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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/10/23 13:31:50 (permalink)
Yeah, I need to have a mess about. 
It’s a pain moving cars about on the drive to get the car on the level.
The street is pretty busy at the mo due to the carers visiting the house over the road. 
 
 
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/10/23 20:44:03 (permalink)
Whilst working on my 944 I was also moonlighting with refitting a coolant hose on this. 


interestingly it uses the same Bosch auxiliary turbo coolant pump as the 944 - but rather than £300 for the Porsche one, or £60 for the Mercedes one I used, the one from Bentley is £1350 +VAT!

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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/10/23 21:00:03 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Eldavo 2023/10/23 23:15:14
I thought the Porsche price was daft!!
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/10/24 21:18:24 (permalink)
Yeah - Car is my Dad’s and I’ve got it as I’m prepping it for sale for him. Going through the paperwork it’s amazing how expensive anything is on them even now - mind you they were £150k+ 20 years ago. 


6.75l twin turbo - I’m averaging 12mpg!

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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/10/26 20:28:11 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Eldavo 2023/10/27 00:16:27
Dropped the engine so I could replace the engine mounts....
 
 
 

 
 joking obviously but I had to drop the engine with the cross member attached as the bolts were impossible to remove whilst in the car. 
 
Managed to remove them after dropping the engine on the crane and they came loose with a satisfying snap, possibly original from factory!

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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/10/31 20:52:34 (permalink)
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Fancy helping me with my rear valance?  Once I've got the engine out will need to find someone to do the couple of bits of bodywork I need doing.
 
Today I didn't work on the car but I managed to buy myself a pair of NOS Continental Sport Contact N1 225 / 50 R16 for front of my Turbo.
 

 
Yes they are a few years old (2014), but very hard to find a set of matching staggered tyres now for the 16" turbo wheels.
 
Will eventually be sticking some nice 17" or 18" wheels on (after the engine rebuild is completed).




Appreciate the comments I had on these tyres, when they turned up, one of them had been cut quite badly by the courier so the seller ended up giving me a full refund.
 
Will be looking for some nice 17" Cup wheels or 18" wheels when I come to drive the car again, looks like Michelin do the PS4 in the right sizes for 17".

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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/08 14:32:58 (permalink)
Probably a blessing in disguise, fresh rubber should be much safer and better rather than old hardened stuff.
 
My fronts are about 6 years old now on the stamp, still plenty life but getting on time to replace them on age grounds.
 
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/09 00:00:56 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Eldavo 2023/11/09 17:44:46
Drove it to my parents.
1. I can see!! so much better with the Night Breakers/lighting loom/cleaned up positive crimps.
 
2. Wasted spark was definitely worth it.  No more misfire on full boost.

3. Feels like it idles smoother too. Possibly related to the higher voltage after cleaning the starter connector.
 
4. The local B roads have degraded badly.
 
 
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/09 00:08:25 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Eldavo 2023/11/09 17:44:45
Good to hear about the wasted spark, I bought the coils and HT leads with the VEMS kit.
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/10 17:17:52 (permalink)
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Probably a blessing in disguise, fresh rubber should be much safer and better rather than old hardened stuff.
 
My fronts are about 6 years old now on the stamp, still plenty life but getting on time to replace them on age grounds.
 
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Yes - I'd be interested to hear what you go for Stuart with the 16s.
 
Think I will be getting a set of Cup 2s and sticking on some fresh Michelin PS4s...

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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/12 13:51:37 (permalink)
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Probably a blessing in disguise, fresh rubber should be much safer and better rather than old hardened stuff.
 
My fronts are about 6 years old now on the stamp, still plenty life but getting on time to replace them on age grounds.
 
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Yes - I'd be interested to hear what you go for Stuart with the 16s.
 
Think I will be getting a set of Cup 2s and sticking on some fresh Michelin PS4s...




There is actually a fairly large choice for the front axle, it's the rear axle you're limited on as I'm sure you're aware. Toyo, Conti, Nankang, Hankook, Goodyear, Pirelli, Yoko's, Bridgestone, and Kumho all on ebay at the moment in 245 45 16. Better choice than I remember!
 
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Re: RE: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/18 16:30:38 (permalink)
Applied the 2K weld through Epoxy ready for welding tomorrow 
 
 
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/18 16:53:40 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby PSH 2023/11/18 19:12:49
applied the 2K weld through Epoxy primer  welding tomorrow
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/19 21:37:45 (permalink)
Took it out for a spin at 20psi to log the boost tables for populating them later. Flooring it in 3rd/4th gear until redline took a lot of nerve and isn't something I'll be attempting again until the roads get drier!
 
It's genuinely scary - I wouldn't like to guess at the power output but once the boost table is done I'll get it on the dyno to go over the ignition map and see where we end up.

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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/20 13:08:55 (permalink)
There's the rub, how do you put down 450-500 bhp without awd/fancy active suspension/slick levels of grip. And that's before you think about the brakes to stop it. Sure it's better to have it and not need it, than to want it and not have it. But it's a bit like having a foot long gentleman's sausage ( I imagine) when are you actually going to use much of it. Traction control some might say, that would stop the inconvenient sideways stuff, but I don't know if it would get you past 120mph much quicker than 400 bhp. How the new turbo compares to the last one, will be interesting. Call me cynical, why don't you. 
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/20 14:19:24 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby blade7 2023/11/20 16:30:09
Planning on taking advantage of the VEMS ability to run two switchable maps, one wild and one (slightly) more mild it’s actually pretty tractable and useable as the acceleration is very linear so you don’t get the sudden turbo kick of a standard car that upsets the balance - but that’s more to do with mapping the boost roll-on.
 
The new turbo is definitely a greater “area under the curve” type than a vastly different curve, spool-up seems a little better and there is no boost roll-off at higher rpms at all, this makes a huge difference to the attitude of the car. Traction control is something that can be done with VEMS and I will be looking at but my winter project is the ABS. I’ve no issue with the medium blacks since a full refurb, extra cooling and a better pad compound but that doesn’t mean a Big Red Brake Package isn’t currently sat in one of my online baskets 
 
I need to sort the ABS and may yank it out for a 996 setup I have on the shelf, will see when I get in there.

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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/20 16:29:55 (permalink)
There's a complete Reyland kit for a couple of grand. Then I look at the copy big reds that are about £400, and wonder how much worse they would be with the big Cayenne discs, that are relatively cheap. 
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/20 16:43:40 (permalink)
The Cayenne disc option isn’t a direct bolt up - M030 front hubs limit options.

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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/20 17:33:03 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Eldavo 2023/11/20 20:55:13
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The Cayenne disc option isn’t a direct bolt up - M030 front hubs limit options.


Yes I know the discs require centering rings, and the radial calipers require adapters. But I'm looking at it from the non MO30 cheap seats. I'm just waiting for someone that's done the conversion, to endorse it.
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Re: what did you do to your 944 today 2023/11/25 16:12:00 (permalink)
Sill welded on and front wing repair panel ready for welding 
seems so quiet on this forum now 
 

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