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This is one of the areas of driving that i spend a lot of time and effort one. Don't mistake me - i still suck, but i'm beginning to suck less. I find that practice on the street helps a lot - you have to get to the point where its internalized and thinking is not required - it all happens so fast. Interestingly, he actually uses the toe (well, ball) and then the heel. Many don't. Note the ilby grant - Main Forum
but i presume you mean their power steering fluid. There are two varieties, widely used in german cars. The earlier version (7?) and the later (11s). The earlier is mineral oil. The latter is fully synthetic replacement. Yea, its costly, but it is very good. And i buy it a fairly sane prices from NAPA locally, and even better via my long standing indie and his distro. Grantby grant - Main Forum
1. PCA requires a flush within 1 year. I always flush at the beginning of the track season,and bleed before every event. The LAST thing you want is to lose your brakes to boiled fluid. 2. The textar pads are for all practical purposes OEM - so yes you can mix them with factory. 3. A new pad is 12mm thick (not counting backing plate). I use about 30-40% of the tickness per event. bear in mind tby grant - Main Forum
1. If you keep street pads, are your rear pads ok? I say yes. Rear pads last about twice as long as fronts, for me at least. 2. If you change from street to track pads should you change all four wheels? I also say yes since thsi is the onyl way to maintain the same braking bias. Different pads have different coefficients of friction 3. Should you get track pads? Well, up to you. Do you want tby grant - Main Forum
..it started at the beginning more often :-) Almost all the book is actually up on the PP website as individual projects. Grantby grant - Main Forum
this is why you always hand start bolts and use a torque wrench! especially with alloy parts. Grant (who's brakes finally stopped squealing)by grant - Main Forum
it may not, btu it is a common leak. RMS leaks from bottom of bellhousing. Center. A few drops wont make a bit of difference to your oil level. Unless it gushes. Also unless it gushes, it does no other damage - so ignore it, unless it really "bothers" you. It *could* also be an IMS leaking. That would be a very bad sign, but, from what i've heard, its also really rare to have visible leakagby grant - Main Forum
It is a worthwhile book, lots of useful projects and info, but it has many glaring omissions. For example, the instructions on the motor mount begin with the coolant hoses removed, the various plastic trim plates removed, and the car on a stand. Even in the pics. This neglects about 60% of both the time and the usual detail questions along the line. So i plan to buy it ( thought i was on the calby grant - Main Forum
...care about their customers and work to keep their loyalty. Dealers, on the other hand, are almost universally arrogant and careless. They have white jackets, and cappuccino machines, but in the back, they cut corners everywhere. IME Audi are the worst offenders. Grantby grant - Main Forum
Unfortunately, i had what i assume was extreme carelessness occur a couple weeks back in the TJs parking lot. Big deep swirl scratches on my hood. I assume groceries were set down and ground in. Taught me a lesson. Grantby grant - Main Forum
Like the RainX wipers. In reality - new and pliable is the most important. Grantby grant - Main Forum
When i store tires, they typically lose around 3-7 psi "depending" over a 8-9 month period. That's pretty good. OTOH when i have them on the car i am constantly adjusting for temperature, do i cannot say for sure. All i know is that during storage, i never get a nail, which tends to accelerate air loss. Grantby grant - Main Forum
points for weakness and for centering to be off just a bit. Additional offset also places more strain on the hub and various suspension bits. in effect you have placed your wheel on a (very small) lever. Finally, it changes the front steering geometry - generally not for the better. Again, not by a huge amount, but its unavoidable. Grantby grant - Main Forum
can use whatever crud you want without even triggering a different timing map. Its all about avoiding knock. Grantby grant - Main Forum
My general take, amongst all the angst around IMSs is that these are really solid cars with one double-serious flaw. For racers, the M96 motors have more serious flaws, like lack of a dry sump (instead we get dry #6 cyl, nto my idea of a good trade off) but that affects 0.01% of the population. I drive mine all the time, track it all the time (well, as much as i can, which is never enough) andby grant - Main Forum
I live in NJ. I put snows on the boxster (16" wheels) around Thanksgiving, and remove them around Easter. In many ways they are more fun than regular tires. Since they slide earlier, and have larger slip angles, you can have more fun at safer speeds. I try not to take the car out in much snow, but i regularly get surprised crossing the Watching "mountains" from the office to home with some duby grant - Main Forum
.. that pre-03 the windows were plastic. the "like" part tends, on cars fundamentally so similar, and IMO, to disappear when they are not being directly compared. Yea, the 987 is nicer in many ways when you go back and forth. But i never notice long term. Permagriin from the essential goodness washes out all the noise. grantby grant - Main Forum
Both cars' performance >> exceeds any of our abilities to drive them on the street. Both are a world of fun. Both can break. One's vastly cheaper. Caveat: i always go for the car i think has been treated and maintained better. 10k difference in miles is noise. 5 years marginal abuse is huge. Grantby grant - Main Forum
i agree 5-7k, given your advantageous driving conditions is, IMO, very conservative. Don't put much weight on the fact that <1 0W40 is recommended by the factory. They approve dozens of (better) oils. They recommend M1 0W40 by virtue of a commercial (marketing) agreement with XOM. Actually, if i cant find a preferred oil cheaply, i mix 50/50 M1 0W40 and M1 15w50, both of which are always onby grant - Main Forum
these cars don't have timing belts. They have chains. And if i'm right the chain guides are not green plastic, they are orange plastic. So my BS alarm is ringing. I don't doubt something is wrong, but this does not sound right. Now, if variocam stuck the car might run poorly, but variocam does not move the cams into the range of interference. And to the best of my knowledge, none of the mechaniby grant - Main Forum
First, most manufacturers are recommending the absolute thinnest oil possible, so that their CAFE figures go up. Millions of dollars are at stake and may be triggered by small fractions of a MPG. So we have to take suggested viscosity ranges with that as a back-drop. Now, what would be the danger of a 0w40 vs 0w20? Not cold flow. Cold they are the same. Hot, they differ. The protection of 40wby grant - Main Forum
At the Zone 1 runoffs in Fort Devens this summer, i had one run that, to get all our points, i needed simply to complete. Period. Cones were OK. Slow was OK. Off course is DNF. Not OK. So the coaching talk i got from our co-captain was: Go out. Dont miss a gate. Not sure? Pull over. Get out. Ask the course workers. JUST DON'T MISS A GATE! Got my points :-) Grant ps: apparently i need aby grant - Main Forum
..and then you have good, shear-resistant oil. I run 10W40 synthetic in New England and New Jersey. or good 5w40 (syntek, ELF/total, rotella T, many others) Grantby grant - Main Forum
This is not a BBK - its a drop-in pad for 986/987 with, supposedly, much higher thermal stability, although classified as a street pad. interested for BOTH my cars ( the 986 and the 2002 S6 avant) Grantby grant - Main Forum
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$20 or so at your porsche or audi dealer. Did it on my audi 90 20v (!) twice. Grantby grant - Main Forum
.cut the actual sensor off, strip the (1" now) leads, wire tie them, and seal them with shrink wrap/tape/silicone. instant, free, plug-in shorting plugs! Grantby grant - Main Forum