[Bertrand Daoust]

[Strosek Ultra]

This lady has her birthday on 9/28.
Åke

[Don Smith]

Happy Birthday

[Bertrand Daoust]

Few more from Frenzy.
That Perlglanzgruen GTS is spectacular!

[Bertrand Daoust]

[XR4Tim]

[hernanca]

Soon arriving in my Silver/Burgundy 86.5!

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[worf]

Soon arriving in my Silver/Burgundy 86.5!

Who did the work?

[hernanca]

Classic9 Leather Shop https://www.classic9leathershop.com/928 ... er/928?p=1. (Edit: I sourced and provided the material myself from Germany, though Classic9 said I pretty much ended up with what they could provide, but my leather was thicker and harder to work with. These were the Sport Seats I bought from Stan (MrMerlin) back in 2017. I have personally transported these seats twice from the great white north down to swampy Florida.)

I picked everything up in May/June this year but the car has been in the shop and is due out soon (another story for another thread).

[h2pmr]

just arrived from local OPC

[h2pmr]

[Strosek Ultra]

These very wide rear tires (335x35) for my Strosek cars are expensive, hard to get and wear out in a short time.
Åke

[worf]

Dang. You've got two stacks of four. How many weeks do you get out of a set of rears?

Obligatory 928 picture.

First-time client's '80 5-speed HVAC is doing strange things.

Quiz:

[Bertrand Daoust]

Unfortunately, one of the last drives of the season.
Beautiful autumn day here today.

[Babado]

Just purchased 86.5 West Coast, single family car, I can't thank Ed (Linderpat) enough for all his help.

[hernanca]

Beautiful color combo, Babado!

(^^^Fuel pump relay bypass w/ momentary button)

[Hey_Allen]

It's not a beautiful example of a car, especially after the trip, but my car finally caught up with me after my 2,000 mile move halfway across the country.

[Babado]

Beautiful color combo, Babado!

(^^^Fuel pump relay bypass w/ momentary button)

Thank you, 30 years ago I had a 84 Carrera, I think it was the same color, light interior too!

[linderpat]

Just purchased 86.5 West Coast, single family car, I can't thank Ed (Linderpat) enough for all his help.

I think it'll turn out to be a steal of a buy!

[Don Smith]

Waiting for Han’s shifter kit to be installed. It will not happen till spring, now, as my car is tucked away, but, I am longing for that rifle bolt action. I love everything else about this car, and this is(was) the only thing that stopped it from being perfect.

[XR4Tim]

[Strosek Ultra]

Dang. You've got two stacks of four. How many weeks do you get out of a set of rears?

Obligatory 928 picture.

First-time client's '80 5-speed HVAC is doing strange things.

A few minutes.
Åke

[Babado]

This lady has her birthday on 9/28.
Åke

Beautiful, love the P1800 too!

[hessank]

These very wide rear tires (335x35) for my Strosek cars are expensive, hard to get and wear out in a short time.
Åke

Same here for my Koenig. Last year I downgraded to 315/35/17s which are available from several brands.

[maddog2020]

yep 335/30/18's are hard to find certain times of the year.

[worf]

Hey. *photo* thread

Another quiz. No one passed the last one.

Found this on the floor. Center frame. Utility blade for scale.

Clue: on the floor below where the lower bell housing was.

[maddog2020]

Hey. *photo* thread

Another quiz. No one passed the last one.

Found this on the floor. Center frame. Utility blade for scale.

Clue: on the floor below where the lower bell housing was.

must be a manual car. its that funky spring washer that goes on the release bearing assembly.

[h2pmr]

i thought it looked slightly the wrong colour when i took it out of the S4

[worf]

must be a manual car. its that funky spring washer that goes on the release bearing assembly.

You win the quiz but fail at the photo thread concept.

i thought it looked slightly the wrong colour when i took it out of the S4

What? A little over spray?

[hernanca]

I will just leave this here:


Note: the one on the right is now in the car. I have not tested it yet (other work being done). I will start a thread on the adventure (and dust off my Nomex suit!).

[worf]

I will just leave this here:

You Bitch!

Is that a no-power-assist manual rack?

[hernanca]

Indeed, it is!

I told myself that if another one leaked on me, I would do a proper conversion to manual. I had it done by The Machine Shop in Colorado, which do the proper conversions for 944's. Though he said it was quite the bitch to do and he would charge a lot more for the next one. I was surprised that I got my original back and am still not sure how he did it, other than I know he sourced some very early Jaguar bits.

[XR4Tim]

[Strosek Ultra]

[Strosek Ultra]

[Strosek Ultra]

[Strosek Ultra]

Before she became red.
Åke

[h2pmr]

would be interested to see a picture of the door when its open to see how they flared it out to mate up with the rear quarter panel

[JMW928]

Intensive detail continues. Machine polished and C.Quartz ceramic applied.

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[Strosek Ultra]

would be interested to see a picture of the door when its open to see how they flared it out to mate up with the rear quarter panel

Check out inserted picture Nov. 08 where the car is yellow.
Åke

[maddog2020]

Intensive detail continues. Machine polished and C.Quartz ceramic applied.

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that's a heavy duty charger stand.

[JMW928]

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Not really needed at that height, but when raised higher it comes in handy.

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[worf]

Intensive detail continues. Machine polished and C.Quartz ceramic applied.

Wow. Not sure you could get it any shinier.


And on another note: No reason to buy new compressor hoses from Porsche.

[Strosek Ultra]

This is the fall of 1986 when I had acquired my first 928 Strosek. I still have the car but it is not driveable at the moment. My father was a bit hesitant about such an expensive and strange looking car. He said is this something you really want, wouldn't it be better to keep the money in the bank?
Åke

[JMW928]

Wow. Not sure you could get it any shinier.

Thanks! I've been working on it as time allows for nearly a year now. It's the cleanest it's been in my 16 years of ownership. Inside, outside, and underneath. I machine polished with Griot's BOSS Correcting Cream then topped it with 2-3 coats of C.Quartz. This was my first experience with ceramic and I'm very pleased with the results. This car has approximately 105k miles on it, so the nose cap and lower body cladding have a fair amount of road rash. The ceramic did a great job of filling/leveling a good percentage of the rash as well as restoring the color - it was like it took tens of thousands of miles off the finish.

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[worf]

This is your air pump:



This is your air pump on drugs:



This is your air pump after rehab:

[h2pmr]

This is your air pump:



This is your air pump on drugs:



This is your air pump after rehab:

are those new stickers on that air pump, or did you just buy a new pump?

[worf]

are those new stickers on that air pump, ...

Stickers. I ordered a crate of the various 928 stickers from the Polacks and sent them pictures and measurements for the air pump stickers. I think I ordered 10. They'll probably never sell any more of them. But, they can if anyone wants them.

https://www.carbone.pl/technical-external-stickers/

They aren't on their website, so one would need to inquire specifically.

... or did you just buy a new pump?

LoL. Seriously?

The only misleading thing about my above post is that the first pump pictured was not the same pump as shown in the 'restored' pictures. The parts for the restored pump have been sitting in a box for months waiting until I had several to do all at once. That first dipped-in-dirt pump was just cleaned up and rebuilt.

[Crumpler]

The 928 value:

[worf]

The 928 value:

Wow. My prop-tax rate for our fleet is waaay less than yours and we’re in Taxachusetts.