Welcome

[Tom]

Hello 928 world! Enjoy a place to talk all things 928 -- free of paid sponsors, pop-up ads, conspiracy theories, and flame-wars (I hope). I'm new to forum administration, so if something is screwy, let me know and I'll see about fixing it.

[Crazy Eddie]

This will be Larts favorite page …

Lol

[dr bob]

For some reason I had it in my head that Lart is a 944 guy... Am I wrong?

Meanwhile --

Welcome to carpokes and the 928 section!

dr bob

[Tom]

For some reason I had it in my head that Lart is a 944 guy... Am I wrong?

Meanwhile --

Welcome to carpokes and the 928 section!

dr bob

dr bob is in the house!!

Lart is a 944 guy to the extreme, although he mostly chops them up and sells them for parts. But... he is famous on the 944 boards for making fun of the 928, hence Crazy Eddie's comment. His joke I remember best was: 95% of all 928s ever built are still on the road. The other 5% kept running and made it home. I've use that joke a dozen times, substituting whatever car is relevant to the conversation....

[GeorgeM]

Greetings from Virginia.

[Tom]

Greetings from Virginia.

Hi George and thanks for joining! The 944 crowd is gathering steam, and I'm hoping it's just a matter of time before the 928 folks show up here en masse. The 944 and 928 are very different cars, but they do share a ton of parts and design elements, so it always made sense to me to get the two camps talking a little more. Tell your friends!

[dr bob]

Greetings from Virginia.

Hi George, and welcome to the Carpokes 928 forum. Things here are off to a slow rumbling start, but will gain speed and momentum as more join us and share their experiences, joys, challenges and methods.

Tell us about yourself, the car and how you came to be the caretaker, etc. Pictures are most welcome.


My '89 S4 has been used a bit more this year than last, enough that I'm hearing some fan noises that will need some attention. Thirty-some years and over 100k miles, they just didn't make the fan motors like they should have. There's a pair already rebuild ready to go in, and I'll follow with some info here on DIY fan motor maintenance.

Of course the work will include coolant coming out, and then there will always be a need for... Lots of WYAIT opportunities whenever tools come out for something.

[GeorgeM]

Thx, dr bob.

Acquired the GT out of Dallas in 2008 with 55k on the clock. It has 104k now. Coral Red over Cashmere. I drive it to various events on the east coast (plus trip to 3rd Coast in 2011). I do the Concours thing as well and have done fairly well at the past few PCA Parades I've attended with it. I show it in the Preservation Group, so originality and condition are the keys. It's as original/stock as I can keep it, at least what it visible . to keep the judges happy and minimize deductions. I do all the maint work myself.

This is my 2nd 928, the first being an '86 S in the mid 90s. I only had that one for a couple of years. Have had a Porsche in the garage since high school when my dad bought a '74 914 for us to tinker with. A '74 911 was next, then an '89 3.2 Carrera (which I still have) and an '84 930 acquired in 2015.

As for me, I'm retired Navy now a DoD contractor supporting the Navy.

[dr bob]

Hi George,

Your coral red is one of my very favorite 928 colors. Great to hear that you are carrying the 928 flag at Parade and other PCA events.

I was able to attend a Frenzy in about 2010 while on an east-coast project that year, so it's possible we have been in the same room anyway. Although my projects have been centered on the east coast and the south, they very seldom line up well with events. I'm either nearby but in up to my ankles head-first, or just miss them off the end of a travel window. In the meanwhile, while in SoCal I was part of the group that organized the Sharktoberfest events starting late last century. Of course, that same travel schedule that had me away often kept me from actually attending many of the subsequent Sharktoberfests.

My '89 S4 came to me "accidentally" while I was visiting a geothermal power plant project in the Philippines in the late 1990's. The construction project manager and I were talking about home things at lunch, and he mentioned having the car and some of his history with it and trying to sell it. I was rotating among several projects and duties in that part of the world, and did a little market research when I got back to civilization, made an offer that was accepted, and away we went. Paperwork managed via DHL courier packs, and I was able to pick the car up in late '97 while he was on a home leave. I flew to Denver to get it after having the dealer there do the timing belt service, and was shocked at the perfect condition of the car. This is one "sight-unseen" Porsche purchases with a very happy outcome. 928 Market was very depressed at the time, so I gave him some extra $k to lessen his pain. The rest is some well-documented history.

