Not too many of these cars around these parts. This is the step daughters bf's car. Pretty easy car to work on in my opinion. I was not that impressed with the interstate ride though.

99 Porsche 911 Carrera. Too bad Porchgurl was not around.

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Porsches are more about mystique and 'pop' than anything else. Nice cars, though.

Nice Beetle!

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I had the good fortune to work briefly in a shop that serviced a lot of Porsches. I thought the 911's in general were easier to work on than a lot of cars, though older ones are generally easier than the newer ones. If that one's riding rough I wonder if there's something wrong with it or if it's been modified. I never found the stock suspension to be harsh in any of the ones I drove. The race prepped 914/6 that one customer had was a different story.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

It'll ride a lot better with some wheels on it!

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

You would think that engatwork would know that being a mechanic and such.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I thought you were going to say you serviced a horse or some other animal. Why are you working on a Step Daughter's Boyfriend's car? If she is married to the man or marrying him, sure. For a BF?

What do you mean you weren't impressed? Can you elaborate?

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Nice lift !!

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1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

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Forwards are nice, but I really want a Rotary asymmetric.

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1983 300SD - 305000
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On the section of the interstate I drove on it kind of "jar" feel whenever I hit the expansion joints. The guy is running 40 psi in the tires so that may well have something to do with it too. I never did see the tag that signifies the correct tire pressure. I just assumed it was tied to the short wheelbase. It was a pleasure on the curvy back roads though.

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Well, a porsche is not a Mercedes. A nose heavy car will always ride nicer than a rear heavy car....if you are used to the nose heavy car the light nose car will feel twitchy and bouncy in front.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Yeah, those brake rotors are small and hard surfaced.

Kind of interesting to hear an opinion that this car is all bling and no go. That's what most people think that have never learned the proper technique for driving a rear engine car fast.

There are PLENTY of people in the past, and I'm sure it's still happening, that go into a corner a little hot, get scared and hit the brakes, which GUARANTEES that the tail will come around. Once a person learns how to drive one fast, on a curvy road they can go SURE ENOUGH fast.

It used to be quite common for someone with the money to buy one, but no savvy in drving one, would smack a guardrail right after Happy Hour.

I was at a large foreign car salvage yard one time where the Porsche section had a large number of them on a rack system. Almost every single one of them had serious damage to a rear quarter section, and much more than sheet metal damage. It was on the left side on most of them, but a few of them on the right.

The word at the time was that the common scenario was someone going onto an entrance ramp, carrying too much speed, or maybe not, but they THINK they're carrying too much speed and hit the brakes. It comes around and smacks the rail. The experienced and savvy driver would maintain power or even accelerate to make it through the turn.

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Obvious if you think about it !!

He has all the wheels off ~ Jim is "doing" a brake job !!

I would offer Jim an elastrator to exercise his hands with if the BF was younger ~ a good way of letting him know not to do the wrong thing ~ less abrupt than a shot gun !!

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1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

The bf is a navigator in a C130 in the AF and is one of the higher quality guys she has brought around. Seems to be a good guy and he treats her right. We changed the brake fluid and transaxle fluid on the car. Not sure if either had ever been done. I always jump on the opportunity to work on something different.

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