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Originally Posted by Longboarder
Hi everyone. In reading a lot of the threads here, I was in the same position as a lot of you guys with a 930 not running well. I purchased a '79 930 almost a year ago from one of the popular auction sites. When I got it, it had some tuning and electrical issues and a bunch of oil leaks. It has taken a while to sort everything but my shop was able to get it running 100%. It would have been a much quicker process but in the midst of doing some shakedown testing, I broke a rocker arm and bent a couple valves so it was down for a few months and the second time the engine was removed. Anyway I got it back early January and was finally able to stretch its long legs in 2nd and 3rd gear (quick video below). Fearful of revving too high (from the broken rocker arm experience), I am keeping the RPMs under 6,000 if doing a (rare) WOT pull. Also I'm definitely granny shifting as I want to keep the clutch happy.
This isn't the fastest car in the world (like it was 45 years ago lol) but still is a blast and takes your breath away when full boost kicks in at 4,000 RPM. It has Brian's headers and modular Hoonigan muffler with a catalyst added + a K27-7006 seeing about about 1 bar of boost on the gauge.
Now that I'm comfortable with the reliability, looking forward to taking some longer drives.
Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZgRh-StHQ |
video looks and sounds great..
how do you like those Rarly8 headers? i am itching to get those...