911 Carrera RallyCross Project

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Our 85 UR quattro is running sufficiently well enough to tackle solo classic car duty at events so we decided to drop the engine in the 911 Carrera RX.

Before we got carried away and disconnected everything we had the presence of mind to do a compression test. We think it went well.

Plugs look OK too

We have a five week window before we need the car again so we got a wiggle on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDWWLwnW8E0&feature=youtu.be

and 1 minute and 40 seconds later it was out.

Ok it took a bit longer than that. About four hours over three days I think. Now we start in on refurbishing the top. Here's what we are thinking:


New Heater ducts
New Shifter coupling
Intake manifold gaskets
Clean Injectors
refurb air flappy door thing
replace Rubber hoses
replace Fuel lines
Adjust clutch
Replace Plugs
Replace Leads
Replace Distributor cap
Replace Engine mounts
Replace Engine crossbar
Replace Left camshaft oil line
Valve clearances
Replace Air filter
Replace 02 sensor
Fix oil Leaks
Rear Hood pins
Refurb tinware

money and time permitting of course.

Car is running a bit rough and making some popping noises. Also doesn't like part throttle but idles well and pulls strong. Would like to dress up the engine bay a little too. Maybe some steel braided lines instead of OE replacements. Can you think of anything else we can do?

6-30-2017

Tear down is nearly complete so we took the car off the lift and pushed it back into the showroom. Looks odd so high in the rear.

It didn't take long before we found our first issue. This might need cleaninig.

We soon had the intake manifold off the engine.

and found some more, not unexpected problems.

A bit more wrench wiggling and we had the shroud off too.

A few more things to address.

Generally speaking there were no surprises so we think we'll push on with our original plan. There was one little wrinkle: a morning spent googling "Individual throttle bodies Porsche 3.2" !! Maybe next time eh?

7-19-2017

Anyone have a cheap(er) fix for this? OE part is $165!