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Let’s call this a Public Service Announcement-Many of us will have never seen what annuciations occur on a Cayman 987 dashboard when you have low or no oil pressure. To revisit history, the Porsche Cayman, when released in 2005, did not have an oil pressure gauge (or a dipstick!). A quick review of the internet … Continue reading
I replaced a large percentage of the carpet in my wife’s 2006 Cayman S last year, due to mouse damage. See that story here. At that time, most but not all of the pieces were available via my local dealership, although some waiting was required. That car has a natural brown interior. More recently, I … Continue reading
Part 1 of this article can be found here. The problem with my 2007 Porsche Cayman S was different from the run-of-the-mill cat or O2 sensor failure. I had just spent several months rebuilding the engine (see articles here). BTW my engine designation is M97.21. All the suspect parts were new. I had a new … Continue reading
You have probably landed on this article after doing a search on OBD Fault Codes P0421 or P0431. I’m going to start out at a high level (Part 1) then take a deep dive (Part 2). The deep dive will probably make your eyes glaze over but trust me, information is power if you are … Continue reading
Previous articles in this series – Engine Assembly Notes Part 1 and Tour of Engine Sensors and Components Picking up from where I left off here, this is a continuation of the assembly notes I compiled. As discussed in the previous articles, I leaned heavily on the Jake Raby M96/97 Engine Assembly video series and, … Continue reading
OK, so it’s a bad weather day, like everywhere in the US right now, so let’s have a little discussion about bore score inspections “thru the sump”. Nothing definitive here, just my thoughts. I’ve just finished rebuilding my 2007 Cayman S M97.1 engine so this discussion is biased towards that engine design. But from what … Continue reading
As discussed in other articles, starting here, I have been rebuilding the M97 engine of my 2007 Cayman S. One reliablity upgrade that I did was to purchase a new engine wiring harness from Porsche. I did this for several reasons. It is a 5 owner car with little maintenance history. I can see that … Continue reading
For various reasons, it has taken me a while to get started with the re-assembly of the engine. But progress is finally happening. Previous article in this series – Machine Work DoneNext articles in this series – Tour of Engine Sensors and Components and Engine -Re-Assembly Part 2 I am going to start by saying … Continue reading
I apologize in advance for falling behind on updates for the engine rebuild of the 2007 Cayman S. Summer projects and travel have taken a priority. But there is some progress to report. As discussed here, I chose Slakker Racing Development (SRD) to perform the machine work on my 3.4L flat six Cayman engine. Broadly … Continue reading
In my last post I discussed my machine shop selection. Great news! The machine shop, Slakker Racing Enterprises, is done and I have received my outbound shipping box back, filled with goodies. So many goodies, in fact, that they had to strap some to the top of the box. The box shipped using a freight … Continue reading
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