A new what? Must have been something before my time. LOL Actually I still have two of them and a big collection. Kyle, that sounds fun, count me in and I'll bring my guitars and sax. I will however expect some free sax lessons from you.

I probably have one in the garage I can give you. It is the only way I listen to music at home. I have old MacIntosh tube gear and a pair of Linn speakers w/ a hot rodded Rega turntable, Ahmad Jamal never sounded so good. I sell the digital Theater stuff, I listen to analog. My daughter asked me one time "dude where did you get the big CDs?" She has finally come around and her favorite band is the Doors.

Steve

St Louis looks like it's right in the middle for everybody. Guess I should tell Jeannie to expect guests. I have a big garage for the "Pseudo Porsches" to record their debut album. What about names for the songs??

Running..Running...Not

Timing belt blues

I feel so underpowered



Steve

"What's that sound?"

"Rubber clutch shuffle"

"Somebody poured paint thinner on my hood again."

"Sand in the Gas Tank"

"Welcome to Long Beach... The Hard Way"

"Help Me, SoCal!"

"Todwic's On Fire"

Another Saturday night and I ain't got no money
Struggler's Blues
Porsche's Guard Red Stepchild
Money Money
Gimme Three starts
When a man loves a Porsche
Tommy's TwoTone towtruck 8675309
HELP! (Wait that one is taken)
The night the lights went out in Georgia (Damn that one is taken too)
Should have known Better (Rats!)
Everything I own (No, not that one either)
My Favorite Mistake (Oops, another one)
Hammer Time (No, that's not one)
Start Me Up (That's not going to work either)
Losin my religion (Hmmm)
Flirtin with Disaster (My theme song so I know it's taken)
I can't drive 55 (Looks like most of the good ones are taken)

Going to have to get more creative....

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Steve

I really want to take out the Porsche this weekend as I'm heading home friday... But with all this rain... I don't know. Driving that thing in the rain is suicide with the roads I live on.


But I have to pickup the date in something.... :-)


**EDIT: On a seperate note, I have a guy that lives in the flat next to me that has two standing tickets for the game that was postponed tonight for sale for about 400$ a peice (maybe negotiable). If anyone is interested my email is mjedm6@umr.edu. I think he is willing to deliver them to the stadium.

Schumi:

It's supposed to be beautiful this weekend. I have to run down to one of my business interests in St Clair Saturday morning. I'm geting the 944 out for sure.

Steve

Its supposed to be gorgeous out here on the west coast this weekend too. I think I'll have to take mine for a drive as well.

An update: I think some people on here were asking what sort of power I was getting out of the blower kit. I had it dyno tuned this week and the tuner really like the SMT7's software and features. Anyway, it put down 220rwhp on a mustang dyno (natoriously low). This should be around 300hp at the crank. The owner of the dyno shop said he dyno's e36 M3's (240hp) all the time and they consistantly put down 165-170hp on the mustang dyno.

Stop it Bleu, you are such a tease. I keep going back and forth about doing the blower:

It runs really well now
It would run really better w/ the SC
It's $5K
It would really run great w/ the SC
I'll have unforseen time and money doing it
It will really run well and I will be able to put the 944SC badge back on
The first time was such a pain and I still haven't gotten any money back
It will be the ony one around these parts
I could just buy another M3 and rock on
If it runs this good with 125-140 HP imagine what 220 would do?

You get the idea:

I know I'll wind up doing it after I have our legal system do it's thing in Florida. I still get pissed every time I think about getting conned. In the meantime I am going to stick the MAF conversion back on it and take it in next Friday to get it set up and see how well it runs. There is just something about the whine of a SC equipped car, and it's cool looking under the hood too. I have stashed $2K from selling my tickets to the error series. These teams look like double A ball the way they are dropping balls and making throwing errors. That $2K would also have increased as beer is $8.50 ea and parking is anywhere from $20-$40.

