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everyday he is changing engines because of a failed bearing and people wanna fight him with statements like "absolutely no need"
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what if the maker of the car told you they never fail and cannot be changed EVER?
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Back on the MAUI mod it's mostly running wires and pinning plugs.
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Greetings all. I've been lurking around here for a while now and would like to participate on the board.
Me, been married (to the same person) for 25+ years, work on my own cars, an aircraft mechanic for 20+ years.
I live in a nice suburb of Tulsa Oklahoma, have three kids (mostly grown) and two great grand kids. I suppose that I could be called both young and old. My oldest made me a grandfather at 39.
Mechanical skills. Have wrenched on sprint cars, friends and family's cars and my cars. I've done an engine/clutch change in a 944 and transmission swap in my E30 BMW along with many, many lesser tasks.
I am thrifty to the point of being cheap. I do however appreciate the value of preventative maintance. I manage to live a bit beyond my means by doing many things myself.
My car/cars. A very recently purchased 2003 Carrera 4S in Seal Gray over Black, well optioned with a manual gearbox and I just put 75k miles on it. This car appears to be completely stock.
My daily driver is a 89' BMW 325i cab. The wife drives an 07' Volvo XC90 Sport. I'm selling my one owner 05' Mustang GT to make room for the Porsche.
Some of my previous cars are an 84' 944, 75' Bronco, 92' Integra (beater) and a couple of Lexus'.
I'll attach a pic of the car so as not to start off on Tim's bad side. Unfortunately the only one I have so far has me in it so you'll have to take the good with the bad.
So there. I have really enjoyed reading this board for a while and hope to be able to contribute some and to ask some good questions.
Thanks all, Brian
Great info., nice 4s and superb color combination. Intro with pics....Tim? Welcome to a forum with lots of info and many ways to help you spend some more $.
Brian,
I guess I can't really say "Welcome" since you have been registered here almost as long as I have. However, I can say Congrats on getting the sweet looking 996. Thanks for the pic! I just love it when my reputation proceeds me!
Welcome Brian....
if we could have kept Tim to only 2 posts imagine what a world that would be
(this is gonna come back and bite me - I just know it)
anyhow nice car....but dayam thats an ugly wife ya got there
JUST KIDDING !!
PS love your statement about living slightly outside of your means!! Well played!!!
Thanks again all. I appreciate and agree with you all, it is a nice looking car. It looks like it should have only 35k instead of the 75k miles.
And I have to share my favorite P-car story to date.
When I've had my Porsche for only a few days, my 15yo daughter (who is just beginning to drive the Bimmer) was of course very excited about it.
My wife (see picture above) and I took her out for dinner with us and as we were walking through the parking lot my daughter spotted a newer 911. "Can we go look at it?" she said, well duh.
When she got to the back of it she said quite loudly, "What the heck, it's only just a Carrera! Where's the rest of the name?"
That's my girl. "It's only just a Carrera"
Lord help me, what have I done.
Brian
Nice car Brian. I guess the 911 makes more sense to be paying for road use at the toll gates. I was down in Norman for half a year enjoying your area. I'd be tempted to construct a concrete bunker house with the way the winds blow and tornado's go through there.
Take care, Jim
What a ride, I have loved the 996s since they came out, I am on my second. The 996 4S has some great options. Do the L.N.Eng. IMS upgrade and new RMS, flush the radiator and add 5 gallons of "Pink Porsche radiator fluid". Best of luck...
PORSCHE 996 2002
http://www.lnengineering.com/ims.html
That's my girl. "It's only just a Carrera"
Lord help me, what have I done.
Be thankful she didn't say Camero.......its a long story. Her intelligence to be extremely high!
I don't understand the LNS whatever IMS upgrade. Absolutely no need.
Enjoy the ride. Huge upgrade from the Mustang. There is no substitute as they say here.
Thanks for sharing. I saw a stock C4S driving around today. Best rear end ever.
really?
so let me ask.... do wheel bearings fail? If they did would you know? would you replace them? what if the maker of the car told you they never fail and cannot be changed EVER? what if one failed it cost $15k to replace, what if someone offered a $700 alternative, what if failure was completely random and had zero warning signs
anyone wanna guess why Jake Raby doenst come by anymore??
everyday he is changing engines because of a failed bearing and people wanna fight him with statements like "absolutely no need"
The thing is, there is a no definitive answer nor determinant saying your engine should get the "upgrade" or not. Let the new guy enjoy his 70K miles C4S in peace. There is absolutely no need for the guy to go out and get this "upgrade". I'd much rather get a nice aftermarket warranty for $3K than spend it on an "upgrade" that will take many, many years and tens of thousands of miles and thousands of M96 examples to begin to prove it does anything.
New owner, enjoy the drive. Don't look back. Even if I or you or anyone else ends up dumping $15K for a very nice new factory engine, there's no AMG, M anything in the near vicinity that will give you such great driving pleasure.
Well after getting my A&P I started out doing the airport gypsy thing building cylinders at engine overhaul shops. I managed to get on at American and have done composites, upper structures, avionics, heavy and light checks, interior mods, avionics mods, I even wrapped insulation around A/C ducts for a while. That's right, I was a duct taper.
Right now I'm an avionics mechanic and currently the crew I'm on is doing some 757 mid checks (we're flying those things pretty close to timed checks and it's starting to catch up to us) as well as an ADC switching mod to comply with an AD and in June, we're supposed to go back to our 767 MAUI/Winglet mod (Midlife Avionics Upgrade Initiative)
The kind of work I normally do is change light bulbs, black boxes, hook up galleys and lavs, crawl up in the oily sticky tail and check that the generator splices aren't burnt, pito-static checks, systems checks, hook up power ports in the seats, occasional troubleshooting, real glamouris stuff.
Back on the MAUI mod it's mostly running wires and pinning plugs.
So I'm guessing you fly. Professionally or casual?
If I fly somewhere I typically take the company jet.
Congrats on the car!!!! Looks great. My dad is an aircraft mechnic and pilot, was a mechanic at Eastern when he started. My uncle works for american(also A&P) with over 25yrs with the company. I hated flying so I wrench on my cars and friends cars to continue the tradition....never afraid to get my hands dirty thanks to the old man and way to stuborn to pay someone else to do it. Living slightly above my means also. Champagne tastes and beer money. Time to update that avatar
Much agreed!!!
Good luck with the commercial airlines. A brother-in-law was an instrumental & techincal engineer (A&P/IA) with Delta. Interesting environment.
I always try to be professional when I fly.
When I fly to get somewhere, I usually take someone's company jet as well, but have flown in general aviation since 1978.
Finally got my own plane (
www.rf5b.com
) a few years ago. I had been happy to fly through clubs & shared ownership. Planes are a little like kids, horses, boats....it can be nice to be around them, but better if they belong to someone else.
Thanks for the well wishes Pilot, it seems that you have a pretty good understanding of my particular occupation.
Blue skies everyday my friend, for your cab and your bird as well
Brian
