Parts Car to Daily Driver: 1990 Cayenne Metallic Cq

[PRY4SNO]

We're rolling!

Went out for her maiden voyage, a nice little shakedown run to the bank then Canadian Tire to have some spare keys cut.

Issues/first impressions:

-- Old gas is causing misfires... wondering if I should add some octane booster to help bring it back up to regular (car sat for well over a year, and I found a receipt for REGULAR in the back seat :facepalm: ). Wondering because a Fifth Gear segment showed a net loss of ~2hp using various boosters on an engine dyno. Prob just run the tank down to 1/8 and refill.

-- Speedo/tach lights are out... where do I start looking for a fix? Fuses/relays?

-- The (!) light won't go off, but press the Auto Check and there's nothing indicated as being wrong.

-- Brakes are basically pooched... ebrakes are totally seized and there's a lot of travel before not a lot of bite, then she shudders under hard braking. And smells. haha I have some new Motul 5.1 and the old brakes from my black Cq to use as replacements so that should do the trick.

-- Some PS whine at near or full-lock, and the Xplug is leaking a bit... likely a worn o-ring.

-- The captive bolts on the license plate are way beyond worn out... so I stuck the plate in the window up top right corner for now.

Other than that... she runs like a top!!!!!

-- The trans shifts like BUTTER.
-- Heat comes on fast and hot.
-- Heated seats work very well.
-- Alignment is spot on.
-- Struts feel really good.

Pics to follow but I'm really happy with this car so far, think it's going to be a solid daily for a few years to come before she gets gutted and caged for 07k track duty

[URQguy]

Now we are talking!

[Kieron20V]

Best colour for a B3 coupe!!

But I am biased a little....

[mackenzie50]

Good news she's rollin' again- well done..yup, I've a weakness for that colour too
I've done over 400mls this past week in my B3..(but better not tell her the S2 is almost back on the road..sshh!)

[PRY4SNO]

Ok, fun continues...

Went to install my custom machined AC delete cap (more on that later ) and found this...


My guess is CV grease or brake fluid... hoping for the latter as they're easier but if it's the former anyone figure I'll be okay for the next little while to drive till I have time off and parts to fix?

[bornagain]

Definitly axle. See how it's "flinging" outward? That's cause the axle rotates. Where as the brake line would A. Leave you with out most of your brakes and B. mostly just drip down and C. Not gob on the inside of your wheel like I can see in the picture. It's gonna leave a big mess but you should be fine as long as your not doing much gravel road driving. I me and Matt drove the urs4 for almost 2 years with no grease in the boots(mostly just cause I was lazy and being I'm the mechanic it's my responsibility) either way though get it changed soon as possible especially if its clicking.

[PRY4SNO]

As some of you may know, my car was hit by a 16yr old in too much of a rush to look the other way for traffic. He turned through an intersection just behind a truck and when I saw him/swerved and honked it was too late. Although had I not made any attempt to avoid, it would have nearly been a t-bone so I suppose it could have been worse.




I've contacted a few memebers here about a replacement bumper and or fender but they disappeared when it came time for pictures or shipping quotes (mass/dimensions).

Anyone able to help out? Mostly looking for S2 f/r bumpers and possibly the fender (though I may have that sourced). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[PRY4SNO]

Maintenance time...

-- Re-torque ARP head studs... been about 60k km since they were first installed and only needed about 10# to get back to the 80# spec:


-- Replace FPR... the original one busted at the rubber mounts while replacing the knock sensors:

The car randomly lurched/bucked/hesitated pretty bad for the first while, at any load (fwy. cruise, steady city driving, from a start), but seems to be dissipating. Figure the FPR was gummed up/stuck? Came off my black coupe and I'd had no problems with it before, so I'll try a can of Seafoam in the gas tank and see if that solves, unless someone has a BTDT tip to offer?


While I was in there, I noticed that every intake runner was coated on the inside with an oil mist... my buddy Adam suggests PCV leak? Runners 1 & 5 (pictured below) were the worst offenders:



Then, I was buttoning up the VC and found the bolt that holds down the after run sensor was too short... thankfully there was an appropriate replacement in my bolts pile culled from scrapping various A4's and S4's.



Now on to the tricky bit:

Button everything back up and I get a dummy light in the dash for the oil light. Look down at the gauges, and once the oil is up to temp, she's 3.5bar at idle and 5bar over 1100 rpm or so. So I have a look and sure enough, a spade on the low pressure sensor was off (the closest one to the bumper). Except, when I got it back on the light still comes up and beeps at me.

How likely is the one-pin white oil pressure sensor below the two-pin mentioned above to be the culprit?

Other thing is all of the sudden (since I buttoned up this job) the coolant temp gauge doesn't work??