What have you done to your car today?

I plan on getting a bigger sway bar eventually. They're going to have to hold a lot more force.

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The design of the socket on these Blox pieces is much more direct and strong. The socket fits around the circumference of the bearing/ball moreso than the stock ones which slide on from the side. It also bolts up closer to the sway bar, which means there's less leverage to deflect bolt.
 
Nice touches to your Volvo there Patrik 👍

Made another minor trim adjustment to the 911 today, not much, but gives a nice improvement in overall finish anyway. (Now needs washing badly, damned drought regulations are keeping me erring on the side of not washing it as regularly as I used to though. :()

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The wiper blades, showing the worn bolt and fitting covers, and new parts to the right.

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Close-up of left fitting showing corrosion and missing bits.

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Close-up of right fitting, better than left side, but still not good.

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Close-up of new parts making a Porsche alien!

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In process of removing knackered bits with new bolt cover for comparison.

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Both wipers removed and the old trim pieces.

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Close-up of their rather sorry state.

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New pivoting bolt covers in place at the ends of the wiper arms.

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New parts in place.

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Close-up of the improved look. 👍 (please excuse the obvious dirt!)

Next project is to get some work done on the seat leather, which if you've a keen eye, you'll see has started to split on the driver's seat. Had a quote done yesterday to rebuild/recover both front seats, rear seat carpeting and the trim on the door pockets. $2300! :eek: Oh well, might be time to start searching e-Bay for some 1981 911 seats in blue!
 
It wouldn't be a true Porsche unless it required some tender love and care, now would it? ;)

My new exhaust header was installed yesterday. At cruising speed, there is no noise difference. Under light acceleration, there's a little more noise. At full throttle, it sounds like the gates of Hell have been opened. I think I've created a monster....
 
Kylehnat
It wouldn't be a true Porsche unless it required some tender love and care, now would it? ;)

My new exhaust header was installed yesterday. At cruising speed, there is no noise difference. Under light acceleration, there's a little more noise. At full throttle, it sounds like the gates of Hell have been opened. I think I've created a monster....
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Unless you think that car wouldn't meet whatever emissions tests you have up there, the second converter is fair game to gut or replace since it's behind all the O2 sensors. Or did your exhaust already do that?
 
No, the exhaust is a Mazdaspeed cat-back. I'll leave the second cat alone. If it doesn't pass emissions (not sure how much of a tattle-tale the ECU is), I'll have throw the stock manifold back in there every two years anyway ;).
 
Just done my first bit of dirty-hands auto care. Removing my battery to charge it.

Just a quick question though, do I need to remove the access/plugs/things-for-putting-water-in plugs from the battery while it charges?
 
Smallhorses, come up to Marin, we don't have any water regulations. And you can always spend $60 and get a full inside and outside clean in 20-30 mins :P They do a super good job.
 
ExigeEvan
Just a quick question though, do I need to remove the access/plugs/things-for-putting-water-in plugs from the battery while it charges?
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Just untighten them a bit, so the gas has an easy way out :) Top up water if it's low before you charge it by the way, easily forgotten..
 
Well it's a relatively knew battery so I haven't thought to check the water level. I just hope all the cells are still healthy after.

If not, I have a 1 year guarantee on it.
 
It's not like you destroy it, it just charges better when full :) Being new has little to do with water level, some manufactures fill it up with something that evaporates quickly, some forget to fill anything. That's happened to me..
 
Prosthetic
Smallhorses, come up to Marin, we don't have any water regulations. And you can always spend $60 and get a full inside and outside clean in 20-30 mins :P They do a super good job.
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It's a possibility, however, a 29 year old Targa top doesn't exactly seal very well, and although kits are available to replace the seals, it's a generic kit that fits all targa tops for everything from the earliest late-60s Targas up to the last generation "Classic 911" models in 1989. In all this time there were slight differences in the seals on models between years, and thus the replacement seals more-or-less fit all the models partially, but none of the models perfectly and I've had recommendations from both my Porsche mechanic and the guy that runs the local Porsche breakers yard that it's not worth doing for the cost vs. results obtained. Besides, 99% of the time the car is driven with the top off, it doesn't go out in the rain and is kept garaged, so it's not really an issue.

