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Just came home from Chuck's....

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Jai, RedBird is looking good!

Yes, the 2002 Boxster like the 911 has the single row IMS bearing that is at the highest risk of failure. You can install a LN Engineering bearing, but the job isn't cheap or easy. It is usually done during a clutch replacement since the trans has to be removed for both jobs. There are two special tools needed that cost close to $1000. If you can't find loaner tools, your best bet is to have a Porsche specialist do the work. I was quoted $2500 for the job when I was looking at a car that hadn't yet been done. The bearing and tools needed cost over $1600, so if you have to buy the tools, it's not really cost effective to do it yourself. Some people never replace the IMS and take their chances. The failure rate is about 9% and if it fails, the engine is junk.

I don't know if that would work (emissions, etc) but I stuffed an L28 with 5-speed into a '71 Mercedes 230 sedan -- commuted in it about 12 years before selling. (Gal wrecked it!) It made an okay car a real fun ride, esp as it was SB42 smog-inspection exempt. Used a Maxima oil pan and throttle linkage, and notched the front cross-member (with heavy internal stiffening) but not many other changes, despite the fact that the M-B was an automatic car; very nice driver and cheap!! Shamed a Subaru WRX coupe through three gears; young dudes said "Whoa; fast car, grandpa!" Got me through my Z-less period after Nissan bought my orig owner '70 back in '95. Built a better '71 and got the silver color I ordered in the first place but settled for green... I wrote an tongue-in-cheek article on it for Z Car Magazine (I was Restoration Editor then) but it folded (not my fault, I always hope!) before it got in print. Red NL320 has been crowded out of the garage now; it needs a new home; $8,995.00 asking.

I'm both a Z guy and a Porsche guy. I have done the newer ones but they have lacked the soul my old air cooled 914-6 has and the Z has been with me so long the kids tell me they will not allow me to sell it. I just saw a beautiful Fairlady for sale with a distressed seller on the Z Registry on Facebook. It was closer to the East Coast IIRC. As for the newer Porsches. Avoid anything older than 2009 or, if you do get something older than that look for a documented IMS repair. If you're thinking Cayenne, the ones older than 2009 use plastic coolant tubes underneath the intake manifold that crack and leak. Porsche per their usual MO admits to nothing while they come up with a fix...

check out the picture i just edited the post and added it. Most of the hitachi's you see are AM only right? Very important to have a clean antenna jack and plug in a real antenna to the jack. Not just a piece of wire. Proper voltage is important too. Make sure its a good power supply. Not scanning could be a couple problems. Electrical or mechanical. First check mechanical. Clean all the moving linkage and spray deoxit into all the linkage and lube with auto electronic lube. There are alot of moving parts to that auto tune. If it's electrical then you can try prodding and poking with a plastic probe onto the circuit board while it's running to see if you have a cold solder joint. edit: "either 1 direction" means the little motor direction switch needs cleaning. When it reaches the end of the scan a little switch is turned that changes the direction of the motor. Spray deoxit inside this switch. The switch is right on the top side and easy to get to.

The opposite side of that category would be "Upgraded!" Which really means in most cases "the original well engineered part was thrown away and replaced with something much more shiny that may or may not enhance performance".

Lately i really appreciate the updates from the bodyshop. And If things go right i will visit him and my car again on monday. However here are the latest pictures i got What you see here is the inner rear right quarter panel piecte between the trunk floor and the Fender. it contins the hole where the fuel filler hose goes through. As you can see the original pieces was totally rusted and he created a new one from scratch: Here it's installed test-wise: View from the outside: View from the bottom. As usual: Work of art. May look a bit rough now, but once it has some primer on it it will be like it was from factory

I didn't do something new... I just followed the procedure in the following link http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/22325-dash-repair-processpictures/ I used the Great Stuff Pro, a bumper repair (not the SEM but one I could find in my country), a texture paint spray and a trim black spray. I cleaned the dash, reinforced the back area where the crack was applied the Great Stuff after a while I open some space for the bumper repair and then... I sanded and sanded and sanded again and again until the outcome was good for me... somewhere here, I finished sanded... then cleaned the surface and sprayed the texture paint and then cleaned the texture "effect" with scotch brite... then I sprayed with trim black, then again with texture paint, scotch brite again and then one more time trim black spray and finished :) finished photos on my first post

On Thursday i was finally able to pick up the NOS rear quarter panel, which i found online a few weeks ago. I wanted to thank the guys from http://www.swissconnection.us/ for their superior shipping service and the seller of this item for his great support. Thanks! Unfortunately it got a slight dent during shipping, but still a lot easier to fix compared to creating this complete panel from scratch and sheet metal You can still see the sticker of the original Nissan Spareparts delivery back in the day: Beautiful to see all these original welds and shapes. I guess my Car is reaching Concours level soon with all these originanal bodypanels beeing put together Oh and then i got this from Japan. I asked hayashi to reprint an old catalogue for me with all the NLA Fairlady parts. they agreed but unfortunately we probably got lost in translation a bit and they sent me a new catalogue istead. well who cares still nice to have a new Hayashi catalogue