Here goes...1st Engine Drop

[dweymer]

"joy of ownership" or stupidity!

[DaddyGlenn]

Ignorance is bliss?

[TERRIBLEHONDO]

Its obvious all the 911's in florida have there engines out. You would think that summer would be the time to do this.

[DaddyGlenn]

"Hello, my name is Glenn and I own a Porsche daily-driver."

After spending hours scrubbing on my engine today, I had an epiphany.

My engine is not going to be sparkling clean without some serious disassembly, which I am not willing to undertake at this time for three reasons.

1. It doesn't need it.
2. I can't afford it.
3. I'm really not up to it, right now. There is just too much going on.

OK, there is a fourth and it is the most compelling ... I am going through withdraw and need to get it back on the road.

So to manage your expectations.... I won't be doing any fancy powder coating or trick detailing. Once I am done the pictures I will post will be of a well running, relatively clean engine with freshly painted tin in a cleaned (not spotless) engine bay with a new sound pad.

There, I've put it in writing. I have been officially defeated by the detail gods.

[TERRIBLEHONDO]

Glenn I had already come to that decision for my car. I thought you were doing a great job cleaning everything I just do not have the patience for it. I adjusted the valves and put the valve covers back on mine already (No broken studs!). I need to transfer from project list to my cart and get it shipped. The engine will get totally cleaned if I need to rebuild it in the future. Good luck getting it back in.

[DaddyGlenn]

The clutch kit arrived today. it was in a sealed Sachs box and looks just like a new one should. I'm thinking I got a fair deal. I will remain cautiously optimistic since I won't know for sure until I get it back on the road.

[DaddyGlenn]

Well... the news doesn't get better.... I just got back from the machine shop. Looks like the flywheel is toast.

So, I'm looking for recommendations... stock or lightened? and if lightened, which one?

[dweymer]

street or track?

I would be careful if a street application, but you may want to ask this over in the racing forum.

Rember, opinions are like a@@holes, everyone has one; and everyone else's stinks!

[DaddyGlenn]

Thanks Donnie. It occurred to me that I am not the first to ask the question, so I did a search. Wouldn't you know I found my answer.

Since it is a daily driver and only dreams of seeing the track (The dream will come true sometime in '07, I hope), I am going with a stock replacement.

[Aufenbahn]

Not that I have much experiance with 911s but it seems like with the rear weight bias of these things that you might be careful when you put that engine back in if you moved the jackstands after the engine was half out. I'm just wondering about where the balance point of these things is with the engine put back in? I'd hate to see it tip. Thanks for sharing your pictures

[DohertyCM]

Why did you determine to use the stock and not lightened...

There is a rule with this site...you cant keep answers to yourself. There are others out here like myself that are in the same position as yourself and are asking the same questions.....

Anyway since other people are posting pics of there last engine pull, so will I....

Aufenbahn wrote "Not that I have much experiance with 911s but it seems like with the rear weight bias of these things that you might be careful when you put that engine back in if you moved the jackstands after the engine was half out. I'm just wondering about where the balance point of these things is with the engine put back in? I'd hate to see it tip. Thanks for sharing your pictures"

To answer your question...atleast this is what I do. I treat it like a volkswagon motor and lower the car down on the motor, then raise the motor into the car the rest of the way. The car is NOT on jack stands so the car doesnt shift. But the front wheels are chocked so they dont move... WISH I HAD A LIFT!

After the Rally tomorrow, I am tearing mine apart again.

[dweymer]

You must REALLY trust that jack!

[DohertyCM]

It was only up long enough for me to take the photos.
I thought it was so funny having it up that high..

With the front wheels on the ground it wasnt going anywhere, short of someone pushing it over..


It was kinda funny...

[SP2]

Originally posted by DohertyCM
With the front wheels on the ground it wasnt going anywhere, short of someone pushing it over..

Yikes, that looks horribly dangerous. Even if it was only up for a bit, posting that photo might make someone think this is ok. Then something happens and they die. Really not funny. We should promote safety. The chocks in the front look inadeqaute for a 2000+ lb car on a smooth concrete floor.

[DaddyGlenn]

Sorry. Didn't mean to keep secrets. this is the thread that did it for me:

Performance increase from a lighter flywheel?

As I mentioned earlier, mine is a daily driver lots of starts and stops.

[dentist90]

Wow... that's some altitude! I couldn't get my car 1/2 that high to do my rear shocks 'cause my chin spoiler would start to crush on the floor. See what I mean? I would have to put the front tires on wooden blocks to jack it up like that...


BTW... I really enjoy my Porsche, and I would be really sad if I couldn't drive it because it was parked on TOP of me. Be careful, eh! And try not to work alone on an engine install... just in case.

[DaddyGlenn]

I didn't get to spend too much time on it this weekend. I was doing battle with a stomach virus that consumed much of my energy. But, I did get to the point that I can say the engine is as clean as it is going to get.

I also replaced the oil pressure sender, green wire on the distributor and the crankcase breather gasket. Ran into a problem here that maybe someone can help with. The man-machine interface on my torque wrench failed (on the "man" side) and I over torqued a couple of the nuts on the crankcase breather cover and smashed the aluminum washers all to he11. I have temporally replaced them with steel washers. Any ideas what the washer specs are/were and where I might find replacements? Would a local nut and bolt store have them?

[dweymer]

I may have some here, they are m-6 right?

[DaddyGlenn]

I really don't know what size they are. I'm not real familiar with washer sizing.

[TERRIBLEHONDO]

I did not bother with the clutch fork. Tranny shifts fine I did not want to add to the bill at this time with christmas coming so I did not want to look at the clutch and be tempted to replace it so I never bothered removing it. So if I do not look at it it must be good. right? Its hard to believe how much the little miscelaneous stuff ends up costing. Do you know if the turkey rod run has any porsche stuff for sale at a swap meet? Thats up in your area right?