Stupid Admission of the day:
I tackled my first valve adjustment on the 911 this weekend, it resulted in cursing, hacked up fingers and was not wholly the most pleasant thing I've done on this car. Half way through I was really starting to consider taking the engine out to do the job properly.
But....I got it done, refilled her with the slick stuff and started up. Took my lovely wife out to dinner in it and something was just not right. This was aggravating on several levels, the least of which was that something that should have improved what was running fairly well had somehow turned worse. I couldn't get the car to rev past 3500rpm w/o stuttering and arguing with me and even cruising at 2500 there was hesitation and stumbling.
So laying awake later that night I wondered to myself "did I mix up a plug wire"? When I got up the next morning I opened up the boot and the first thing I see is the wire for #1 laying half out of the recess....DAMMMIIIITTTT!! Re-affix that one and test the other 5 and magically my little beast is back to smoothly snarling, may be a little smoother with more torque and may be in my head from the hassle but count one more experience under my belt :)
