One very good reason to own a cat

[Porsche Monkey]

this is amazing.

is that the front subframe and suspension under the tank?

everything is a very tight fit.  These Germans could fit a watermelon inside a volleyball.

[Porsche Monkey]

[MendoDave]

Nothing like desingning something in CAD.

[Le Pirate]

I'm not a mechanic...

I've never worked in an auto shop...


but I can't believe you can take a car apart that much, and not consider it totalled. This is amazing to me! This also makes me appreciate how simple my 65 bug is...and scares the bejebus out of me if anything like this should ever happen to my 07 golf 


I need to go buy some rat poison. right now.

[Duck-Stew]

Makes me miss my '62 Falcon.....again. 

[Porsche Monkey]

I have never seen this much rodent damage to one car, no one here has.  This is also the most hours of any job I have ever done.  6 or so years ago I replaced a complete harness in a Boxster but it was nowhere near this bad.  Think that was 50 or 60 hours and that harness was one piece.  This car is much more complicated plus the engine and fuel tank needed to come out.  The last engine rebuild I did paid 38 hours under warranty.  Problem with this one is I keep finding more and more stuff the further I go.  Hopefully I'll start going back together with it later today. 

[DesmoDiva]

I hope the owner is considering a new storage location. 

It must have been a rodent party.

Hard to imagine all that damage from one animal. 

Good luck with the repair.   

[Popeye the Sailor]

I need to go visit this owner.



Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad rodent. Not like going down the field chasin' hamsters and fieldmice. This rodent, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your porsche, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

[MendoDave]

What?

[triangleforge]

But don't be fergittin' how that deal worked out for Quint, MrI...

[ducatiz]

everything is a very tight fit.  These Germans could fit a watermelon inside a volleyball.

buy me a gallon of Astrolube and I can too.  ask me about the lyric soprano i dated in college.

[Duck-Stew]

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

[Popeye the Sailor]

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

I have a Chrysler 

[Duck-Stew]

I have a Chrysler 

Close enough! 

[ducatiz]

I hope the owner is considering a new storage location. 

It must have been a rodent party.

Hard to imagine all that damage from one animal. 

Good luck with the repair.   

it was probably a handful of mice.

and he doesn't drive it that much -- prob had it in storage for a long time.  do you keep driving when your rear lights go out and stereo stops working?  not if you're a porsche driver, you take that make the beast with two backser in.

i bet he had it in his garage for a year.  mice moved in, found some good food and place to shit and made it into a mice-condo complex.

that's what you get for not checking on your shit or having someone check on it.

anyone wants to store their porsche for a year, gimmie a call, i have a big garage, one side is all motorcycles and hte other side has my lawnmower and i'll happily move it.