Part of the reason for my flurry of posting is that I am in fully fledged Porsche withdrawal. Mrs. Erock and I are currently between homes. Without going into too much detail, the current state of the Albertan/Canadian economy has prompted us to make certain strategic decisions. As a result, the 911 currently resides with good buddy in a cavernous Garage Mahal, approximately 3 hours from our current residence. This is an awesome solution for now, while there is snow on the ground and no driving to be done, but Mrs. Erock and I are working towards finding an acceptable local garage for the spring – either in a new house we will purchase, or on a temporary rental basis.
Work on the Porsche will be progressing slowly, whenever I can escape Calgary for a weekend and without overstaying my welcome at good buddy’s place. Free weekends are rare in my line of work.
My apologies for the generally shabby quality of subsequent photos. My camera was in a bag that fell out of a floatplane at the dock in Tofino. Entirely my fault, but it no longer works. So I’m relying on my trashed iPhone 5 now.
Note haggard Subeam Alpine. Also, the white car has a habit of shredding 2nd gear in stock Nissan SR20DET transmissions, that were never deigned to handle the torque that this car puts down. The gearbox sitting next to the car is a 6-speed from a Nissan 350Z. Much stouter, but requires significant modification to fit. The shifter has to be moved forward and the bell housing has to be adapted from the VQ35DE to the SR20DET flange. Instead of a flimsy machined adapter, the entire bell housing has been cut and, through trial and error and fitment of a precision machined jig, an SR20DET flange is being welded on. Huge PITA.
I should mention that only casualties of this endeavor were: (1) a pheasant running across the highway at night, which exploded into a mass of feathers and gore, and (2) the foglight housing that said pheasant obliterated.
Though this is an SC, the previous owner updated the valence/fogs/badging to 3.2 Carrera spec. Have you seen the price of a 3.2 Carrera fog light lately? Yikes . . .