Antidentite

Congrats! I love my 996 c4s too. By any chance, did you buy yours off a gent who worked at the airport? If so - I remember calling him up on his. Sounded like a great car

strathconaman

Nope. Out of Ottawa.

breakfast

nice, love c4s'!

ims/rms done?

strathconaman

The engine actually only has 10K on it. It was a rebuild put in by the previous owner. The IMS is actually a roller bearing. I am putting into storage for the winter, and having Keltech have a look at it...I was planning on putting in a IMS solution.

halo777

Congrats on the new car!

The C4s is a classic

strathconaman

Second Summer:

I had some fun with the plasti-dip. Painted the centre console and the storage compartments. Swapped the ash tray for the "non-smoking kit":




Decided I liked silver wheels better than black.




I also replaced the water pump...and a radiator (due to putting a hole in one at a driving school). Oh and just the tip:

plumbum

Great write up, I have looked at a couple C4S's but the sellers didn't seem to know or care about the cars so I opted out but always have an eye open!

Question..do you find the clutch stiff? Both that I looked at seemed to have unusually stiff clutches which the dealers could not explain.

strathconaman

The clutch is stiff, but that is in comparison to the last manual I drove, which had 1/3 the horsepower. It is not "this is a great tractor" stiff, but if it was in a honda civic I would be concerned. The owner of Keltech has driven it, and he thinks it is in great shape.

plumbum

Great! Thanks for the info.

Turbodan

stiff clutch usually means clutch accumulator or slave is gone, this is very common on these cars.

strathconaman

How stiff is stiff? Several people who should know have driven the car, and nobody has said "Clutch...stiff".

Imo000

Stiff clutch pedal can be from a missing clutch pedal helper spring too in the 996. When the sting start to fail it makes a squeaking noise and many just remove it to quite it down. This makes the pedal a lot stiffer. The replacement part (spring in a plastic box/housing) is pretty cheap, around $50, and easy to install.

plumbum

Thanks for all the information! (Sorry for the thread hijack)

strathconaman

So I had an IMS solution installed over the winter.

The car had an MB Motorsports rebuild in it when I bought it. I knew that MB was using roller bearings in their rebuilds. This is the bearing that came out of my car:


So now you know. And knowing is half the battle. The other half of the battle involves guns.

strathconaman

So what happened this year? Nothing. I put on 7,000km. Changed the oil. Put it to sleep.