Comments by "John Luetjen" (@jehl1963) on "" video.

Lovely car. I have one just like it. Aside from technologically dated items (i.e. the ignition system) the cars were very well put together, and the engines were pretty under stressed. Most of the issues that I've found with my car were inflicted by a previous owner (or myself!). The clutch was most likely one of the weak links (although adequate), and was redesigned to a completely different concept ("push-type") in 1970 to deal with the increased torque of the 2.2 liter engines. I suspect that the original owner would "ride the clutch" or rest their left foot on the clutch pedal, thus prompting it's failure in just a few thousand miles. If treated correctly, the clutch should be good for 10's of thousands of miles if not almost 100k miles. Being a Porsche owner, I have to nit-pick. Both the 911R and the '69 911E were both 2.0 liter cars. But the '69E's MFI system was specifically tuned for the E's engine configuration. It couldn't adjust itself to changes in the configuration (such as the different exhaust) without being specifically retuned. I doubt that the rich running has anything to do with the cold-start function which is completely unrelated to the exhaust. The original cold start enrichment feature was fairly nasty, and just pours raw fuel down the intake trumpets. What could go wrong with that?! Most were quickly deactivated. The '69's are actually very easy to rig a manual cold start enrichment (just like the factory race cars). Manually applying 12v to the enrichment solenoid will peg the MFI rack full rich and allow the car to start easily, and then disconnecting that 12 volts will allow the MFI to return to it's normal tuning after the engine is starting. Starting in 1970 the MFI was updated to do away with the raw fuel feature, and used a completely different cold start concept.
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