Porsche Boxster 986 - engine swap project
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Terribly sorry for you. So glad your daughter and you are well!
And great to see you already getting ready to build version 2.0!
At a construction site, the building that emerges is insured to an ascending value in correspondence with the work progress.
Maybe there is something similar for cars.
And great to see you already getting ready to build version 2.0!
At a construction site, the building that emerges is insured to an ascending value in correspondence with the work progress.
Maybe there is something similar for cars.
J4CKO said:
Awesome, should imagine now you have done it once it should come together a bit easier, hope you can save some of the specific parts to re-use.
Did you get to the bottom of what caused the fire ?
I've don't think i'll be able to work out the cause with any degree of certainty. Did you get to the bottom of what caused the fire ?
The majority of the conversion parts are fine but I might need to do it differently this time as i'm not sure i'll have the money to replace all the damaged parts. I'm considering another approach, keep it bi-turbo and cut the shell to give the clearance needed. I'm not sure yet.
prof said:
great to see you back at it, which gearbox does that one have? just wondering if it's one of the new gen with the driveshafts near the flywheel?
It's an automatic.Easy donation for me. I loved this thread!!
Let it be re-born.
Escy - btw, I genuinely would've thought you're price tag on the car would've been north of £25k/£30k. At £20k, I dare saying you'd have plenty of people throwing money at you.....apart from the fire (obviously)
your skills are far and away worth more than £20k
Let it be re-born.
Escy - btw, I genuinely would've thought you're price tag on the car would've been north of £25k/£30k. At £20k, I dare saying you'd have plenty of people throwing money at you.....apart from the fire (obviously)
your skills are far and away worth more than £20kThank you guys, I really appreciate it. I made a modest profit on the original A6 I bought at the start of the project and I didn't strip much off it. I will be more thorough with this car.
Since i'll have the A6 I'm considering cleaning up my fire damaged engine, swapping all the bits over from the new engine, buying any replacement seals I need and sticking it in the A6 to check it'll all ok. Does anyone have any experience with re-commissioning fire damaged engines?
Since i'll have the A6 I'm considering cleaning up my fire damaged engine, swapping all the bits over from the new engine, buying any replacement seals I need and sticking it in the A6 to check it'll all ok. Does anyone have any experience with re-commissioning fire damaged engines?
About to donate. This thread represents a lot of what I like about PH. The tragic 'council' thread linked above represents a lot of what I don't.
Good luck with v2. My advice is to use plenty of heat shielding and ensure any fuel and oil hoses have adequate support to prevent undue fatigue on their fittings. I would use fire sleeve on anything close to the turbo - it keeps the hoses cool and if there is a leak the fluids are contained.
Good luck with v2. My advice is to use plenty of heat shielding and ensure any fuel and oil hoses have adequate support to prevent undue fatigue on their fittings. I would use fire sleeve on anything close to the turbo - it keeps the hoses cool and if there is a leak the fluids are contained.
. Really sorry for your loss. Was so looking forward to seeing this up an running. Good luck with the new build though, you have our full support 
Thank you for the donations guys, the fact people care enough to chip in is heart warming.
The Boxster got taken away for scrap today. It was depressing seeing how it ended up but i'm glad to get it out of the way, it stinks so I bet the neighbours weren't happy with it being there.
The A6 is the one I recently picked up that i'll be breaking. To be fair it was a lovely drive and it pulls nicely. It's very blue inside, I actually quite like it but not sure every surface of the interior needed to be the same colour. Probably pretty rare i'd guess. When I lifted the boot carpet i'm convinced I saw a white tail disappear, I removed the spare wheel and noticed some evidence of a mouse. Not sure where it would have gone but I couldn't find it. The last A6 I bought also came with a free mouse (in the V of the engine), lucky me.
I took the cam covers off the old engine, not a pretty sight, the plastic cam chain guides have melted.
The Boxster got taken away for scrap today. It was depressing seeing how it ended up but i'm glad to get it out of the way, it stinks so I bet the neighbours weren't happy with it being there.
The A6 is the one I recently picked up that i'll be breaking. To be fair it was a lovely drive and it pulls nicely. It's very blue inside, I actually quite like it but not sure every surface of the interior needed to be the same colour. Probably pretty rare i'd guess. When I lifted the boot carpet i'm convinced I saw a white tail disappear, I removed the spare wheel and noticed some evidence of a mouse. Not sure where it would have gone but I couldn't find it. The last A6 I bought also came with a free mouse (in the V of the engine), lucky me.
I took the cam covers off the old engine, not a pretty sight, the plastic cam chain guides have melted.
Thank you for the donation, really appreciate it.
My ECU ended up pretty crispy in the fire. I was gutted once I opened up the case. One of the guys on the Audi SRS forum had the same ECU which he sold to me for a great price.
The CANbus and DriveByWire modules fared better in the fire. They were mounted next to the ECU but in the fire the sticky pads I used to hold them to the body came off so they fell down and weren't exposed to as much heat as the ECU. I'm hoping they are still serviceable with some wiring repairs, they did get blasted by the hose so were wet inside. I've sent them off the RRR Engineering for testing. Fingers crossed.
My ECU ended up pretty crispy in the fire. I was gutted once I opened up the case. One of the guys on the Audi SRS forum had the same ECU which he sold to me for a great price.
The CANbus and DriveByWire modules fared better in the fire. They were mounted next to the ECU but in the fire the sticky pads I used to hold them to the body came off so they fell down and weren't exposed to as much heat as the ECU. I'm hoping they are still serviceable with some wiring repairs, they did get blasted by the hose so were wet inside. I've sent them off the RRR Engineering for testing. Fingers crossed.
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