Topic: TheHire's '91 Porsche 911 Carrera

[whaddaiknow]

An absolutely fantastic find. Glad to hear you are taking such good care of it.
Modern Porsche's look good and, well, "modern" but this looks so much better imo. It really stirs emotion. I don't normally associate blue with Porsche but this deep cobalt blue looks great.
Congrats!

[ltruong]

These Porsches models are some of the nicest piece of art on wheels.

[dirtyjeffer]

These Porsches models are some of the nicest piece of art on wheels.

agreed...i think all 911s are beautiful and incredible though...it's always been one of my favourite cars.

[TheHire]

I just realized i hadn't really posted any photos of the Cobalt Blue interior. Here is the one I have, and some bonus shots of the finished detail job.

[quadzilla]

WOW! That is pure sex.

[ChaosphereIX]

Looks fantastic, car is lucky to have you as its owner. Gonna be pampered...after a hard drive.

[TheHire]

Looks fantastic, car is lucky to have you as its owner. Gonna be pampered...after a hard drive.

Thanks!

The thing is, it was never really driven "hard". My buddy is in his mid-40s, married with two lovely young kids. He's as docile and calm as they get - his other car is a carb'd Ferrari 308. He doesn't beat on his stuff, and tinkers away on little projects in his garage at night after the kids are asleep.

Regardless, I'm happy to have the resources I have now, and it'll help me cheaply keep this thing and all my other toys in top-notch shape.

Plus, it's not like you guys won't be popping by for test drives  Chaos - let's go for a spin with this and the XJL-R!

[Bubba]

These Porsches models are some of the nicest piece of art on wheels.

agreed...i think all 911s are beautiful and incredible though...it's always been one of my favourite cars.

Likewise.

[HeliDriver]

Yeah, wow. That is really, really nice. Much nicer than the last one.

The blue interior would not have been my first choice (or second, or third…) but it certainly wouldn’t be a deal breaker.

[ChaosphereIX]

Looks fantastic, car is lucky to have you as its owner. Gonna be pampered...after a hard drive.

Thanks!

The thing is, it was never really driven "hard". My buddy is in his mid-40s, married with two lovely young kids. He's as docile and calm as they get - his other car is a carb'd Ferrari 308. He doesn't beat on his stuff, and tinkers away on little projects in his garage at night after the kids are asleep.

Regardless, I'm happy to have the resources I have now, and it'll help me cheaply keep this thing and all my other toys in top-notch shape.

Plus, it's not like you guys won't be popping by for test drives  Chaos - let's go for a spin with this and the XJL-R!

For sure, I cant wait for the ronapocalypse to subside so I can see friends and go for drives again. Would be great to see your collection in the flesh, and hear that pretty Porsche go through the gears...

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[TheHire]

The blue interior would not have been my first choice (or second, or third…) but it certainly wouldn’t be a deal breaker.

What, you wouldn't want your 911's interior to mimic a 1993 Taurus?

[blur911]

Looks fantastic, car is lucky to have you as its owner. Gonna be pampered...after a hard drive.

Thanks!

The thing is, it was never really driven "hard". My buddy is in his mid-40s, married with two lovely young kids. He's as docile and calm as they get - his other car is a carb'd Ferrari 308. He doesn't beat on his stuff, and tinkers away on little projects in his garage at night after the kids are asleep.

Regardless, I'm happy to have the resources I have now, and it'll help me cheaply keep this thing and all my other toys in top-notch shape.

Plus, it's not like you guys won't be popping by for test drives  Chaos - let's go for a spin with this and the XJL-R!

So, are you going to track this one, or is it too pretty?

A friend of mine has basically the same car as yours here in Kingston, last I saw he was doing a window's out repaint and replacing anything that showed it's age.   
 He thought he bought a driver when he got it but a few weeks in realized the "rebuilt" engine wasn't done right and it had to come out and apart again.   It then turned into a back burner multi-year project when the twin girls came along...
I think he'll have it on the road this summer, but I can't imagine how much he spent on it.

[TheHire]

Looks fantastic, car is lucky to have you as its owner. Gonna be pampered...after a hard drive.

Thanks!

The thing is, it was never really driven "hard". My buddy is in his mid-40s, married with two lovely young kids. He's as docile and calm as they get - his other car is a carb'd Ferrari 308. He doesn't beat on his stuff, and tinkers away on little projects in his garage at night after the kids are asleep.

