4min - says so right on the package ;)

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Good luck :)

It's been a while but I haven't had much to report. I sent my trans to CMS in AZ to be freshened up back in July - 2nd gear synchro retrofit for $2500. A mo or so later I got an email with the damage.

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A day or two later I got another batch of pics. Not good news.

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The pinion was a bit snaggle-toothed. Oh, oh, the cash register just rang up another $2600.

A while later I get another email with some pics I didn't understand but a desc that I did: the 3rd & 4th gear synchros were on their last legs. Another $2K for those. By now I'm only $1K from a factory reman. Roger from CMS says it will take 3 wks to get a reman from Germany. I'm not overjoyed with the thought of spending $8K when I was budgeting for $2500, but it was the right decision to OK the reman. 5 wks go by and I don't hear anything, so I contact Roger. A wk later he says the trans is in CA and will be shipped to OMA after I pay my bill. I have the option of electronic check or credit card with a 3% penalty. I choose the former. I get busy and a wk goes by. I don't get any paperwork saying I've paid or a tracking #. When I contact Roger, he says the trans may still be in CA (supply chain issue?) but he's confident it will be delivered. Get busy again and 2 wks go by. Contact Roger again via email and text. No reply. I'm getting concerned. Call on Fri, get voice mail. Later he calls back and says the trans was delivered to SLM on the 19th. I hadn't heard from SLM that it was. Of course SLM was closed by then and not open on Sat. A friend said Alex at SLM will sometimes answer emails on Sat, so I fired one off asking if the trans had arrived. He said YES! Whew. Just several miscommunications all around. I stopped down today at SLM and yes, it is here.

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What a nice looking piece of equipment. But for $8K it should look nice.

A couple wks earlier I got an email from Alex about my engine at EVO Spec. Alex had been trying several times to contact them about a status but wasn't hearing back from them. Then he received an email from John stating that he (John) had been sick and out for almost a mo. He was now back at the shop. He was sure my engine halves were back from L&N so it was a matter of putting the engine back together. I imagine John has a crapload of work to do, but if all goes well, I might have my engine back in the next 4-6 wks. Which means I could be driving her by year end. Fingers crossed.

That transmission is beautiful! Hope it all goes back together smoothly and you are breaking it in soon!

Had been hoping my engine would be arriving in OMA around the first of this mo. Hadn't heard anything from SLM. Decided late last wk to just send an email to EvoSpec and see if they had an est on a ship date. Didn't hear anything. I was in the neighborhood so I stopped in to SLM yesterday on the off chance they had heard something. Alex said he'd received an email from John around Dec 1 saying the engine was nearing completion and might be ready in another two wks. So if everything is on schedule, it should be nearing completion and ready to ship shortly.

Getting anxious. :dance:

Good news! Hopefully you'll be driving it soon.

Well Dec turned into Jan and no pkg from AZ. :mad:

A friend from our local Porsche club snowbirds in AZ, so he volunteered to head over to EvoSpec to recon my engine. He found...

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Bottom box is the engine, top box is parts (hopefully not left over parts). Looking to ship on Fri.

We'll see...

Great news! You'll be back on the track soon!

Tracking Number!
 

Jan turned into Mar, still no engine. Various stories as to why.

2 wks ago told it would be shipped on Mar 27. Was excited until I looked at the calendar and the 27th was a Sunday. Joked with Alex at SLM about the over / under odds on shipping on a Sun. The 27th came and went without a tracking number. Alex said to wait until Wed (he may have corresponded with Evo and they now told him Wed), but John sent an IM to Alex on Wed and said it was being shipped and a tracking number would be coming. Exciting, but...

Late yesterday the tracking number arrived. Punching the number shows...
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Just so happens to arrive on my birthday. Happy birthday to me! Alex already has my car pulled out of the warehouse and is prepared to assemble as soon as the engine arrives. We've worked on the 'while you're in theres' and have them ready to go too. Alex thought it would be 2 wks to have her running. Can't wait for the dyno session to see what she has.

