Solving Porsche 928 Problems Nobody Asked For

[@dav1dsm1th]

If you wanted another layer of unnecessary complexity - you could add an accelerometer and more code, to perform an "auto level" function on each engine start - like many modern cars - and get it to set the correct angle to the lights dependent on rear passenger (lol)/luggage load. Which would also allow you to add more comments to your code 😀

[@WesleyKagan]

Which honesty would be an accelerometer module and like… 5 lines of code. That’s a good idea! Wouldn’t be too hard at all.

[@diyhell8712]

I'm genuinely loving the madness of this... How about a head mounted sensor so you could angle the headlights closer or further away as you look up or down?

[@evoluke1069]

It's becoming more German than OEM!

[@F0XD1E]

@@WesleyKagan "Wouldn't be too hard at all." Famous last words

[@01AceAlpha]

This is starting to sound like a watchmaker’s idea!

[@gafrers]

No matter if small and specific or big and crazy, You always make it a Quality work.

[@WesleyKagan]

Thanks! Sometimes I think it’s overengineering though

[@gafrers]

@@WesleyKagan In a world of underengineering; it's a breath of fresh air.

[@MrNightpwner]

@@gafrers You woke up and decided facts only.

[@timothymulholland7905]

I have a ‘79 928 5-sp. It is a little underpowered, but I love it. The vacuum system is kind of a pain, but otherwise, it is bulletproof.

[@multipurposepaperbox]

Looking forward to more 928 content. Also hoping you'll be continuing the XJS content. You're right on my favourite era of cars :)

[@WesleyKagan]

Absolutely more 928 content, I’m keeping this car forever. The Jag is a different story haha

[@kennyray116C]

Yes! More 928 Content... Dude you're amazing.

[@glenningram9962]

Excellent Engineering man !!! Love To see people use 3D printers for solving problems. Nice Servo and code!

[@WesleyKagan]

Thank you very much!

[@glenningram9962]

@@WesleyKagan I’m an aerospace engineer that thinkers a lot but never thought of Using a Servo to drive linkage like that - especially on the light system !! Super imaginative!! Keep up the excellent work. Are the SolidWorks files for the actuator avail at your linkage ?? I can now think of many things to do with that system! Thanks!!! Keep them coming !!!!!!!

[@Garyatairfab]

All I can say is you’re the only one I keep refreshing for. More and longer videos are mandatory from one of the smartest guys on KZbin and probably the planet. That’s you Wesley!

[@apostlos]

Curious if the 928 lights could be modified for side to side rotation like modern BMWs. If so, then you can have these follow the road as you turn. Love the idea of using an accelerometer to keep the lights level through acceleration, breaking and various load levels. Keep doing what you do!

[@perkele1989]

Your videos fall in line so well with my interests. Got everything from car mechanics, to electronics and even C programming. Sweet jesus! 🦃

[@WesleyKagan]

Great to hear! Thanks!

[@SingleHandedly]

I’m adding that linear servo design to my list. That’s awesome work!

[@WesleyKagan]

Thanks!

[@928pcar]

Here for the 928 content baby!!! Love the mod that is sweeet. ‘85 US & ‘84 Euro owner and I’ll be waiting for the dank ‘28 content

[@karlruiter6791]

Nice. I’ve had a bunch of 928s (3 right now), but never had a working headlight adjustment system. At one point I tried to buy all the stock parts to put an adjustment system in a us car, but even if you can find working parts there in not a great way to bleed the system.

[@JDK73772]

Love that you're a 928 Enthusiasts as well. I know it is crazy but a Manual transmission 928S4 or GTS is my dream car

[@WesleyKagan]

Yeah, they are all going up. My first 928 was a ‘78 for $1500, and had a brand new set of $1000 tires

[@trwsandford]

I’ve always loved the 928

[@diyhell8712]

This was the perfect bit of KZbin having spent a frustrating time trying to get my engine to do more than fire occasionally. Oh, and I love 928s. Last one I drove was a dog but made the journey to the very North of Scotland fun.

[@peterschmidt1453]

Very nice solution. This adjuster on my 928 does not function, I had assumed it was vacuum actuated, now I know different, thankyou.

[@ossyhoff]

That's some really cool homemade linear actuators 😁👍 love creative and functional mechanisms like that 😁

[@serpentza]

Looking forward to more 928 content

[@nathanrenz1946]

Always love seeing a new post from Wesley.

[@rodolforodrigues4623]

Using that same servo for a DRS in a FSAE car. Can say it definitely will hold the lights in place

[@AndyD070568]

Great video and an innovative solution, Wes! I have a 1987 S4 that's exactly the same colour - Grand Prix White with Burgundy dash (my carpets are white and cream leather seats). Looking forward to seeing the next 928 video.

[@poprawa]

OE servos for low beams are 12v from parking lights with something like 1-11V out 1-4V signal for adjustment, retrofitting is easy as you just need proper movement range and ball joint size. You get also adjustable "zero" position, which is really critical to set correctly

[@poprawa]

Also, IP44 and up, correct temperature rating etc

[@Paul-F47c0n]

Loving the content, especially 928 and jag projects. Keep up the great work

[@mattcrawford1976]

Brilliant. Love these little interludes of over engineering :)

[@mndlessdrwer]

The 928 was such a peculiar old beastie. Should be fun to see how you decide to improve it, since no vehicle in your care can just be left as-is.

