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- Fri May 17, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 299
Re: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
OK - Issue found , sorted and mot redone ! Faulty wiring (too many Birthdays) on the Rear ABS sensor - so that was both sensors and both bits of wiring on the same side (front and rear) ! What are the odds of that ?. Problem coming and going by jacking up the front - was "caused" by the fa...
- Fri May 17, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 299
Re: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
An ABS fault can be triggered (and stored) if tyre pressures are uneven - a tyre with lower pressure is smaller in diameter than another with the correct pressure, so the wheel turns more often over a given distance. This tricks the ABS monitoring system into believing one wheel is a locking-up, or...
- Thu May 16, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 299
Re: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
Thanks for the response - I'll copy and send on to owner (BIL) and see what that brings. We don't have a tool that will talk to the car , so that makes things awkward. The fact that light clears with sensor not in hub , makes me shy away from bearing / ring related issues. WIP
cheers
Alan
cheers
Alan
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 299
Re: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
Not sure I fully understand you. I am NOT sure what the fault code is at the "fail" point. The abs warning light simply comes on . Car is not moving - therefore it can only be sensing wiring or whatever it picks up at a standstill. The wire going to a front sensor was "iffy" - wh...
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 299
Quandry / Query - NOT Porsche related ... need abs help
This one has me "confused". Car : circa 2006 Skoda Fabia - 100k miles ABS warning light comes on (inital stationary check) . (Long story in middle here - which involves diagnostics , new wiring , new sensor , etc etc). Jack up the car - (JUST-ie nothing else !) , recheck ... light goes out...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: Member's Porsche Gallery
- Topic: 928
- Replies: 37
- Views: 121432
Re: 928
Yip - 25mpg with sensible use ... that can go up to high twenties on a longer run. Then there's the "opposite"..... For Rally use (calculating range - eg fuel needed for a loop of stages) , I used 25 mpg for road sections , and 5 mpg for hard use .... that was 5 !! I reckoned possibly clos...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: KS's hillclimbing odyssey
- Replies: 391
- Views: 31308
Re: KS's hillclimbing odyssey
Agreed that high CR can equal higher HP, but it also leads to higher combustion temperatures, which in a VW motor is a problem. I've built 'a few' VW motors over the years, for road, rallycross, rallying and drag racing and for a road engine, around 9-9.5:1 is a sweet spot. If the car was trailered...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: KS's hillclimbing odyssey
- Replies: 391
- Views: 31308
Re: KS's hillclimbing odyssey
They certainly do .............. and even better with an increased CR !
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: KS's hillclimbing odyssey
- Replies: 391
- Views: 31308
Re: KS's hillclimbing odyssey
I would consider 9.3 LOW...ish ... even for a road engine. Higher CR = Higher power ... simple as that. Could go 10.25 - 10.5 with little consequence , apart from more power.neilbardsley wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:40 am Keith isn't a compression ratio of 9.3 still quite modest on a race engine?
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- Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Porsche Restoration Threads
- Topic: 1969 911t project
- Replies: 16
- Views: 35937
Re: 1969 911t project
I hope you replaced the one rotten inner sill that I could see (appears you managed to save one ?)
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:28 pm
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Towing with DSG VW auto?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16017
Re: Towing with DSG VW auto?
Come on now ... if getting an F type , at least make it a V8 !!!
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: Porsche Restoration Threads
- Topic: BIB5566
- Replies: 547
- Views: 66745
Re: BIB5566
Don't think it's going anywhere ..... grand job !
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: Classic Porsche General Chat
- Topic: Time for a mini rant ! (Insurance for a 1.4 Diesel AX)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9799
Re: Time for a mini rant ! (Insurance for a 1.4 Diesel AX)
Just to round this off . I got an online quote from Hagerty , for a more reasonable £185 odd .... Meanwhile , when I got paperwork in from Direct line , it included a "charge" for my normal car policy ... which had NOT been changed. I phone and queried this ... got waffled at , so I asked ...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:10 pm
- Forum: Member's 'Others' Gallery
- Topic: Yamaha YB 1 1999 tidy-up
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9344
Re: Yamaha YB 1 1999 tidy-up
.. to be sure .... to be sure ...........
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: Member's 'Others' Gallery
- Topic: Yamaha YB 1 1999 tidy-up
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9344
Re: Yamaha YB 1 1999 tidy-up
... or you could just leave it alone ??? Looks grand to me as is !