[RKDinOKC]

Some explanation...

Haven't pressed the independent shop that has my car at all.

Decided to pull the trigger because the last time I drove it was using 1qt of oil for every tank of gas and was starting to oil foul the plugs. What it needed was the oil scraper relief holes drilled in the pistons. For some reason Porsche did not do that for some of the 928s built in 1994.

Was given an estimate of $7000 and would be a couple of months before they could start as they had just started rebuilding a 911 Turbo. Was okay with that because it would give me a chance to get the $7000 together.

They had some issues with the turbos using oil after getting the Turbo back together and it took another 2 months before they started on my 928.

About that time I started having issues with cataracts. It got bad enough that I spent a couple of months driving when I shouldn't have been. Cars in traffic got to be blobs and it was difficult to tell what color traffic lights were.

Cataract operation on right eye fixed it, but my left eye started having internal hemorrhaging problems and they couldn't do cataract surgery. After 2 operations to stop the hemorrhaging they think they have it stopped, but the eye is still slow cleaning out the blood and there is the cataract problem as well. It really messes up my vision. Even though I have a good eye, the bad eye effects most of my vision clouding and blurring up the area that my two eyes overlap. That old lady pulling just in front of me and crossing over while braking to turn was her fault, but I think I would have been more alert and been able to avoid hitting her if I would have seen her coming up beside me sooner in a good left side.

Anyway, because of the vision problems I haven't been pushing them at all to finish my 928.

Of note, taped up the damage to my Cayenne with some clear box tape and since everything works don't plan to get it fixed until my vision gets better or I get into another accident that makes it worse.

Now for the current issue with the 928.

A couple of months ago he got to the point of starting the car. It started then died. After several attempts to restart he sent the brains off to be repaired. There was and issue with the brains having a first version of the chips so they repaired them free.

This week he finally got to putting the brains back in and same issue happened only this time the half of the brain that controls the injectors smoked. Yesterday he contacted the brain guy and sent them off again.

He asked me to see if I could find someone that would loan him a known good set of brains. I called 3 different 928 shops/mechanics. Yes they had an extra set of brains. No, they would not loan them. They said after an engine has been out and back in the would not blame the brains for issues, especially if it worked fine before the engine was pulled. They did not want me to have to buy a set of brains. Said they suspect the wiring harnesses as it is easy to pinch of scrape bare pulling and replacing the engine. Said if he got in a hurry and tried to start it with a jump charger on it, it would fry the brains. One even said if my mechanic pulled the harnesses, he would repair them, or replace them if necessary. Says he runs into a lot of harness issues and has made and sold 100 wiring harnesses in the last 3 years.

My mechanic claims he has pulled 928 motors and has never had a wiring harness problem. This is after it has fried the computer the 2nd time. He is blaming the problem on the programmable chips. Nobody else has problems with the programmable chips, AND it was running fine before he pulled the motor. AND he lost one of the two of my original chips when HE put in the programmable chips so he can't put the original chips back in.

Have asked some other 928 mechanics if I pissed this guy off would they take the car and finish it. None of them wants to finish a car someone else has worked on. Said basically they would want to pull the engine and tear it down to make sure it was all done correctly.

So...Since I still can't see, just going to try to not piss off this mechanic and let him take whatever it takes to finish the car. But I bet he eventually finds an issue with the wiring harness.