What did you do with your 718 this week?

[P_Coastal]

A bit jarring to see my '17 CB is going to Poland.

Almost all the bids came from eastern Europe, with an extensive bidding war among Poles, Russians, and Georgians.

I was hoping to get about $17,000. Most of these vehicles seem to go for about a third of their non-wrecked value.

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Wow, been following along.
What an amazing outcome.

[blueline]

A bit jarring to see my '17 CB is going to Poland.

Almost all the bids came from eastern Europe, with an extensive bidding war among Poles, Russians, and Georgians.

I was hoping to get about $17,000. Most of these vehicles seem to go for about a third of their non-wrecked value.

Was cool that you could follow the auction!

I imagine demand is high and going higher over there considering the fact that new 718 sales ended in Europe July 1st (or June 1st?) of this year by gov decree.

[ReidMcT]

Was cool that you could follow the auction!

I imagine demand is high and going higher over there considering the fact that new 718 sales ended in Europe July 1st (or June 1st?) of this year by gov decree.

Oh, I'll bet you're right! I was starting to conjure up vague, shady goings-on.

And maybe it'll get repaired right (albeit never to Porsche standards), and enjoyed for years to come by somebody with a loaded wallet and strong desire for an ICE 718.

But I'll say that I couldn't interest the Porsche-certified collision guy I talked to, whose company also buys/fixes/sells cars. He is the only person who's had the car on a lift for a complete inspection. He's also a shrewd business person with a network. I offered him the car for a song, just to avoid the anxiety and uncertainty of the auction process. He was not interested enough to ask a price, or offer one. He said, the bent door pillar also bent the firewall, and that's it. Sounds to me like a USA law that licensed car people take seriously. Maybe not in other places; or maybe they will be disappointed in their gamble, having surely noted the yellow paint marking the damaged pillar.

As seen in my avatar!

Sigh/shrug.

[J-Dub]

Oil change today, Mobile 1 0-40. Still need to use the X431 to reset the oil change service reminder.

My inner CV boots have been slinging crease since I have had the car. I have previously replaced the clamps with new Porsche clamps but that did not help. Today I replaced the clamps with one size smaller clamps from McMasterCarr and then spend an hour cleaning up all of the slung grease.

Finally I cleaned out my Air Filters and housings. I have the BMC filters and first step to to shake out all of the tire dust before I thoroughly washed them out. I used both the air filter cleaner as well a Dawn Dish Soap. The dish soap seemed to do a better job, returning the cotton gauze to a bit of a red color instead of dark/dirt color. They are sitting in the sun drying now and I will oil them and reinstall soon.

[ReidMcT]

@J-Dub could you share the McMaster Carr part number? What clamp pliers do you use?

[J-Dub]

@ReidMcT

Try this:
Vibration-Resistant Pinch Clamp Tight-Seal, 9/32" x 0.024" Band, 2-39/64" to 2-47/64" ID 52545K104

They come in a 10 pack so you have spares if you ever have to service your axles again or you have another 718 buddy in your neighborhood!

[Pachanga718]

Drove to the RMR PCA sponsored Club race at High Plains Raceway and volunteered for corner work for the day. Really fun and worked corner 12 with a 360 view of a lot of the course. Who knew that straight piped 1st Boxsters were so loud!
Lunch time was not long enough to eat lunch and take some open laps - next time now that I know the time table for the corner workers.
Only videos taken, so no photos. Are we able to post/share videos without making a YouTube video?

[blueline]

Drove to the RMR PCA sponsored Cup race at High Plains Raceway and volunteered for corner work for the day. Really fun and worked corner 12 with a 360 view of a lot of the course. Who knew that straight piped 1st Boxsters were so loud!
Lunch time was not long enough to eat lunch and take some open laps - next time now that I know the time table for the corner workers.
Only videos taken, so no photos. Are we able to post/share videos without making a YouTube video?

@Pachanga718

I think Vimeo will work on Carpokes in addition to YouTube.

Another thought is that if perchance your video is hosted elsewhere and publicly viewable, you could consider posting a link to your video at that site.


A Google Drive link (or similar) should work too. Something like this that I posted here directly from Google Drive:




@Tom will have a better answer to your question.

[J-Dub]

Did two more track days over the weekend. Had an interesting experience where I ran out of fuel on track during my last session of the first day due to fuel slosh in a fast sweeper, and the fact I was well down past reserve. The Porsche DME turns off injectors when it detects low fuel pressure. It did not turn them all of but a few so I was able to continue driving until I reached a safe spot on track to key off then restart the car and then drive to the fuel station area.

Sunday at the track was great because instead of 4 25 minute sessions we have three 1 hour sessions and one 30 minute session. Plenty of track time to work on corners/sections/segments over and over till it felt natural.

My Bridgestone Potenza RE71RSs are worn down to nearly slicks now. I really like them but also wondering what else is out there. For the size I need these are really the sweet spot and I likely will get another set.

[Tom]

Tim pretty much sums it up on videos. If it's hosted on any of the popular video hosting sites (youtube, vimeo, etc.) you can just post the link and it will play here. In addition, if you have an mp4 file on a web server, you can use the VIDEOPLAYER icon above and just place the URL to the MP4 between the tags, like this:

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[Videoplayer]insert URL here[/Videoplayer]

The video below is hosted on spare carpokes server space and I posted it here using VIDEOPLAYER with this URL:

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[Videoplayer]https://backpages.carpokes.com/guestpics/GopherWar.mp4[/Videoplayer]

If you don't want to put it anywhere else on the internet, you can always email it to me and I'll host it on the carpokes server. Here's a live example of doing it that way...