As you shared, I'm also very interested in keeping the car as original as possible. My major modifications have been 17" wheels from an early-2000's C4, converted the car to R134a as much solve some serious from-birth AC leakage problems as anything else, and I swapped a later Blau head unit for the original Reno so it would at least play CDs. After an early 'poor' experience at the Porsche dealer just a few blocks from my Pasadena, Ca office, I dusted off the tools and took over the keeping-it-great duties myself. All the work on the car is carefully documented, pictures and notes so everything is kept exactly the way the car was originally delivered. It's a good reference car I think, as I'm sure yours is. I have all the original pieces, including the original pristine 16" manhole wheels with the original BFG T/A tires (!!) mounted on them.

So far, my show-winning streak is limited to regional PCA events and a few other open-marque regional events. I missed the nearby Spokane Parade, was signed up for Palm Springs before it was cancelled, but have been schedule-conflicted out of the Monterey events for the past five years. Oh well...

Personal: I'm a three-times-retired engineer, and have a little consulting habit focused on power plant controls automation. It supports my cheap-wine habit. I've pretty much stopped taking new clients since 2015, but still have a couple project commitments left with existing clients. If you pay a bill to Duke, Old Dominion, or an ODEC member utility there in Virginia, your electric power probably knows me.


The 928 is on the workbay lift this morning to get a coolant change, in concert with swapping in a couple rebuilt cooling fan motors. I heard some fan squeaks and rumbles Wednesday when I first turned the key on in the garage with the AC button depressed, so it's time. I've had all the pieces sitting here, and had planned to do both services as part of a next-winter full timing belt service, but the noise is now so at least the fans service will be too. I try to keep the car in "ready for a coast-to-coast drive at a moment's notice" condition, so I'm sort of violating my rule by a few days. Our local summer-touring in Oregon has been limited a little by forest fires and smoke lately, but I'll probably take a few-hours mountain lakes tour tomorrow to, um, break in the new coolant. There's always something the car needs. Most days, cleaning tops that lists so I feel fortunate.

We went to the local dealer's Taycan intro event for PCA members last weekend. Trying to decide if the 928 will either get a mate or a replacement. My car history is littered with Porsches but it isn't continuous; my first car was a '65 SC cab with a story, has included several 911 models, and the 928 alone for the past 20+ years now. The 928 is by far the best of the list so far. I built a mid-engine 911-powered autocross car (think Arial Atom) that I campaigned for a few years in the late 1970's, but the rest of the between-years have been in Lotus and a couple red Italian cars as hobby-toys. I no longer keep space for more than 1 toy at a time these days, be that good or bad, and the 928 fills that.

I'll get a couple DIY instructions put together for the coolant and fan-motors services, and add them to our emerging DIY-docs collection. I saw that host Tom shared some garage pics in another thread, so I'll have to do a little cleaning and share pics of my home workbay at the same time I guess. Always something to do!

[ariemanthony]

Hello, everyone. I’ve loved the 928 since high school in the late 80s. I’ve always wanted one and finally bought one - well two. I planned on buying one a few years ago but, didn’t think it practical as my only vehicle and ‘settled’ for a 2004 Cayenne S. I was pleasantly surprised with the Cayenne.

This year, living in New Jersey, I set out to finally get a 928 and found a nice one on bringatrailer.com and was outbid. After that I started looking online and found an 83 red/tan and a burgundy/burgundy. I lost the red/tan when I had it sent to a nearby California mechanic for a PPI and it was sold from the shop. I told a friend about losing the auction and he said, “funny you should say that… I may have a car for you.” Turns out he came across a ‘barn find’ in California that he said he’d get me info on. The only reason he didn’t buy it was because he already has an 87 928. Also turns out it was a Weissach Special Edition from the original owner and only 28k miles. Last driven in 2014 and sporting a #47 badge on the dash, he got me more info and we started planning for an offer. While waiting for the bill of sale, I contacted the ‘83 burgundy owner in Michigan and set that sale too.

Both cars worked out around the same time and were delivered within a couple of days of each other here in New Jersey. The 83 5-speed is a perfect specimen that came with service records from 2006 and a mint interior with flawless exterior paint. The 82 5-speed Weissach needs to head to my mechanic to inspect it to get it running safely.

So, I’m looking for groups to join, events to join and other owners to connect with. Please let me know if there are any rides, meetups, lunches or any informal get togethers I may join.

So excited to be among other 928 lovers.

Ariem