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I got the call from Auto 2000 Porsche in Bedford about an opportunity to buy a barn find of a classic 1980s sports car. It's a car I've always dreamed of owning. And at first it seemed like a bit of a bargain. But would it be too good to be true?
Find out as we recover the car and try to get it started. At the end of the video I will decide whether to buy the car and embark on a project or not.
See what happened with the car at @Auto2000Porsche here:
https://youtu.be/FygIFOagbLE?si=CWODMi370TGEpseT
This video is sponsored by GSF Car Parts.
I got the call from Auto 2000 Porsche in Bedford about an opportunity to buy a barn find of a classic 1980s sports car. It's a car I've always dreamed of owning. And at first it seemed like a bit of a bargain. But would it be too good to be true?
Find out as we recover the car and try to get it started. At the end of the video I will decide whether to buy the car and embark on a project or not.
See what happened with the car at @Auto2000Porsche here:
https://youtu.be/FygIFOagbLE?si=CWODMi370TGEpseT
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00:00I've come to a house near a place called Bedford because I've been tipped off
00:03about a barn find of a classic sports car I've always dreamt of owning.
00:07I've wanted one of these for so long.
00:09I've been offered the car at a bargain price,
00:12but it hasn't been driven for 16 years and apparently has a few issues.
00:20The car's behind this door so I'm going to head inside and check it out.
00:22Am I about to realise a dream or end up in a nightmare?
00:30I'm here with Rich from Auto 2000 in Bedford.
00:33So Rich, can you tell me the story about this car?
00:36Because you contacted me about it, but you don't actually own it, do you?
00:39So this car belongs to a client of ours and it's been in his family for many years.
00:43Actually, it was his brother's car originally and he had it in storage since 2008
00:48and then sadly his brother died three years ago.
00:51It's a great car and when I found it, I thought of you, Matt,
00:56and I thought this is something that I think this guy's going to like.
00:59You've absolutely nailed it because it is.
01:00I've been thinking about one of these for such a long time.
01:03I know you have.
01:04So I know that your client, he wants something good to happen to this car,
01:07doesn't he, in honour of his brother.
01:08You guys, you're experts in restoring these kind of cars.
01:10So shall we have a look at what it is?
01:13Okay.
01:14You do it.
01:17Just in case bits fall off it.
01:18I'll do it.
01:19Okay.
01:20Look at it.
01:21I wanted one of these for so long.
01:23An air-cooled Porsche 911.
01:25Yes.
01:26What a great colour as well.
01:28Oh my gosh.
01:28So this is a...
01:30SC.
01:31Porsche 911 SC.
01:34The SC is a G-Body 911 identified by its chunky impact bumpers required for US regulations.
01:40Launched in 1974, 10 years after the original 911, the first G-Body was the 2.7.
01:46The turbo 930 followed in 1975, and in 1978 came the SC, known as the Super Carrera,
01:53with a three litre flat six, which was actually less powerful than the early 2.7.
01:58In 1984, the SC was replaced by the 3.2 Carrera,
02:01which was the last G-Body before the 964 arrived in 1989.
02:05Early and late SCs differ, with later models being more desirable due to their higher power output.
02:10Tell me about this particular 911 SC.
02:13Which one is it?
02:14Okay, so this is a 1982 car.
02:16It's done 120,000 miles.
02:17The earlier ones had less horsepower.
02:19So this has got 204 brake horsepower.
02:21It's got the 915 gearbox, which is a slightly lighter gearbox than the G50.
02:26Which is the later gearbox, so you're getting a 3.2 from 1985 or something.
02:31Yeah, so 1983 onward.
02:33The great thing about these cars is performance.
02:35The torque curve on them is just great.
02:38It's just straight up.
02:39So in terms of the price of this thing,
02:41I've got an option to buy it for £15,000.
02:45What we're going to do, we're going to look around the car.
02:46We're going to check it over.
02:47We're going to work out what works on it, what doesn't work on it.
02:51If at the end of the day I'm too nervous,
02:53because the amount of work that we'll have to go into getting it roadworthy
02:56is just too much for me to face,
02:57you'll give me a get-out-of-jail-free card and you'll actually buy it.
