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: 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: 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: Bad Engine Mounts

We found the issue with the left turn hesitation. The engine mounts were bad! This caused the engine to move over to the right in left turns and upset something. So, we replaced them in eager anticipation of success:FAIL. That wasn't it. We were shocked. With only a few weeks to go before the American Speed Festival we were getting desperate. We added two ground straps:FAIL. We dug out the...