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Spring is Coming: Back to Work

February 14, 2010

Temperatures finally rose high enough today to encourage me to tackle some outstanding jobs on the cars. Number one emergency was the Land Cruiser, which has had sticky starter syndrome for a few weeks now – right when it was needed to be at its most reliable! What happens is the starter stays engaged after [...]

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Updated WEVO Porsche Shifter

January 12, 2010

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 [...]

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Porsche Mechanic Wanted

October 21, 2009

I popped in to Autofarm today, to drop off some parts belonging to one of their customers. While there, I had a quick chat with Robin about business and how they were finding things. In common with most other Porsche independents I have spoken to recently, Robin reported business as being good, with lots of [...]

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A Bit of a Lift

September 19, 2009

With all these projects comes the need for more tools: one big one in particular. One Sunday morning a few years back, a Speedster-owning buddy of mine put a post up on ImpactBumpers.com. A friend of his was moving to the ‘States and clearing out his garage. He had an old scissor lift that had [...]

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911 Engine Rebuilding

September 5, 2009

A few years ago, a very good Porsche mate of mine put me on to an SC motor in unknown condition being sold for spares. We went down to see it and, though it was fairly neglected, it seemed worth a shot, so into the van it went. From there it went on the floor [...]

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More Landcruiser fun

June 10, 2009

I travelled to the May IB Midlands meet in the Landcruiser, as the kids were off to Eire with Mum, so needed a lift to the airport, and Tea Boy had picked up some drains for me that I had won on eBay, so I needed space to bring them home. The meet was a [...]

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