Basically it leaks a little! I always wash by hand, ensuring that I've packed wads of kitchen towel along the tops of the door liners so that any leakage down the windows from the seals at the top is absorbed.
There's a $20 inside / out carwash pretty close to me that I use for my company car, and indeed for the Mazda (even though it's a convertible) which does a great job, but I don't really know how well the Porsche would do.

My next projects for the car are to get the interior fixed up as I've already mentioned (tax rebate purchase!) and to get the paintwork chips, scratches and stains buffed out and polished, provided Mrs. SH agrees!
 
A couple weeks ago I got a dash kit to 'properly' install a Sony CD deck I had gotten earlier from a friend. Unfortunately it was a universal kit, so I had to grind off some factory plastic clip holders to make it fit right. Not the cleanest of jobs, but it'll work. Looks much better than a stereo sitting in a big hole, anyway. The speakers aren't too bad but do need replacing. Luckily the last owner had done an excellent job of installing 'system wires, so I'm looking into a bit of extra bass (nothing obnoxious). Yesterday I washed the car. I definitely need some small dents pulled, a re-paint (most likely black), and a new hood.
 
Put the battery back in, and it all works fine. Hopefully the battery keeps going well, if not I'll just take it back and get a swap.
 
I replaced the OEM MR-S head unit (Which is pretty much the same head unit from their mini-van) with a Scion tC head unit.

This has a lot of pros, including MP3 CD playback, better audio quality, and probably most important for a random reason, the colors all match up now.

Random picture of a stock setup at night...

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As you can see, that green is hideous with the orange.

So I put this head unit in
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And well, all the lights in it match the lights in the rest of the car. Yay, things that look right and are still OEM.

I'll take a picture later or something.
 
I moved it off the street. The local Sheriff drove by and eyeballed it out in the street. Might have had it sitting there too long. I'll be changing the fuel filter, and the distributor cap today. Possibly doing seafoam as well if I can get my brother to help out with it.
 
I installed an Auxillary adapter today so I can plug in my zune to the stereo. Later this week I will install a custom aux jack.
 
Got these for the Evo. From what I'm told, they're a pretty sweet all-round pad. Getting my rotors machined tomorrow, then I'll chuck them on.

Bloody expensive though. Even though the supplier did throw in a litre of brake fluid for free.

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I can succesfully say that I have more experience then I'd ever need changing wheel bearings on a 98 Blazer.

My friends front left wheel bearing was going bad so we decided to change it. We change it, put everything back on, then decided to go for a drive out to the middle of nowhere where I stepped on it in the video I made. It was a good 20 miles there and back and by the time we got back to his house you could hear something that sounded like the brake squealing loud whenever he took a right turn. We get back to his house and we take it off and it turns out the speed sensor was too long and the bearing ground it up. So we go back to autozone, get another one, and install that yesterday. Before we installed it we checked to see if it was spinning freely and it was, and even checked the speed sensor and it wasn't rubbing. We install it, go for a quick drive around the block, and the same sound shows up. We take everything off again and the speed sensor was ground up like the last bearing, but the bearing itself was still spinning freely so we left the sensor off, put everything back on, and went for another drive. The sound was still there but it wasn't as bad as before so we drove a bit farther until we heard a heavy clicking sound. He stops and starts going very slowly and it keeps making the clicking sound every rotation. It turns out the the wheel bearing started seperating itself, so he rolls it at literally half a mph into the shade and we call his dad. His dad brings all the tools along with the original wheel bearing, we change it all in the middle of the street, then drive back to his house. After that we went for a long drive with the old one and it was fine, so the others didn't mess anything else up.

Now he's at a dilemma of what to do. He raplaced his wheel bearing with the same one on the other side and it's been working perfectly fine, so could it be that he got two bad wheel bearings in a row, or should he look into getting one from a different brand.
 
I tried to fix my headlight alignment on my car today but somehow it just won't stay. So when I do have the " Sleepy" mode on. It looks like its bugged out.
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