What did you do to/with your 996 today?

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Post by 5chn3ll » Fri Nov 06, 2020 8:33 am

Pretty good, right?!? Getting out from under a 996 for only $217...who saw THAT coming?

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by theprf » Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:12 am

5chn3ll wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 5:25 pm I further reduced its resale value. If my numbers are accurate, i would owe a buyer $217 if I decided to sell today.
Congratulations! I wish that more people would work on reducing the values of their cars. They'd get more enjoyment out of them. Everyone would be happier.
I've been reducing the value of mine, not that it had any value to begin with. And I'm going to keep at it!
I'll probably even drive it after dark!
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Post by 5chn3ll » Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:20 am

That's the spirit! F*** the next guy - not that there will be a next guy for my 996. It will either live with me forever or die trying.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by gnat » Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:37 am

Been a few weeks, but took it out for some errands today. The exterior (and parts of the interior) may look like shit, but the important bit still functions and sounds gloriously 8-)

Got a wave from a seal grey (you know, a good color) 996 Turbo. Also ran into a silver (another good color) 996.1 C2 with a Taco at my indy's when I swung by to ask him some questions. It could be her car's soulmate. The paint wasn't as bad, but it was almost as dirty, had yellowing headlights, and scratches and nicks all over the front end.

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 32wildbilly » Fri Nov 06, 2020 1:05 pm

EXCELLENT! Most of our cars are not museum pieces and never will be, but I'm still not driving mine in the snow. 8-)
gnat wrote: Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:37 am Been a few weeks, but took it out for some errands today. The exterior (and parts of the interior) may look like shit, but the important bit still functions and sounds gloriously 8-)

Got a wave from a seal grey (you know, a good color) 996 Turbo. Also ran into a silver (another good color) 996.1 C2 with a Taco at my indy's when I swung by to ask him some questions. It could be her car's soulmate. The paint wasn't as bad, but it was almost as dirty, had yellowing headlights, and scratches and nicks all over the front end.
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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by OceanBlue2000 » Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:25 am

On Saturday I did an oil change with Ferry Porsche's Wonderfying Stupendous Elixir (and 5w-50 oil). I drained the same stuff, so fingers crossed on the UOA, now making its way across the USA to Indiana via stagecoach apparently.

I THINK I noticed more metal on the magnetized oil plug this time, meaning more than none. It was a thin film but you could see grey when I wiped it off on the paper towel. Research indicates this is normal, and no shinys in the catch pan that I saw. Switching to a thicker oil might also cause this, who knows. We'll see what Blackstone says.
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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by JohnIreland » Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:31 pm

Just driving it every day...enjoying all the long ways to everywhere. Must say Los Angeles has some of the crappiest roads ever. And I've been driving them since 1958. Some have not been resurfaced in all that time. Truly. Others not changed or repaired in a good 30 years. Still the car makes them worth it.

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 5chn3ll » Tue Nov 17, 2020 9:48 am

I jinxed the shit out of myself Sunday...I was tearing around here and there running errands reflecting on how the car feels like a million bucks...not half an hour later in my driveway, the glass popped out of the passenger-side regulator.

Heh. Goddammit.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 808Bill » Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:41 am

Just spent 4 days trying to get my transmission back in after a failed pressure plate. I am sore all over!
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Re: What did you do to/with your 996 today?

Post by 32wildbilly » Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:24 pm

808Bill wrote: Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:41 am Just spent 4 days trying to get my transmission back in after a failed pressure plate. I am sorer all over!
Crap dude! You need to set the engine and transmission up with velcro straps for holding it in as many times as you have/will be doing those jobs. Take some IBU, go to the beach and sit in a chair for a couple of days...you lucky son-of-a-gun.
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