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Excellence article - 1976 930 with >600k miles
Anyone seen this article?
A 74-year-old and his 175-mph, 610,524-mile, one-owner 1976 930. Second Bill | Features | Excellence I was reading through it and found this section on page 3 interesting: “Meanwhile, I’m reading in Excellence about Porsche engines producing 800 to 900 horsepower,” says Bill. “And, like I said, I’m always interested in technological breakthroughs. So I decided to ship my car to this shop in California. Not that I’m blaming Excellence in any way for this, but it turned out to be the worst thing I ever did — as well as the start of everything that has followed.” Bill won’t stoop to naming the shop in question, noting only that it no longer advertises in Excellence. The job took a year rather than a month as promised. The engine didn’t feel “right” in the long-anticipated drive home, which is to say nowhere close to 500 hp. Festering the sore, his wife complained of a troubling gasoline smell, which Bill dealt with by opening the sunroof. After limping home successfully, Auguste found low compression in cylinder number one. Bill got on the phone to California. The wizards there seemed shocked that anything was wrong and invited Bill to ship the Porsche back, which in a great leap of faith he did. “After taking a look, they claimed nothing was really wrong except a loose wire on one of the coils,” says Bill. “But they phoned later to say they wanted me to be happy so they’d build it over again, which sounded great. I should have asked how much they would charge, because the night before I was to fly out to pick up the car, a courier delivered a stack of invoices and the total was exactly what I paid the first time. I got on the phone and yelled and screamed, but they had me hostage. I got stung, big time.” California engine No. 2 expired with a spun bearing two years later. If tombstones were carved for engines, Victim of Improp*erly Reground Crankshaft would mark this one. “I could’ve bought a new Porsche for what I spent. I think of those guys in Cali*fornia as great architects, but lousy builders.”
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I see that car every once in a while. The owner drives it year round.
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Great article, thanks for posting it!
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Thanks for posting. This is a truly amazing article of the relationship between a man and his 930. .
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Great read. Thanks!
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02-02-2015, 11:31 PM
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Nice story, don't know the guy, but Heimrath is legend up here. Bill sounds like a great guy. Wonder if the unnamed California shop was the MM shop which we all hate so much. Sounds like it.
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He certainly wasn't afraid to rebuild, rebuild, rebuild. Damn the torpedoes,
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02-03-2015, 10:05 AM
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