What's Up with You Guys?!?!?

[North Coast Cab]

Time to drive the car. My most recent investment from Pelican was for the engine rebuild book. I'm sure it will lead to a significant amount of discretionary income spending.

JG

[JDaniel]

It's been raining, raining, raining. I've only put 900 miles on it this year (as opposed to my usual 4K at this time).

[briankeithsmith]

I've got a wife...

[Wayne 962]

I hear you Brian. Just went shopping with the wife yesterday - had to hold her back...

-Wayne

[nostatic]

If I had a place to work on the car (with a lift), and some knowledgeable folk to help (tell me what bolt to turn while they sip a beer), I would buy more parts and do more DIY.

Along with "DriveWerks", how about a "ShopWerks"? Or set up deals with certain shops for delivering parts and involving the customer as middle man?

[carreradpt]

Wayne, I think that it is just summertime. The weather up here (NW) has been so darn good that everyone is out and about. Don't want to spend much time fixing things, want to get out and do some cruisin. It will pick up. I know I have some things to order in short time. DT

[surflvr911sc]

Todd, you give me beer, I'll stand there all weekend and point at your car. What's so hard about that???

[Overpaid Slacker]

Well, Wayne -- I bought a whole bunch of stuff for my now-deceased 930, and wrecked it the night before I was going to install all of it.
The good news is, I'm buying an '83 930 (assuming the PPI works out), so I should be "needing" a bunch more stuff in the near future.
Put it this way, Pelican was the first site I added to "Favorites" on the new computer last Friday.

JP

[nostatic]

Originally posted by surflvr911sc
Todd, you give me beer, I'll stand there all weekend and point at your car. What's so hard about that???

Did I mention that you have to point at the *correct* bolt?

[GSpreeman]

Nostatic, I'm in the same boat. We should start up something like a roundrobin. Every other week go to a different guy's house and work on his car. Maybe an engine drop this week, two weeks from now top to bottom detailing, R&R a front end, etc.

For Wayne's benefit, if I knew I could buy $500 worth of front end parts and have them put in (or at least someone sipping a beer while I do it RIGHT) I'd spend a lot more than I do now.

[surflvr911sc]

Originally posted by nostatic
Did I mention that you have to point at the *correct* bolt?

Oh sure, get demanding, w/ that kind of attitude we’d be in counseling by Sunday morning.

How about we try compromising; I point at the right bolt 50% of the time, and you don’t have to buy Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale for me?

In order to try and keep this a little on topic, I just updated my Project List for all the things I need for the 3.6 conversion. OMG! I’m not even close to being done adding things. Wayne, I vow to do my part this month to pull PP out of the slump, which seems to be much more of a bump than a slump.

[H.G.P.]

Originally posted by Quicksilver
-- begin beating on podium ---[*]- Look at having someone go through all the posts and put responses in that point directly to the part numbers being discussed. I don't think anyone here would mind you beating your own drum if it isn't to loud. Hey, you gave us the playground.

Wayne

I ended up buying (just "recently"), my pulley, now in use, from Pelican. Jim Sims, on this board posted the Pelican catalog number for me for this item, right in the thread. For me, I think this would be a great service, on a consistent basis, on threads pertaining to sought parts.

For instance, in my needing a new flywheel, I could not immediately locate the part in the Pelican catalog (69 flywheel), and would have been a great service just to know where the part (if in) the catalog is, the cost, the shipping charge, and important to me, on exactly what date the part would arrive, right in the thread. I don't care if it comes across as an advertisement, in fact I see this as being more caring to my needs. e.g.: Maybe if not too much additional work, a board member could have an option checked off for "parts in the thread". (I would not mind seeing a Pelican parts rep, right in my thread, stating "we have such and such part, in stock, it's catalog no. XXXX, and delivers in XXX time/date, etc.,)

The other issue with me is time. I like my parts right when I want them. My schedule is such, that I make deliberate hours to work on my car, and other hours are strictly off limits devoted to other matters

Thanks for the board Wayne.

[Crowbob]

Wayne,

Many of us have spent many thousands of $. Many of us also feel truly fortunate to have such a support/tech. group available via Pelican Parts. However, many of us also are very sensitive to implications that something is up with US because we're not meeting your sales projections. There's a lot of competion out there, especially for such discretional spending. The problem is not with US (if there is a problem). As far as I can tell, there is no reason Porsche parts shoud be as expensive as they are, either original or aftermarket; "exclusivity" has some value...to a point. The reality is that most people view Porsche as an overrated, overpriced status symbol. With all due respect Wayne, businesses large and small are clamoring for every dollar they can get. I haven't heard you are anyone else ask what's up with Porsche head studs, or tensioner failures or cooling problems or body sag or Targa top problems, etc...

Don't misunderstand, I am dedicated to Porsche (I own two) and will continue to support Pelican in any way that I can. But when asked what's up with me, I cringe...

[bornrich]

I was unemployed from Jan 02 til Jul 02 and then again from Apr 03 til now. So I'm holding off on any big purchases for my baby. But I still look at catalogs and plan for when I can return to DE and autoxing when I'm employed once again.

Anyone need a Release Engineer in the San Jose area?

[azasadny]

Wayne,

I bought my '74 911 Targa on June 21, 2002 and then bought quite a bit of hardware from you and others (stuff you didn't carry). Now that the car is on the road and running well, I'm driving it and planning upgrades for the winter "hibernation". This is prime driving season in Michigan, so I don't plan on doing much to the car until November. I really appreciate your company, this website and all of the wonderful people I've "met" here. Thank you for your care, concern and professionalism. Hang in there and stay honest!!!!!

[don911]

Yesterday, I bought a new 23mm master cylinder and a spiffy Rennline dead pedal.

[76 silver targa]

i just got a wife,( like last week) and, well, i cant spend the time i would like with the "other woman"

[1fastredsc]

No woman or kids, just the car. And it seems that i'm the only idiot working on his car in this great weather. Plus since i sold the 944, i've been driving a chevy express van. Right now i'm trying to save up for the head work and cylinder lapping that's going to put me in debt.

[TMH]

Originally posted by jazzbass
I think you're talking about Performance, correct? If so, I got the 20% discount thing, too. Interestingly, 20% off their over-inflated prices brings them down to Pelican's level.

I don't necessarily agree. I buy from both Performance and Pelican, but I put a $300+ order into Performance last week after I did a direct price comparison between Performance -20% vs Pelican -0%. Performance won out on that battle.

I prefer buying from Pelican due to the level of service they provide. Someone also said that Pelican will match prices. This I had not previously known this if, in fact, it is true. Would prefer to use Pelican in the future, but money talks...

Tom

[Wayne 962]

Originally posted by H.G.P.
The other issue with me is time. I like my parts right when I want them. My schedule is such, that I make deliberate hours to work on my car, and other hours are strictly off limits devoted to other matters

Thanks for the board Wayne.

That's all fine and good, but of course, you want a 1969 'S' copper-plated flywheel available to you the next day. A lot of people don't understand that these cars are not too common (despite everyone here talking about them) and the market is very small. The 1969S flywheels have not been available for many, many years...

A lot of things here are special order. That is why we recently updated our shopping cart with "expected delivery times" so that you guys will better know when to expect the hard-to-get items.

-Wayne