My 964 RSR clone arrived today....

[Flieger]

The 6th 964 turbo?

[NaplesBound]

Preston, congrats on the purchase man. I hope you enjoy the project as much as you enjoy the driving. Take your time and you will make the right decisions.

...also, please keep up udated with photos!!

Chris

[group911@aol.co]

Originally Posted by preston_brown

Working on it. Here's the original chassis #...can anyone tell anything from this?

That's an unusual number. The one you really need is beneath the fuel cell.
There should be a build number on the panel you see through the back glass- near where your airjack nipple is.

[preston_brown]

Beneath the fuel cell, eh? That's...not going to be easy. I'll try to get over to the shop and check for the build number on the back panel today. Also, the PO told me I had missed a folder of documentation underneath the seat when looking through what arrived with the car, including the Wagenpass...so I'll grab that too.

[group911@aol.co]

Since you are replacing fuel lines it might be a good time to have a look.

[preston_brown]

OK! Some more news. I found a pile of documentation underneath the driver's seat, including the Wagenpass, so I'll be posting some pretty neato stuff shortly. The wagenpass does indeed list the car's serial number as 965006, and identifies it as a 1995 964 (965 written over in same ink) "Turbo II".

I scanned the whole wagenpass and would post if pelican could attach a 20 meg PDF...

My mechanic and I put fresh oil in, checked for oil pressure with a brief crank, and then proceeded to start...with 6 year old 110 octane. It eventually fired and ran for about 10 seconds, then died. Sounded pretty rough the first two or three times we tried this, but not like it was knocking or anything. Smoothed out by the 4th or 5th try. It does want to die unless accelerator is held ever so slightly. We are going to change out the gas and try again to see if it will idle.

Now, the bad news: when we drained the oil the car came with, there were some metal pieces on the magnetic drain plug of the case. They look to be pieces of a gear to me, perhaps a timing gear? Not something that would typically fail in normal operation, only if there were interference and catastrophic stopping of the motor. My mechanic's opinion is that more than likely, this is debris left over from the previous rebuild, since the motor has only been run a few hours since then. If the oil coolers were not sufficiently cleaned out, these could have hung out in the oil lines and then come back and gotten stuck on the drain plug.

Do the pieces look like anything familiar to you? Obviously the very smartest thing to do would be a full tear down, but I've just finished a motor and I'm not too excited to start another one just yet. Opinions?