Steve

World Series
 

Well I was definately wrong about the Tigers taking it in 5. I'm glad I was only kidding about buying everyone who has visited this post a beer if the Birds won. As of 8;00AM CST this morning that would be 17,185 beers @ the stadium price of $8.50each........$148,750 (plus tax) for a grand total of $161,021.87. Lets see buy you guys a beer each or me a new 911 turbo and maybe another new Durango. I can't decide.....

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Any Mets fan want one of these cups? PM me an address and the first one that comes in I will send a cup to. It has to be someone in the New York area.

Steve

I Need Help With a Problem
 

My car has developed a weird problem and I need help. If I drive at a steady highway speed @ a normal 4K-4.5K RPM for about a half hour and then stop, the car will not idle. It dies immediately. I can feather the gas and keep it running. If I then start up again in about 5 minutes it starts to cut out under load. It bucks and cuts out to the point I don't know if it will make it. I can stop and let it sit for an hour or so and everything is fine again until I do the highway thing and the problem will repeat. It happens about 30% of the time. If it has sat for an hour or so then the idle will surge from 800-1200. It never does this problem running around town.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

I have replaced a ton of stuff as verified by this thread. The problem existed prior to the work. The one thing I have not replaced is the fuel pump. The fuel filter is replacd every 5K miles approximately. I have put on 2 since the problem began a couple years ago. I am ordering a new high pressure fuel pump as soon as I am done typing as it will be required for the SC anyway.

Thanks:

Steve

any chance that the heat generated from driving at highway speeds is somehow causing something to expand, creating a vacuum leak?

Kyle:

That is kind of what it feels like. I will try and check it. If that is what it is you win the Cardinal's cup.

Steve

Kyle:

You are a f.... genious. I just went outside and caught it doing the surging. I grabbed the AFM and started moving it back and forth. I could change the idle back to normal. When I dumped the stock air box I did not provide adaquate support for the AFM and I think that the main bellows has developed a crack. I will be replacing it straight away. I can now take the pistol out of my mouth. PM your address and I will send you one of the coveted, only used once, collectable, Cardinal / Mats plastic cups free of charge. It holds approximately 24 oz, less what is spilled, is lightweight, highly portable, and would make a fine addition to any plastic cup collection.

Steve

hehehe thanks steve... but i'm not a cards fan. Send my cup to someone who would like to add it to their baseball collection :):p

Kyle:

You don't know what you are missing out on. It makes even our watered down pathetic local macro brew tolerable, maybe not for $8.50 a pour but tolerable sort of.

Steve

lol i should send ya some real canadian beer!

Yeah, I guarantee you it's better than what is produced here under the label of the "King of Beers". We do have a vey good micro brewery "Schlafley's Tap Room". They do an excellent ale and a very good Heffeweizen. Tom Schafley plays softball with a bunch of guys I know and I occasionally am drafted. "The Pink Flamingos" after the John Waters movie of the same name. You can imagine just how classy these guys are if they pattern themselves after a 300lb transvestite that squeezes a poodle for a snack. They are 90% lawyers including Tom and all are a throwback to the 60's. A couple years ago my wife and I dressed in 10' tall Schafley beer bottle costumes we made and danced behind their Mardi Gras float for over 6 miles. It is the drunkest I have ever been. It got so bad that we caught the float behind us on fire and halted the 2nd largest Mardi Gras parade in the US. It was an event that really made our children proud of us. It could possibly be the cause of our son becoming a, choke, Republican, and our daughter moving to Chicago. Oh the horror!!!
Jeannie and I are not prototypical parental influences, were lucky none of our family has been institutionalized, at least not for more than "observation". The really scarry part is my 3YO granddaughter is just like me.

Steve

hey steve, tried to reply to your PM.. your mail box is full..

I just emptied it

Steve

944 for a fall drive
 

It was beautiful here this weekend. 69, low humidity, and clear. The 944 had to get out for a drive.My nephew was here in St Louis rowing for Mizzou against Wash U and St Louis U. I thought it was against major east coast teams but that is later in the year. Mizzou showed up a man short so they borrowed the guy in the blue shirt from St Louis U.

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Camel toe?

