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944 Turbo S Engine Rebuild Thread
- Thread starter Eldavo
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Wanted the car back and sorted so paid a local place to make me some hoses up and it cost the same as it would’ve done if I’d DIY-ed them properly in the first place. But with braided hose, crimped ends, pressure tested and warrantied all for just under £150 and turned round in a day!
While I had the engine out I replaced all the lines with the correct new seals, compressor, receiver drier etc. but never got around to sorting it out.
Tried to pull a vacuum last week to no avail, got the nitrogen bottle on it and found a pinhole on the bottom of one of the hardpipes on the condenser. Toyed with attempting to braze it up but the condenser wasn’t in the best shape so have a new one on its way.
I‘ve got every faith that all this will do is lead me along to the next failure point - that’s the 944 way [
scam75
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Stuart
Eldavo said:Am not liking the look of the compressor . . . there’s UV dye around the edges of the clutch pack so looking into how viable a rebuild is vs just buying a new one.
I knew it was only a matter of time! Either that or I ran over Slimer from Ghostbusters last time I was out.
Took it back and it was replaced the same day - back on and car is continent again (for now at least - will keep an eye on the other 2).
I guess we have different ideas of what constitutes a lockdown project - I painted the fence!
Sleeved block, forged and lightened internals, many new and refurbished parts - need to form a plan of attack.
I had a set of shafts and 2 vapour blasted front housing mounts (as the ones on the engine had been welded up) but first needed to get inside the main housings. The oil feeds had been tapped and blocked with grub screws - if these weren’t coming out then it was a no go. Luckily, once the thread lock gave way with a reassuring click then they came out no bother so the next step was to put in a big parts order from OPC.
blade7 said:Did Simon let you have the inlet manifold and turbo?
I got an S2 manifold to chop the runners off and I got a turbo and some other parts separately too.
Plans are afoot . . .
blade7
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Waylander said:that will fit in the 944, 7 speed, dsg nice, not sure how the 4wd will pan out though[]
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