Regardless, I'm happy to have the resources I have now, and it'll help me cheaply keep this thing and all my other toys in top-notch shape.

Plus, it's not like you guys won't be popping by for test drives  Chaos - let's go for a spin with this and the XJL-R!

So, are you going to track this one, or is it too pretty?

A friend of mine has basically the same car as yours here in Kingston, last I saw he was doing a window's out repaint and replacing anything that showed it's age.   
 He thought he bought a driver when he got it but a few weeks in realized the "rebuilt" engine wasn't done right and it had to come out and apart again.   It then turned into a back burner multi-year project when the twin girls came along...
I think he'll have it on the road this summer, but I can't imagine how much he spent on it.

I put decent tires on it (Yokohama Fleva V701, the same ones I ordered DriverJeff for his Z3M), so I don't have an objection to taking it to the track. It has a couple of oil leaks that are prompting me to do an engine-out over the winter, so I'll probably track it next season.

[blur911]

Looks fantastic, car is lucky to have you as its owner. Gonna be pampered...after a hard drive.

Thanks!

The thing is, it was never really driven "hard". My buddy is in his mid-40s, married with two lovely young kids. He's as docile and calm as they get - his other car is a carb'd Ferrari 308. He doesn't beat on his stuff, and tinkers away on little projects in his garage at night after the kids are asleep.

Regardless, I'm happy to have the resources I have now, and it'll help me cheaply keep this thing and all my other toys in top-notch shape.

Plus, it's not like you guys won't be popping by for test drives  Chaos - let's go for a spin with this and the XJL-R!

So, are you going to track this one, or is it too pretty?

A friend of mine has basically the same car as yours here in Kingston, last I saw he was doing a window's out repaint and replacing anything that showed it's age.   
 He thought he bought a driver when he got it but a few weeks in realized the "rebuilt" engine wasn't done right and it had to come out and apart again.   It then turned into a back burner multi-year project when the twin girls came along...
I think he'll have it on the road this summer, but I can't imagine how much he spent on it.

I put decent tires on it (Yokohama Fleva V701, the same ones I ordered DriverJeff for his Z3M), so I don't have an objection to taking it to the track. It has a couple of oil leaks that are prompting me to do an engine-out over the winter, so I'll probably track it next season.

Do you know where the oil leaks are?  Some can be fixed without removing the engine, some others, it's easier to drop it out.   I had to drop mine last year to replace the O-ring on the oil-thermostat, even though it was only in for a few weeks, I took it to the track and it got way too smokey dripping oil on the exhaust.

[KD]

~400km in one week with the car. It's every bit as wonderful as I'd imagined. Because of my OCD, I'm going to do an engine-out over the winter when the car is in storage, just to make sure it's perfect. We replaced all of the fluids, and put new tires on it as well. A bunch of little things.

Wow, what a beauty!    Nice find! 

[HeliDriver]

Oh, geez. Just saw that it's a Carrera 4. 

Still an awesome car, but it's not like it will be winter driven, or has a gazillion turbocharged HP & needs help getting the power down. Would it be sacrilege to pull the front drive hardware to save a few hundred pounds and turn it into a RWD summer plaything? Do people do that?

I know next to nothing about these cars, but always pictured the Carrera 4 as being designed for commuting on the autobahn at 150 mph in the middle of a cold, dark and wet German winter.

[Scaerio]

WOW! That is pure sex.

I gotta change my underwear...

 

That car is totally erotic.

[TheHire]

So I had the car off the road for a couple of weeks - our Porsche master tech wasn't happy with the amount of oil leaks out of it. We re-sealed it, replaced a bunch of components. We initially had planned to do this over winter while the car was off the road anyway, but the oil falling onto the exhaust was creating a fire hazard. Me being stubborn and insisting on daily driving the thing had my tech confiscate my keys and rip the engine out of it. Got a bunch of random bits and bobs, and it's back up now.

Guy tinkered for days after hours and on the weekend, and it's back on the road. Thing drives like a million bucks. Well, maybe a hundred thousand bucks. 

[OliverD]

What a beauty. Love the colour combo.

[Serniter]

What a beauty. Love the colour combo.

Late to this. Agreed. My favourite generation of Porsche.

Mine as well. Beautiful car. Would like to see pics of the 308 sometime.