03:01Yeah, we'll buy it and we'll do the work ourselves and we'll put it into stock.
03:04So we're going to find out if I'm actually going to buy this car or not by the end of the video.
03:08I've got to make that decision.
03:10Will I buy the car?
03:11That depends on what we uncover.
03:13You see, you can't trust these cars at face value.
03:15An old G-Body 911, especially one that's been unused for years,
03:19may hide costly issues.
03:21But so far, the signs look good.
03:23Let's start off with the bonnet, which generally looks pretty good to me,
03:26apart from some scratches.
03:27What would you plan to do with this?
03:28Because I'd like to keep the car as original as possible.
03:31I don't want to replace everything.
03:32I want to keep the cost down if I buy this.
03:33Yeah, if we can polish that out and it leaves a nice patina,
03:37so you keep the originality of the car, then we'll do that.
03:40The wings, though, this has got some weird gouge out of it.
03:43Yeah, that doesn't look like that can be fixed.
03:45Debatable whether or not we can save these wings
03:48because they go at the top here.
03:50So they rust, they corrode here.
03:51Oh yeah, that looks quite rusty.
03:52And the other side's the same.
03:53OK, because I've noticed down here there's a bit of bubbling
03:55and bubbling doesn't come from the outside.
03:57It comes from the inside, doesn't it?
03:58We're also missing a cowling for this line here.
04:01That's right, a bezel.
04:02We might have to have a look for that.
04:03Let's have a look underneath the bonnet, see what's going on under here.
04:06Can't see any obvious signs of rust.
04:08I've seen various pictures of the fuses in these cars looking an absolute mess.
04:12And being stored in the garage, though, it's been pretty well protected.
04:16OK, let's have a look at this wing because this has got bubbling there.
04:18This wing you think is done?
04:19I think so.
04:20That's worrying for me there.
04:22These are common areas that they go, so it's really where the water pools,
04:26the scuttle panel probably needs to be changed as well.
04:28Real wheel arches.
04:29This one's got a scuff on it, but it doesn't look like it's rusty.
04:32No, no, it looks pretty good, actually.
04:33This area here is normally where they go as well.
04:36And this looks really good.
04:37And from what I can see, it's got a bit of a ding, actually, on this side.
04:41That can be pulled out. That's not an issue.
04:43Anything under here or in the engine bay,
04:44apart from a bit dusty for a car that hasn't moved for like years.
04:49They normally corrode around this area here.
04:51But again, it's looking pretty solid.
04:53It's a time capsule that's just been left here, really.
04:55At £15,000, this SC seemed like a bargain.
04:58The bodywork issues were estimated to cost £15,000 to fix,
05:02meaning I could get my hands on a tidy SC for about £30,000.
05:07Which is £20,000 below market value.
05:10But then potential repair costs began to rise.
05:13Right, so I was hoping to not see this,
05:17because we've got some rust in there, like clear rust.
05:20Yeah.
05:21We've got, I'm not sure about this sill.
05:23We've got some rust there.
05:25Oh dear, look, when I hit it, there's bits of car falling off.
05:29Yeah, it's not as we'd hoped, to be honest.
05:32Oh dear.
05:32Oh wait, yeah, I can really, well, I reckon I could snap this sill.
05:35The biggest cost with these cars is fixing rusty bodywork.
05:38What looks like minor bubbling can hide serious corrosion,
05:41only revealed once cutting begins.
05:44A common issue is with the kidney bowls,
05:46which are structural parts hidden behind the sills.
05:49Replacing them is costly and extensive.
05:52It's looking like at least an outer seal.
05:54There's bubbling there as well.
05:55So potentially the kidney bowl behind here needs to be replaced as well.
06:00So we won't know more until we actually go back to the workshop and have a look.
06:04Oh dear, that could be a problem.
06:06At this point, I was thinking about walking away.
06:09Then I sat inside the car and fell in love.
06:12Not with Rich, though he's a nice bloke.
06:14Porsche started to put a little bit of luxury into the SCs.
06:18Just testing the seats out, actually.
06:19Yeah, seats are really comfortable.
06:21They're lovely, aren't they?