[@Michael92356]

Love your channel. Please do a video deleting that stupid secondary air pump!

[@gloriushumbug5832]

You have to be the coolest youtuber out there, great vids!!

[@Q.Lawrence]

I'll be on the lookout for more content. I've always wanted a 928 since my father had one when I was a kid.

[@evintacy7272]

You are amazing love the fix on headlights!!

[@htownblue11]

Wes you are as impressive as you are entertaining friend. Rooting for some more good videos and your channel growing.

[@SirJohn2024]

Love that car... When I saw it for the first time back in the '80s, I thought it was a spaceship... 😍

[@WesleyKagan]

It does give off those vibes. I’m working on a video about how influential the 928 was in design.

[@sanaakeshavarz-rahbar7761]

aw hell yeah! simple but does the job nicely - love it!

[@RedWhiteandBoosted]

is it possible to get the cad files for the boxster trans to m137/m275?

[@turnipsucks6416]

Made me look at this vehicle. An oddball with potential. I like it.

[@micahfineburg2403]

Another absolute banger from this channel

[@WesleyKagan]

Thank you!

[@realdata1378]

can you do a video on ignition timing including idle speed? is it 800 rpms at idle? what is ignition timing at Initial and Before Top Dead Center? 36 degress and 31 degrees?

[@devone529]

Are you ever gonna post/work on that beautiful C3 behind you in every video? It's such a tease every time I see it!

[@chanceym6000]

Any Idea about a timeline for Wind Tunnel Pt. 2? I am also building a wind tunnel and I am struggling with measurements. I can't find the right arrangement of load cells to measure both lift/downforce and drag accurately at the same time

[@helistorm98]

This is such an elegant fix, loved it! 3d prints for the win!

[@davenzl123]

what happened to the solenoid valves on the mx5?

[@JerGol]

Continuing to love the content!

[@julias-shed]

Nice linear actuator 😀

[@danielferraro59]

nice video i love the 3d printed solution 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[@flyonbyya]

I’ve always like the 928… I remember when they were new in the late 70’s

[@nehok]

What material did you print the ball bearing race from? I would have thought the bearings would eat thay plastic in time. Nice use of ots bits to fix an otherwise expensive problem though.

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

I’m working on a project where my Pontiac G6 will have adjustable headlights like pickup trucks with a tow package does. I was thinking of using an arduino and a knob from a Toyota. And possibly in the future making a fully automatic headlight adjustment

[@92AOK]

I thank you dearly for this!

[@billrees4638]

Love your content. Makes me want to learn CAD again.

[@WesleyKagan]

It’s a useful thing absolutely

[@skudwoofer]

on the solidworks file, did you extrude-cut a circle along the spiral and then fillet or are you cutting with a solid?

[@charles_1523]

Nice elegant solution!

[@WesleyKagan]

Thanks!

[@REDLINEBECKONZ]

Been a min budd, nice to see u still doin vids.

[@JermaineWilburn-w7x]

Hay i have ford probe rear wheel drive mod motor,97prbe spider 😊not done but had too have rear wheel drive,,,that rubber time -belt,in your car how long will it lasts

[@bigbird2100]

Great video 👍I'm sure many 928 owner's will watch and build your mods!

[@samdief]

Love your content man!

[@boltonky]

Good old Porsche, do hope my engineer gets around to restoring his but life has got in the way and his place looks so sad with half broken cars...although he is doing cool things with 3d printers. Thanks for the upload with i had some CAD skills but without a proper functioning keyboard/mouse makes life hard the things we sacrifice to eat

[@bradyelich2745]

If you can fix the Pathfinder one headlight on low beam issue. I know i can just run a other power wire.

[@quatre1559]

This is perfect i can probably modify this to make a set of bullet mirrors powered!

[@WesleyKagan]

Probably! I really like my design here, I think that’s a first

[@quatre1559]

@@WesleyKagan you should like more of your designs, you've got some ingenious solutions. Personally I wanna adapt the free valve clone you came up with for my mgb motor some day.

[@jcota2003]

@@quatre1559 If he gets it working better I'd love to adapt it to the GM ecotec head. I've got a 2.2L that I'd love to have FreeValve tech on... The only sucky part is that I wouldn't be able to pass inspection in my area with an aftermarket ECU... 😞

I agree the 4th season it's not bad... I'm still waiting for the movie tho...

[@louiewiessv5756]

More free valve tech! Dino numbers after conversion over stock numbers.

[@GumbootsOnBackwards]

Always a great video, Wesley. Thank you!

[@FJuan50]

I fell in love with this car after watching Risky Business ❤️😁. The chase scene with Guido the Killer Pimp is epic 80s! Sometimes you just gotta say “What the f@ck” and restore a 928.

[@01AceAlpha]

Any details on the green machine that Jeep should have always built?

