Ralph Smith's favorite car,
The 928 is often referred to as the "Shark", I finally
caught one.
928S 4.7 liter V8 engine
Mine is a Black 1991 GT with cashmere interior which I got in November
of 1999 with about 94K on the odometer. The Exterior was in very good
shape with all the normal collection of rock chips, but a very decent
paint original paint job. There was one poorly repaired minor buckle
in the left front fender. Mechanically it ran well with great, even compression
numbers, but lots of little (sometimes costly) running gear problems. New
shocks, rear wheel bearings, CV joints and PSD problem.
After a few thousand miles to make sure that I had a good idea of
it's true problems I had the T belt done just to be safe, documentation
showed it had been done at 60K. The interior was a little beat and I have
replaced carpet and am planing to redye the seats while fixing the notorious
drivers left bolster. The first gear syncros are NOT, but it drives well
and I can USUALLY shift corrrectly so they will wait for another day to
get attention, if the PSD turns out to be inside the differential then
the syncros will get handled with the PSD.
Dyno Results
Dyno charts and analysis on my car.
Track Events
DEs and Autocross
Support Resources for 928s
The newest 928 has to be 13 years old and some
are approching 40 soon. With almost as many high tech (old high tech)
magic bits as new cars 13 to 40 year old car owners need as much
help as they can get.
Some
Cool Places I have been with my Shark
Like any good tourist Sharks like to
have their picture taken at all of the spots they visit.
I really like working on the car (haven't done much of that since I was a
teen and this is much finer engineering to be caressing) but I have not posted
too much here unless it seemed like new/unique info. There are a bunch
of superb web sites by owners that have great writeups and pics about most
of the common projects so I defer to those in most cases. The following
pages therefore are the bigger jobs I have tackled or ones where I think
I took a different approach than most and might provide a little different
insite on one of the common jobs.
Under Hood Hose Replacement Project
Mark Thomas recommended
all under hood rubber replacement for a 10 year old car. I replaced the
following "while in there"; all vacuumn hoses, idle stabilizer, knock
sendors, flappy actuator, plug wires, vacuum heater valve, fuel vapor
Y coolant hoses, gaskets and seals touched. Also I repainted intake and
valve covers, created a GTS breather conversion and had the injectors cleaned
and tested.
Motor Mount Replacement Project
Originally
motivated by failed motor mounts. While in there I installed the Devek
Stage II headers, Louie Ott's crossover exhaust, front and rear steroids,
rod bearings, GTS oil baffle and new pan gasket.
Misclaneous upgrades/repairs
I have done a number of smaller jobs including speaker remounting, door
panel recovering, recarpeting, alternator hose replacement, H4 headlight
conversion, front bumper cover replacement, cool engine air intake and Perfect
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