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Originally Posted by 450knotOffice
Thanks, Doug, I'm sure you were typing that with your tongue firmly planted in your cheek, but no, the writer is one of our own, fellow Pelican contributor John Glynn (johndglynn).  |
John did an excellent job with the article, but what stayed with me is the fact that he is a true gentleman.
The day of the photoshoot I was meant to drive 150 miles to get to the location.
Whilst on the highway all of a sudden my car started cutting off. Remember that I have had the car now for just a couple of days.
And now i was stranded on the highway... well to cut a long story short there were a couple of issues with the wiring.
The ICU (Ignition control unit form the 993) was mounted on a very small heat sink and was therefor overheathing.
John made a couple of calls and I was able (after having let the car cool off) to reach Tuthill (a very well known Porsche specialist in the area)....
These guys dropped everything and built a bespoke heat sink plate and provided me with a brand new ICU...
But things were not meant to go smoothly that day.
Back on my way the car started running very rough. I eventually manage to get to the photoshoot location but by the end of the day the car was undrivable.
We would find out later after taking the car to Bob Watson (the Motec guru in the UK) on John's suggestion that the mapping was all over the place and that the connector from the wiring harness to the Motec ECU was faulty, firing only one distributor.
Basically the car was running too rich and I wet all the plugs.
I could not drive home (I was 150 miles away) so John offered me his treasured 1976 3.0 Carrera. The agreement was that he'd pick my car up from Bob Watson's after he had dealt with the mapping issues and we'd swap cars back.
It turned out that the problem was not only the mapping. A couple of injectors were not properly connected and the engine builder had used the cylinder temp sensor to control the cold start cycles.
Needless to say the sensor was showing a very high temp immediately switching th map to a richer one too early, resulting to eventually wet plugs.
So it took a while to diagnose the problem and fix it.
Everything now is fixed and Bob switched the CHT sensor with an engine mounted one and remapped the whole thing.
Still John let me have his beloved orange beauty for 3 weeks, whilst my car was getting fixed.
And I had not met John before that day.
To me that goes a long way to show what kind of man he is... I hope I will be able to pay him back sometimes in the future