84 PORSCHE 911: 2024 With Our 911

Here we are with another, now apparently, annual 911 RX update.Looks like another year of parking lot activity and one competitive outing for the car. Well, it is 40 years old this year! Although the poor thing did start its birthday year by being used as a table:Although its first weekend outing of the year was an epic, taking in an amazing four cars & coffee events! How many 40...

85 UR QUATTRO: Fixes, Embellishments & Winning Awards

It was over a year since our last update on this car. Not unusual as it spends a lot of time waiting to be fixed. That was the case after last year’s Northville concours as you may remember the passenger side window regulator mechanism packed up again the week before. This time the cable wheel disintegrated.As our Quattro window regulator guru, WG, was busy fixing his own car it sat...

QUATTRO RALLY BUILD: Door Gaps Tackled

Now the big one: getting the doors, hood and fenders to fit. We swear, when the car left the body shop eight years ago everything fit well but now it appeared that the car has morphed somewhat over time. The door gaps aft were tiny to non-existent and the fenders seemed now to be taller and at a funny angle. Most of the body lines didn't line up anymore either....

RALIVAN2: Sensors, Bulkhead, Road Trip & Hill Climbing

As previously discussed, we replaced the radiator and fan right before dragging our race car and trailer the 200 miles north to, once again, attend the Empire Hill Climb. The van was like new. So smooth and cool and it never missed a beat. Such a different story from last year and, as a bonus, we didn’t almost run out of fuel this time either. We did have one little...

TIMSYBERIA: Getting "Started" with Cayenne Maintenance

Since Sno*Drift (aka PooDrift) we've been using our Cayenne mostly for daily driving duties and posing next to our other cars to make them look smaller.We did do one fairly major repair however. We replaced the starter. On a normal car this would be a simple few tools in the parking lot in the middle of the night job but not on a Cayenne. The starter is under the intake...

89 944 TURBO: FOR SALE

Well, it's spring and race cars are coming out of hibernation. Our 944 Turbo race car certainly is but not to race. You see, we have decided to sell it.It's currently on Facebook Marketplace. Use the QR code to jump there.However, before we could do that there were one or two little issues we had to address:NEW AIR FILTERNEW DISTRIBUTOR CAP, ROTOR AND PLUGSNEW POWER STEERING LINESNEW FUEL LINEThe car...