Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Clutch and DMF at different times?

Hydraulic clutch so would figure out is there is air in there where it came from.

Yep. Needs a bleed

http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C852310

brexitastic!

Bullshit it is a foriegn car and black.

That is most likely, but check it isn't simply getting fouled on the mat - I've had that happen before!

Boredom warning: most readers will want to ignore this post.

I've had the 850R for around 10 years now, it's various travails have been recorded in this thread.

It's got a great deal of charm and I suspect I'll never part from it, if we put all else to one side I've put more money into it than Elon Musk has in SpaceX so I'll wait and see if mid nineties turbo-performance cars go the same way as the air-cooled 911. I suspect they won't.

Anyway - when I bought the 850R I flew to Aberdeen to get it, I purchased a cheap sat-nav in the airport to direct me the ~600 miles home, which it did admirably.

That lasted a while then simply stopped turning on, but by that point telephones all featured sophisticated sat-nav and so I swapped the mount for a phone gripper and carried on following the prompts to my destination.

When I bought the 911 I therefore replicated this - charger in the fag lighter socket, phone gripper on the dash. But from the off, I was unhappy with it.

Now part of this is probably that the 911 has brought out levels of OCD obsession rarely seen this side of a numbers-matching 1960's train set, complete with papier-mâché landscape, but it prompted the purchase of a Becker Cascade Pro, a built in unit that banished the trailing wires and vent - mounted phone gripper.

This was much better, I was happy with the interior and finished tidying up a few bits and bobs.

Now one thing about the Becker is that whilst it does have a small screen that features an arrow that indicates your way it's not really that which you use to navigate - it gives clear verbal instructions which you follow without taking your eyes off the road, it demands a bit more focus from the driver and suits the character of the car.

This has combined with a strong desire to stick to A and B roads, a desire I never really had in the 850R - which excels on the motorway, all ~650Nm of torque available instantly - and this is where it gets slightly more interesting for me as for the first time in my life I'm looking at maps and planning journeys. Always before I've chucked the postcode of my destination in the phone and away we go, now I'm making a mental note of how to get where I want to go via the road less travelled - I found myself using street view to recognise when I needed to turn when plotting a route earlier (first right after the second railway bridge) to get to a cars and coffee event at Precision Porsche tomorrow morning.

Which brings me back to the key difference between the cars, the 850 vs. the 911.

The 911 makes every journey an event that you want to plan, that you want to ensure features the roads that are the most suited to it's character. I drove the A272 pretty much end to end the other day - it was glorious. I don't think I ever went over 80mph and that was brief, but you don't need to. I just wish it didn't keep costing me so much money.

Anyway, you can't say I didn't warn you - TL:DR.

I went to a cars and coffee event at Precision Porsche this morning, had a nose round the bodyshop that is going to be working on my car in a couple of weeks.

I didn't know that BRM was renovating his car:

Only the red-trousered need apply:

Richie you can ignore everything that follows - I'm afraid there is Porsche content.

Shiny:

Tres nice @Dammit

In other Porsche news, I was out riding in Sussex today, got over taken by a 997 gt3 being chased by a guy in a 356 Spyder, being chased by a guards red 930 carrera.

I think I've got pictures of all three of those, if the 356 was blue?

This guy made quite an entrance, mainly by reversing into a fairly large stack of breeze blocks when manouevering, love the car though (note mismatched seats):

Patina award definitely went to the 912's that turned up:

My car made an orange friend whilst I went off to get a coffee:

Yeah it was a dark metallic blue colour.

997 was black

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With maybe this one:

I don't have a photo of a 997 GT3, so here's the closest I have:

That was them!

Upon reflection, perhaps it was a black 996 gt3

There were quite a few 996 coupe's with the aero-kit, I didn't see a proper GT3, but then I wasn't there the whole time.

This was my stand-out favourite, winner of the "which car would Neil take home if he could" award:

Mainly because it wasn't one of the super-clean, mega-money restoration cars that were also there - it wore it's age well, and therefore looked like a car to be used, rather than a car to be kept.

I also really prefer the narrow-body 911 shape I have to say, although the RSR was pretty cool.

Yeah, I bought a 1.6 yesterday.

I should have checked the thread! Although first impressions are really good so I'll see how it goes.

Just seen Ghost in the Shell and now desperately want a Lotus Espirit.

http://jalopnik.com/the-cars-featured-in-ghost-in-the-shell-are-bizarre-and-1789003748

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With all the Porsche chat in here is probably a good idea not to post pics of the Porsche club trackday I went to a couple of weeks ago.
650hp 944 turbos and many varieties of 911 made for a fun day.

Some sub-human scum did this to my car. What do?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Heybq1s79Y

I'd say that was ~£2-300 to repaint the bumper, I've used a guy in Beckenham who did a decent job.

Hmm. My fear is I do that and within days the same thing happens and I end up driving it off a cliff in a rage. Is there perhaps any kind of clear paint or tape I can put over where the paint is chipped away, just to stop it getting any more worser?