06:22Yeah, and they hug you as well.
06:23These are the sport seats, aren't they?
06:24They're in reasonable condition.
06:26They are.
06:26There's no rips or tears in any of the interior.
06:29It just probably just would need a good clean.
06:32Look what I found.
06:33Oh, that'll be useful.
06:34Just having a look about the place.
06:36The carpet seemed fine.
06:38Headlining, that's okay.
06:40But it's not sagging, is it?
06:41No, no, it's in pretty good shape.
06:43Gear knob there, that doesn't seem original.
06:45No, that's not original.
06:46That's not the original steering wheel either.
06:47Neither is the stereo.
06:48No, the Rip Speed face-off stereo didn't come in this car.
06:52And then there's the speakers in the door, which I'm not too sure about.
06:55Yeah, I don't think they're original, they're aftermarket.
06:57I've noticed that these door cars look a bit sorry.
06:59Yeah, they sag.
07:00They sag effectively.
07:02The cards swell, the screws fall out, and then the pockets come away.
07:07But the door card, the top of the door as well,
07:10they tend to sort of bend and misshape over time.
07:13Is that expensive to fix?
07:15Yeah, they're difficult to get a hold of.
07:17But what a lot of people do is they'll change it for an RS door card.
07:20But the problem you've got with this one is that the interior is blue.
07:24We're probably going to have to do some repairs on that.
07:27Okay, right.
07:28Let's just have a look in the very back.
07:30But it doesn't look bad at all.
07:32The carpet's been removed, so I can see it doesn't seem to rust down there.
07:35But we'll need to check that in more detail a little later on.
07:38Replacing interior trim is expensive.
07:40Plus, fresh door cards just wouldn't match the rest of the patina on the car.
07:43Plus, I wanted to avoid a full respray to keep the cost down.
07:47So how is the car stacking up now?
07:50Do you know what?
07:50It's good, and then there's bits that are not so good.
07:54It's...
07:54Oh, why are you like that?
07:56Why are you broken in that way?
07:57It's a bit of a mixed bag, isn't it?
07:59Oh, it is. It is.
08:00Speaking of which, you know what?
08:01Open that door and just check that sod because I haven't been able to get around to it.
08:06Oh, actually, it looks pretty good.
08:08Oh, no.
08:10My fingers are going straight through it.
08:11Oh, I said that sod's going to be doing...
08:14Oh, do you know what?
08:15We really need to get this up on a ramp to have a good look around it and underneath it
08:19because it could be a mess underneath.
08:20Yeah.
08:21And there's the other thing we need to do.
08:23We need to get it going.
08:24We need to start the engine, but we can't do it here, can we?
08:26No, we've got to get back to the workshop.
08:28Let's head to Auto 2000.
08:30Auto 2000 is Richard's workshop,
08:32where he and his brother have worked on Porsches of all ages for over 30 years.
08:37But first, we had to get the car into a flatbed, which wasn't straightforward.
08:41With the car going on, I can just hear something.
08:43I can hear the brakes creaking.
08:45They are clearly very, very seized on.
08:50Oh, that's another thing.
08:53As if getting the car on the trailer wasn't hard enough, getting it off was even trickier.
08:56Because the brakes didn't work, we couldn't stop it rolling off the truck too fast.
09:04Oh, dear.
09:05Hopefully, I didn't need to add a new exhaust to the cost of the repairs.
09:08After about 30 minutes of messing about and the use of some jacks,
09:11we finally got the car off the flatbed and onto a lift so the full inspection could begin.
09:17What would we find?
09:18You've been working on Porsches for how long?
09:2130 years.
09:22Is most of that these air-cooled Porsches, the water-cooled or a mixture?
09:26I'll sort of cut my teeth on these, if you like.
09:29You think 30 years ago, these were more popular.
09:31These are rarer now, aren't they?
09:32These are, yeah.
09:33And quite expensive.
09:35And they do have quite a lot of problems, most of which are bodywork, aren't they?
09:40Yeah.
09:40So that's what we're going to have a look at now.
09:42And you've got a special device for finding out how bad the rust is?
09:46Tappy device.