[@samperras]

Good work man

[@bazzab2000]

Great video thanks Barry Uk

[@corneesmit7205]

Love your content man! Keep it coming

[@WesleyKagan]

Thanks! Will do!

[@CR-di1lg]

928 is just a great look car too

[@MichaelAmster]

When you put it into the car, what Arduino board do you actually use and do you just power it from the 12v car system or drop it down to 6-7v via a DC-DC converter?

[@nathancole1802]

Will there be 928 Free valve tech swap on the table?

[@chuckp8705]

This is an interesting video. I've been interested in 928's. My first thought was, why is this system needed at all? Is this Porsche's version of the manual adjustments used on most cars? And to make it hydraulic seems like a very British (cough Jag) solution. I imagine a US company would have used vacuum. You came up with a nice solution though.

[@banaana1234]

Its for compensating for cargo weight. Not really that relevant on a Porsche, but if you load a car full of people and stuff the rear will sag and the headlights will point to the sky and blind other drivers. Its regulation in Europe to have a manual adjustment in the cabin or automatically leveling headlights. The normal adjustment is still done with the screws around the headlight I assume. On most European cars of the time the adjustment is vacuum operated afaik.

[@chuckp8705]

@@banaana1234 Thanks for the info. I did not know that was a required feature in Europe.

[@CaptainLila]

Very cool. I do not miss my old 928, but would masochisticly own another

[@bitzer8722]

Is there any update/news on the V12 corvette? Have you moved on completely from the freevalve miata build? I know you said you were going to move on for someone else to take over, but I didn’t legitimately expect to go a year with no more freevalve miata.

[@pietronegretto]

i got a question about your 60's f1. On the boxster the engine is rear mounted but your build is e mid engine so you have inverted the rear and the front of engine/gearbox. So you changed the engine direction of rotation, right? how did you menaged to do that? i guess you needed to reset the timing belt, cams and spark, using the same degrees but in the opposite direction and using an external waterpump, am i right? (soory for the bad english :D)

[@Espersontheone]

a Porsche is Porsche no matter how you look at it! :P Nice to see more content. Cheers!

[@WesleyKagan]

More to come! I agree haha

[@czs1mc]

This will bee an amazing journey!!

[@mcashnv]

Was the ball-worm mechanism your idea or part of the original piece?

[@F0XD1E]

Great solution. Can't imagine what an oem replacement system would cost, if you could even find it. How often were these originally even supposed to be adjusted? Was this just an unnecessarily complex aiming screw?

[@WesleyKagan]

Pretty much. Someone wrote up a fix on rennlist years ago, but it was refilling the system and I didn't want to deal with that. Quicker this way.

[@banaana1234]

Its for compensating for cargo. Not that relevant on a Porsche, but a family wagon could be driven to work with one person, and then loaded full of people and stuff in the evening. This would make the rear sag and the headlights point to the sky and blind other drivers. Afaik it was (and still is) regulation to have an an adjustment dial in the cabin or automatically leveling headlights.

[@eduardopupucon]

Sorry for bothering but is there any updates on the mechanical computer? I always check this channel every month or so because that video intrigued me

[@jeffstorey9147]

Yessss.

[@mikemoore1683]

Cool I hear the electrical can be a nightmare. ie dont try to upgrade the stereo with amps & sub the electrical wont like it. Lol

[@madjimms]

FreeValve the thing!

[@tonistaru]

YES! MORE!

[@Grimm-Gaming]

928 is my favorite Porsche...

[@WesleyKagan]

Same here! I love them.

[@Grimm-Gaming]

@@WesleyKagan There so weird and the opposite of general Porsches. Plus there really pretty! And there engine makes a great table "Top Gear"

[@robertwalsh5461]

Neat solution! Did you or possibly you father work as a Porsche mechanic or are you like me and just take broken stuff apart a rebuild (overbuild) it better?

[@brycesnell6071]

I would definitely do a LeMons team with you. We would definitely have the coolest car.

[@otterconnor942]

928 freevalve?

[@gerbil7771]

Great stuff short and sweet. Still like the long videos but these shorter ones would be better if they’re more often.

[@akumabito2008]

Another vid, nice!

[@WesleyKagan]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@twothreebravo]

4:15 Agreed, Season 4 of Community wasn't that bad.

[@nathancole1802]

Awesome content.

[@racerxix]

928 has been on the ownership list for a long time. I assume you have seen the LS swap kits.

[@tiitsaul9036]

Old bmw have the same headlight adjusters. Never seen one working.

[@ruuman]

Nice solution, i assume you are going to mod the original switch?

[@WesleyKagan]

Yeah, build an adapter between that and the potentiometer

[@BoppRunner]

Season 4 of Community was definitely mailed in though

[@emmanuelgarcia3028]

Awesome!

[@thelightspeed3d712]

You got a manual 928? Lucky

[@discipleoftheword1785]

Very nice

[@D3nn1s]

So did i get that right? You just installed an ardiuno in a porsche? Basically 1000x calculating power now, self driving when? :P

[@blanchae]

Liked and subscribed. Mainly based on the "cocaine white" comment. Plus the excellent content.

[@justar6865]

Great vids

[@edgardovigo147]

So cool!!