944 Audi Turbo (Practical Performance Car)

[ikillcopiers]

Just to let ye all know the next issue of Practical Performance Car,
due out October 29th, is going to feature the Maxxtuning.se
Audi five pot turbo engined 944.

It'll be interesting to get some details in English, all the threads I've
seen about it before have been in Swedish (well, I think it's Swedish?????)

I'm a subscriber so I'll have it anyways, but anyone interested
might like to pick up the mag!

While I'm here, there's a 924 Turbo buying guide in this months
issue, if that's of interest to anyone.

 

[MarkK]

The Blue "Shenpar" pug 205 gti featured in PPC a couple of issues ago is mine[8D]

 

[os951]

You just have to learn some swedish.. It's not that hard at all [] Most of the Porsche forums are in english, so it's real easy for you who's native language is english. When you come from a country which population is rather small, for example we have little bit over 5 million inhabitants, you just have to learn few foreign languages. I am very grateful to our education system(ranked to #1 several times on international Pisa study), where we are "forced" to study languages; so i have the possibility to hang around english,swedish,french,estonian,danish,norweigan,german & finnish Porsche forums []

Here's the link to norweigan forum where this swedish builder (confusing eh ? ) have a thread with lots of pictures:

http://www.gatebil.no/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9153

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: os951

Blimey - that turbo is bigger than my cat .... possibly even bigger than my house!

How does it handle with all that weight up front?


Oli.

 

[ikillcopiers]

ORIGINAL: MarkK

The Blue "Shenpar" pug 205 gti featured in PPC a couple of issues ago is mine[8D]

I'm a bit behind on my reading, I'll make sure to read that this evening.
Great mag, it's the only thing I can find to replace the hole in my life
left by the demise of Car & Car Conversions!

As regards languages, I struggle with the two I have!
I get your point though, a Slovienian friend of mine speaks
Slovienian, English, French, Croatian, Serbian and German, and a
little bit of Italian too!

PPC have a fairly good forum too if ye want to check it out,
lots of dead ambitious projects and talks of jaffa cakes however!
They lately changed to a new system so it'll have to build up again....

 

[mik_ok]

Interesting install.

I like the idea of the 5-cyl, but to move away from the std transaxle must move you well away from the 50/50 front/rear weight distribution of the 944 ~ one of it's greatest assets! Do not want.

 

[os951]

Audi engine sits totally different angle compared to 944 engine, which allows to install turbo right next to exhaust manifold. I will have such an exhaust during next winter, so i have had to do a lot of "clean up" work. For example windshield washer tank,Pop up lights electric motor & mechanism, power steering reservoir, coill & oil filter had to remove/relocate to get space for the charger. I also need a lot of extra space on the opposite side of the engine, because i am building an ITB setup with special plenum which has built in water/air intercooler. So AOS had to go, like vacuum booster & master cylinder, which i will replace by 964 hydrobooster unit. Expansion tank will be a BMW E30 M3 unit installed in to the place where battery was. I am doing something british, when i move battery to the same location where it is with UK models have. Lots of parts fabrication going on at the moment, luckily got friends with CNC machines [] . Engine it self is a typical 3.0L build up.

 

[mik_ok]

I know this is old news, but I only spotted the mag on a shelf in Tesco's yesterday.

Didn't have time to read it, so I got the headlines, and the pictures only. [8|]

727bhp (!) [&:] [8D]

No transaxle..... boooo! []

 

[ikillcopiers]

I'm still waiting, the overseas subscription is fairly slow dammit!

 

[333pg333]

Well I think the build is fantastic and laud you for your sense of adventure and the very polished way it has been completed. I'm sure you'll not interest the 'purists' but I think it's all in the family anyway...well except for the tranny.

Here's a link to a detailed thread on Rennlist for those who aren't afraid of having their sensibilities shaken up.
[]

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/944-turbo-and-turbo-s-forum/406993-20v-5cyl-turbo-944-project.html

 

[ikillcopiers]

I got to read the article quick last night and it's really a no holds barred build, everything
was done well and the fab work is superb, I love seeing original well modified cars like that.

My hat goes off to you!
I had a fair idea from the pics on the forum thread, but it was great to read the spec
and a brief build description in the magazine.

Also, I noticed on the Rennlist thread that 333pg333 mentioned a guy who transplanted
an Audi 3.7 N/A (I assume the 32v V8?) into a 944.

Do you have any links for that?

I'd be really interested in seeing some pics!

 

[333pg333]

Funnily enough I was just reading on a Rennlist thread how the 928 or Cayenne V8 would be too wide for a 944 shell (unless you tube frame it). Also on that thread is a pic of a 996 with a Cayenne V8 in the front!! I have seen a pic of a 911 motor in the front of a 944 which was really weird too. I know of a guy doing a V6 from a Golf into a 944, but I haven't seen anything but a US V8 in a 944. If the small block Audi worked that would be interesting although I'm stupidly wed to trying to get a decent result out of the 4 cylinder motor still.