My 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera Sport

Purchased privately February 2007, the car was almost 20 years old but had only covered 56,000 miles with three owners. It had full service history and was in excellent, original condition.

Porsche 911 Carrera Sport Coupe, 3164cc flat six, G50 5-speed manual, Diamond Blue Metallic, blue leather interior, 16" colour-coded Fuchs, 6J and 7J. Originally supplied by AFN and First Registered 4th August 1987.

Option Codes

C16 UK LUX spec: tinted windows, metallic paint, and a few other goodies
58 Bumpers with impact absorbers
286 High intensity windscreen washer
288 Headlight washers
330 Radio Blaupunkt Toronto SQR 46
335 Automatic safety belt 3-point, rear
341 Central locking system
395 Light metal wheels - forged
425 Rear wiper
437 Comfort seat - left - electrically adjustable
438 Comfort seat - right - electrically adjustable
473 With spoilers - with front spoiler and rear spoiler
474 Sport shock absorbers (Bilsteins) - actually Boge
528 Outside view mirror for passenger side - convex - electrically heatable and adjustable
567 Windshield tinted, upper part darker colored
650 Sunroof
975 Velour carpet in luggage compartment

The first jobs on purchase were new tyres (Bridgestone SO2) because the originals were old and hard; a 12k service, gearbox oil change, brake fluid change and suspension set-up; I've also cleaned 20 years' worth of dirt out from the wheelarches.

I've replaced the door window seals / scrapers which had shrunk and gone hard and replaced the rusting exhaust with something stainless and fruity - M+K 1-in, 1-out back box and Scart pre-silencer.

A trackday at Oulton Park for the car's 20th birthday showed the deficiencies of the standard brakes so uprated pads and fluid were next, along with new discs and removing the3 backplates. In the end, I went for Boxster front calipers as well; lighter with four-pistons. I replaced the master cylinder with a larger bore turbo item and had the rear calipers rebuilt. However, Boxster DS3000s are very noisy, so I swapped back to rebuilt standard front calipers.

The 20-year-old Boges were soft enough to compress by hand so were swapped for Bilstein Sport front inserts and Sprint rear shocks. I've also added a Rennline strut brace.

I tried some Rota Fox 17" wheels, with SO2s again, but they were very heavy so I bought and renovated some period-appropriate Fondmetal crossspokes in 7&8" widths with Hankook RS2 tyres.

The car was getting very little use in 2009 so I toyed with selling it but at the moment I'm just driving it when I can.

Modifications List

• M+K 1 in, 1 out stainless steel silencer
• Scart stainless steel pre-silencer
• Mark Sucro lighting relay kit
• Momo Prototipo steering wheel
• Ferodo DS3000 brake pads
• ATE Superblue brakefluid
• turbo master cylinder
• GRP ducktail engine lid
• Fondmetal 16x7 & 16x8" alloys with Hankook RS2 tyres
• 'fast road'/track suspension set-up by Ninemeister
• Cone air filter
• Bilstein Sport/Sprint shocks
• Rennline alloy strut brace