It was a automotive filled weekend for me.
Started on Friday for me. A couple friends came over to work on their cars, one of which has been in my garage for a month or so. We replaced the rear shocks in his 928, then moved onto the other friends 924, which we did some vacuum line work, fuel line, idle switch adjustment, pulled a couple metal panels off the engine which we sand blasted and painted.
Saturday was more car work after my weekly Porsche club breakfast. I came home and looked at my partially dissembled 968's motor and said a few words to the intake manifold and moved onto my friends 928. I've been working on this car for a while, everything rubber or plastic got replaced in the engine bay, vacuum, fuel lines, coolant hoses, intake refresh and repaint, plugs/wires/cap/rotor/coil, smog pump removal, injectors, wiring harness, basically everything in the damn engine bay. I also pulled the dash apart to fix some issues in it and a lot of instrument cluster issues. It ran, but was down on power, been staring and tinkering on this for a while trying to figure it out. So Saturday I pulled the right bank apart and pulled the fuel rail out to pop an old injector in as I had it down to the #2 cylinder that wasn't firing, but had spark. Popped the old one in then put it all back together and same issue. So off to Sears for more tools, a compression tester set, needed one anyways, all cylinders are showing good on the gauge. But I noticed #4 plug didn't appear to be firing as well as the others. Scratch head a little while and stare at the old distributor cap with all the wires still attached that I used for a diagram. Come to the conclusion to swap 2 and 4 on the cap and it runs beautifully now. Some genius decided to use the long #4 wire on #2 and stretch the #2 to the #4 plug, thanks previous mechanic. Car is hot now, so I leave it alone. About 7pm my crazy neighbor calls for help as he hit a curb with his Ranchero and shredded his tire and has no jack or spare tire. Load up the truck with jack and tools and head over to the scene. I got tire off and over to Pepboys before it closes at 8pm and get the a new tire mounted and head back and throw it on his truck.
Sunday I got up, made a face at the 968 again and moved onto the 928. I need to dissemble the passenger side again to pull out the old injector I swapped in and pop in the new one. Got that done, ran the buffer over the fenders to clean it up a little, then I loaded up the boxes of spare parts in the car and called it done. Cleaned up, took his 928 on a nice long ride to my friends to give it back to him. After helping him and another friend put up a garage door opener in his garage we had a nice steak dinner. After which I supervised the removal of the CV Axles from his parts 944 so he can rebuild them and throw them in his wife’s 944.
Monday I took out my 928 to go look at a 928 for a friend that is for sale in the area. It's a complete basket case the interior is shredded to bits, not one panel is intact, seats are horrible, but are sport seats. The paint job that is supposedly only six months old and perfect is completely disgusting, orange peel everywhere, large sections of wet sand marks that were never buffed out. The worst was the fact that the painter apparently never heard of masking, EVERYTHING was painted, the spoilers, locks, side view mirrors (the actual mirror glass), a two year could have done better work. The only plus to the car was a strong motor and the 5spd. He started out advertising it at $7500 said it was worth $18k once the interior was finished, then changed the ad to $5k, and was down to $3k by the time I left. About all I'd pay is $1k and would use it for a parts car or a track car.
