1976 Porsche 912 build with 993 motor swap by freedomperiod

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Obnoxious? YES!!! AND I LOVE IT!!  

5/5/2012

Try taking a black sharpie to the grooves in the faceplate. That should tone it down considerably. If it doesn't work, easily reversible.

Also ever thought about rotating your tachometer so that the redline is at the 12 o'clock position?

I've always done that with my Porsche tachs, but this time I wanted the numbers to be facing rightside up instead of sideways. I specified for the tach to be made so that the #'s are all rightside up and redline @ 12'oclock like this:

Unfortunately there was a mixup. Later on I may actually have the tach redone.

As to taking a black sharpie to the grooves on the faceplate, the grooves are black and the raised part is chrome. Not sure I'd want to try that anyway. I'm just going to put it up for sale instead. I have another solution... 

All the 993's (including the turbo) have 2 oil filters. One is near the bottom of the oil tank in that very same location. The other hides behind the right rear wheel.

In the 993 engine, Porsche added an additional oil filter on the 993 engine to provide extra filtration of the oil for the protection of the hydraulic lifters. "Zee Germenz!!"

My second oil filter lives here, by the oil fill

OK, fine....

..I was going to surprise you guys with the pics of a clean installation, but I pulled the trigger on the Mac. I got it used, for $750. No scratches (poor photo). I'm putting the Becker up for sale.

Here it is..

I'm going to take the little silver trim pieces off the side, so that it blends into the dash better.

Thanks, x(why)z! It was a great suggestion, and yet another example of the fact that many ideas for my projects have come directly from TCL member's posts.

Perhaps down the road, I'll add some speakers that can match this unit's superb sound quality.

Right now, it's mostly about the right look.