Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Hide the forks and you should be OK!

Hey, you could go all Richard Petty on it and put a Cup motor in it.

Ah yes...the forks. Her weapon of choice.

Mmmm, Cup motor.

[flipper35]

I spent $50 for pads on the car, but they are Hawk.

I spend several hundred on brakes for the Cobra, but that was after melting the Raybestos pads to the rotor coming down the mountain. Coming downhill on mountain switchbacks with rear brakes only is a bit exciting.

[Jim Richards]

Do it in reverse so they become the front brakes.

[Outback Porsche]

Hehe

[RKDinOKC]

On the GTS had tp disconnect, wire around, and remove the brake pad wear sensors. Kept melting the front pad wear sensors. That was before the 5/55 brake bias valve. Now after an autocross the rear disks have a blue tinge to them and the fronts don't.

[GH85Carrera]

Jim, my FI system is a Frankenstein job adapted from a 6 cylinder FI system that came on the Elkys with a 6 cylinder engine. I had to have a custom chip to make it work with my needs.
No one made a bolt on system back them. Now days tons are available that you can tune with a laptop, and they have complete easy to install systems that would be orders of magnitude easier than my adaption of parts.

[Jim Richards]

Thanks Glen. It’s an idea I’m toying with. I really don’t enjoy driving the Mazda p/u, and I’m thinking the Elky is more car-like. My wife would like to keep the p/u functionality, as she and her g/f like to use it to haul their kayaks to the harbor.

I like FI much more than carbs; better fuel economy and more reliable starts.

[RKDinOKC]

With the popularity of pickup trucks and small hatch backs i just don't understand why they don't bring these Ute things to market in USA...



Me...I like SUVs because they have a 2nd row of seats (for Pepper) and back doors. My first car was a station wagon, and while I've had various SUVs and vans, I've never owned a pickup. Have had both a 914 and a Boxster and it did get a bit awkward trying to take a passenger AND a golden retriever. Tried the Passat, then BMW 325, but always seemed to end up trying to carry something that wouldn't fit so went back to the SUV with X3, then rover, now Cayenne.

Pepper does not like riding in the 928. She can't lay down.

[fintstone]

This is what you need:
https://www.highrollershotrods.com/1960-chevrolet-el-camino-custom-c-311.htm

[GH85Carrera]

We used to have an active El Camino club. One guy had essentially a Corvette with a El Camino body. I bet he paid 25 grand for the black paint job. It was spectacular. His wife had some health issues and he needed to sell it. I think he got 18 grand for a car he had likely 100 grand invested. No doubt over the years my repair bill are not insignificant, but they are WAY way under the cost of a car payment, or a replacement car cost.

I love it because at least once a week someone give me a random thumbs up, or says Nice Car or some comment. Once a month someone offers to buy it. No one does that with just another pickup or SUV.

I remember when the H1 Hummer hit the market, they were everywhere. I have not seen a H1 on the road in years, except the real Military versions. Now the H2 are gone and on rare occasions I see a H3.

Chevy teased the El Camino faithful a couple of years ago and promised a new El Camino. It just vanished. There is just no replacement for it on the market.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. short day for me. I have to pick up the pooch at some random time. He is at the vet getting an ultrasound to determine if its cancer...............

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by fintstone

This is what you need:
https://www.highrollershotrods.com/1960-chevrolet-el-camino-custom-c-311.htm

That’s pimpin’!

[GH85Carrera]

Phew weee. That was fun.

The dang boss decided I needed to mow the yard here at the office. And since I finished at 10:45 is was even too early to drink his beer. Dang it. I will have to drink em when I get off work. Maybe even on my commute home while I text and drink beer. No wait, I am a two handed texter so I would have to put down the beer. So I may have to sit at the office and drink beer and watch TV, and then drink beer! That sounds like a good Friday plan!

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

That’s pimpin’!

The only problem I see is I would have a hard time using it as a truck.

[RKDinOKC]

I know who owns this 928 in Dallas




A guy is coming by this afternoon to get the GTS. He is going to try his hand a tuning it. Hope it doesn't have some issue like a vacuum leak somewhere that is keeping it from being tuned.

He is going to leave his supercharged 90 GT. You white car guys might like it, it's white with white wheels.

[Porsche-poor]

well if its a vacuum leak the original wrench should have found it.

[flipper35]

I wouldn't be too optimistic of the original wrench paying attention to the details if the service has really gone downhill that much.

David, hope the pooch is OK.

[RKDinOKC]

Yeah, hope the pooch gets a good report.

Had my last golden, Camber fixed because she was getting urinary infections. She was 13 and it really messed her up. Her hair started getting really matted, she had never had that problem before. And she started having all kinds of growths. One ended up in her spinal column and had to put her down because she couldn't move her back half and quit eating because she couldn't control herself. She didn't last a year after gettng her fixed. It sucked.

[Porsche-poor]

Jack is a yellow lab and is 12. There is a mass on his spleen. He had to be transferred from boarding to the vet while we were in Paris. They are looking to see if its spread and if the mass has blood in it. Time will tell.

[RKDinOKC]

My first golden, Penny was fixed at about 2. After getting her fixed she went thru a false pregnancy and even produced milk. She adopted one of her stuffed teddy bears that was about the size of a puppy. It was the only toy she never ended up ripping to shreds. Her did have a couple of growths but never got very big or amounted to much. She lived to 17-1/2!