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BTW - I found a row of your wheel weights on the ground in the paddock. They were stuck to the asphalt pretty well...
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Update 15.July.2007 Well, the big milestone weekend is over. Yesterday was kind of a mix the trying out the new car, listening for something to snap, worrying about everything, then dealing with the wheel weight issue. Today was "try to go faster" day. Last night after my nap I put the car on the lift and gave it a good once over. Everything looked really, really good. One thing I do, esp on suspension projects, is use a paint pen to mark all the bolts I've torque to indicate that I did, in fact, torque them and to see if they move at all. No movement on anything suspension related. After the inspection, I decided to raise the ride height in the front a little, as it was a little low IMO. We set the height on Friday, but I swear I lost almost 1/2" over the course of Sat. So up it went, and this got me a little more suspension travel, which is nice. It also lot me some of my camber, which sucks. Saturday I had the fronts running -2.4 degrees negative, but raising the front put me at about -1.9. So I lost 1/2 a degree. Backs are still at -2.5. The nice thing is I got much, much, MUCH more consistent wear on my RA1s this event. I think its a combination of the camber and not pushing so much in the front, which tended to eat tires pretty good. Also last night I attached the front sway. With a little more ride height I was able to get it on without caliper interference, which was my problem earlier. Since I'm running the factory rear sway, I set it to a loose as possible (about 75% of the way out) and it was almost perfect. It cured a lot of the twitchiness I had yesterday. I'll stiffen it up when I get the adjustable rear sway on. Looks like some Wevo mounts are in my future. Also in my future is a rebuild on my rear calipers. I get a lot of squeaking and groaning at low speeds, which makes me think that the seals aren't pulling the pads back enough. I found a guy in NJ who sells the seals and boots for $25 a pair, so $100 for a full rear caliper rebuild isn't bad. Other than that, the only thing the car needs on the track now is a driver that can take full advantage of it. I kind of ran like crap this weekend, with a lot of 1:33 laps. My braking is teh suck, big time. For my birthday my wife got me a GPS track data acquisition system, and it shows longitudinal Gs - negative = braking. You could see how bad I was braking, esp into T1. Nothing like hard data to confirm what you already know. My best time of the weekend was a 1:31 with a passenger in the car, so I should be running high 29s in this weather and into the 28s in cooler weather. Just need to take my skirt off first, I guess. So my next even is the 3 day August event unless I pick up a weekday event sometime before. As you can imagine, I've spent way too much time in the garage lately and need to make it up to the family. Between now and then, plans are: - Make sure the rear glass isn't leaking - Re-install the carpeting - Install new RS door panels - Mount and hardwire GPS lap timing system - Tweak alignment and corner balance - Do the dial gauge bump steer adjustment - Figure out WTF to do with the rear sway - Build removable rear speaker shelf So the big part of the project is done. Now is just a bunch of odds and ends and clean up work. Thank God it's over. At this point, I need to take a minute and thanks all of the people who helped me on this project. In the last 6 weeks I disassembled and completely rebuilt most of my car to the point where it ran two great days at Summit with only the wheel weight issue. This was an ridiculous amount of work and there is no way I did this by myself. In fact, not even close. If I had to guess, I'd say other Dorkis, combined, put in over 100 hours worth of work to help me get the car back together. Charlie, KFJ, }{, Noah, Black Talon, Matt DeMaria, and Pari - thanks guys. All of you guys came through in a big way for me, and I sincerely appreciate it. I could never have gotten the car back together without your help. Also thanks to Cliff Claven, Josh, Eli, Bill Miller, Peter Kaufman, VASteve, Mackpipes, and all the guys I'm sure I'm forgetting (I'm really tired) for parts, advice and other help along the way.
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GREAT JOB, Chris. Peter
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911SC fuel leak in tunnel
Chris,
Thanks to Hoophead for leading me to ye ol' thread. Nice thread and good pictures. Do you recall the type/size of the fuel lines running through the tunnel? I fired my car up and the tunnel started filling up with gas, so I know the fuel line failed. I need to replace/repair this by tomorrow evening, so any info on these lines would be a big help. Thanks, Chip Taylor Quote:
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Ugh, forgot I had to tackle that fuel line replacement ~ 2 years ago. A bit of a pain. Getting to use TR's lift and getting help from him made it quite a bit easier. Having two people working to feed the line back through the tunnel was definitely helpful.
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Chip,
Wow, hope you get it fixed and sorry I can't help you but Jazz would be the man on this. Good luck. 7 years later, I realize I posted above in a way that could be misunderstood. By "brains" above, I meant DMEs. Chris and I swapped, I think.
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Peter (not "Pete") K. 2016 Cayman S 1999 Miata ("SM") race car 2016 Toyota Highlander--tow vehicle/wife's DD 2017 VW GTI SE (DD) Gone and missed: 1992 Miata ("SSM") race car 2009 911 C2S Coupe 2004 Toyota Prius - sold to son's girlfriend 2006 Dodge Durango 2003 Acura MDX 86 Black 911 Coupe race car 86 Gold 911 Targa 82 WineRedMetallic 911 Targa |
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Sent you a PM but thought I'd update this thread. I can't help much with aftermarket fuel line info, unfortunately. When I replaced mine, I bought new lines from Porsche. IIRC, they were a "Germany-only" thing, so not much help for you by tomorrow. No clue what an appropriate aftermarket option would be, sorry.
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pull them out and find the leak. If the tubing is in good shape other than where the leak is you can splice them with the right size double end barb fitting. I make a poor mans tubing clamp by drilling a same size as the tubing hole in a chunk of 2X4 then saw it in 1/2 through the hole. clamp the tubing in the wood block with about 1 1/2 sticking out Heat the tubing until it is just slightly soft and then gently mallet the double ended barb into the tube. Now clamp the other tube in the wood block and grab the barb fitting by the fat part in the middle with a Vice-grip brand clamping plier. Heat the second tube and hand press the tube in with a tap or two on the Vice-grip as needed to seat the tub on the fitting.
The tubing Porsche used is real good stuff and tends to last well unless it gets a hole drilled in it or cooked while welding in a seat base or the like. You can leak test in place with compressed air or pull them out after taping a follower cord to the straight end. I like to use a section old extension cord and strapping tape. Plug the tube so fuel does not dribble out and soften the tape.
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