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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

Not exactly unconventional, per se, but McGuyver-ish nonetheless...

I cut up several pieces of old heater hose (two different sizes, one to fit inside the other) and some large black zip ties to bolster the stock exhaust hanger donut on my 928, basically to replace the funky piece in the middle that always tears off with age. It worked beautifully and is way more secure than the original part. Still on the car!

Moments like those make me thankful I hang on to removed, seemingly useless old parts

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Vince Ponz · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3581 Location: Florida

When I was much younger and did not have money my muffler pipe had a hole in it. A coke can with the ends off was wrapped around the hole tied with wire and it worked for a while.
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77.5 924 modified track car
79 931 Euro stock
88 924S SE
87 911 Targa stock

rkn · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 176 Location: Copenhagen

I had a common overheating problem because the "bellybutton" indent in the expansion tank was leaking.
I took a couple of sturdy rubber stoppers from the lab (the kind used for beakers and test tubes), stuck them in the top and bottom indents and drilled a hole all the way through. Inserted a threaded rod with a nut on each side.

Was supposed to be a temporary fix but worked so well that I haven't bothered getting a new tank

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DOCO · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:40 am Post subject:

about 20 plus years ago i had a 71 amc gremlin.what a piece of.....shistory

that was.it had vacuum wipers that had givin up on the road home.rainin like hell.so me and my budy tied our shoelaces together,and with the windows down he would pull one way i pulled the other!!!!got home no prob.biggest prob. was gettin to sink for him to pull then me we broke the laces twice.we still talk about it today!!!man that was the life,no money and lovin every minute of it!!

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79 924 N/A "Webster"
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ZODIAC · Joined: 08 Apr 2009 Posts: 342 Location: West Haven, Ct

i have a couple
1) an aluminun "NO PARKING" sign.
i had a 5inch by 6inch hole in front of the left front wheel well of my 86 caddie. i used pop rivets to hold it in place from behind, then rattle canned it to match the car. passed the safety inspection with flying colors!

2) a 16inch long log.
thats right, a log. it was more of a tool than a repair. i had an 88 Ford F-150 custum, the starter was on its way out. when i didnt have any one to help me, i used the log to hold down the clutch while i used a screw driver to make a conection across the celinoid.

luckily i never shocked myself, and she always started right up.
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1977 924 N/A - Red with waterdamage interior
yes...waterdamage is now a color...

morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9095 Location: Romania

my red 924 has a fiberglass front spoiler and because of the bumps i lost one of the 5 bolts that hold it to the car and being on the road i "fixed it" with a cable tie.
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Rasta Monsta · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 11733 Location: PacNW

morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9095 Location: Romania

oh and my intercooler is curently being held by an alternator belt and some cable ties as it is preety low...the upper(main) bracket broke when i tried to go up a small slope....i have to get it welded as it started to rattle.

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924guy · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject:

story of my life....

on the 78, i was up in the catskill mountains when the steering went out (scary moment, on a remote curvy cliff road with no guard rails, on a fast downhill steep sloping road and i didnt have a parachute. i got the car stopped with one wheel hanging over the edge of the abyss below!) the rack end of the steering shaft stripped out! i used an aluminum soda can , i cut into strips , and used it as a shim for the knurled end, and tightened up the coupler. it worked like a charm, in fact it work so well i had a heck of a time getting it apart again when i replaced the shaft, it welded itself in quite nicely!

I once converted the wiper linkage on a maverick to a hand crank after the motor went out using scrap i found on the side of the road during a nasty deluge of rain that i knew wasnt going to end for hours. had to drive with one hand stuck under the dash, but it worked...

I had a series II XJ6 that was a constant source of road side improvisation, crazy gluing electrical contacts that had become un-soldiered, making carb o-rings out chewing gum or pieces of old hose, zip tying an improvised plug after the rear brake line in the master cylinder blew out (and almost killed me, went 200 feet through the woods and almost into traffic on a major highway!) i used a piece of tree branch, wrapped in plastic, and secured it with the large tie wrap i carefully removed from a nearby snow fence, it sealed and i had enough brake pressure to stop,it got me home!

and I wont even get into the duct tape fixes....

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78 924
82 931 SE "smokey"
99' VehiCross
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Raceboy · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2327 Location: Estonia, Europe

About 5-6 years ago I was driving out of town with my friends Ford Transit minivan and suddenly coolant temp went through the roof. Stopped and saw that radiatopr had a major leak, like few cm's long and 2-3mm wide.

When filled up, it drains fast. So, I went to the field few metres away and collected a handful of grass seeds, threw them into the coolant system and after 5 minutes of idling, the leak stopped. Filled the system once more and I completed the trip (100 km's) and just bought a new rad.
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'83 924 2.6 16v Turbo, 470hp
'67 911 2.4S hotrod
'90 944 S2 Cabriolet
'78 924 Carrera GT replica
'84 928 S, sold
'91 944 S2, sold
'82 924S/931 "Gulf", sold

'84 924, turbocharged, sold.
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DOCO · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject:

years ago and do mean years about 1960.my dad couldnt get his car going.my uncle who was a mechanic told the old lad that hed get it going,so he takes off the rad cap and throws in a quarter (25 cents)puts the cap back on and gets in the car.cranks it over and sure enough it starts right up!!!!(what the problem was it was flooded and he held the pedle to the floor)but dad took it to his grave and swore up and down that the the quarter started the car!!!

we still use it today for fun and unsuspecting.....noobs!!!

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Slam · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:26 am Post subject:

Last winter our furnace-fan belt snapped in the middle of a cold spell. We were snowed in, and the only belt I had on hand was an alt belt from a 924. It's still in the furnace and running like a champ.
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'84 944 - kid blew motor
'83 944 - resting comfortably. For 12 years
'87 944 - sideswiped by trucker
'80 924 - gone
'78 924 - gone
'77 924 - rusting comfortably

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

I've posted before elsewhere, but this one takes the cake:

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Newgoalie27 · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 16 Location: Shiloh Illinois

Ah... If I would only have the time and a decent bed pan... id put a hood scoop on my car... Lol...

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1965 Mustang fastback
1977 Porsche 924 NA no turbo

Hey if I get my brakes working and fix the Lower rocker panel and the drivers side damage from when the guy who had it before me slid off the road this could be my first car