John Glynn's Blog | 911 Porsche tales & other stories
Enter the Fuchsmeister
I love Fuchs. No other wheel suits a 911 like the classic lightweight forged alloy rim. Smooth and simple, it neither overpowers the classic 911 shape nor underdelivers in its visual impact. A Fuchs rim is the perfect Porsche wheel (“Incidentally,” interjected the Porsche geek, “the word is pronounced ‘Fooks’ and is the [...]
Updated WEVO Porsche Shifter
With over 2500 WEVO Shifters for the Porsche 915 and G50 transmissions in circulation across the early 911 community, this excellent product has proven itself to be a genuine improvement over the original. I have a Classic 915 shifter in my Orange car (bought and paid for by the previous owner) and I really do [...]
Porsche 911 Windscreen Removal
My last post left off at the point where I was just gearing up to take the rear screen out of my Porsche 911 SC to replace the seal. This was the first time I had changed a rear screen seal in a 911 and it was interesting how it was all assembled. Here’s [...]
Happy New Year from the Varmint SC!
The blog has been fairly quiet online over Christmas but, like the hardy little ducker that I am, I’ve been paddling away hard unseen. Despite the freezing weather, I took the opportunity of the wonderful few days off to get stuck into the Varmint SC.
All these days later, I fell like very little [...]
Snow Business
I’ve been getting stuck into house business all weekend, so not had much time for playing with the Varmint.
I have a lot of bits lined up to go on, but the weather here has been freezing! Compressor frozen, sheet ice under the car in the yard and all my heating pipes frozen too. So the [...]