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Check your cables. Check your grounds. A great battery will not do a thing unless the electrons can flow.

Call a dealership and ask. I have used the turbo pump and do not recall there being a choice.

I recently blew up a Porsche motor with 9.5:1 compression by exploding a piston. I was on pump premium unleaded Chevron here in California. I think I will probably back down to 9:1 on the rebuild which will start in the next month when my sponsor gets parts. If this is a street motor, just stick with half a point higher than stock. Be careful with your cam. Biggest mistakes are made there...

I agree with Jon, I have never bothered to dyno the car with and without the MSD but I find that the car idles better and has better throttle response. Plugs read better when you pull them out for change etc...

Dude! Flipping it and adding a hole voids the warranty! Oh wait... The warranty was only good until you opened the packaging... Never mind...:classic:

You need wheels and tires badly. Nice presentation though!

Looks like pot plants behind it in the warehouse. '71 911 will have a schmit load of rust issues in Florida. Still, early short wheel base 911's are gold right now and even if it is totally rusted, I see $3K worth of part-outs. Funny someone should bring up Craigslist. Yesterday evening I was cruising out of town Craigslist ads for Porsche parts. I blew up my 2nd gear in my 911 and I figured I might find a gearbox on the cheap. I see an ad for 2 - 8X16 Fuchs Wheels. These are the same factory forged wheel you see in the pics above but much wider and found on the 930 Turbo models. The guy is asking $200 for the pair!!! I emailed him and paid him all within 30 minutes. Then I posted a for sale ad with HIS pics on a 911 site and sold them for $1600 + shipping. The best part is he is shipping directly to my buyer. Some people just don't know what they have!

Both looked pretty good! I am going to use the GM mount. My wife asked me why I was reading that tattered up paper when she brought the recycling out. I told her I was looking for sales on a new outfit for her and then showed her a picture of an Asian girl in a teddy and stockings apparently offering massage services. Hmmmm... Company uniform? She grinned. Funny how when you trigger something in her brain she suddenly can't reach her back in the shower and needs me to help... I will take a pic when I get the chance. I have my 911 up on the lift right now because I blew the heck out of 2nd gear. I guarantee we are talking about more than a $1000 even if I fix it.

Got mine yesterday at about 4pm. I had it powdercoated by 6pm. Read the alternative lifestyle dating section of the Seattle area paper while I waited for the oven. LOOOOOOOOOOKS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

The Vikings are experimenting with a new formulation of Geritol. We may have to keep him for another year after this. It is a prospective experimental study... It seems to be working!

Oh Oh!!! I hope you used the sports page for mine! I want to read the whining about how my Vikings crushed your Seahawks!!!:laugh:

Quick look today. The pictures are an ok representation. Interior and engine detail are not consistent with the paint. Paint is ok but not show... This is a driver and probably worth 5 - 8K

I think dealer markup is usually double on a used car so they probably have $5K in it. I have seen BRE tribute cars here in Sac for years. One is very nice and he owns a 510 that is just as tasty.

Anyone wanting a PPI, I live about 5 miles from that dealership... Outside it looks great. Inside could use a refresh.

No, not a misprint. Let's start with the newly built L28 with the Nissan Competition Department flat top pistons. This engine had not had its first oil change. That went for over $5000 as I recall. Then there was the LSD R 200 and the transmission that had just been rebuilt. The Ground Control Suspension all the way around brought in a pretty penny. Panasports, R rated rubber that was new, Euro turn signals front and rear. My situation is clearly different than Mr. Cutlass. I had thousands of dollars in my car and the reciepts to prove it. The car had just had a $5000.00 paint job! I also had an appraisal that said the car was worth $13,500.00. California AAA challenged my appraisal and brought in an independent appraiser who came up with $14,000.00. This caught them totally off guard. I agreed to this amount and wanted to keep the car. They placed the salvage value on the car at $700.00 and I got a check for $13,300.00. I still have parts from the car. I just came across a brand new throttle position sensor and a cylinder head sensor yesterday. It had a new plastic fan and a new fan clutch which are now sitting on a shelf in the garage. What is a new Datsun Comp Department Harmonic Balancer worth? Got one of these too! These are all the parts that are still sitting on the shelf. The engine and suspension were the big ticket items. There is definately money in parting out a vintage car. You have to live in the right place though so your neighbors don't get irritated. Mr. Cutlass, your best shot at this point is to try and prove that your car was worth more than $600.00 and that you were not 40% at fault. 60% of $1000.00 is $600.00 but if you let them apply the $600 value you get what? $360.00!!! What did you pay and when did you pay it? What have you spent making it better? Insurance companies want to settle and quickly. One of your best tactics is just don't. Settle that is. Don't avoid talking to them, just tell them their offer is just not good enough. Tell them you think your car is worth $5000.00 and you don't accept that you had any percentage of fault. They will start to move in a more acceptable direction if you just refuse to settle.

I am not sure what kind of check my bank sends out. I thought it was a counter check which is the same as a cashiers check. I am certainly willing to make up the difference.

The first one is the only one that is really rude. The rest are just misinformed in their own right. People look at the world through a lens that is their own culture. It isn't necessarily intended to be rude, it is just all they have to work with. The clash comes when others who are more well traveled or simply more aware of a global existence challenge the view of the person who sees things through the lens of their small world.

No they can total the car... You need to establish value and quickly. They will come to you with an offer and it will be quite low. When this happened to me they offered $1700.00 and I ended up getting $14,000.00 less $600 salvage value. I then stripped and sold off everything of value on the car even the dented hulk. I made another $20,000.00 off of that. But without some evidence, arguable evidence - you are pretty much stuck with their offer. Look to comparable sales, auctions, you can even have an appraiser look at the car in it's current condition to establish it's preaccident condition. Don't be fooled though, they can and certainly will total your car.

In the Porsche world, no one would dream of using a Pertronix unit without a set of points in the glove box. I am not sure exactly why, but they seem to leave people stranded regularly. I love my Mallory on my 914 but they are the best possible solution there if you aren't going to aftermarket EFI with crank triggered ignition. I am not at all sure that is the case with Z cars, though I trust Carl's assessment because it is Carl. I would love to see the same performance data I have seen with the Mallory and the 914. The Euro distributor is elegant because it is new and stockish... Much of our collective ignition problems are related to age and wear I suspect.

Very nice E! Other forums I frequent would put that answer in a classic file!

I just ordered a check sent direct from my bank which should arrive at your door the 23rd. Thanks for this effort.

'70 something Chevrolet Vega Wagon. I was an undergraduate in Minnesota and it was my winter beater. It started throwing off clutch cables ever week. I just had to make it through the semester so at $40 something a pop plus a half hour under the car I would change them as fast as they would break. Turned out the body was rusted and cracked and it would flex and snap the line. Got the car for free but with all those clutch cables...

My diff doesn't clunk but since it is a Z, it will... Count me in:classic:

It's done with an ohm meter. I haven't done it in years but this could be your problem at idle. Remove your EGR and clean it up too. The water temperature sensor sends a resistence signal as well and if it is all gummed up it could tell the ECU your engine is running hot, causing a rich condition.

The final Trackmasters Event of the year is Friday the 18th at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway... This event is short about 20 entries at this point in time and is looking like a great opportunity to attend a very lightly attended event. That means more track time for you and plenty of good instruction if you are new... If Trackmasters doesn't make their break even number, they are going to open up registration to a motorcycle group which will cut down on track time etc... Registration is $210 or $215 if you use Paypal. See the Trackmasters Racing website to register.