rebuilding three liter myself!!!!!

crashmy911 · 03-01-2002, 04:59 PM

Have any of you done this your self??? Would like to do it myself,would need to borrow tools and would need some guidance. ANy one in the Philly area with experiance it would be much appreciated if I could get some pointers.. James 215 653 7953

davis911s · davis911s's Garage

Do you have Waynes book? With that and this BB I think anyone that is half good with tools could do it. I am going to chance a rebuild myself when the time comes. If there are any "special" tools I am sure that you can borrow or rent them from someone. The best advice I have heard is take your time and label everything.

Of course there will be some things you will have to farm out to a machine shop. Be sure to get a good machine shop- not just the cheapest.

Oh and when (if) you do it. Post lots of pics and do a diary like Leland or others have done.

Shawn

Doug Zielke · 03-01-2002, 05:29 PM

Hey crash....
Read this *excellent* article from the Pelican BBS archives:

http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53524&highlight=engine+rebuild

The author of this very useful article is none other than SCWDP President, Leland Pate. Print it out and read and re-read it.
It is full of tips that you won't find in *any* book.
(In case you didn't know, Leland successfully rebuilt his (entire) motor as a *total novice*).

bjola · 03-02-2002, 12:09 AM

Bruce A's 911 Performance Handbook is also a great guide for rebuilding an engine and the factory manuals if you have a chance to get/borrow them.

This is what I used and the engine is still running strong 7 years and 35 000 km later.

good luck with the rebuild
Bjorn

jabb · 03-02-2002, 05:11 AM

I am doing mine also.... Started in December.... I am just about ready to start putting it back together. You need to make lots of
decesions on what to do but everyone here can help or offer advice. Intially I was only going to do the top end but deciced to do the full rebuild. I was able to borrow some of the special tools needed. If you are a PCA member check in the club someone should have some tools you can borrow..... or lend a hand helping you out.

What year is the motor..... I have the spec book for 82/83
if you would like a copy........

Good Luck

Formerly Steve Wilkinson · 03-02-2002, 05:15 AM

I not only rebuilt the engine in my '83 SC (and the entire rest of the car as well) as a total novice but took it up to nearly 3.4 liters, twin-plugged it and did a bunch of other mods. It's totally do-able,as long as you work slowly, under the cleanest possible conditions, make notes, keep everything in labeled baggies, ask questions, read the books and don't believe anybody who tells you that you have to be named Dieter and wear a white shopcoat in order to do this.

I'll be happy to lend you what special tools I have and provide any advice I can--I'm not far away, in New York--but in fact there isn't an enormous number of special tools that you need. Some of them can be substituted for with homegrown concoctions.

It also helps--it did me--if you can establish a relationship with a knowledgeable nearby shop (I happen to have an independent Porsche shop just four miles away) by buying stuff through them rather than searching for the lowest possible price elsewhere, and they'll lend you tools and give you advice as well, if they're anything like the excellent Advanced Automotive (Tom Florio) in Vail's Gate, New York.

Buy all the books you need; you can never have too many. Disregard the dreadful Brit Haynes manuals but get 1/the proper factory overhaul manuals, 2/Bruce Anderson's book, 3/the factory parts manual with lots of helpful schematics and 4/the Bentley SC manual.

Stephan