Singer's 100th Porsche 911 Restoration - Jay Leno's Garage

imagine that if you crash into a carbon fiber bumper it stops being, yeah, a mother, okay, okay, but okay because no one is going to crash into this now with the four liters, when you take it out to four liters, what? do you have to increase the oil? capacity no, we use the same oil, the same capacity, we increased the size of the refrigerator, although it is okay, after a few generations of moving to the four liter, we definitely found, especially since many of these vehicles go to other climates where it is much hotter than the south.

California, although at some point it's hard to imagine, yes, and I'm talking about this stock, there are usually grilles in MAGIX, well, okay, the grilles they replace with the old style grill, which is what the first cars and many people would put mesh behind them. We decided to leave, okay, I got you, okay, I noticed on the carpets this one hundred, this is the only car they can say yes, let's take a look at the interior, now tell me what color is this interior, this is a blackberry blackberry. Yeah, I've never seen Blackberry. So I really don't know if a common color you've done before is unique to this car.

This is pretty unique to this car. We have made other cars that are similar. This is pretty unique to this one. Well, all

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s are similar, but. nothing of the same, exactly, yes, this particular car has our eight-way touring seat option, okay, we call it a sweet mix of leather, we actually have a standard leather mixed with a slave, whoa, whoa, Ventoux together, clear and Of course, you kept the standard dash or gauges, so three sets of gauges are needed to make our gauge package our standard gauge package. What you see here follows the same design and that's what I like because it looks a lot like Porsche.

Here come cars that have been modified and I'm in them. I'm Karmen again because there's nothing about them that I identify with. You know, we didn't want to be behind the wheel, we just wanted to distill it and improve on what Porsche did. Great, but you changed the wheel and that's it, what's real, it's a formal prototype, okay, very good wheel wrap to our specifications, which are in our own climate. Now I'll check your Porsche history, why is the key on that side? for the LeMond stars oh, very good, yes, because you could turn the key and put your hand on it at the same time.

Very good, that's very good. Tell me about this trick. Mara. I like it. I just assumed this was one of these. I have to roll down. the window and then I press the glass with my thumb, that's a design and

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, oh, very cute, that's actually quite clever, so you drill a hole in the glass and you have a rubber gasket on the left side, yeah, yes, we actually have the glass made. for us, so it already comes to us with a hole, it's another composite piece that starts out as a plastic substrate and is nickel plated.

Oh, that would be great if someone came to you and said, "Oh, I sell about 100 cars, I want exactly." the same car, wouldn't you do it or would you have to call the owner and ask permission? How does it work? Yes, exactly, we try to offer alternatives. Well, that's what makes this really unique. I mean, it's number 100 which is cool and it's a proper road car, that's what I love, you could drive it all over the country. I don't recognize that the center console is unique to you, yes, it is made for us, it is nice and trimmed, so it is not Porsche either, no, it is fine, but it is nice. the way the handbrake is is it cuts out there yeah a little place to store your gears yeah yeah okay it's just beautiful can we take it from the right of course let's try it.

Well it smells fantastic in here, fresh leather, can you increase it? the red line about an extra thousand and what was Porsche's main reason for water cooling the man just ran out of the horsepower and emissions limit and it was a big noise, air cooled engines were a low noise, inherently horsepower, well I guess 'The more fuel you start putting into it, the more emissions go up and what do you get within about 390? Yes, each engine is tested within about 3 horsepower of each other, so we try how many hours you run them on a dyno before you. approximately 24 hours so that the owner can practically dry it.

The desk chuckles about two miles, isn't that an attempt to tell you the highest mileage you've seen in ten years? Yes Yes. I've got a car in the UK that's just done 8,500 miles 8,500 yes I'd like to say that's probably in the upper range of over ten years, no he says he's had that car for around four years so, What do I mean is the highest? someone in a hundred and fifty thousand, but no, no one had died. I'd say you say something like McLaren, yeah, I've got that cool. Is there a legal reason to keep steel doors?

