JohnTurbo

Quite tempting - will have to run that past the wife.

How do AD08 work on a 911? Have been my "preferred" road/track tyre for years now.

Please put me down for a set if its possible - whatever body width an 1982 SC is? (I'm confused because narrow is pre 73? Medium SC/etc? and wide Turbo and SS?) Can pay a deposit whenever. 🙂

Those look lovely! My tyres are 2012 and 2006 date codes! They're still pretty grippy considering - and I track [other cars] a lot so I know the difference. Aiming to ditch them soon nonetheless. A memorable incident with used A048s that were hard as leather springs to mind when I was younger and poorer. The key thing is my car is 100% garaged in the dark and its UV that mostly degrades the tyres. It varies massively by compound too. I had old R888s with the above A048 and you could see the R888 were massively less degraded despite being the same year of manufacture.

I've just done this job and it was somewhat harder than I expected. I have done most repairs on cars, including complete engine builds, gearbox rebuild work and welding bodywork - but nothing older than 20 years before. The large nuts on the oil lines to the external thermostat are very very unlikely to loosen. I posted a picture recently of sorting this with a Dremel. The classic line replacement oil lines were some way from being the right shape, and took some bending and manipulating to fit. My HEs have been off in recent times so no broken studs, but i did have one that pulled out with thread attached. This one I drilled and tapped to M10, and bolted for now. I have some M10 to M8 exhaust studs in the post and will replace with one of those so its stronger than new. I also have a slight blow on at least one cylinder so need to take a wee look at that. Getting the ducting on was a bit of a pig too. Its perhaps a 4 spanner job - where it would be a 2 spanner on a new car.

The slitting approach looks a bit like this:- (Just one pipe for me [SSI fitment] so left the lot on the car) My tool of choice is a cordless Dremel type tool, with a Dremel "Speed-Clic" 38mm cutting disk setup. These do not break like the pot-hard cheapy disks. Slit on the bottom of the nut (the 6 o'clock position. Photo from the ground up. Split on the top - approx 1-2 o'clock. Cut quite deep. Then thumped towards the interior of the car with a chisel:- The nut hinges open nicely. You can see the aluminum oxide on the threads:- You can see here there is witness marks from slitting this 2 previous times!! Oil draining.... Cleaning up with a small wire brush:- New pipe fitted. (Its not tight here - got some minor alignment issues to address first.)

Wonderful car and I love that interior. Mine has a 3.2 tail - which was news to me when I came on here. The flat back look is growing on me though; weird! Given enough time I might even actively like the lines of the Targa! 😉

Realise this is an old thread but found it interesting. I had a VX220 Turbo in the past with a (standard) intercooler in front of a rear wheel in a side pod complete with a scoop. A VX220 handles quite a bit like an IB 911 by the way! The charge temps were high, and easily over 75C. Many of these cars were modified and ran in excess of 300bhp and there was a competing camp of fitting ever bigger and better intercoolers behind the scoop and fitting an air-water heat exchanger with an additional radiator at the front. The later was more successful. In general its very hard to get the same power reliably from that Z20LET engine as the Astra that donated it. That full frontal cooling opportunity is a serious boon to tuning.

Just having a go at this business in order to fit some SSI HEs to my SC. The two hammer trick is a good call - I was telling somebody last week how well this works with ball joints. My oil tank and engine connections have loosened, but I ideally need both rearward facing pipes of the TS and neither are moving thus far!!

I think that plate is meant to be "Fem Dom" https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femdom I suspect the crazy deposit is more to stop ebay chancers "buying it" on spec then turning up and trying to haggle or not liking the smell of the headlights or something.

Very interesting read. A lot more complicated than I might have thought after also dreaming of EFI.

All the ebay ones were from China though - or at least looked that way from the delivery time estimates. Very cheap! (Edit - looks like that one might be actually in london!)

The 20quid delivered one doesn't look too bad when turned off. Bluetooth seems to work well. (The remote doesn't work but I wouldn't use that) They have 4.5 stars on Amazon from eight hundred reviews. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aigoss-Bluetooth-Digital-Handsfree-Wireless-Black/dp/B07RBW1KVH/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=car+stereo+bluetooth+vintage&qid=1580812786&sr=8-4 Its whats in the photo on my "new member" thread. I would have liked to pay maybe double/triple for something a shade nicer - but not 300quid for something with less features. John

I will have to look at the receipts for where it lived at that time. It was originally bought from Bradford JCT600. Thanks for the comments folks - as I said I'm learning to love the blue. It could use a clean in the above photo of course! Hoping to keep it mostly original - though I do fancy some early style heat exchangers or SSIs. I don't like a too sporty exhaust note but its really very hard to tell its a 6 cyl at the moment. It sounds like its common for them to be quite modified then? I ditched the lotus because my kitcar is more fun and wanted something to pamper and enjoy on the road (rather than the track - I do a lot of trackdays and have a Nat-B race license) The front tyres are from 2006 too so they're on the list, and maybe the 2012 rears too. A couple more dirty snaps attached. Its living at work (we have a garage for staff car enthusiats to use), while my new garage is being built. (another photo!)

Blue heaven 😉 That red and avocado is incredible!! Hahaha!!

(Though the variety of weird and wonderful interiors seems to be part of the fun!)

Thanks folks. Iris blue is correct I think - will check the paint code. As far as interior colours; I think of this clip (only substituting 'bathroom' and '911' and 'white' with 'black') :

Hi folks! Great to find a good forum for the 'best' 911 vintages! I've been an owner for 10 days of a light blue 1982 SC coupe. Its got a somewhat questionable blue interior which - having looked at interior parts prices - I'm busy learning to love. Its had engine/gearbox/suspension rebuilds as well as a respray - so condition appears to be good other than a bit of poor wiring and an intermittant fuel gauge (so far). First picture I took of the SC attached - and the last picture of my previous car, which has gone to make financial room for the Porsche. I also have a 'Caterfield' style kit car fort he track with a cage and a 328i engine. Looking forward to learning about the car here!

I'm already sure my input here hasn't been useful. I'll stop cluttering it up more! 😂

Thanks! I will certainly do that. 🙂

What a good idea 🙂 Thanks in advance!

Hi I'm new and this is my first post. (I'm John and a new owner of a 1982 SC, previously Lotuses) This is the first thread I have read. Really hoping this thread isn't representative of the flavour of this forum. (Not the OP)