Knackered old Porsche with loads of miles - 996 content

Knackered old Porsche with loads of miles - 996 content

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CornedBeef

509 posts

187 months

Thursday 16th May 2019
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Looking good PPBB! Any more pictures of the fresh paint?

Plate spinner

17,649 posts

199 months

Friday 17th May 2019
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This is a great thread!

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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As it was a nice day today and it was clean here's a few more pics of it in nearly fresh paint..... as I've already taken the shine off it with a few stone chips laugh







It's due service shortly which will be the usual fluids, water pump and sphericals. It's probably due rear subframe bushes too but I'll have a look at that once under there!

rdodger

1,088 posts

202 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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Haven't you got solid rear subframe mounts? I thought you would have done that already? Don't they have the benefit of lowering the car maintaining the geometry?

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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What's the mileage now?

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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rdodger said:
Haven't you got solid rear subframe mounts? I thought you would have done that already? Don't they have the benefit of lowering the car maintaining the geometry?
It's a road car, as such no I don't have. bks to that for 1000's of miles in one go, especially when so much else is solidly mounted to the subframes themselves laugh . Good condition relatively soft bushes are perfect here and retain a small amount of necessary compliance whilst keeping NVH sensible.

Mine has no issues with geometry as the rear toe and castor are adjustable in addition to the standard camber adjustment so it's easy to setup where you want it at even silly low ride heights.

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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Doofus said:
What's the mileage now?
I'd need to check the logger, the clocks have lost their backlight laugh

rdodger

1,088 posts

202 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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poppopbangbang said:
It's a road car, as such no I don't have. bks to that for 1000's of miles in one go, especially when so much else is solidly mounted to the subframes themselves laugh . Good condition relatively soft bushes are perfect here and retain a small amount of necessary compliance whilst keeping NVH sensible.

Mine has no issues with geometry as the rear toe and castor are adjustable in addition to the standard camber adjustment so it's easy to setup where you want it at even silly low ride heights.
Ah yes I was forgetting all the spherical bearings you have.

Will you be looking at standard mounts in that case?

ferrisbueller

29,260 posts

226 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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Boring practical Q, do you have many issues with clearance on Ferry ramps, chunnell, general access etc? Looks like you're running pretty low, so the front lip must see some action?!

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Sunday 2nd June 2019
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rdodger said:
Ah yes I was forgetting all the spherical bearings you have.

Will you be looking at standard mounts in that case?
Yes they seem to perform absolutely fine ran for 60K miles or so each time and they retain a little bit (but not a lot) of compliance.

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Sunday 2nd June 2019
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ferrisbueller said:
Boring practical Q, do you have many issues with clearance on Ferry ramps, chunnell, general access etc? Looks like you're running pretty low, so the front lip must see some action?!
Not really the front splitter is a 6 month replace item and is bolted rather than on the standard plastic clips. It will scape the nose occasionally on very unusual approach angles etc. but it is fine over speed bumps etc. I have no time for having something that needs to 45 degree across a speed bump or can't do speed cushions so the setup of the car is very much with this in mind. The rear dampers also run a lot of low speed compression damping to stop the rear/sump/manifolds scraping as the rear wheels drop off something.

I'm happy with the compromise between usability and performance on this setup, it did take a bit of dicking around to get it there but it can do a tight London carpark, it can do the ring, it can do a cobbled street and it can do an autoroute so all round I don't think I could get it much better as a package.

Bashiar0

27 posts

112 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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Have been a long time reader of this forum and car in particular - wanted to ask do you have any videos of the car in action?

Paynewright

659 posts

76 months

Wednesday 31st July 2019
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I think we need a car fest ‘Milton Keynes’ or meet and greet in the hangar at the next Sunday Scramble.

Come on PPBB your public demands an audience with..... :-)



Edited by Paynewright on Wednesday 31st July 03:53

frayz

2,629 posts

158 months

Thursday 1st August 2019
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Spent the last few days reading this cover to cover, and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it.
Superb levels of engineering and thought gone into a very special car.

Utterly brilliant to see a car so enjoyed and maintained/improved we way this has been. Thanks so much OP for sharing, its been one hell of a ride, and i wish you many enjoyable miles to come.

Frayz smile


poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Thursday 1st August 2019
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Bashiar0 said:
Have been a long time reader of this forum and car in particular - wanted to ask do you have any videos of the car in action?
If there were videos it would be less than sensible to share them in the public domain laugh

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Thursday 1st August 2019
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Paynewright said:
I think we need a car fest ‘Milton Keynes’ or meet and greet in the hangar at the next Sunday Scramble.

Come on PPBB your public demands an audience with..... :-)
I think we will have some F1s at the last Bicester of the year so I'll probably be down there in the 996 anyway. If people genuinely want a look round a very well used 20 year old Porsche I'm more than happy to oblidge biggrin

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Thursday 1st August 2019
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frayz said:
Spent the last few days reading this cover to cover, and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it.
Superb levels of engineering and thought gone into a very special car.

Utterly brilliant to see a car so enjoyed and maintained/improved we way this has been. Thanks so much OP for sharing, its been one hell of a ride, and i wish you many enjoyable miles to come.

Frayz smile
Thank you. biggrin

__CA__

62 posts

228 months

Tuesday 10th September 2019
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Just stumbled across this thread whilst searching for aerokitted 996s... a great read!

I have a low mileage E46 M3 which I should really keep as a garage queen (or sell) rather than modify, but the 911 itch just never goes away... an early, aerokitted 996 with a 3.7 would be my idea of perfect!

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Saturday 5th October 2019
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Just a heads up, the 996 will be dumped somewhere at Bicester on Sunday as we have some of our pointy and loud cars on display/doing static fire ups at the last Sunday Scramble of the year.

If anyone wants a close look at how well used it is then I'll let you know where I park it laugh

Kettmark

901 posts

152 months

Saturday 5th October 2019
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Yes please. Am going tomorrow & would love a first hand look over your car & the milometer.