We received a 1992 911 in for a mild refresh. The owner loves the car and plans to keep it forever. He wanted us to go through and identify anything that needed repair and address a few items that were bugging him. The first was the ride quality. His wife refuses to drive in the car as it is too rough. Two things were obvious fixes: old tires and blown original dampers.
The tires were an easy fix but first I attempted to convince the client to go with smaller wheels. The car came to us with 18" rims vs stock 16". The consumer market likes cars that have BIG wheels and are lowered. This car was set up that way. This owner does not track the car nor drive it overly aggressively. So I am trying to convince him to consider stepping down to 17" rims to bring back some compliance to this car.
Since the car is not being tracked, we decided to install a set of the Bilstein PSS10s. These dampers are pretty popular and considered a single adjustable with a clicker located at the base. This makes them quite easy to adjust with 1-10 clicks. 1 = softest and 10 = hardest. We are aligning the car with the RS spec ride height but with a stockish alignment.
We also took the opportunity to have the undercarraige dry ice cleaned as it was also nearly as nasty as our 996RR! The corrosion that we found required a hard brake line replacement as the fitting was frozen. We changed out all the rubber brake lines as they were original - 33years old!
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