Babalouie

Dunno if your SC would be similarly afflicted, but 964 ecu/pump relays are notorious for dry solder joints, to the extent that it's SOP on 964 forums to recommend carrying a spare relay.

Chasing a bit of an oil leak tonight... Replaced the gasket on the cam chain tensioner...the gasket is metal, but has rubber o-rings bonded to it, and the rubber's perished and gone hard. Buttoned up with a new gasket...fingers crossed this sorts it.

At the last Sydney SMT, a few guys mentioned that my brake lights flickered on and off, all the time, even when it seemed that I wasn't braking. Not coincidentally, my cruise control has been busted since forever, so I decided to have a look at the pedal position sensors. The clutch was fine, but the brake light switch (that thing with the brown plug in the foreground) was maladjusted. When the brake pedal was at its unpressed-position, the freeplay in the pedal would let the switch go past its click-point, and hence trigger the brake lights and disable the cruise. The switch didn't look adjustable, so I adjusted the brake pedal position instead...unwound the pushrod (that shaft on the right with the spherical joint on it) half a turn, and buttoned it all up again. That was enough to compress the switch, so that the brake lights didn't come on until you got to the *end* of the pedal freeplay, and the cruise control seems to be all tickety-boo again. Thankfully, a nice easy fix.

IIRC the 944S was a twin cam version of the vanilla 944's single-cammer 2.5L. The later S2 punched the capacity out to 3.0L (mit twin cams) so is a different kettle of fish entirely.

No Haltech for you!!!

Yeah I'm the same, I like the look of 73 RS recreations, but if I had a 964 to start with, I'd just go the 964RS recreation route instead

I assume the sidewalls must be stiffer (although the ride doesn't seem to be noticeably harsher). For the track, I actually take some air out, I run 28psi cold for track, 32psi for road. My alignment is nothing out of the ordinary, about 1 degree neg camber all round

Surprisingly, pretty good. I've done 12,000km on them, and from looking at them, they seem to be 40% worn? But the good thing is, trackwork doesn't chew up the edges, which is usually what takes normal road tyres to the grave before their time. From how they're wearing so far, I am thinking I'll replace them at the 20,000km mark, and maybe 6 trackdays, which is pretty good, IMHO. My usual routine is that my tyres are all ruined and chewed up after 10,000km

Time was 1'12.4 and I like the tyres very much . They basically feel like a good performance road tyre that mysteriously doesn't fall over at the track.

Got a nice package today Yokohama has had a cool contest for the past couple of years, whereby anyone who buys Neova tyres, enters a competition where you submit your trackday laptimes during the year. The 964 won a nice plaque, the competition was a gentleman in a C63

Chin up, mate I got made redundant about this time last yr, but was lucky enough to land another gig before christmas. If I could offer some advice, it would be to jump back into the saddle straight away, because you would be surprised how few ppl bother to look for jobs so close to Christmas, and so you might find that there is relatively little competition for jobs at this time (and also employers will be keen to lock something in before everyone goes on holidays).

For ordering parts from the UK, I've used www.design911.co.uk and also www.type911.co.uk Both have good pricing and are very reasonable on freight charges (esp compared to US webstores) but of the two, I've found that Type911 has a better level of service.

At the All Stars Eurofest car show today