[unclebilly]

Looks like my 76 Turbo is leaving my herd. I have loved owning it for the past 9.5 years but it’s time to move it along.



To make up for this, I’ve bought a spec Miata race car that was built by a friend who is ‘meticulous’ about everything. He had an on track incident with it 3 weeks ago and it needs some work. I had planned to do it myself but this morning sent an ‘off the cuff’ text to a friend who has a frame machine and wound up dropping the car off with him this morning (never even unloaded it from my trailer after picking it up). The car is a British Racing Green 99 NB. By farming out the repairs, it prevents this from getting backburnered so I think a good move.



The 04 Cayenne has been in my shop for a AC condenser replacement. If you have a Cayenne and need to replace the condenser, I suggest you just roll it off a cliff. I screwed around for 5 hours at least trying to deal with the 4 bolts associated with the connections on the condenser. The angle is stupid, I had to buy a flex extension to get it apart and back together. I had a 2 hour bolt… It eventually had a cutting slot cut in it and was put on my lathe to have a taper put on the end to make it so I could start the bastard… I think this is a crappy job amplified by crappy aftermarket replacement parts.



I drew a hard vacuum to 30 inches of mercury and packed it in for the night. Tomorrow I will replace the leaky valve cover gaskets and the spark plugs, change the oil and put it back together.