The ultimate 911 hop-up guide. Buy, tune, maintain and modify your prized 911. Learn about wheel and tire improvement, up-to-the-minute autocross or showroom stock suspension and brake mods, custom add-on bodywork and paint, interiors -- where to buy it, how to install it and what to expect. Covers engine, suspension, chassis, transmission, tune-ups, model history, body and more on all 911s up through 1996.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Book on Porsches:
Good book. Nice pics. What else do I need to say? Buy it for a Porsche person
Top shelf:
Bruce is THE man in 911 repair/maintenance. This book is great for the new and long time owner of these mid-year Porsches. Very good detail and clear instructions throughout.
A definitive guide for hopping up your 911:
Bruce Anderson takes his 30+ years of Porsche experience and distills it down to one relatively simple guide book.
Covering the first 901's up to the last of the 993's, this book breaks down chapters by car parts. Suspension, gearbox, brakes, and engine all have their own chapters. Also included is a chapter on how to buy a good used 911, and an overview on engine rebuilding.
The bad side of this is that in some places, it can be a real dry read. Bruce is notorious for his use of charts and... more info
I have both a late model Turbo and looking for a 993 Supercup. The technical specs are good but the book jumps around in the model years. It is very funny to see Corvette wheels in a Porsche book. There are also too many high dollar advertising plugs. If you use Andial or Promotive to build you an engine-it's gonna cost you 30K. How's that for advise!!
