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nwns
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Location: Lancashire, UK
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Chin up Steve 
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tyfighter123
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:40 am Post subject: |
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Sorry to hear about the bad news it seems that these cars always cost more than they should! I hope you get it all sorted soon.
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WEASEL149
Joined: 19 Aug 2005
Posts: 595
Location: UK, Sheffield
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| Carrera RSR wrote: | Having a really bad car day today. Fed up with waiting for the paint problem to be resolved and not having the car in my possession. No sign of PPG agreeing to sort the problem and my paint shop not wanting to repaint until there's a guarantee it'll not fail again in 6 to 12 months.
Visited the engine shop this afternoon. Having had lots of good news about the engine apart from the single piston issue, today was full of bad news. Price is spiralling out of control any way but today i was told ideally I need the block bored out to 87mm and a new set of pistons required. Surprisingly Mahle still sell a set of 87mm pistons. Unsurprising they were reassuringly expensive at £900+vat!! Coupled to that some of the work I thought was in the original price transpires now it wasn't.
The bores are 2 thou outside ideal tolerance and although the existing 86.5 mm piston could be re used with Total Seal rings there is no guarantee how long the set up would last before it became smokey and loose some compression.
Tonight I am not a happy camper and deciding whether to pull out of further work or not. Either way I can't see a new engine with FMIC being fitted in the car this year, not unless I sell a kidney, liver, bone marrow, lots of litres of blood and sign up for life long experimentation. |
Sorry to hear all the trouble you're having at the moment Steve.
Regarding pistons, I honestly would not pay over a grand for the standard ones - they're just not worth that.
For that kind of money you could probably get forged pistons AND steel/lighter rods.
If you're going to spend a decent sum on pistons I'd have a word with Dan about some custom ones (approx £445+shipping?)
Cheaper option would be to go flat-top.
I've not really looked into the flat-top option but surely someone on here who has experience (Raceboy/Gegge??) can advise you on the best ones.
As has been said, keep your chin up mate, you WILL get it all sorted in the end. If it's any consolation, I can't see my car being back on the road for some time either.
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Gus
Joined: 21 Sep 2010
Posts: 25
Location: Seixal, Portugal
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Raceboy wrote: |
If you want to buy 924 and replicate it, you could as well buy mine, I'm selling it at the moment for just 3000 euros. Complete with 951 power seats, SPEC Stage III+ clutch, with it's rebuilt, turbocharged and efi'ed (with VEMS) euro 924 engine. |
3000 euros? God-damn, I *hate* my country's crappy idiotic tax-system. A standard 931 won't cost less than 10k, over here... and good 924 NA will set you back 5000.
Crap.
Just the yearly road tax would cost me over 500 euros here, due to it being a newly imported car, rather than an original import. |
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Raceboy
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
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Location: Estonia, Europe
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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I could add you to the Estonian registration papers as a user so you don't have to register your car locally. Or you could become as an owner in Estonia (having an Estonian reg. papers).
| Gus wrote: | | Raceboy wrote: |
If you want to buy 924 and replicate it, you could as well buy mine, I'm selling it at the moment for just 3000 euros. Complete with 951 power seats, SPEC Stage III+ clutch, with it's rebuilt, turbocharged and efi'ed (with VEMS) euro 924 engine. |
3000 euros? God-damn, I *hate* my country's crappy idiotic tax-system. A standard 931 won't cost less than 10k, over here... and good 924 NA will set you back 5000.
Crap.
Just the yearly road tax would cost me over 500 euros here, due to it being a newly imported car, rather than an original import. |
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