Steve

Great Mardi Gras story Steve.

I am a huge fan of the Schlafly's Pale Ale and promote it to everyone I know.

I also took my 924S for a drive this weekend. It was just going to be a trip across some rolling country lettered highways out to help a friend work on another car and back, about a 60 mile total drive. Ended up driving there and then up to another town to visit with some more people, and then drove (after dark) out to a private community for a small 'get-together' as we are calling our small gatherings now. The P-car stayed there until the morning when I drove the way back to store her in the garage again. In all over a half tank of gas. And the P-car never skipped a beat, even after succumbing to some trackday time on a certain stretch of 'C Hwy' that I swear was built by out of work race track pavers. I will have to get some video of it sometime (when the road is closed for racing, of course :) )

The fall colors made everything that much better.

Hey guys..... just love keeping up to date with this post down here in Oz. Has anyone thought about getting it put in the Guiness Book of Records for the longest ever? Or coz I've only been on here for a year or so, have I missed one longer? Honestly, I do enjoy it, and the weirdest part is, its like I know most of you personally!! Good luck to you all. Keep it up. Be sure to let me know if any of you visit "down-under".

Schumi:

My nephew is a Chem E Major in Columbia, just like his dad was. Aaron told me yesterday that he was pulling 3 Cs and a B and really having to study. However, he said the social life was awesome. He's a freshman in his first semester away from home and in a dorm right now so when he gets an apartment it's going to be at least a 5 year program for his BS, just like his uncle Steve. From what I am able to remember those last 30 credit hours took 3 years and a ton of parties. His brother Alex will be starting up there next year and wants to go to the Journalism school and eventually have a cable TV cooking show. His mom wants him to be a Rabbi. I'm glad we had kids early, I can't imagine paying $30-$40k a year for college for the next 5-6 years.
I just wish they were car guys. For some reason I'm the only one in our family that is totally into it. Everybody else thinks they are simply transportation.

Steve

I'm still in a nice A to B range in all of my classes but that might change with an exam tommorow....

There are three types of people here. Thsoe who have hardly any social and just sit and study all day and go play video games, those who are laid back and party but know how to get the grades, and those who party all the time and never goto class.

The first and third kinds are the ones who don't make it.

Schumi:

The Mardi Gras story is true, I will dig up the old pictures and post a couple. The fire made the front page of the Post Dispatch. We had nothing to do with it...that is my story...I am sticking to it....we were just "in the area"...

Steve

Camel toe...that was funny. So, how much was the bail money after the fire. If you don't need bail money, you ain't having enough fun! Haven't needed any bail money for a while but I did get thrown out of a Mexican restaurant/bar in Nashua a couple months ago. My last official HP business trip...had to go out in style!

Hey Jezza..thanks for the kind words and I want to extend the same welcome for you here in Texas. If you ever think you may want to come this way, just let me know. Bring pictures though...always enjoy looking at Australia. Can't have too many friends, can we?

Last time that was required was during a "misunderstanding" I had w/ a local police officer. I got caught "allegedly" doing 55 in a 40. When he pulled me over he swore I threw something out the window and started asking me if it was a gun. Seriously there was nothing thrown out the window, he was just an a..hole. They took me down and handcuffed me to a wall. After tearing my car apart they brought in the paper bag w / the Chinese carry out I had just picked up. When I then asked them if they were now going to eat my dinner also I got really harrassed. Before it was over my brother had to bail me out and then represent me. Turns out a similar description vehicle had been involved in a robbery close by and I was the lucky next guy with a similar car.

Steve

Halloween
 

This has absolutely nothing to do with a Porsche but a lot of posts here havn't. Halloween was great. My 3 year old granddaughter was, as I'm sure 90% of 3 year old girls were, a Fairy Princess. I made a costume out of an old TV to wear to pass out candy. I back lit it and sat on my son's porch. When the kids came up I turned on the light and opened my eyes. I had those clear contacts on w/ white face and it looked really bizarre. I managed to scare the s... out of a couple kids. I guess I'm just a mean, crabby, pissy, old man at heart. I also had to examine her candy to make sure "nothing look tampered with". The tootsie rolls looked bad so I took them home for further evaluation.

