McM

Aside from Gen 1 and tipo it's difficult to understand why this is languishing with such a low mileage http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=956553312

young_dennis

Air ride suspension..so he can change the ride height I have no idea if you could hop it..lol..something similar to Brians from down south

Maxem

I quite like gen 1 996 coupes but wouldn't go near one until someone attends to the IMS, D chunks, scored bores etc with a well known branded fix. (Just finished reading the three part article on 996/997 engine maladies in 911 & P world). What are the chances I suppose but I Wouldn't want to be caught with a $30k car needing a $30k engine job.

John McM

I think it's like buying a potential leaky home in that knowledge is everything. You may get a cheap reliable 911 or you may end up paying for a mechanic's European holiday.

Post Herman's refurb and now BB2 lunching an engine I have no appetite to take on the risk of an 18 year old car.

996tnz

I'll get BB2 assessed ASAP. She felt OK in practice, though in retrospect our times weren't great. Last time I drove BB2 (just over 10 months ago in Taupo) we qualified second of the 33 cars in our group and in the top third overall, with our race placing following suit. But at Manfield yesterday we qualified in the bottom 20%, despite me having run there before on a NITT and using one of the fastest cars as a rabbit toward the end. Afterwards though I was just surprised to qualify that low and figured I must've been off my game.

In Race 1 of the slow grid, I finished 11th, after starting from 14th on the slow grid. Overcooking turn 1 on the second lap cost me about 3 places that took longer to recover from that it normally does in the Grinch but there were no signs she had any particular problem.

Race 2 was a combined fields reverse grid of all 36 remaining cars, with us starting off P8. A slight jumpstart earned me a 10 sec time penalty afterwards but that proved academic anyway as BB2 expired at the halfway point - 3 seconds down in lap 10 as I was caught by the faster cars coming up through the reverse field and then sudden loss of more than half her power exiting the hairpin in lap 11, with me then nursing her gently off the racing line with hazard lights on.

She was then making a pretty horrible racket even at idle so we only restarted her to put her on Mark's kindly offered trailer for the trip back up (Mark definitely gets my MVP for the day). That trip back became a bit of an epic too as one of the duals on the trailer threw its tread coming through Hamilton. So she's still on the trailer down there, tucked away in Mark's storage unit while I sort out a replacement trailer tyre before we get her the rest of the way to Auckland later this week for assessment.

Sorry guys - didn't pick up on anything until she checked out.

Macca

That's racing Walt! What an adventure!!

andy928

Does anyone know where i can get a 996TT rear spoiler from, just the top fin that lifts up?

Thanks in advance

andy928

sorry double post

Pel

Europacific maybe, I saw an old orange 996tt track car they looked to be wrecking a while ago.

floatingkiwi

Great, you can help me with my plugs....

John McM

Turns out it had done its dash. The bid made on the second day of listing came up the winner at $50,100 despite more than 13 days to test and 9,000 views. If I get a call from Nigel I'll know there are settlement problems.

Spokes

Not often you see an auction that doesn't get any activity as it closes!

shiraz

The Q&A may not have helped!