We offer carbon doors. There is a side impact beam on the door well, I think it's more of a safety issue, yes, then 91 had this, the door impact beams, yes, yes, how many poor, penis silk spike, between 90 and 94. I have heard numbers around the world between 3040 thousand. I don't know the exact number but not too much and you run out I think we're just dipping our toe in the pool of the whole partial market seems to have cooled down a bit so you can pick some up yeah I think there's a little bit of magic for two They seem to love stagnant is the right word maybe it stabilized a little bit you know I think the whole air cooling market skyrocketed like crazy.

How many cars do you have in the hopper? Weight, come on, there's a hundred and thirty after this, you've got 130 ready to go. Well, orders are coming, yes. I mean, positive, yeah, auto, you know, various stages. I'm guessing there are about 230 on the books right now. Wow, that's awesome, so what's the next milestone? 150 or 200. 150 will be a big milestone. I think you know my first car was 2008. Yes, we started in 2008. The first one debuted which was the quail about a year ago and then, well, I love the gearbox, the shifting is just sublime, it really is, It's a lot of fun just going through it because there's no point in ever hanging up or having to give it an extra.

Pushing it increases the visceral sensation. I think about driving, yeah, becoming one with the fact that there's an arm behind you two feet from your butt, yeah, you know you really start to feel the connection to the road, well, scar change. very often it takes a while to get into the Porsche mentality, yeah, you know, I mean, it's just different and then it's okay, I get it, you know, I think they're a very easy car to get comfortable with, although yeah, yeah , this feels extremely stiff. How much more reinforcement will there be in the chassis? A lot, not a lot.

No, there is a strut mount in the front and there are some. A moderate amount of seam welding was done, but that is to the customer's specifications. So the nine six for the platinum platform was inherently stiff, much stiffer than the previous generation three two Carreras was one of the reasons we decided to go with the 964 platform and when a carbon fiber offender gets it, it just replaces the entire fender or it can be carbon fiber, it would be repaired as if it were fiberglass. repaired yes, yes, it depends on the severity of each head in most cases.

I would say it's probably more cost effective just released and one is a carbon fiber fender. I think the carbon fiber fenders weigh about 10 pounds max, yes. and the steel fenders, what about 35? Yes, I have 35 incredible Porsches. Porsches are never narrow. You could be the Oh, at 6-3, yes I'm six-three, no problem there for what at first appears to be a small booth. a tie and quite spacious What are your maintenance requirements for these engines? Is this the same as any part owner? Yeah, pretty much, you know, we recommend 3,500 miles on the oil change unless you know the track conditions or something, we'll tell you that.

Judge a little after each valve adjustment on track day at about 10,000 miles. Well I love this gearbox, it's really fantastic, tell me about the steering rack. We used a 993 steering rack, so the 964 has a great steering rack. The 993 we felt was better. takes away a little bit of the numbness in the Center that's still air cooled or yeah it was the last air cooled one that came to about 198 99 98 yeah yeah you know the interesting thing about the AIRC World Series 911 from the generations of is you know that from '64 to '98 there are many parts that are interchangeable, without too much problem, you can put a three-six from a 993 in a 66 911 without knowing how to reinvent the wheel, Tim, thanks.

I know the owner of this car is waiting for us in the

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so obviously we have to try really hard, but yes it certainly could, it feels bulletproof, it's wonderful to drive, it really is the son of the best expression in the whole world. air cooled engine. The Porsche thing is almost endless, if they were still making this car, this is what it would be. I think it's fair to say that yes, it proposed 400 horsepower, 2600, simply the best shift transmission driven in a long time and of course it does the leather. the smell of a custom wheel on the whole thing, you caught the little detail, this is really amazing Tim, thank you so much and congratulations on your hundredth vehicle which is really exciting, it's really a testament Chris, there are some tougher businesses that the carpet, you know it is, and it's very fun to see the diploma of big manufacturers and you have McLaren, you have Tesslar, so I'm a small skin, you have you and some other people and now you go into business or business of the automobile.

It's a manufacturer and I think it's really exciting to see, so congratulations to the singer and happy anniversary and I think the new owners will love this car, thanks Jay, mommy, that will be laughed at before you know I have to keep driving this, see you. guys next week