It was time to do a refresh on the 2.7 in the Carrera. Nice to have the help and good company of Brant, Gint, Sharon and Hines for the motor drop.



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Nice! What are you going to do to refresh it?

Hines is in charge.

If you want to keep the CIS and want to do something as simple as a cam upgrade let me know and I'll sell you mine. I have an SC grind 3-bearing cam for a 2.7CIS engine...supposedly a nice upgrade.

I'm changing mine to carbs, but would like SC grind cam to go to a good home.

Thanks for the offer, but staying stock stock stock on this one, it's a numbers matching 75 Carrera.

They were all there to help? Where they any help?

Sharon supervised, I took pictures

I had it mostly ready to drop, just fuel line, and electrical, oh and the speedo cable I forgot to undo

Who's the guy in flip flops? That's confidence!

It's getting torn all the way down... Runs and drives fine now, I suspect I have a valve seat issue on #2, leak down is fine on the all the rest at 4 percent, but #2 is about 8 percent and have a tapping I cannot adjust out. Compression is even at 128 at my altitude of 5500. Uses about one quart per 1k. I have smoke on downshift.

Motor has been done once long ago, but no records, so time to go all in.

Hines and myself were in our OSHA approved footwear

I think my role was really just standing around

Mine had a little smoke on startup, decent compression and leakdown numbers, etc. But, it also had a tapping coming from the left side that got louder as the engine warmed up. Oil pressure dropped as the car warmed up as well. My 2.7 is now undergoing a rebuild...previous rebuilder (before I bought the car) did not thoroughly clean the case so now the oil pump is shot and a couple galleries were partially blocked. Fortunately, the crank and cams are not damaged. I will be getting new pistons and relined cylinders (along with reworked heads and such). My case had already been time-serted. Make sure your block is clean after they are through with machining!

That image of Hines is just SPOOKY!

Well Ron, I thought I had lost my Nacho Again, butt he showed up the opposite direction we were looking....I thought I was A Dead Man......Suzie had Warned Me And I forgot , A Porsche Got in the way of Dog watching....So I was pretty relieved the little FR showed back up... Brant was instrumental in calling NACHO...and Making sure Gint was Clear....

Jeff you need to keep heading east...another 1000 mi

your correct..I have family in MN. also..

Here comes the HP! Jeff's choise of work boots always cracks me up.