A short sweet photo guide to get good results quickly, I hope. A couple quick notes (TL;DR) * Remove & replace strings one at a time if...

Our old cars would have a hard time being more different. The odd couple? I thought it would be fun to look at some of the engine design details that went into both the Spitfire and the 911 and see how the teams did what they did. 4 cylinder pushrod vs 6 cylinder overhead camshaft. Water cooled vs air cooled. 1920's carbs vs 1980's electronic fuel injection. Front engine vs rear engine. In researching the cars, I found it interesting that both cars were introduced within a co

When you amplify a signal, any signal, the circuit you use will often have some non-linearities. These can lead to additional frequencies...

Get a bunch of guitar players together and in no time debates will ensue about some other player's "tone". What causes it, what...

(This is kind of an homage to the kinds of articles the great Peter Egan wrote in Road & Track) The year was 1984. I was newly out of...

One thing that happened when I took the car in for its inspection was we saw the front turn signals were not working. It felt a bit like...

I purchased a used Fender "alternate reality" 12-string as an affordable, giggable alternative to the real thing. The vintage ones have...

Here we'll try and hit the high points of what you need to know about speakers. A microphone "backwards" Speakers date to the late 19th...

You're just driving and minding your own business, you go to close the sunroof and it starts to close but then stops and won't close any...

There is a good chance, if the car you are buying is >25 that the stereo (such as it was) is dead. I didn't buy an old 911 for the...

I will post archive docs here for former and present clients to access. The original site is still accessible via the wayback machine if...

What: An Elephant Racing quick release front strut bar Why: The 911 was designed in 1964 and todays performance tires can exert a lot...

While this is a very simple operation, I have seen almost no pics of a G50 pedal cluster or details on them online. So this is more of a...

Thought it might be handy to have a list of parts for a major service and some ballpark costs for estimation. For general maintenance,...

In many years of playing out, doing repairs and being asked to perform mods to people's old tube amps, there is nearly always a single...

Update: Jan 2024 I've had the car a couple years now, and have rebuilt the front suspension entirely as well as had it professionally...

I had a mildly annoying problem; when the car got hot, the throttle would stick a little and the car would idle a bit high. I sprayed it...

One of my goals is to feel good about taking the car for medium length trips, weekend sort of things, a few hundred miles each way. Part...

Your engine and transmission are the source of a lot of what auto engineers refer to broadly as "NVH" - noise, vibration and harshness....

The air-cooled 911's have some interesting differences that seem to make checking and changing the oil a bit more challenging for the...