09:47Yeah.
09:47Because I can see in here, there is some rust.
09:49Yeah, I've seen that.
09:50So I'm going to use this to try and detect how bad it is.
09:53Okay.
09:54So if I tap on here, that sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
09:58That sounds bad.
09:59Okay.
10:00I actually thought you're just going to push that through the body panels.
10:03Well, that probably would go through.
10:07We got the car up into the air and started checking from back to front.
10:11The first thing to check, due to the earlier mishap, was the exhaust.
10:14The exhaust is good.
10:15Yeah.
10:16Oil pipe looks good.
10:18CV boot looks good.
10:20CV boot looks good.
10:21What about some of this rust here?
10:23Yeah.
10:23I mean, it's a little bit grotty, isn't it?
10:25But I don't worry about that, really.
10:27Okay.
10:27And the gearbox, there seems to be quite a bit of drippage from the gearbox.
10:30There's a little bit there, isn't there?
10:31So that could well be this plate here, which is quite an easy fix.
10:36That might have happened over a long, long period of time.
10:38The other thing is, this is probably seized.
10:40Oh, yeah.
10:41What's that?
10:42The gear changing, is it?
10:43That's the throttle.
10:44Oh.
10:44That's the throttle pivot.
10:45Are you going to start it?
10:49Can we just WD-40 it?
10:51No.
10:53This looks really quite good along here, which is nice.
10:56You can see that there, look.
10:57Yeah.
10:58Just a little bit of rust.
10:59When they get to this age, that can be all the way along, and it blows out.
11:03Things were looking okay until we got to the sills.
11:07Well, you can see the bolts have rusted away,
11:09and the brackets are gone that are supposed to hold the oil pipes.
11:12Yeah.
11:12The sill's gone.
11:13Oh, it's gone.
11:14Yeah, the sill is totally gone.
11:15Should we check this other side as well?
11:17Yes, look.
11:17Yeah.
11:18That's totally gone.
11:20With both sills gone,
11:21there was a good chance the kidney bowls behind them would be rotten out too.
11:24I wanted to give up right there, but Nick wasn't finished.
11:28Let's move on.
11:33There, that seems okay.
11:36So this is the petrol tank.
11:37Yeah.
11:38So that...
11:39We don't want to be bodging that, do we?
11:41Not really.
11:42That would be a clean up and a reseal.
11:45How about these suspension arms and stuff?
11:47We probably would change these bushes, look.
11:49There's a massive gap there.
11:50It's just old, isn't it?
11:52Yeah, it's just old and a massive gap there.
11:54We know the brakes are bad.
11:56I mean, I can't move that.
11:59That's why we couldn't get it off the truck.
12:00So quite a bit of work, then.
12:02There's quite a lot of work.
12:04I would say so, yeah.
12:05And that's just a quick look around.
12:07Obviously, we haven't even got it running yet.
12:08Okay, let's try that then.
12:11Whether the engine starts will be the decider as to if I will buy this car.
12:15The good news is it has had a top engine rebuild in the past,
12:18but that was just before it went into storage almost two decades ago.
12:23And parts of these cars are prone to corrosion,
12:25so the rebuild might not be quite the positive I had hoped for.
12:29More on that in a bit,
12:30because first we need to prep the SC for its first start in ages.
12:35In order to get the engine running, we're going to need some bits.
12:38So fortunately, the guys have ordered parts from GSF Car Parts.
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12:44I'm here with my trolley to receive said parts.
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12:59Those look like braking parts.
13:03How good is the battery?
13:04Definitely need a new battery.
13:06So it's a Drivetech battery.
13:07It's GSF's own brand, that is.
13:09And it's made to original equipment standards.
13:12And it comes with a three-year warranty as well.
13:14Yeah, flushing oil.
13:14We're going to need flushing oil to flush out that engine.
13:19Right, good stuff.
13:20Thank you very much.
13:21It's like I've got the drinks trolley.
13:22Look, I've got some blades.
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13:49Next, Nick set about draining the ancient oil out of the car,
13:51removing it from both the reservoir and the sump.
13:54Then he drained the old fuel, which had been sat in the car for just as long.
