Assessing an unknown engine
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
No worries. It's true condition will be a lot clearer for you once it's all stripped out on your bench.
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Do you have an engine stand and yoke ? Sladey is looking after mine, which you are welcome to use if Mark isn’t.
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Yes thanks Tim, Anta lent me.impmad2000 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:42 pm Do you have an engine stand and yoke ? Sladey is looking after mine, which you are welcome to use if Mark isn’t.
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Er…..impmad2000 wrote:Do you have an engine stand and yoke ? Sladey is looking after mine, which you are welcome to use if Mark isn’t.
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young but I'm just backdated yeah
I look pretty young but I'm just backdated yeah
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I see Mark is currently using it
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
any excuse to show off the uber shed.
any experience by any chance whether the 4-spoke VW yoke is strong enough to hold a 1970 2.2 engine? Dempsey says make sure you have the 5-spoke Porsche one.
any experience by any chance whether the 4-spoke VW yoke is strong enough to hold a 1970 2.2 engine? Dempsey says make sure you have the 5-spoke Porsche one.
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I've used the 4-branch yoke - need to modify it slightly- without any problems:
I've used the 4-branch yoke - need to modify it slightly- without any problems:
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No probs, mine has carried my heavy 3.2 many times.
The 4 wheel frame is far more stable than the 3 wheel.
The 4 wheel frame is far more stable than the 3 wheel.
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
More importantly, where'd you get those "gazebos" for your Webers?Lightweight_911 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:18 pm
I've used the 4-branch yoke - need to modify it slightly- without any problems:
1970 911T, Signal orange (Restoration thread)
1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
I'm looking for a pre-impact bumper 911S or other high-revving 911 to restore - please let me know if you see one.
1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
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They're 911R rain shields - bought many years ago from the US ...
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They're 911R rain shields - bought many years ago from the US ...
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I made a start in the tear-down. The nuts attaching the mfi stacks to the engine bring new meaning to the word "fiddly".
Paper in the intakes was a good sign, I thought:
A little investigation suggests the engine was mothballed in Spring 1982.
Maybe the owner bought one of these.
He was up North somewhere.
And had a little furry companion.
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Paper in the intakes was a good sign, I thought:
A little investigation suggests the engine was mothballed in Spring 1982.
Maybe the owner bought one of these.
He was up North somewhere.
And had a little furry companion.
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1970 911T, Signal orange (Restoration thread)
1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
I'm looking for a pre-impact bumper 911S or other high-revving 911 to restore - please let me know if you see one.
1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
I'm looking for a pre-impact bumper 911S or other high-revving 911 to restore - please let me know if you see one.
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Ok this MFI throttle nut on cylinder 1 is absurd. Please illuminate me on how it gets removed.
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1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
I'm looking for a pre-impact bumper 911S or other high-revving 911 to restore - please let me know if you see one.
1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
I'm looking for a pre-impact bumper 911S or other high-revving 911 to restore - please let me know if you see one.
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
I found a little piece of evidence on the engine cover... a fragment of smashed rear windscreen, I would imagine - suggesting the engine came from a car which was written off around 1983. I guess that tallies up with the broken rear engine mount, maybe it was rear-ended.
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1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
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1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
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Crows foot spanner?RobFrost wrote:Ok this MFI throttle nut on cylinder 1 is absurd. Please illuminate me on how it gets removed.
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I don't think it'd fit. In the absence of a better plan, I'll take an angle grinder to a socket and cut it down.Gary71 wrote: Crows foot spanner?
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1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
I'm looking for a pre-impact bumper 911S or other high-revving 911 to restore - please let me know if you see one.
1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
2001 996 Turbo, Lapis blue (am I allowed to put that here?)
I'm looking for a pre-impact bumper 911S or other high-revving 911 to restore - please let me know if you see one.