Porsche 996 Suspension Upgrade - Rear Suspension Overhaul - Control Arms, Shocks and Springs
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2020
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This old Porsche 911 has seen a fair amount of abuse over it's 130,000 miles and some of the parts are really showing their age. In order to ensure the car continues to handle like a Porsche 996 when we get it back on the road I am replacing the old, rusted and perished suspension components to completely overhaul the front suspension.
We're replacing all the control arms, the shock absorber and the drop links of this multilink suspension set up to ensure that there are no handling issues once we get on the road.
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The coffin arm bolts should be facing upwards with the nuts on top. The Porsche manual shows this pretty clearly in a number of images. See section 40 19 23 (Running gear, Front)
@Performance EV.
I am glad that you adopted my advice and corrected the positions of the bolts in the front suspension.
And at ~15:03 in this video you just explain that.
Thank you! I am satisfied. :-)
Thanks again for flagging my mistake to me.
@@PerformanceEV :-) You welcome!
I have a 997 2005 with 105k miles it has had all the jobs you've been doing done as well and drives so much better. Haven't had the courage to look at an EV conversion yet.
Glad to hear that made a difference. I decided to do mine now, before the car is even on the road as I didn't want to be disappointed with the handling when I did get the car out there.
Great explaining and camera work! Quick question if you don't mind. I have a 2002 996 cabriolet with standard suspension which I would like to get to ride as close to stock as possible. I live in an area with bad roads. I apologize if this obvious, would you know if the front coils and struts are the same as the rear? Also, what set up would you recommend. I appreciate any of your expertise. Thank you
@performanceEV is there an order in which you would recommend taking things apart and putting back together when doing the entire rear end? I’m doing shocks, springs, all control arms. The only arm I don’t need to replace is the lower toe control arm.
Thank you for the guide - it is really helpful. What brand suspension arms did you use?
I went with a combination of Meyle and Spyder Performance
Great video mate! I'm doing a complete restoration of my 996 C2 Cab on my channel. Suspension is top of the list. That and checking for bore scoring. 😮 do you have any pics of your car with wheels on? I measured unladen position by looking at a photograph and comparing it to the car. Got a rough estimate. Also forums are a good place to check.
Thanks, that's a good idea, I must have some pictures somewhere. Good luck with your restoration.
Do you have the part numbers for the eccentric bolts? I’m going to have to do this on my 996 soon
I'm pretty sure these are the ones.
99733121703 and 99733121702
You can see from this parts diagram which one is which (they are slightly different lengths.)
www.design911.co.uk/pages/diagramsBrowser.aspx?categoryID=5&diagramID=2644
Does anyone over there rebush suspension components, rather than having to completely replace them, as it's the bushing that fails rather than the entire component....
Keep up the good work
Yeah, it is possible to get them rebushed, and I did look into it, but with careful research and shopping of components it worked out slight cheaper to get new ones. Plus with the covid situation here, lead times for getting work like that done seem to be much longer so I probably would have ended up trying to do it myself and getting even less of the EV work done.
@@PerformanceEV thanks, pricing is often illogical, it seems a crazy resource waste when it makes more sense financially and job wise to replace the whole component rather than "just" a small part of it. Great work, keep it up
Keen to do similar myself, but want to see how leaf power goes before I get too invested. My gut feel is you will want to significantly increase power, but time will tell...
I don't want to go through various iterations to get to end point, hence wait on that side, but investigating base car options currently
You have inspired me
Glad to hear you're planning to go down the conversion route. Good luck with whatever you end up going for. Regarding the leaf power, the part that's making you wait is precisely the reason why I decided to go for it:-) there are enough rumours floating around the net that it can handle decent if not crazy power and I wanted to prove (or disprove) that to help anyone planning conversions in the future.
@@PerformanceEV thanks for both sharing the process, but doubly so for responding to comments with real world answers, rather than just an acknowledgement as a lot do.