My Vesuvio(us) Metallic 911 996 C2

wasz · 22 Aug 2014

A couple of months ago on wedding duties!

phil996versuvius · 7 Sep 2014

very nice - great to see another versuvius grey

like the wheels

if anyone is really taken by the colour - my 996 versuvius is now up for sale - track it down in the classfieds

will be sad to see it go but my new 964 is taking all my attention

wasz · 10 Sep 2014

New MAF (old one was dated 2003) seems to have cured the car being easy to stall when parking / slow manouvering.

Genuine Bosch £140 delivered http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111302222436

Y2K · 1 Apr 2018

Never realised yours is Vesuvius Grey. It's a stunning colour.

I had considered one that was advertised locally, but decided against it due to the lack of aerokit. That same car had since then been transformed into RPM CSR.

wasz · 1 Apr 2018

Y2K said:
Never realised yours is Vesuvius Grey. It's a stunning colour.

I had considered one that was advertised locally, but decided against it due to the lack of aerokit. That same car had since then been transformed into RPM CSR.

I like it, its a bit different. Can't be appreciated unless its clean and the sun is shining!

Sometimes looks brown, sometimes grey, sometimes purple!

wasz · 3 Apr 2018

This thread is well out of date.....

I missed air con compressor off the above, a few laps of Oulton Park saw that off: http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=93945

Since the MAF... there has been:

Exhaust boxes (Genuine, 1 brand new, 1 with 10k on it)
Front top mounts (again, faulty parts first time)
Rear track arms (TRW)
ARB bushes (genuine)
Dogbone arms (genuine, low mileage 997)
Engine mounts (new genuine)
Battery (tayna.co.uk)
Coffin arms (Meyle)
Window regulator (again)
Radiator
Fan resistors (RS)
Steering rack hard lines (+steering column) See: http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=120660
Brake flexis
Brake pipes
Clutch / fly / slave / aos / gb mount and de- rust of sills See http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=124928
Discs and pads (textar)
Rebuilt idle control valve see http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=126841&highlight=
+ usual servicing oil filters plugs etc.

Phew!

Brings us up to date ..... just fitted a genuine 997 Shifter today! Shorter throw than 996, but not too short like the short shifters.

coullstar · 3 Apr 2018

Did you use the alignment tool?

wasz · 3 Apr 2018

coullstar said:
Did you use the alignment tool?

No need unless you are fitting new cable ends. I just popped the cables off the old shifter.

Even if you do fit new cable ends, then you can just mark the cables before you remove the ends and put the new ones in the same place.

I didn't fit new ends, but I was tempted to fit a new cable end that fits on the ball of the shifter, the other one won't wear so much. They are just about £13 each from OPC. However you can't replace the gearbox end of the cables, and these will be much more worn being exposed.... so I figured I wouldn't go mad here.

wasz · 4 Apr 2018

I'm on a roll here.

I like to have a fire extinguisher in my cars. After doing so much work to the car I did not want it to go up in flames and then get ruined by the Insurance company.

I read Dammit's thread http://www.911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=123877&sid=23a33242a95040150a94caf7b10921f0 about the OE bracket, and decided the OE kit was way too much, and OE extinguisher is a little small - the bigger the better really.

So I made a bracket to fit an OE style fire extinguisher.

Kidde KSF1GM £20 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000WTKT0U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Bent a piece of aluminium:

Bolted up the bracket the extinguisher came with.

Now the tabs under the seat the OE bracket bolts to are not threaded, but I just used some small screws through the hole, and bolted it up with some spring washers.

Job jobbed:

Shame the supplied bracket holds it with the handle out... OE has it handle in.

However I will see how I get on, I might just flip the bracket so the handle is to towards the gearshift rather than the door.

Also, chucked a bucket of water over it:

Scrubs up well. Weird how the camera distorts.

coullstar · 4 Apr 2018

wasz said:
coullstar said:

Did you use the alignment tool?

Click to expand...

No need unless you are fitting new cable ends. I just popped the cables off the old shifter.

Even if you do fit new cable ends, then you can just mark the cables before you remove the ends and put the new ones in the same place.

I didn't fit new ends, but I was tempted to fit a new cable end that fits on the ball of the shifter, the other one won't wear so much. They are just about £13 each from OPC. However you can't replace the gearbox end of the cables, and these will be much more worn being exposed.... so I figured I wouldn't go mad here.

Good stuff, thought that was the case but hadn't found someone that has done it. I bought a 2nd hand one so was just going to mark everything up.

wasz · 4 Apr 2018

coullstar said:
Good stuff, thought that was the case but hadn't found someone that has done it. I bought a 2nd hand one so was just going to mark everything up.

See also https://www.pelicanparts.com/techar...-Short_Shift_Kit/42-TRANS-Short_Shift_Kit.htm

Delanor · 5 Apr 2018

My Cabriolet is actually finished in Viola which I haven`t seen many the same and I never got a hardtop with it but then along came a hardtop in Vesuvio for £70 which is not really noticeable as being a different colour except in bright sunlight when the Viola is really purple and the Vesuvio just looks a bit faded in fact I prefer the contrast in colours it makes.

Wasz you really need to repaint the frunk lever its looking a bit worse for wear its easy enough to do.

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wasz · 5 Apr 2018

Delanor said:
My Cabriolet is actually finished in Viola which I haven`t seen many the same and I never got a hardtop with it but then along came a hardtop in Vesuvio for £70 which is not really noticeable as being a different colour except in bright sunlight when the Viola is really purple and the Vesuvio just looks a bit faded in fact I prefer the contrast in colours it makes.

Wasz you really need to repaint the frunk lever its looking a bit worse for wear its easy enough to do.

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Viola is very cool. Is that the millenium edition colour? I wonder how many special order colour cars are out there.

Yes the frunk lever is on the list....but way way down the list....will get there eventually.

Jonny996 · 5 Apr 2018

I am loving all these non kitted 996's on sport classic 11's

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