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Originally Posted by PeteKz
Hear, hear, brother. Not only does it consume cubic dollars, but it's also a huge time suck. It seems that most of the stuff I've done, I've had to do two or there times in different ways before I was satisfied. Several times over the past 30 years I've thought about selling mine as a project, but I started driving it again regularly about 3 years ago, and at this point, after all the time and money I've spent, I'll just keep it.
I recently was looking at distributor parts, and I noted that the simple plastic "dust cover" (noise suppressor) inside the CDI dizzys was almost $50! Just for a simple, no-moving-parts piece of plastic. Nuts...
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The beginning of posts like this help me keep the car when I'm stuck thinking about the latter part of posts like this.
$50 for a small plastic dizzy cover is madness and another example of people/businesses taking advantage of the assumed unending wealth of Porsche owners.
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Originally Posted by fanaudical
I like what you did with the interior!
I will have had my 911 for 14 years this coming July. I've had a couple of other cars that I kept almost 20 years each. Those were just daily drivers with a little flair and OK to work on. The 911 has been my first "fun" car - and while it has consumed a bunch of $$$ and time, I find I still enjoy it. Nothing else quite like it...
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Thank you. There should be another interior update Monday. I have parts coming in today to further refine the backseat side panels.
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Originally Posted by Old H2S
My wife hated my Mk5 R32 I restored to stock, what a car. It still had an open recall from VW, the dealer was shocked at how good they used to be.
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Historically, I'm a mkIV guy more so than a mkV guy. But I'd be lying if I didn't admit I've considered a mkV R more than a few times.
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Originally Posted by lateapex911
Well, Chris... motivation....here's how I solve it. Buy a POS crap house, and have it all planned in your head...garagemahal 1st!. Then start dating hot chick who needs help with her house/car etc. Perfect, now you're two stages removed from the 911.
Finally dump the selfish GF who just used you, and get going on your house. Think wistfully about doing "Fun stuff" on the 911 instead of moonlighting as an electrician/plumber/ cabinet maker every night getting your house FINALLy decent.
Dream of spring and having it actually move under it's own power.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
OK, maybe that plan willl mess up your cool marriage haha.
Resign yourself that you need to get srs bzns about making the shop be a place you want to be.
Spend the $ and install a real heater, and insulate and weather strip. Maybe a Modine Hot Dawg or such.
Like sports? Find a big panel tv, they're around cheap, and maybe a used AV receiver and now you can watch racing or sports AND get work done, in the warmth and comfort. 5.1 and racing will sound awesome LOL.
Just a couple ideas from a guy who HAS all that but can only wish he could use it....
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Jake, my guy.
1. I'be been lobbying for a small house on a large chunk of terra firma since before we bought our current place. (large house on small land) As much as I'd love to do that, I need the market to unfork itself before I take out any more loans as we're not in a position to buy a property/homestead in cash.
2. Kelly doesn't use hard 'no's with me too often. I'm confident the idea of a GF (outside taking Kelly on dates) would get me stabbed in my sleep.
3. I have a Marantz receiver in the garage. It's on top the (formerly medical) cabinet to the right of my welding table. It's only hooked up to two channels, but can blast out the jams at a much greater level than required to drown out any noise shy of a hammer on an anvil.
4. A smart TV for the garage has been discussed, but I have not yet pulled the trigger. I want to continue to revise my garage setup and then add a TV and a desktop computer in the future....but only after I have redone the walls and have a proper space for such things.
5. The garage door needs new seals and I'm hoping that will help better retain heat. I'd like to replace the door entirely, but I'm yet undecided on what sort of lunatic door I'd like in its stead. (I'm currently hung up on a bi-fold door that hinges laterally across the middle and when opened, makes an awning outside the garage. This would nearly eliminate all the inside mech and open up what limited space I have.)
6. A proper heater is a good idea. I have to figure out if I'm prepared to permanently surrender floor/wall/shop space to install something, or if I'm ok with pulling out the forced air LP dude on an as-needed basis. I also need to consider how a permanent garage HVAC sytem would impact the building codes since the garage is inside my house. I know it would need to be totally independant with no mixing. But beyond that, I know very little. Also, I'd prefer to just move and build the aforementioned garagemahal. So that lingering thought makes me hesitant to knock down walls, raise ceilings, install tile, or install a new HVAC just for the garage. With a proper application of cubic dollars, I could convert the entire eastern end of my home into a two-story tall garage. But getting the boss, and the county, on board with such madness will require more vocabularic finesse than I think I possess. Word.