$200 Gyro Sandwich

As far as really fun places for your Porsche to crap out, I-15 in the middle of the Mohave desert enroute to your favorite Greek restaurant (Mad Greek, Baker,Ca) is right up there. Price gouging tow truck, Greyhound Bus ride back to Vegas, 160 mile round trip with truck and trailer and that damned 930 is back in my garage. The $200 Gyro? Delicious! Any suggestions? I'm driving along at about 75mph, nice and cool day, no abnormal gauge readings and it's as if someone flipped an on/off switch "off". No coughing, sputtering or limping down the shoulder, just instant dead. All electricals are working, starter motor spins the motor as normal, 3/4 tank of gas, just not so much as a sputter??? I'm thinking fuel pump failure? I'll check for spark today but I'm more leaning towards fuel. '76 930's have two fuel pumps, front and rear, would they both have to fail, or will the failure of just one block fuel off fuel flow and stall the car? Thanks for any suggestions, Tom

Other posts coming soon:
-The people you meet on a late night Greyhound to Vegas
-How many Boxters can pass a stranded 930 without noticing (or pretending not to notice)


[This message has been edited by troy (edited 01-07-2001).]

I've been through Baker on vacation once. Those desert towns are really strange IMO - like Barstow and 'the worlds biggest thermometer'!

You are brave driving your car through 'the high desert' - we had a rental minivan which was getting quite breathless out in the desert - I was scared

Troy,

Except for saving you the price of a bus ticket, and maybe forgoing the pleasures of fellow late-night Greyhound passengers, just WHAT POSSIBLE USE/HELP COULD A BOXSTER DRIVER BE???

Sudden death without ANY SPUTTERING does not sound like fuel cut-off to me ... the accumulator has enough reserve for at least a few seconds of 'sputtering/gasping' in the last moments of engine life! I would look very closely at your Bosch 0.221.121.001 coil (primary resistance 0.4 to 0.6 Ohms, secondary 650 to 790 Ohms) and the connections at the CDI-unit, as well as continuity at the connector for the distrbutor pickup coil. Pickup coil lead failure most likely problem, but others thrown in for good measure!

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Warren Hall
1973 911S Targa

Hey Troy funny how expensive a gyro can get. A co worker had a craving for hot dogs from a harbor near the wisconsin border. He left out of Chicago fine and had a nice hot dog ($200 in fuel). The adventure started when he "located" some pilings from a old military base. These were not charted so it suprised everybody. The boat was now sinking so a mad dash for the beach ensued. The short ending, 45K and 3 months to get a 50' Chriscraft back on top of the water. All for six hotdogs

5axis, as a former Chicagoan, I've got to wonder: what the heck was your co-worker thinking?

Chicago has the best hot dogs on earth!

It's one of the penalties of living in Los Angeles (balanced out by the year-round availability of tracks and the near-complete absence of automotive rust) that you can't get a decent hot dog out here to save your life.

No White Castles, either.


And I know it doesn't promote "save the flash"-style unity, but I'd love to have a bumper sticker that reads exactly as Warren put it:

WHAT POSSIBLE USE/HELP COULD A BOXSTER DRIVER BE???

Gee, doc, 'Why the hostility?'

I don't know. I spent the better part of the morning at a 'christening party' with my 2000-Boxster-S-driving (investment banker) neighbor and his 2000-M-Roadster-driving (literary agent) friend. Nice guys, I guess, but neither is willing to do much more than drive to work and watch while somebody parks or washes his car. They both think track driving would be fun, but can't bring themselves to risk the stone chips or premature wear to their tires.

Sheesh.

Come to think of it, what the heck am I doing spending time with these people? I'm from a family of hot dog eaters and engineers!

I need a road trip.

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Jack Olsen
1973 911 T (3.6) sunroof coupe

[This message has been edited by JackOlsen (edited 01-08-2001).]

And by the way, is that Great Lakes Naval Base?

Jack the pilings were off Fort Sheridan. They had something to do with the base's WW2 activities. I guess one of the old timers at the boatyard remembered fishing off them. Too bad nobody put them on a map. The whole incendent made a very long summer for my friend Jimmy AKA captain Nemo.

If you need a good chicago style dog I recomend a road trip to Las Vegas. Go to Cheetahs on a weekend night, enjoy the sights. Some of my ex girlfriends worked there, anyway, there was dog vendor there who does a pretty good chicago dog. Mostly naked women and good dog can make for a very satisfying evening.
For the best I think you would have to come back to River rd. and go to Jean&Judes.