New Ride, New Member

[khans]

Proud owner of a 1988 Granite Green Porsche 911 Coupe.

Looking forward to joining this community, learning from, and contributing to it.

[Laneco]

Lovely car!! Welcome!

angela

[Cherry Bomb]

Welcome, congratulations and your 911 is perfect! Love the look of that one.

[Reifle]

Good looking ride!

[motorcop]

Welcome!! But be careful.......it's a slippery slope!! Lots of luck with the new ride, shes a beauty....

[Brian in VA]

Welcome! Nice color.

[GaryR]

Beautiful car, where are you located?
Welcome!

[Concestor0]

Welcome Khans,

I hope you enjoy the car as much as I enjoy mine.

[allaircooled]

Very nice. Love it! Welcome.

[Quicksilver]

Nice interesting color.

Listen carefully to your car. It has lots to tell you.

[Oh Haha]

That's a way cool, out of the ordinary color!!


The no tail look suits it very well.


Welcome to Pelican!

[OttoB]

Details/background/modifications/story - my friend!!!

[gshase]

That car is way to good looking for someone with only 1 post. Cool colors.

[khans]

Thank you for the warm welcome everybody.

GaryR - I'm located in Seattle, WA (Fremont neighborhood specifically).

I looked at *many* red and black 911s for the 1984-1989 years before settling on this one. The granite green color in real life looks much more grey than green and it really suits this car.

80,000 miles. 5 speed transmission.

The interior of the car has a welded roll cage, sparco evo L seats, schroth 6 point harness, and koni shocks.

This is my first 911 - a few initial impressions - all from driving around in the city.

- *love*, *love*, *love* the way this thing sounds - in particular the roar of the engine.
- steering requires some strength (non-power steering?)
- there is a fair amount of play in the brakes - i.e. (have to depress fairly hard down to get the car to slow down before coming to a dead stop - do I need to get them replaced?)
- car drives like it's on rails - feels like a go-kart that handles incredibly well.

Any recommendations on upgrades to further enhance the driving experience?

thanks!

[khans]

more pictures.

[jsveb]

That is an extremely beautiful and classic 911.

Congrats.

[dan79brooklyn]

Nice, I like the mud flaps. Great color.

[dshepp806]

NICE!!! Enjoy her!

Doyle

[GaryR]

Originally Posted by khans

Thank you for the warm welcome everybody.

GaryR - I'm located in Seattle, WA (Fremont neighborhood specifically).

I looked at *many* red and black 911s for the 1984-1989 years before settling on this one. The granite green color in real life looks much more grey than green and it really suits this car.

80,000 miles. 5 speed transmission.

The interior of the car has a welded roll cage, sparco evo L seats, schroth 6 point harness, and koni shocks.

This is my first 911 - a few initial impressions - all from driving around in the city.

- *love*, *love*, *love* the way this thing sounds - in particular the roar of the engine.
- steering requires some strength (non-power steering?)
- there is a fair amount of play in the brakes - i.e. (have to depress fairly hard down to get the car to slow down before coming to a dead stop - do I need to get them replaced?)
- car drives like it's on rails - feels like a go-kart that handles incredibly well.

Any recommendations on upgrades to further enhance the driving experience?

thanks!

Get the brakes flushed and put in some Motul 600 fluid (good for street and track). You may need to replace the rubber lines that go between the calipers and the hard lines, OEM rubber is just fine. You also may have race pads in there that need a lot of heat to start biting, if driving street only get a normal pad in there that works. Do you have the 3-point belts also? I would hesitate to use a 6-point harness without a HANS device or similar, any frontal impact and you are trying disconnect your head from your body, but that just me... Fresh Mobil 1 V-Twin in the engine, OEM Filter, and new Synthetic in the G50.

For upgrades - Join PCA, get involved with the Driver's Education program and learn to drive the car. Upgrade yourself after taking care of the brakes and any minor maintenance issues.

[scotricker]

search John Walker,,,John Walkers Workshop on this forum. There you go, awesome help in Seattle. I'd be visiting that guy ALL the time if I lived there..