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Feb 28, 2021 18:56:28 GMT
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Bought another car, nostalgia hit hard here  This is my old one from when I was a weeeee nippa, sold it 10 years ago, kinda regretted it so when this one popped up, I bought it  How I got it:           Almost everything's there, even its original tool kit and handbook. Clocks didn't work and the cooling fan was stuck but I sorted them. After a few hours cleaning:              It needs the boot poppers fixing so they pop, a rear view mirror, boot seal needs replacing, headlight motor needs replacing, doors need greasing, one of the belts is too tight, its proper Porsche key, a steering boss so I can fit my sick Nardi wheel, an alarm and immobiliser that works the central locking and pops the boot. Its also had a cheap respray that needs undoing and doing again properly, I mean properly. It has a 10 cd changer in the boot, sooo retro. I'll mot it in march when its due, do all the little bits it needs and when I'm happy its mechanically sound, I'll get it a set of these:  Then a respray... Then maybe an engine swap for a VW 1.8t, maybe..... |
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Last Edit: Feb 28, 2021 19:00:40 GMT by aaran05
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1986 Porsche 944ballbagbagins
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Feb 28, 2021 20:07:06 GMT
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I'd go for more power. I think these need more power than they do have as standard. I drove one and thought it needed a fair bit more, it's not a light car.
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Feb 28, 2021 20:20:27 GMT
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I'm not too fussed about it having big power, i was happy with my last one and I've got other stuff for that, about 250bhp out of a 1.8t would be good, they're lighter too
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I’m going stem to stern on an ‘87 924S right now, also Guards Red. They can be quite needy beggars! I’ll be watching your project with interest.
Best of luck, John
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 Bookmarked. I loved mine and only sold it as I got into MK1 Golfs. |
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Always had a soft spot for these. Saw one that's in the process of having an Audi 5-cylinder swapped into it which I've always thought would be a cracking pairing.
Not that you need project creep at all...
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1.8T would provide all of the power, but the 07k 2.5L turbo 5 cyl seems more appropriate,
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AUdi/ VW engines seem popular in these. VR6s and 1.8ts particularly, The 07k comes in the new TTRS and S3. and the best bit is The cylinder head was developed from the Lamborghini V10. 07k in a 968
looks like too much worknice engine, but looks like a spherical object ache |
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2021 19:50:45 GMT by legend
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The 07k conversion? Looks good but not an engine that's readily available over here
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quite a few on ebay, but 4k ish, you could build a monster 1.8t for that much
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Yeah, and I just want about 250bhp in this and it will be the last thing on the list for this one
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4k would probably my guide budget for a full engine swap tbh
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I’m going stem to stern on an ‘87 924S right now, also Guards Red. They can be quite needy beggars! I’ll be watching your project with interest. Best of luck, John Thanks, just started looking through this, looks like a good find |
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I'd go for more power. I think these need more power than they do have as standard. I drove one and thought it needed a fair bit more, it's not a light car. That's down to the throttle response cam for the best part Porsche for some reason really loved a 'dulled' response from these, and even the Turbo. On the Turbos, you can play about with Boost enhancers, and wastegate swaps to get around this. Otherwise, they are quite slow to spool up. With the N/As, bar the S2, you can buy what's called a Throttle response cam. This basically changes the profile of how the throttle works. If you've driven an E46 m3 with the Sport button on and then off, it pretty much is that. The M3 does it electronically. The cam basically changes the throttle sensitivity. It can make them feel like they are another car  . Cool looking motor! I adored my 944s. I'm hoping you're planing on changing thw wheels before it hits the road. The Michelins Pilot Sport SX hasn't been made for 20 years now! It will make a world of difference to how the car feels. I know it did between my S2 and my Turbo. |
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2021 20:10:23 GMT by ChasR
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I'd go for more power. I think these need more power than they do have as standard. I drove one and thought it needed a fair bit more, it's not a light car. That's down to the throttle response cam for the best part Porsche for some reason really loved a 'dulled' response from these, and even the Turbo. On the Turbos, you can play about with Boost enhancers, and wastegate swaps to get around this. Otherwise, they are quite slow to spool up. With the N/As, bar the S2, you can buy what's called a Throttle response cam. This basically changes the profile of how the throttle works. If you've driven an E46 m3 with the Sport button on and then off, it pretty much is that. The M3 does it electronically. The cam basically changes the throttle sensitivity. It can make them feel like they are another car . Cool looking motor! I adored my 944s. I'm hoping you're planing on changing thw wheels before it hits the road. The Michelins Pilot Sport SX hasn't been made for 20 years now! It will make a world of difference to how the car feels. I know it did between my S2 and my Turbo. Mine has a blue throttle cam thing, might be aftermarket The tyres just need to get it down the road for it's mot, I'd like to keep the tyres on the d90s, it'll be getting new wheels after that I think |
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2021 20:35:10 GMT by aaran05
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I just fell in a YouTube hole and found an LS swapped 944 🤣
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Ah I wasn't thinking the modern Audi 5-cyl, more the 2.2 Turbo of Quattro fame but that would probably be even more work. TBH anything in one of these is dead cool even a completely unmolested one! |
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I just fell in a YouTube hole and found an LS swapped 944 🤣 there's loads of cool stuff 944 hybrids page but we don't get the scrap yards full of cheap LS engines here. Renegade hybrids have lots of useful adaptor kits. Porsche Cayanne/Toureg 3.2Ls bolt up? on this thread they say "The 924 bell has the std VW/Audi wc 4cyl bolt pattern shared by everything from 75-today. Now the VR6 never used that bolt pattern BUT the Touareg/Cayanne/Q's all used an "Audi" trans that uses the VW/Audi 4cyl bolt pattern. They used a "factory" adapter to mate it all together:" so does this mean than a porsche 3.2 or 3.6 VR6 engine will go on the stock bellhouse? 3.6 porsche lump £2k on Ebay |
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Last Edit: Mar 3, 2021 18:47:25 GMT by legend
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