Replaced GT3 with 964RS--The story so far

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Bought it in Barcelona and drove it back 1006 miles in 17hrs.Then decided that a good svs & check were reqd.It had just had a £10k engine rebuild.

Part one consisted of a major annual service [24,000miles] and a general health check. Andy Fearns did a thorough job of unearthing a few items that reqd attention and sorted then nicely.Rebuilt LSD, front susp reqd attention etc.
1st power run produced a dissapointing 281 BHP but I took it and used on the 964 Devon weekend anyway.

Now working on cosmetics, seat backs painted Indischrot, wheels had small cracks welded, refurbing wheels in anthracite with red detailing.

Part 2 consists of interogating chip/ecu, fitting cat bypass, new lambda probe, dyno run & set up to suit.
The car had developed an air leak at the inlet manifold hence weak running, bad idle etc. Andy fixed this and next power run produced 288 BHP. Next up will be cat bypass and chip to suit the hot air etc. Here's hoping for 300 BHP by end of today ??

Some more minor cosmetics to do and it will be ready.

Am I sorry I swapped from a GT3, no I have an equally rare car, £30k in my pocket and use it more because I am less concerned about mileage, stone rash etc.

Allan

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Jim
Yes I was in Devon a couple of weeks back. Saw your 993RS parked on the slope.
My car had wrong wheels on and o/s shark fin missing so did'nt look it's best.

Allan

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Dom
What injectors is Mel running on his Cup Car ? He pushed a peak of 327BHP extrapolated to crank from wheel figure at G-Force when I was there.
I dont even think he has other cams fitted

Motec job is too expensive for the BHP gains IMHO

Allan

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Fergus
The car is back for the planned 2nd stage. I took it away for the Devon 964 weekend. Andy is a sterling chap and look forward to tommorrows conversation, hopefully he will have found more ponies.
He started it up for me today...Cat bypass, Cup rear pipe, drilled air box, sounds like ripping calico. Pure bliss. This car brings the hooligan out in me.

Allan

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Just returned from AMd. The bad news is that the fine German technician who installed the hot wire in 1994 was so conscientious that he bonded the chip into the ECU PCB ! So Andy was therefore unable to extract it to interrogate it's settings/properties etc.

The good news is that even with this chip and now de-cat'd it now pushes 303.6 BHP at 6,259 rpm ! with 275.8 lb ft of Torque at 4,982 rpm . Rounded up of course to

304 BHP and 276 Lb ft I'm properly pleased at this.
The car according to the dyno plot is making over 300 BHP from 5,700 to 7,100 RPM and it makes 260 BHP at 4,900 RPM.

All in all not a bad result, pity about the chip and pity about needing 2 lots of dyno work because of the air leak on the inlet side.

Allan

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What was your car Fergus c288 BHP = very good for a standard car with 31,000 miles and Cup Pipe & De-cat.

Allan