Casper 11801191

[Druepy]

The video of the initial start-up was not running on all cylinders. We have really been battling with carb issues. Hopefully, they will get sorted soon. We have the brakes together and working along with the ebrake. H1s, euro turns, and brake lights are in. Much more has been happening but it's hard to summarize it all. Below are a few random pictures since the last update.

[Druepy]

Huge shoutout to Paul Abbott (1QuickS here on Early911S) at Performance Oriented! He offered me tremendous help and guidance. With his help we were able to clear the idle circuit of blockage and the car is now running on all 6 cylinders!

[Scott A]

wow and wow,
what great stuff.

can you detail more about the idle circuit blockage? was it just a jet, or a deep hidden corner?

[Druepy]

wow and wow,
what great stuff.
can you detail more about the idle circuit blockage? was it just a jet, or a deep hidden corner?

It was the hidden channel. Luckily I was able to clear it with air and cleaner instead of having to pull the lead plugs. The process is to remove the emulsion tube, reverse the secondary venturi to block the port to the emulsion tube, put a ball bearing in the main jet port to block it, and remove the idle jet. Pressurize the emulsion tube port to force air only out through the idle jet port. For me the first pressure hit didn't go through but on the second the idle jet port blew like a geyser.

[1QuickS]

"Sometimes the magic works."

[Druepy]

This past weekend I found some extensive rust on the driver's side of the torsion bar tube. It is rusted through and the trailing arm bracket is no longer secure to the tube. Below are 2 pictures; left is while the car is on jack stands and the right is with the car on the ground. I won't be able to drive Casper until this is fixed. I need to figure out if I just fix the tube or if I take the time to sort out the entire body while I am at it.

[Druepy]

We dropped the engine and transaxle last night. It went smoothly. Now we will have much more access to the torsion tube to start making an assessment of the damage.