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Re: Widowmaker Project (Building a Faux GT2)
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 6:46 am
by TheDeckMan
HAHAHAHA! I had not seen that!
Yeah, the living room was currently in the front facing the street so decided to eliminate the wall between my old server room and the kitchen so that can become the living room facing the lake.
Re: Widowmaker Project (Building a Faux GT2)
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:29 am
by TheDeckMan
With the super hot weather it left only mornings to work on the house gutting, with retiring to the cool garage by lunch time. Attacking the plugs first as they were due for changing after 12k miles, I also decided to tackle the one broken coil plug from the prior shop that worked on it. Originally when I did the plugs I used the same zip tie trick to hold in place, but with having so much experience and all the spares from the 997tt that had 4 broken plugs it made sense to tackle it.
New Connector for 996/997 Turbos
Fixed coil plug, this requires some extreme contorting of the hands to de-pin the connector, patience is key. Removing the exhaust also helps gain access as it is tight.
After that was done and the new rear O2 Sensors were in, the IC's went back on and pressure testing was in order. I always pressure test at least every other oil change and to my surprise I found a leak from the right 997.2 IC, this was a bit of a kick in the nutz as these are only 6k miles old and purchased through Sonnen. Could be just a single bad one or that the manufacturer has issues with them sealing correctly at the crimp place. It appears that many have had similar issues with theirs.
To be continued.
Re: Widowmaker Project (Building a Faux GT2)
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 5:57 am
by TheDeckMan