84 PORSCHE 911: Summer In The Car Parks
Summer has just flown by this year. They seem to go by faster and faster. Looking through our Flickr album it seems we spent this one taking pictures of the car parked next to other cars, some of which were ours. I’m sure we did more than that though. Here’s one next to an 85 Carrera, with BRAID wheels, of course. Here’s one parked next to a Ford RS200 replica,...
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: Bits and Bobs
We are running out of things to do again so are picking away at bits and bobs before we send the car out for its wiring harness. Here’s a few little things we managed over the last few weeks:The shape of the curve on one of the rear arches has always bothered us. We got the body filler out and fixed it.We want a strut bar in this car so,...
RALIVAN2: Maintenance & Event Prep
The last time we updated the RALIVAN we had just had it rustproofed. Well, we are happy to report that in the 9 months since we had that done it hasn’t gone rusty, yet. We haven’t driven it much either. Perhaps only a couple of hundred miles. You guys are keeping us so busy buying wheels (thanks) that we can’t get out to events like we used to. We’ve been...
TIMSYBERIA: SNO*DRIFT RALLY 2024 (AKA #poodrift)
We have been attending the Sno*Drift stage rally in northern Michigan as a sponsor or volunteer for nearly 20 years but this year we decided to fulfill both roles simultaneously. We were honored to be asked to feed the course workers and other volunteers during the event on the second day, Saturday, using our Cayenne “Timsyberia”. This would entail driving the entire route and handing out lunches at the various...
89 944 TURBO: Continuation of Fuel Starvation Troubleshooting
Last time we talked we'd discovered that we hadn't actually fixed our apparent fuel starvation issue. Despite the fuel pickup being on the right side of the car and ours having trouble after left hand bends, we decided to replace the fuel pump, fuel filter and pickup screen.We didn't find any issues with any of these parts but did find this in the bottom of the tank. Ah hah! we...