Picked up the car last night... felt very tight... but I would expect that after a major service and lots of new bits... HT Leads, Sparks, Rotor Arms, Dizzy Caps, Fuel Regulator, injector clean and all the major service bits inc break fluid.
They asked me to bring it back after ~10 trips so they can inspect the plugs and specifically cylinder 4 (not 5) which was the troublesome cylinder. If any of the plugs are fouled they'll know there might be another issue that caused the fouled plugs that might reoccur over time. It could be a slight oil leak getting into the cylinder that needs addressing.
For now... it's running beautifully...
Whilst I was in there, I spotted another 993... targa...with.. wait for it... 6k miles on it!!!!
Import from Japan, the current owner does not drive his collection of cars but treats them as investments.
Funny thing is, condition didn't look that much different from a 70k car that has been treated well... I guess it's just scarcity that creates this market... as Raj said.. this is not a drivers car...
I give Raj and team at 911SBD a pretty high score... they only charged me labour for the specific things they changed, not any of the diagnostic work or the test drives etc etc. They gave me a very detailed invoice at the end talking me through all the specific work they did. I felt like they were doing everything they could to minimise my expense, but not cut corners.
I got talking to Raj and he's got a 997 turbo he bought from a client and he's been working on it as a bit of a track car, got it up to 700bhp. It been set up by Chris and Center of Gravity.
The genesis of 911SBD was Porshe Cup Car mechanic, which over the years Raj split off the 'street car' servicing business which now is 911SBD. He has a relationship with Chris Turner Porsche down the road..
http://www.christurner.com/. In fact. Raj had Chris over to look at my car for another opinion... Nice to see the Porsche community alive.
I'll update again after the spark plug 'review'... good incentive to drive the car more!! funny how much I was itching for a drive whilst it was out for a month and a half.