This is NOT an April fools joke. (I hope)

It's going to be worth the wait. Take your time to do the recommended break-in!

Look what arrived this afternoon! :dance: Even a day early.

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Will get together with Alex tomorrow to see what the timelines are.

Husker, I am surprised that the wrapping still in one piece ..LOL

Happy Birthday!

Indeed, Happy Birthday!
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As much as I wanted to tear the wrapping off, I resisted. Alex was super busy and I didn't want to be a pest.

But here it is today!
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The plan is to clean the ancillaries before putting them back on, then reassemble. Once it's back in the car, the dyno will be used for break-in. Using Driven Break-In oil, they'll do several runs - one in the 2K rpm range, check / change oil filter, another run at 3K rpm, check / change oil filter, etc until they've run it through all the ranges. Then change oil and she's ready to go.

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Cayman mating season is almost here! :dance:

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Making progress. If all goes well on Mon, Tue will be dyno break-in.

That is the shiniest transaxle I've ever seen!

Btw, you're not gonna make that beast breathe through a stock exhaust system are you?

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Looking good!

It should be shiny, it's brand new. To the tune of $8K!

Yep. It would be hard to improve the exhaust manifold design, plus they want a crapton of $$$ for headers. Don't want to deal with cels by going to 200 cel cats. AND I have PSE. She'll breathe the way the good DR intended.

If you're gonna break it in on a Dyno, will you please humor me and test out a catless or high flow cat system? Also, I don't know what intake you're using but anything smaller than 82mm would be a mistake I think

Here's why I say this -

When I redid my 2.7l with a short ram 82mm intake, high flow headers and shorty glass packs, and run on oem 996 row fuel maps, my LTFTs are -17% (with afrs of 14.7 cruising and 11-12 wot). I've never dynoed my car but if the fuel consumption is linear to power output, that means that my car is now making 245 hp. I can almost guarantee that using the stock intake and exhaust will rob you of a significant amount of power output.

That system just wasn't designed to breathe - it was designed to meet stringent exhaust and nose control regulations (especially in the eu). If you look at recommendations for exhaust tubing size based on HP, the 986 system is undersized even for the 207 hp mark. You're probably looking to produce 300-350 hp right? You should have a 2.5" dual exhaust system for a 3.8l displacement. In terms of intake, depending on your gearing and again assuming 3.8l with 85% ve and 7200rpm redline, you need a 4.25" intake to completely eliminate all resistance (this isn't factoring bends and recessive length).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to criticize, I'm just wanting to relay my experience. A really simple test would be the following - after break in, do a Dyno wot pull and calculate power outputs. After that, disconnect the intake and hook up your maf to an 82mm housing and nothing else. Disconnect your exhaust and put on only a pair of cheap eBay catless headers with your precats nbo2 sensors installed. Run for a bit like this again on the dyno to allow to ecu to recalibrate to your changes and then repeat your wot pulls

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Good info Ike and much appreciated. I understand what you're saying.

Here's the tail of the tape. I have an IPD plenum and GT3 throttle body already on the top end. I'm recently officially retired for 1 yr now although I've been semi-retired for 5 yrs before that. Cash flow is an issue since income is now more important than when I was employed. The initial est for this job was $23K but I'm fairly certain the final number will be somewhere around $26-27K. The "while you're in there's" will prob be around $2K of that total. Toss in the $8K trans that was only supposed to be $2500 (not part of the orig $23K est) and you see the project is WAY over budget as it currently sits. No room for an additional $5K for headers / cats, etc. Maybe down the road.

I'm not sure if the guys at SLM will want to take the time to do exhaust swaps and multiple runs to compare. They probably want their big check too since this has been an 11 mo adventure. And I know they're backed up with work since it took them 2 wks to get to my car after the engine arrived back in OMA. They said they're already short a mechanic and 1 was out sick for a period of time. Bottom line is they're probably just as happy to see Sydney out the door as I will be.