13:57Then he tested the old fuel pump to see if it would work.
14:00So what we want now is to hear a...
14:02That's what we want to hear.
14:03Come on, fuel pump.
14:06Oh.
14:06No, it doesn't look good.
14:07No!
14:10Oh, yes!
14:13We have a fuel pump.
14:14Yes!
14:15Fueled with optimism, we put fresh petrol in the car
14:17and feeling confident, I thought it was time for me to get my hands dirty.
14:21I've got the oil filter from GSF Carparts.
14:24So, are you going to remove the old one?
14:25I'm going to take the old one off now.
14:27Oh, blimey.
14:28It's been on there a while, hasn't it?
14:30Oh, go on!
14:31My God.
14:33That's the old filter off.
14:34No oil dripping out of that?
14:35No, but we do need to put some oil on that rubber seal.
14:39And that's more to do with it coming off again later.
14:43Oil on there.
14:44That should then go on quite nice.
14:46I'm actually sort of making myself useful,
14:48although I must put it on with...
14:51I'm going to need help, aren't I?
14:53I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this right.
14:54Undetermined.
14:57Think you got it.
15:00Porsche anoraks may be saying,
15:01but it's not a red filter.
15:03Yeah, if you know, you know.
15:04Don't worry, Nick explains why this first filter is merely sacrificial.
15:09So what I was going to do, because you've got...
15:12Good oil.
15:13We've got Mobil 1.
15:14So we're not going to waste that,
15:16because literally we're going to run it, get it warm,
15:18drain it out, throw it away,
15:19and then we're going to do the whole thing again.
15:21So we just want some...
15:22So what we're going to use is...
15:25This is Porspec.
15:27Porspec.
15:28Porsche.
15:28Porsche.
15:29I said Porspec.
15:30OK, Porspec, OK.
15:31Porsche spec oil.
15:33So we're just going to use this for now.
15:34OK.
15:35Before starting the engine, I reviewed the SE's history.
15:38Just 2,000 miles ago, it had a top engine rebuild costing £10,000.
15:43This is quite common on these cars,
15:44as the factory head studs can corrode and snap, ruining the engine.
15:48Higher quality studs from the 993 were fitted,
15:51but these can still corrode over time,
15:53especially in a car that has been sat still for so long as this one has.
15:57So the engine rebuild might not be the selling point that I first thought it was.
16:02To check for issues, Nick used a bore scope,
16:04inserting a tiny camera through the spark plug hole to inspect the cylinder and the piston.
16:09A bit like an endoscopy for a car.
16:11And what we found wasn't good.
16:13What's that there now?
16:14It's a little bit scored, isn't it?
16:15It does, doesn't it?
16:15Yeah.
16:16Hmm.
16:17No, it does actually.
16:18Yeah.
16:18There, look.
16:20There.
16:20Hmm.
16:21Great, isn't it?
16:22It's not good, is it?
16:23It's not good.
16:24And it's had an engine rebuild like two...
16:262,000 miles before.
16:27How's it scored?
16:29I mean, it doesn't look rusty, does it?
16:30No, it's not rusty.
16:32I mean, it might be with a run.
16:34It will smooth out, yeah.
16:35It might smooth out and then we'll give it another bore scope afterwards.
16:39I think we may as well, because we can't make it any worse.
16:41No, no, no.
16:43We might as well fire it up and do another bore scope.
16:45OK.
16:46Bore scoring occurs when the piston rubs against the cylinder wall due to oil issues,
16:50causing vertical scratches that hurt performance and require new liners and pistons to be fitted.
16:55We needed to find out if these marks were actually scoring or something else.
16:59It has got signs of bore scoring, but it might clean up once it's been running.
17:04So we're going to turn it over now and do two revolutions.
17:07OK, so that's about... that's two over two.
17:12I suppose we ought to just change the fuel filter now.
17:14OK, shall I get you the fuel filter?
17:16Yeah, grab the fuel filter and I'll just take it off, shall I?
17:19I got the new filter, which was from GSF Car Parts,
17:21and while fitting it, noticed some rather worrying metallic debris in the engine bay.
17:26That looks a bit... I'm not sure what that is.
