Weekend Porsche Build

German any and all
#1

So, a buddy of mine who used to be a BMW tech offered to help with my motor drop & install. He’s a big car nut and wrenches on a bunch of different platforms, but mostly BMW still. Anyhow, a friend of his is just starting up a small dealership focusing in unique cars, and his shop had a nice lift left from the previous tenant, so he was nice enough to let us use it over the weekend.

So, we did:
motor drop
turbo swap to 7-Blade 68mm k16’s with 1bar w/g (basically compressor wheel and inlet from TiAL A28 Turbos)
carbonetrics triple carbon clutch & lwfw
pinned coolant lines (common failure point in the meitzer gt1 motors)
injector swap (40# to 60#)
fluids for:trans/oil/coolant/ps
replaced most all the check valves and some vacuum lines for good measure
motor mounts & trans mount
deleted SAI (just removed pump and plugged up air pipe but left other lines in place
will probably be deleting EGR if I swap to a fender mount intake system).

But the pics are where the fun is. Definitely didn’t take as many as I’d like, but we were wrenching most of the time.

Getting Started

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/image_zps368fcb1c.jpeg

Start of Day 2 (after we made the furniture dolly into a trans jack carrier)

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/MCWimage_3_zpse755e225.jpeg

Wife swung by and brought sonic shakes and the puppy

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/MCWimage_zps9082761f.jpeg

And there she sits (getting ready to go back in at this point iirc)

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/image_10_zpsc3f85463.jpeg

Old FW

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/image_2_zpsab2b5b5b.jpeg

New FW

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/image_3_zps20445135.jpeg

Clutch Packs going in

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/image_4_zpsee4c70b6.jpeg

Clutch on!

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/image_5_zpse8e6f123.jpeg

Pinning Coolant Lines:

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/image_6_zpsdebc2d59.jpeg

Meth Bungs from Howerton Engineering:

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/image_9_zps8617e1dc.jpeg

Wife said I had to shower before she would hug me. . . . I don’t see why?

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/MCWimage_1_zps1bbca59f.jpeg

I don’t have a lot of service records for the car, but I can tell the motor has probably been dropped before (factory manual says motor comes out for clutch, most people don’t though). Probably for a clutch job (70k on it). But it was another stock clutch and would have been in need of change again before too long. It definitely couldn’t of handed the new turbos.

All in all it went pretty well. Like I said, still have to wrap up a little install stuff and fill with fluids. We spent several several hours just making trips to his house or mine to get one tool here or there we didn’t have (buddy’s shop just opened, and its more dealership than shop so almost no tools there). Then also spent a good 2hrs trying to figure out how to remove the power steering reservoir b/c of the “quick disconnects”. They work the opposite of every other german car either of us had ever seen and are very brittle. Bullshit part I’m still ticked about, but it was a 10min job after finding a youtube video about it. The Factory Manual made it sound like the functioned the opposite way than they actually do.

But man, after the weekend, I feel like I know the car SOOOO much better. Really glad we got the opportunity to do it. And honestly, after doing it once, it really is not a tough job. The right tools and still a fair bit of time. But I could probably do the whole uninstall right now with barely referencing the manual and just checking the torque specs when going back in.

It’s pretty cool, the porsche motor you can change the power steering pump, AC pump, and alternator all right there in the back of the motor without dropping anything and barely having to even remove much. WAY easier than most cars, especially the B7’s. And when dropping the motor, you can just keep the AC pump in the car, so you don’t have to drain and recharge the system, it’s effectively not even touched.

#2

Update after last night:
got everything bolted in and she fired up last night, but while we were trying to burp the coolant lines (didn’t have a pressure bleeder and there is a mile of coolant lines in the car since it runs coolant from rear to front radiators and back) we got an air/steam pocket that blew one of the lines off. Luckily its a reasonably easy one to reach. So I’ve got to wait to get some more coolant, and some more chs11 (clutch runs off it as well) in order to finish bleeding and seeing how things look.

But it was good to hear it start up. Only had one small oil leak and it’s right at the turbo so we’ll check if it’s a loose line or bad washer. Probably wont have time to work on it again till Friday though.

#3

Glad to see you fixed the coolant problem.

#4

Awesome dude… Great pics and cool build, love that you’re doing everything… Looking forward to the progress… + karma

#5

Dude awesome work! Subscribed for future updates!

#6

Impressive that you’ve never done this work before. Those modifications should give you a healthy boost in power. I’ve been lurking on a few Porsche forums not sure I’d be able to make the switch.

#7

Awesome work!

#8

Long time from a bump, but given the wheel lovers we have on this forum, I thought I’d post about the new wheels I think I just acquired. (waiting to finalize deal, but verbally agreed)

Factory 996 Turbo Solids (they later made “hollows” that were lighter, but I have the “solids”)
8x18" at 26 lbs 2 oz
11x18" at 31 lbs 6 oz

BBS RS-GT 18"
8x18" at 19 lbs 9oz
11x18" at 24 lbs 4oz

So that’s a little over 26# of rotational (unsprung) weight saved. Should be pretty substantial!

And of course, without pictures what good is a post! These are the car it’s currently on, which I can’t understand why they would change it.


http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/BBS%20RS-GT2%20front%20left%20wheel%20Sumitomo%20HTRZIII%20225-40ZR18_zpsvjf5zr5h.jpg


http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/mbgt72/Car%20Pics/Porsche%20911%20Turbo/BBS%20RS-GT2%20a_zpsnlvyeumb.jpg

#9

wonder what he’d get for that car…I’m guessing a fuckton. although on second glimpse it looks like a weird spoiler. Is it just an S the guy threw a big gay turbo ish spoiler on?

#10

The guy I’m buying the wheels from actually just bought the car. It’s a 993 C4S. I think it may of been one of the factory spoiler options or may be a replica similar styling. They had several aero packages. But agreed, a fuckton is a very appropriate price tag.

#11

Those RS-GTs are mint. Never realized there was such a difference between front and rear wheels!

#12

Yea they certainly look like it. Got em for $3k shipped with 80% tread left. So seems like a no brainer since I needed new rubber anyhow.

Yea, she’s a legit widebody. 11" in the rear is fun with ~80% power going to the rear wheels most of the time.

#13

Man, that car looks sexy. Sick thread btw. Didn’t see this before.