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944 turbo 1986

Nick Paul

Nick Paul

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Hi all you 944 experts - I need some advice.

Going to see a 944 turbo (1986) in Cornwall (the weekend after the Porsche Brands Hatch bash) that has been advertised on the for sale forum (now on page 3). Its apparently had a lot of work done already (engine rebuild, sills - see forum). Ricky Ceasar kindly had a look at it for me (I'm in France at the moment) and gave it the all clear. Seems an honest car so I put a deposit on it.

Apparently the power steering has been swapped for a manual version (it was leaking? - original power steering bits are available) - this could be important as my wife may need the power assistance! - how effective is the PAS on a 944?
There is some small surface corrosion around lower corner of windscreen rubber A pillar - but assured it is not rotten (although difficult to ascertain with the screen in).

Any advice/points I should focus on would be much appreciated.


Thanks in advance
 
Nick,

When the power steering on my 86 Turbo wasn't working it was very heavy at parking speeds! PM me if you want to chat about my experiences over 4 1/2 years owning mine or I could catch you at the R16 meeting?

Mark
 
What cars is your wife familiar with? By the standards of just about current mainstream saloon / hatch designed in the last decade, she will find the steering of even a PAS-equipped 944 heavy at low speed. If she grew up with pre-PAS cars then it won't come as a shock to her.

Another question is: does the car you are looking at have a PAS rack with the PAS removed, or a standard manual steering rack? The factory manual steering rack is a lower ratio to make it lighter at the expense of more wheel-twirling. The quicker-ratio PAS rack with the PAS gubbins removed is quite often used on dedicated track cars and racers but is not a barrel of laughs for parking, especially combined with fat tyres.
 
Thanks guys
I should be at R16 this Wednesday so will hopefully see you there Mark.

Good point Simon - I think the guy substituted a manual rack.

 
A blown power steering pump will drive fine up to about 1/4 turn off the wheel will get very heavy after. I would expect a manual rack not pump to be simpler to the frustration 1/4 turn off blown pump but not get much worse.

Can be re fitted.. There power assist so there not light but shouldn't feel scarily heavy
 
The windscreen rubber will just pull out (slowly) and push back in to check for rust, obviously ask the owners permission.
 
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