DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Good day at the Office!
When will you get back to Wiscombe to get to check things in the real world?

We have almost exactly 4 weeks before our first event, time to get close to the LOLA.

Five weeks today...

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Sounds like a great result !

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That sounds good Keith, you will be starting to annoy the "moderns" with that sort of performance! Hopefully you will have got rid of the hesitation out of the hairpins as well.
We have a practice day at Shelsley Walsh on Friday 10th April, followed by two clubby events on the Saturday and Sunday to get car and drivers back up to speed, and then Wiscombe at the end of the month. It's all galloping on now!!

JW

Excellent Keith

I did a bunch of research last year after a battery fail and stumbled across L-ion motorcycle batteries. They are super small as you might guess and therefore lighter than the motorsport batteries, and I found one for a Harley with enormous CCA output that starts my newly built 3.4 immediately. It came the next day and is only £350. A couple of guys in our championship are using them across different car / engine types with no issues.

https://www.gobatteries.co.uk/product/m ... ytx20l-bs/

On the Boxster front I have replaced all my suspension twice (long story), doing paint and body after my off at Loton and developed a one of one project that no-one had ever done on a Porsche. I will do a separate write up - there was a blend of failure and success! First round for me is Anglesey in about 4 weeks, but the car is on the lift looking very sad so I need to pull my finger out….


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Put some fuel in it (where’s that shocked emoji when you need it)!

I dream of fuel that cheap.



Got the 964 out of hibernation this morning, took it a run to the beach to get it properly hot, and filled the near-empty tank. 98 is 2,50€/L here today. At the Gulf station. I'd stopped at the Esso first, where it was 2,74. I hung the pump back up and schlepped the extra couple of kilometres...

Sounds good Keith.

My ginger 14er made massive progress today. I'm working on the floor at this point. The engine and box went together smoothly. I put a few more bits onto the engine and the lump is now back in the car.

F*** yeah!

On the downside i now only have 0.8 hands working. Off to A & E tomorrow so possibly no more assembly and fabbing for a while.

On the plus side my new silencer and starter motor will be here tomorrow.

Quick snow foam and then a trouble free very enjoyable 150 mile round trip to see my co-competitors who have finished their race cars in the sprint!



Unfortunately the rear spoiler decided to stop half up, half down on the way home so suspect gas some stripped teeth in the drive. Mind you it has just turned 188k miles


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4 new Continentals fitted to the old 911 this morning after a faulse start last Thursday when Kwik Fit lost the tyres in the main depot.

All fitted now.
Took the wheels off, cleaned them, removed old weights and centre caps so an easy job for the drive-way fitter. He appreciated the easy task!

Not a mark anywhere on all the rims.

Lots of weight needed on one cookie cutter so a bit to watch out for when the car is on the road soon. Need to bed the brakes in too, so a morning to do that and the car is all ready.

Old Dunlops were 9 years old, stacks of tread of course, but rock hard and no cracks. The spare is still one old dumlop...

Refitted the engine lid to my S following a difficult colour matching exercise (took Angus 5 attempts to get it right) to respray the lower edge with the wrong shade of Tangerine which the car was repainted with 20 years ago.

It had started to bubble and I wanted a temporary fix until we do a full windows-out respray in the correct Glasurit 2323 Blutorange:



And then, with some reasonable weather making a welcome change today, went for first drive of the year - started first time and no problems to report

with a double dose of CTS progress has been limited.

latest jobs done are
welded breather pipes to the valve covers
painted the covers silver
set the valve gaps to 0.20mm
covers on and promptly scratched when fitting.
Tidied up the 1 & 2 head cover tinware and painted it.

next jobs
fix the distributor clamp
tidy up / refab the 3 & 4 head tinware
fit the rest of the tinware
figure out the wiring for the wosp starter
make headers/manifolds to fit to the new dansk silencer.
fit new clutch cable
fit the wiring for the pressure gauge
fit the gear selector.

Then i can drop it off the axle stands and sort out the top stuff. then hopefully it works and we can enjoy it.

Assume a Pot hole attack on the 964 … NSF

Got some special oil for the trip. This is 10/60 synthetic. It will be very stable for some of the longer days. Probably over kill as ehe old oil only had a few hundred miles on it and came out pretty clean.

I'm still working on my Power Point Present on oil for dinner at the next annual meet?

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