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Steve

Steve

It's like this thing does not want to be completed. I put on the MAF again and drove down to verify the dyno time for tomorrow. I got back in the car and it won't start. It will pop off then die. I have fuel pressure, etc. I got a ride home to get the old AFM to stick back on and when I get back, boom it starts right up. I drove it home (maybe 15 minutes), turn it off, it won't start again. I had heard somewhere about the MSD coils breaking down and so I quickly put the stock Bosch one on and boom it starts right up. Has anyone experienced this problem? I am going to go back outside and run around for 15 minutes ir so to see if it happens again. This was really embaressing to say the least to have it happen in front of the guy that is going to work on it tomorrow.

Thanks for any input:

Steve

Steve, I just think it may be a result of the combination of all the new variables that have been going into the car. The MAF, the coil, etc.. A lot of new parts on an old car. They just haven't had time to be broken in and had the bugs ran out of them, and since you have done all thsi work in a short period of time it is hard to troubleshoot the problem locations.

Keep at it, you will get it worked out.

Dude:

I'm freaking out. I got in it and ran to Best Buy, get out, no start. It fires and dies. My son had to come pick me up. I am going back with a fu.... hammer. That MAF is the biggest POS I have ever had. West is still haunting me. I just wanted to at least use the one thing I got for my $3800. I swear that before this saga is over I am personally going to fly to Orlando and kick somebody's ass. It will probably be my only satisfaction.

Steve

I'm willing to buy a plane ticket and help you. lol
I could use the vacation... and your problem is even frustration ME, I cant imagine what it's doing to you..

Kyle:

You get hereI guarantee you you will have a good time. My wife and son together run 19 hotels so rooms obviously are not a problem. In addition I have done sound consulting for most of the good music clubs in town. Somebody help me!!! This is really getting frustrating. I have to be missing something!!

Steve

Ahhhhhghieee$*&%$@Q!

I went back to Best Buy, it fired right up. I will be taking the MAF off in the morning to at least see if it is the cause of the hot start problem. Does the 944 have any type of sensor or anything that can cause this problem??? Help Me, help me, help me....
I am ready to sell it and buy another 911. I actually was going through Autotrader today looking for another 84-86 Carrera, I should never have sold my last one. It is true, the Porsche is always greener, wait that's grass.

Steve

lol steve, i was talking about helping you kick some ass, as I'm much better at that than turning a wrench :P... but thanks for the offer! I've never seen St. Louis.... I'll have to put it on my list of places to visit :)

Ass kicking
 

Kyle:

West is convinced that Canadians are out to get him. Before it's over you guys won't be alone, us hosers here in Missouri will be there too. Hopefully our fearless leader does not decide to build a Berlin wall to keep you guys out. That whole idea w/ Mexico sounds like something coming from the D student that he was. I'm serious, if you ever do get this way look us up. This is a city worth visiting. hey, we just got the honor of being #1 in the US in violent crime. It's skewed though. Only 300,000 people live in the city and the other 2.5 million are outside. The suburbs here are great. We live 15 minutes from downtown and are in the woods. 95% of the crime is in really run down neighborhoods in the city limits.

Steve

eeh... crime doesn't detract it from being a nice place to visit, really.. just as long as there's no crime while i'm there. :P I lived 5 minutes from Jane and Finch for 3 years.. those who live in my neck of the woods understand, it's a rough spot to be... but it was still really nice...... when the whole "guy getting pulled out of his car in daylight in a shopping mall parking lot by a bunch of thugs who proceed to stab him with a samurai sword" deal isn't going on....

I'm almost at the point in my life where I can travel... working, so i'm building the bank a little.. out of school, and no family tie downs yet..

and me, being a canadian, I obviously know everybody in the country.. so let me make a couple phone calls.. send out a message with the local huskeys and st. bernards up to the icelands of northern ontario, and we'll get a team together to get you some sweet sweet revenge.