17:29It's a bit shiny.
17:30It looks like sawdust, or is it...
17:32Sand.
17:33Is it sand?
17:33Sand, is it?
17:34Like, how do you get sand in there unless it's been submerged?
17:38It's really, really fine.
17:39Oh, I know what it is.
17:40It's the filter.
17:41The filter's degraded.
17:42Could well be from the air filter.
17:43And it's just left debris.
17:44But we've still got the filter.
17:45Really?
17:46Yeah, I reckon.
17:47So hopefully it hasn't been sucked into the engine,
17:48but it doesn't seem to have been sucked back there, does it?
17:50Where's the intake?
17:51Yeah, it's just up there, yeah.
17:53I don't think it could.
17:54Let's just have a look at the filter.
17:57Yeah.
17:58There you go, yeah.
17:59You see, basically, where the...
18:02This is paper, isn't it?
18:03But you can see that it's...
18:07Has a mouse been in here?
18:08I don't know.
18:08Yeah, it's a rodent.
18:10Could a mouse have nibbled that?
18:12Yeah.
18:12What's all this?
18:13Yeah, it's mouse droppings.
18:14Oh, great.
18:16Rodents had nested in the car,
18:18possibly gnawing on parts like the electrics,
18:20which could be a major problem.
18:22Which could be a major issue.
18:24But for now, the engine was our priority.
18:26So we fitted a new battery from GSF.
18:28Hopefully, mice hadn't eaten through the car's starter motor wiring.
18:32We're going for it now.
18:33So expect lots of smoke if it does start.
18:35Nothing may not even happen.
18:37It won't even turn over.
18:39We just don't know.
18:40Go on then.
18:41Yeah, let's go for it.
18:42Let's do it.
18:47Nothing.
18:49It's turning over okay.
18:50Yeah.
18:51I'm not hearing the fuel pump run.
18:54No.
18:57Try and bypass the fuel pump.
18:59But it was whizzing the fuel pump.
19:01Yeah, but that's putting the wires straight to it.
19:05Okay, so the fuel pump works, but...
19:08Not necessarily via its electrical system.
19:11Could this problem be mouse related?
19:12Nick set about checking the electrics.
19:14I'm just giving them a little roll
19:16because obviously it's been stood a long time.
19:19So I'm going to put my test lamp on there now
19:20and just go from terminal to terminal.
19:23Okay.
19:23Make sure we're definitely okay there.
19:25And then it's fuel pump relay, failing that.
19:28The immobiliser has been taken out of the car,
19:30but we don't know if it's been done properly.
19:32So yeah, so it could be investigation yet.
19:35But you know, at least it turns over.
19:36It turns over.
19:37So it's not seized?
19:38No, no, it's not seized.
19:40Thankfully, it didn't take Nick long to find the problem.
19:44Aha!
19:45Power there.
19:47No power there.
19:48And that's the...
19:49Fuel pump relay.
19:51Look at that.
19:51When you rotate it, it comes on and off.
19:53Just not very good connection.
19:56Oh, it might be on!
19:57Could it be that soon?
19:57Come on, do you reckon?
19:59It's going to be, isn't it?
20:00Come on!
20:02Let's say so.
20:06Can you hear the fuel pump?
20:07I can hear the relay.
20:09It sounds like the relay is making a funny clicking noise.
20:13No, still not quite.
20:15Oh, prematurely excited there.
20:17Just going to swap this relay out for this relay.
20:20So that's a new relay?
20:21So I'll just swap that from another position.
20:23Okay.
20:24Try again.
20:28Still making that funny noise.
20:30Okay, so it's going to take some investigating then.
20:33So there's something strange going on.
20:35This relay seems to be...
20:36Shorting.
20:37Can you hear it?
20:37Yeah, it's clicking away.
20:38And it's doing that noise.
20:41And I'm seeing things here.
20:43What do you mean?
20:44These are scotch locks.
20:45Yeah.
20:45So someone's been messing around with the wiring.
20:47So we could have a dodgy connection there.
20:50Oh.
20:51And it's not keeping it.
20:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:55Shouldn't do that.
20:56Is there another way to just put some fuel into it?
