Just saw this story, wish you all the best with your new car, looks great, it brings a smile to my face everyday I drive it and I know it will for you. Thank you for sharing your story, your service, and the hope you bring to everyone who has read your story. All the best to you.

--BM

 

Good Job Jacob!
Glad you recieved it and installed it and all is well.Good to hearAlthough I would love to see you shoot it up,i think it would be better if you could fix it and save it for later use when you have your car flashed.And if you do take it apart take pictures because many of us have never seen what Ruf does to the stock exhaust to modify it.

 

noticed your wearing flip flops your legs and feet must be way better, i keep catching my toe on the left foot as i still suffer from a mild case of drop foot. how long have you been walking now? does your left arm ence up or hard acc in the p car? hows the clutch foot work? mine keep getting caught as i did not have the strength to pull it back,thank god thats gone nowit's been 6months for me.. everytime i start feeling non productive i look back to my dazs in rehab and how much 6 speed filled my empty days with hope and how much progress has been made just to walk again we as well as other are truly blessed to have seen deaths door and recovered the old stroke guy is not giving up (i will go fastagain in the twisties of life) thanks steve

 

Wishing you a speedy recovery my 6speed friend!!
++ rep for all that helped him out! great gesture!

 

hey how do we give reps???

 

Specopscpt if you are ever in DFW and need help with the car we can use my shop, lift and tools anytime.Keep the exhaust and fix it also.

Thanks
keith

 

All the best and a speedy recovery!

 

I drove it to church this morning and the dreaded knocking is right back. I didn't fire it up for long last night when I was done, I was tired as hell. This morning when I got to church I noticed the knocking was back, so this means the Porsche mechanic was wrong and would have sold me a $4000.00 exhaust when I was there and told me my cat was shot, and in the meantime charged me $1300 to do my master cylinder. What would have happened if I would have bought the $4000 exhaust and it didn't fix the problem?

Now I am wondering if they saw a "newbie" walking in and saw $$$ in their heads or what. The annoying knock is still there, I am wondering if it is something more serious. At startup and while it is still cold the knocking is not there, but when warm or reving it is very very there. It is louder when the AC is on, but doesn't go away when you turn off the AC either. After it is warm and you turn the car off the knock starts when you start the car. It sometime intermittently comes and goes, but when you rev the engine or accelerate it always starts instantly.....I know have a good reason to keep the RUF and at the least pay it forward, or put it back on after the real culprit is discovered and help someone out with the stock Joe sent me...


Any thoughs?

 

I go to PT almost everyday as well as do as much as I can. Before this happened I was jumping above 30,000ft and leading missions where I had no business being. I can still remember having some unknown person change my diaper and treat me like a vegetable that would never get better. The nurses got some idea that I must have some importance, because after I was transferred to MCH in Odessa, there were always people in uniform in my room, a chaplain from the Pentagon came and stayed with my family until I woke up.

I called the Physical Therapists the PT ***** because they were relentless with me and pushed me very hard, they still do, but I also have four kids who push me even harder. I was suppossed to have surgery last wed but it was postponed until the 19th. After surgery I will get back to PT and hopefully be running within 6 months. Ultimately I would like to rejoin a team, but I don't know if that is or will be possible.

 

Just opened this thread and I'm glad I did. SPECOPSCPT thanks for the service you and every man and woman give to serve and protect this country. Like many, if ever I get the chance to meet you I would like to shake your hand and thank you personally. Good luck with the recovery, thanks to your wife who has a big heart, and stay safe.

Yes, rep points to Joe and to the many who have offered help or words of encouragement to the OP.

 

SPECOPSCPT -

Thanks for your service.

GREAT story. Keep up all of your hard work.

Does your knocking noise happen only when moving or can you make it happen when you're stopped (ie: revving the car in neutral)?

 

once it is warmed up it happens all the time and sometimes stops momentarily but starts as soon as I rev it up or accelerate. It also does not coincide with engine RPM, At some RPM's it seems to stop but that might be because I can't hear it over the engine at that point. I am walking out the door in a sec to the only BMW/Mercedes mechanic I could find. I don't trust the others around here. My sons B'Day is in the morning, if I have no resolution by then I will hit the road. I would go almost any where east of my current location to find a decent honorable shop that won't clean y bank account out. I know there is a reputable shop that has been suggested and if I can't find an answer here, or if the answer here is going to be over the last bit of moolah I had saved, I am hitting the road and going east. Wish me luck, looks like it will be road trip time.

 

Well, i think you for sure need to scan the car with Durametric to see if you have any codes.

Does this seem to affect performance at all?

If your "knock" is real engine knock, then be careful because you can hurt your motor.

If your knock is a physical, "something is loose knock" then I have a feeling it will be more on annoyance trying to figure it out but nothing bad.

 

Last night I drove over to FT Worth to get my car looked at. The knocking that the dealer told me was my catalytic converter was not the catalytic converter after all. It is something deeper in the engine, and the mechanic/s are in the process of figuring out what exactly it is. Two weeks ago the dealer told me thay they were confident that the enigine was solid and it was only a catalytic converter that was knocking like that.

Now the car that helped motivate me to walk again, and give 110% everyday at PT, and would be my dream car, has the potential to turn into a nightmare car for me. My son saw how depressed I was after the mechanic delivered the news to me, and tried to cheer me up by mentioning he could try to get it on "overhaulin" or a similiar program, but then realized that wouldn't work. The thought was there and that is what counts. He knows he sees his dad crushed over the car that gave him a spark back in his step and eyes and now he see how depressed it has made me. Right back almost in square one. I gave him a hug and thanked him, and went off to think, alone.

After realizing how catastrophic this could be and how repairing it could be out of my league, I am almost as low as I was when I woke up from my coma and realized I could barely move at all, and unable to walk. It feels like one step forward and four steps back. I find something to look forward to and then this happens.

I will post how bad or good (everyone cross your fingers or pray if that is your thing) the final verdict on the engine problem is. If I can get it fixed I will definatlely get to the TX mile. I was talking with EVOMS right before the mechanic called, and had visions of my childhood dream 500hp DD dancing in my head, and then the mechanic told me he thought it was either cratered or close to it, and was instantly crushed. I don't know what to say.... Thanks for eveyones help and encouragement. I might take a few days off from posting, I am pretty low. Thanks to all.

 

That stinks... I am praying it will be a minor thing that will be easy and inexpensive to repair! All dreams can be realized and take some work. Just hang in there and keep the prize in mind!