Welcome back. Golly, your real family is more important than your imaginary on-line friends! I am insulted. ;)

Moring all. Glad to hear Richard is on the mend. Great to see old faces as well. Kid? That's my excuse but its grandkid for me.

I have missed you guys. Well the past 2 years was me trying to get my first house flip completed and sold so I could get into a new house with a garage. My 911 was in storage because I had no garage. I ended up scoring a house with a heated garage....:) Now I am back to focusing on the car. I am planning a complete rebuild. Needs a new paint job, want to put on the 930 steel flares, and I need to pull the motor and renew all the gaskets, inspect for broken head studs and rebuild the tranny.

Just a couple of weekends and you can knock that out. The Overhauling team could do it is 5 days, and put 24 inch wheels on it, with a 2,000 watt stereo and maybe convert it to a slant nose as well. :eek:

A warm garage is wonderful. I took all the suspension off of my 911 when we were having a blizzard here several years back. I was working in a t-shirt and jeans and comfortable.

hahaha, no 2000 watt stereo or 24 inch wheels for this guy. I want to keep it all period correct. I want to keep this baby looking classy.

t-shirt and jeans is what i am hoping for :D

Glen you should trick out the plant managers car that way. After doing it be aware of holes that might hide a body.

Chip Foose is a great guy from what I hear, and he does have some great designs. I would never ever want him to touch my cars for overhauling. Every single car show that makes "restomod" cars has the same formula, GIANT wheels and tires, silly high HP and a trick interior and stereo. Even great places like Kindig have the same formula. I hope that some day in the future lots of people will be restoring cars and making drivers of them again with tires that are big enough, but not silly big. And cars that people can actually drive as a regular car. I understand show cars, but I will never have a car I can't drive in the rain or on long road trips.

Rant over.

At least the wheels are easy to change back.

Yea, but they will be up inside huge "tubs" but from the outside it is OK. The ride height may be all wrong if the car was channeled to get it to the typical just above scraping the ground level.

In the end, it is just a car, and personal property. They can do whatever they want to their personal property as long as it is their own money.

I see the same type of thing on the 911 tech site all the time. One owner makes a car into a track oriented track whore, and the new owner makes it a street car again. Lots of threads on removing the AC systems or going to headers and no heat. Then the new owner trying to find the parts to make it a comfortable street car. Or the other way around.

agreed, I put my current 911sc back to ROW specs and set it back to that ride height. I think it is perfect that way, I wouldn't want to go any lower. I want a car I can drive and take on road trips. I will be updating the AC in the car, getting the heating sorted and making it comfortable with a few engine mods to increase performance a little. I will be going up a little in wheel size from a 16" to a 17 or 18" fuchs with enough for good side wall on the tire. The plan is to take the wife on a cross country trip in it once I get done.

Sounds like you will have a very nice 911 when done.

I have 17s on my 911 now. I have the 15 inch Fuchs that came with it up in the attic. I changed only to be able to find decent tires for a sports car. All I can find in a 15' is autocross gummy tires that are terrifying in the rain.

My car is at the "European" ride height which is what the car was designed to be at. The US height was only to meet bumper regulations.

When I did my engine I had a few (lots) of "while yer in there" things. All of them were mild and now I have 200 rear wheel HP and not 200 at the crank like stock.

sounds like a good set up. I will be doing a lot of while you were in there things as well (like upgrading to the oil fed timing chain tensioners). I have a well sorted CIS, but i want to change that to EFI or carbs. Also want to refresh the suspension and upgrade to brembo brakes.

In all the 40+ years I have been in the club I have never seen a 911 with carbs, that runs right. They all either run super rich, lean, or get fuel starvation in hard corners. I feel sure someone out there has them set up right, but they are usually on 2.0 or 2.2 engines.

There is no simple and inexpensive fuel injection system for a 911 that I have seen. When was shopping for a 911 I had already decided I wanted a 3.2 Carrera for the DME injection, bigger brakes, and bigger clutch and of course the 3.2 not a 3.0 engine.

The SC is lighter, so it is pretty close to the Carrera. Just the typical 911 progression of more power and faster year after year. Bruce Anderson always said get the latest and newest 911 one can afford. My car was just 10 years old when I bought it.

Haha, mine was 29 years old when I bought it. I acquired mine from my dads best friend. He had 3 in the garage while I was growing up and my dad and I would visit. He had the SC, an 84 Carrera and an older 356. back in 2011 he got diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and decided to sell me the SC which I always loved if I wanted it. I of course jumped on it. He sold the 356 to someone else and gave his house and 84 to his son. I bought wayne's books when I was first working on her and getting her back on the road after sitting for a long period of time. Now I want to give her a big refreshing look on life. The oil leaks got worse from the old gaskets and sitting and the clear coat is coming off.

Thanks for the input on the carbs, that pushes me more towards the EFI now or just staying with the CIS. We'll see when I start tearing into her.

Glen het second photo down in that last picture post, the mountain. I see that every day the sun us out from my back deck.

Pretty view. Until it erupts! :eek:

Morning, the sun is finally starting to shine through today. Wasn't able to see the planet overlap last night because it was too cloudy.

We had about perfect conditions last night for the viewing, 50 degrees, no breeze, and perfect clear skies. Jupiter is much brighter, and Saturn is just to the 3 or 4 O'clock position. No doubt in the era before electricity, (most of human history) people would notice the planets and that they are close together. I have read that most of the travelers in those times learned the positions of the constellations, certainly the north star, and the visible planets. So a wise man would know that is was the two planets moving in the sky as they always do, but they appear close together. Of course for most of human history people thought the Earth was the center of the universe.

Today is is supposed to be in the mid 60s! And winter has officially started.

morning all. We got a special treat of snow last night. Made the grass white for a few hours now its all gone.