20:58Well, I suppose first you check to see if we've got a spark.
21:00Okay, let's check for a spark.
21:03What we're going to do is see if we get a spark from here to there.
21:06Okay.
21:07Okay, Rich, go.
21:09Got a spark.
21:12That's great.
21:13We could just power up the fuel pump direct.
21:15And then just see what happens.
21:17Let's power up the fuel pump direct and see what happens.
21:21However, as is always the case with old cars that haven't been running ages,
21:24we encountered yet another issue.
21:26Oh, it's packed up.
21:27Looks like it's packed up, doesn't it?
21:28Yeah.
21:29Thankfully, we had a spare fuel pump, which Nick fitted.
21:32If this didn't work, diagnosing an electrical fault,
21:34likely caused by mice, would take too long.
21:37Time was running out.
21:38It was now or never.
21:40Come on.
21:43Yes!
21:45Come on!
21:47It's going to go.
21:52Yes, though!
21:53Yes!
21:56Come on!
22:01All right, you crank.
22:03I'm going to play.
22:05So what are you going to do now?
22:06I'm just going to try and do it manually.
22:07Okay, give it a crank, Rich.
22:08I'm just going to throttle it.
22:17Wow!
22:19The car started, which was great news.
22:22But there was so much smoke, we had to evacuate the building.
22:25And it appears that our timing was perfect, as we had another delivery.
22:29This time, though, not from GSF.
22:31Just in time.
22:33Look, pizza delivery.
22:36Well, you weren't wrong.
22:38It worked!
22:38It was good.
22:40Unfortunately, our celebrations were cut short, a bit like the engine run.
22:46But we were still happy.
22:49Rich explained why.
22:50I know exactly what's happened.
22:52The throttle was stuck on then, so that's why it revved out.
22:54So when it cut out, that was me turning the engine off immediately.
22:58There's a problem in the bores, we know that.
23:00We saw features.
23:02I think what has happened in the last 16 years, someone has tried to start it,
23:06and it started because the throttle's full on, and they've not turned it off in time.
23:10So they've basically gone full throttle.
23:12And just held there for ages.
23:13And it's just held there.
23:14Oh, I think that's what's happened.
23:17I'll be interested in looking inside it.
23:19Whether, you know, it looks as bad as it did before we ran it.
23:22Because it might have cleared a bit, I don't know.
23:25But it runs.
23:25But it runs.
23:26So what we'll do, we'll just look down that bore, see what we can see,
23:29and then we'll wrap up, me and you, and have a little chat in here.
23:31Yeah, sounds good.
23:32After a well-earned break, we got back to work on the car.
23:35And Rich spotted that the accelerator pedal wasn't actually connected.
23:38And this backed up his theory.
23:40It's likely that someone tried starting the car with a stuck throttle.
23:43Assumed the fault was the pedal, and yanked it up.
23:46So that we could actually run the car properly,
23:48Nick set about unseizing the throttle at the engine.
23:51So he could operate it by hand.
24:02Is that all cylinders firing?
24:04Not quite.
24:05Not quite. There's a few missing.
24:06It's a little bit missy.
24:07Yeah.
24:08So we've got to have a little bit of a play with the fuel system.
24:10OK.
24:11It's generally pretty good.
24:13But the misfire wasn't the only issue.
24:15Rich spotted another problem.
24:17Switch it off now, Rich, so it gets too hot.
24:20So the key is out, and it's still running.
24:24The plot thickens. The plot thickens.
24:28Is this going to cut the fuel pump, I think.
24:31Yay.
24:35We've always got some wiring issues.
24:36It's just so many twists and turns.
24:38You couldn't make it up.
24:40Even though the engine ran, I was still concerned about the bore scoring,
24:43as it would mean yet another rebuild.
24:45And really, then I would definitely have to pass on this car,
24:48due to the spiralling costs.
24:50Time for another bore scope.
24:52It looks a lot bad, doesn't it?
24:53It does.
24:54I'm not sure that's scored.
24:56No.
24:57When it's cleaned itself up.
24:58Would you take the top and have a look with your eyes?
25:01Once we get it running properly, I get it up to temperature.
