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.