a real update.
motor is torn down. rust on the broken headstud on cyl 1 proves its been broken a long time. another great suprise was when the head came off and 3 of the cylinders had serious damage to the cermaic coating. as it turns out the cause was the intake manifold coming off at some point and being wrongly reinstalled. the dbag who did that job actually did not connect the manifold to the plastic inlet, but he clamped off the rubber boot. so a massive vaccuum leak was created, and thus the heat that scored the hell out of the cylinders. cyl6 being the worst, closest to the intake leak.
fan and housing are trashed, new ones coming.
cams are scored, a set of used oem cams are like 600. for 1200 im getting some new baller billet cams. so some more horsepower and a lumpy flat 6 idle are in my future.
also going through the trans. we know 2nd gear could use new synchros, so im just doing them all. plus a short shifter from rothsport, a fd motorsports goldenrod and a few updates that porsche did in the 92+ cars. couple that with a rs america lightweight flywheel and clutch ( i think the flywheel is 9lbs vs the 22lbs stocker)) its gonna be as smooth as a baby's ass... you know, whatever thats like.
decided today to go with the fabspeed header setup. sending back my exhaust now in exchange. i know its gonna be loud, but its another 20whp+. tough to leave that on the table at this point. i know id regret it if i hadnt gone all in. i guess i can always dynamat the car or something. fingers crossed i can pass inspection up here.
interior wise, im pulling the speakers until i can get it to a stereo shop. i dont want to cut up the door cards. figure ill let a pro figure out what fits behind the leather door panels. hoping for some sort of bluetooth audio setup and sirius to get with my iphone and call it a day at that.
next decision is the tail. i keep going back and forth befween a ducktail or no tail like the cars before 89 would have had. either way ill be using this badass grille from d-zug instead of a oem porsche option. its a nice updated look thats still got the r-gruppe look to it. i dig it.
some pics of the carnage