25:04Yeah.
25:05And then I would look at all the bores.
25:08Definitely doesn't look like it did before.
25:10No, it doesn't. No.
25:11That could just be crap and residue that's just tricking us.
25:14It might not be dire after all.
25:16No.
25:17Though that does make my life a little bit hard.
25:20Does it?
25:21If you are wondering what a healthy Porsche air-cooled flat six should sound like,
25:25Auto 2000 has restored this lovely 3.2 Carrera.
25:34Nice.
25:35That got me all excited.
25:37And so now it's decision time.
25:38Am I really going to take on the 911 SC project or not?
25:43I talked through the potential costs with Rich.
25:45It's been an absolute roller coaster ride of emotions with that car.
25:49When I first saw it, I just fell in love with it.
25:52Get it on the ramp, get it up in the air.
25:54The rust is worse than I thought.
25:55It's going to be a lot of cost involved in getting all that done, the seals and everything.
25:58What do you think it's going to look like to get that done?
26:01Well, I mean, seals, you're talking 3,000 a seal.
26:04And you're going to need two of those.
26:05You know, kidney bowls, five grand a side.
26:08And that isn't the only thing that needs fixing.
26:09There's two wings, the scuttle and the windscreen surround,
26:12and other bits and pieces, plus interior trim.
26:15All of this would easily add another £15,000 to the cost.
26:18So on top of the £15,000 for the car,
26:21I'd likely be spending about £31,000 to get the body and interior into the condition I'd want.
26:26That means the total car will cost me £46,000.
26:31Still not bad for an air-cooled 911.
26:33Going to be done anyway.
26:34We're going to do it.
26:35And if we do it, we'll do it right.
26:37And then we'll put it into stock.
26:39But if you want it, you can have it.
26:40And then there was the engine.
26:41The engine's a difficult one.
26:44It's such a difficult one, because you know what?
26:46My mind is made up when we're talking about bore scoring
26:48and it's going to need a rebuild.
26:50I'm like, OK, well, I'm out.
26:51I'm definitely out.
26:52But now we've looked at the bores again, we're not sure.
26:54Probably what we want to do is get some of the oil tested as well,
26:58see if there's any particulates in there.
26:59We need to have a better look at those bores.
27:02Rich let me delay my decision on the car
27:04until we received the results of the oil analysis.
27:06After a few weeks of waiting, he finally messaged me with the results.
27:11Typical.
27:12It's not good news, I'm afraid.
27:13Not quite in the way I was expecting, though.
27:15But that seems to be a common theme, doesn't it, with this car?
27:17So we sent away two samples of oil, one from the old oil
27:21and one from the new oil after we'd run the car off.
27:23While they came back clean for the kind of metals
27:25you'd expect to find if there's bore scoring.
27:27So we don't think there's bore scoring.
27:29There were unusually high levels of lead and copper in both of the samples,
27:33which suggests bearing wear.
27:35And that would be the bearings on the crankshaft.
27:38And Rich reckons that as a result of that,
27:40this car's going to need a bottom end engine rebuild,
27:42which would cost about £15,000.
27:45So when you factor that in and all the other repairs
27:48and the cost of the car,
27:49I'll be looking at like over £60,000 for this project.
27:53And to tell you the truth, I just don't have the time, energy,
27:55nor the available cash to take this project on.
27:58So I'm going to have to say no.
27:59I'm going to pass on this car.
28:00I'm going to have to message him to let him know that.
28:02I don't think he'd mind too much
28:04because he actually wanted to take the car on himself
28:06and he said he would do at the beginning if I didn't want it.
28:08But I'm going to be intrigued to know.
28:10And yeah, if you want to find out what happens to the SC,
28:14you should follow Rich on his YouTube channel.
28:17It's Auto2000Porsche.
28:18Find out what happens.
28:19Did I make the right choice or will I actually regret passing on this car?
28:23I guess only time will tell.
28:25There's a link to their channel in the description of this video,
28:28as well as following what happens with the SC.
28:30You'll also be able to find out more about the yellow 993
28:33you may have spotted in the garage at the beginning of the video
28:35because Rich has actually bought that very car.