The best personal garage in the UK? I think so 👌 Tim has created an amazing space to house his small collection of just right cars.
Tim @theporschebarn was most kind to agree to a visit by myself and Nick Chivers @theclassicseries on Wednesday evening this week, the idea was to use the barn as a backdrop to photograph our 3 Impact bumper cars and for me to admire the amazing detail that had gone into the barn build.
The three impact bumper cars are my 1978 SC, Tim's 1980 Turbo and Nick's 1986 3.2 Carrera. It was fascinating to notice all the small detail differences between the three cars as we moved them around for the different photos.
The backdrop for the photos is the most exquisitely detailed construction I have seen for quite some time. So many great details that combine to create lines that are normally only seen in Danish design. It's an absolute inspiration and I congratulate Tim on his hard work to push his builders to complete such a finely finished building, the builders must be very proud of their work, or have gone crazy!!
Thank you Tim 👊 Thank you Nick for the introduction and some of the photos in this post 👊
What time is it? Time to hit the road to the arctic circle baby. Am I mad to do this in a 48 year old car 😬 Answers below?
#drivennothidden9w
@ebwatches
New set of @textar_official brake pads all ready for our 4000 mile trip to the Arctic Circle in a couple of weeks.
I have used Textar pads on all cars of late. Wish I had taken a picture before fitting as they are really nicely made pads. Not all parts are the same!
Amazing evening at the 9Werks award ceremony at Porsche Bournemouth last night organised by @9werks_lee # @993andy
#9werks #9werks_radio #dnhc #9werksawards
What a picture!
875 miles
35 gallons of fuel
24.9 mpg
One breakdown
Too many corners to count
4 days of sun
Minimal precipitation
12 other super cars
14 other magnificent people
80% open road
A shit load of stone chips
Zero wallies!
@9.werks road trip done right
Is this the only autoheat that works in the world?!
Yes, yes, yes I got the little bugger working, even the light works, I didn't know there was a light.
I replaced the thermistor in the sensor for the grand sum on £1.54. A damn sight cheaper than the £352 that Porsche sells the sensor for, also I swapped out the bulb for a new one.
Excited not to have to constantly turn the heating on and off all the time, just set and keep cosy 😁
Posting this again with more details for those that asked...
Picture 3. shows the autoheat being worked on.
Picture 4. the resistance check across the sensors where they connect into the autoheat pcb, my cabin sensor was fine after cleaning up the connector from harness to sensor between the sun visors. The engine bay sensor was open circuit.
Picture 5. No wonder it was open circuit, the original thermistor was nowhere to be seen. Cut off the wire, and drilled out the hard black stuff.
Picture 6. The flap valve where the sensor fits
Picture 7. The new thermistor installed. The legs of the thermistor are soldered to the wires, with heatshrink fitted. I used a small length of silicon vacuum tube to pop the thermistor back into the body instead of gluing it in, making it easier to replace in the future if necessary.
Picture 8. The engine bay thermistor in its digikey.com bag. Search the manf number.
Picture 9. The cabin thermistor (not req in my case)
The autoheat now regulates between lever full down and full up, before it was on or off, no in-between. Hope that's useful.
Rest in peace my wonderful kind father.
Michael Owen Brookes 1936 - 2026
Ever smiling, cracking dodgy jokes and passing on pearls of wisdom. I'm very lucky he passed on his can-do attitude and his hands-on approach to me.
I fondly remember helping him strip an Austin A40 of useful parts for our then family car, I was 5 or 6 I guess. I would pass him the next tool that I thought he needed.
He supported me buying my first car, a 1967 Beetle when I was 16. Not so sure he was happy with me stripping it to a bare shell on his driveway!
Thank you dad for being such a wonderful dad.
Rest well xxx
Another tour, this time the engine before it goes back into the car. Nothing major, fixing a few oil leaks, new rubber pipes, valve clearances, spark plugs, powercoating tin wear and a few bits and bobs replated.
A tour of my completed engine bay freshen up.
Thanks to @classicretrofit for the engine bay fuse board to add to the already fitted main fuse board and CDi unit that bring some reliability to the old girl.