I hear ya, sometimes wants can't always line up with needs.

Fwiw, I can send you the parts list for building a 2.5" exhaust setup. The only part that will need to be fabbed is a 2 to 2.5" adapter which is paid a buddy $25 and took him 30 min. All together my setup cost me under $500, including the headers midpipes cats mufflers and tips, with everything being enamel coated and then wrapped in heat wrap.

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It's ALIVE!!!

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Beautiful!

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Great news!

Sounds awesome, congratulations!

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Sydney's on the dyno. Break-in Thu afternoon. Getting closer to the Done Sign.

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Sydney's home! :dance:

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It's been almost a yr. Her engine was pulled June 1 of last yr. She really runs well now. Seems to have more of a growl than my Box, which also has PSE. I'm so happy.

But I won't be able to put another 1000 mi on her for an oil change and trans fluid change before next week's DE. :( Can't have everything, I guess.

Daytona in the fall!

Oh come on, that's only about 17hrs of driving! Leave tomorrow morning and you'll be home in time for church ;)

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If that was all I had on my agenda, I could knock it out in no time. But next wk's DE is also our Club Race and besides being a CDI and instructor, I'm also our club's registrar so I have a lot of paperwork, badges, and emails ahead of me. And I need to be at the track Thu afternoon and the track is 2.5 hrs away.

Plus I'm in the process of moving. I've got most of the stuff moved to my new house but still have a few rooms to go (thankfully the garage and basement are done). The cleaners come on Mon and the carpet cleaners on Tue. Then photo shoots by the realtor. Want to get my current house sold before the mkt collapses. I've lived there for 34 yrs - you accumulate a lot of crap in that time, so it takes a while to go thru everything and decide if you need to keep or toss it.

And it's not just an oil change after 1000 mi. I also need to change the trans fluid, which is a bit more involved. Since I didn't do it the last time I changed trans fluid, I plan to cut / drill a hole in the triangle plate so I won't need to take it off the next time I change fluid (I'll be changing trans fluid a lot more often, per the trans expert in AZ). That will add time to the project as I want to measure multiple times and drill once. The old "if you fail to plan..."

So having Syndey ready to go by Thu morning to make the DE is a pipe dream. But I've waited a yr, a few more wks isn't going to kill me. Just like cars for sale, there's always another DE around the corner. Gotta take the long view.

Yes Sir.

And my message was to short….

I feel ya on the move. Wants vs needs, again, lol. Good luck to you

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Ever since I got Sydney back, I've been wanting to put the clear engine cover on. Trouble is, with the move, I can't find the mounting pins. I know where the cover itself is, but can't locate the pins. I know they made the move as they rolled around in the trunk of my moving vehicle for about a wk. But I finally took them out and placed them somewhere and now I can't find them. :mad: I've probably spend at least 2 full hrs looking. Generally I can remember what box has stuff in it and remember where the box is in the basement. But this wasn't in a box, I put them somewhere. My next thing is to look where my 1st inclination to put them. That's generally worked. But not for those stinking pins. Dog gone it!

Then 2 days ago I found them. I'd put them in an upstairs room of stuff that we didn't sell for my mom's estate sale (I'm moving into her house). I guess my thought process was I'd be moving items out of that room not long after I moved there. Well it was 10 days, so I guess that was close. Anyway, the pins are found and now I can show off my $28K engine.

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That's really a nice view, but how loud is it?

Obviously a tad louder in the cabin with the foam and carpet removed, but certainly not intrusive. The new engine actually sounds better. The orig had a whooshing sound in the 2500-3500 rpm range that you could hear quite clearly with the clear cover on. That whoosh is gone, replaced with sweet revving sounds now.

Man, that looks nice. Makes me want a clear engine cover.

Congrats man :cheers: