Chrishazle
Active member
Did you know 968's came with at least 2 styles of exhaust tips - rolled end on early cars, plain on later - and that there are at least 2 sizes (at the business end, thankfully not at the flange end!) of the plain type??!
Guess who found out the hard (read expensive) way! At P&P 2 years ago I found a 944 SS tip that was a tight slip fit over the oval end of the tip on my 94 tip coupe. Posted about it on here, it looks loads better than standard and at £35 was a hell of a lot cheaper than the "proper" bolt on shiny bit. So, ordered one for my 93 cab - before I got the cab. It, of course, has the rolled end tip so the slipover was too small. Bought a plain end tip from Porscheapart - it's about 1/8" smaller on both main axes compared to my coupe. Thankfully the flange ends are the same size, so I've been able to "southern engineer" things together. That will hopefully stop herself complaining that the exhaust on the cab looks horrible compared to the coupe and will I please do something about it!!
For those of us with "vertically challenged" other halves, I've found it's relativly easy to raise the seat. You don't need to hunt for seat raising blocks - just buy some rectangular aluminium bar 20mm wide by the height you want to raise the seat (I raised my passenger seat 13mm and wife is now happy). You'll also need (per seat) 6 x M8 x (30+bar thickness) allen cap head screws - I got mine in A2 stainless from www.boltmeup.com. Then it's just a case of drilling 9mm holes in the appropriate places - easiest sorted by taking the seat out of the car onto a work bench. Be warned that the rear holes on the transmission tunnel side are further apart than the holes on the door side! I modified some raising blocks I bought off eBay - that were probably for a 944 or 911. If I were starting from scratch, I'd buy 2 lengths long enough to fit under the entire length of the seat rail, but you'd then have to be very careful marking up for drilling. Thankfully I have a pillar drill, which helps a lot!
The things we do for a little peace and quiet!
Guess who found out the hard (read expensive) way! At P&P 2 years ago I found a 944 SS tip that was a tight slip fit over the oval end of the tip on my 94 tip coupe. Posted about it on here, it looks loads better than standard and at £35 was a hell of a lot cheaper than the "proper" bolt on shiny bit. So, ordered one for my 93 cab - before I got the cab. It, of course, has the rolled end tip so the slipover was too small. Bought a plain end tip from Porscheapart - it's about 1/8" smaller on both main axes compared to my coupe. Thankfully the flange ends are the same size, so I've been able to "southern engineer" things together. That will hopefully stop herself complaining that the exhaust on the cab looks horrible compared to the coupe and will I please do something about it!!
For those of us with "vertically challenged" other halves, I've found it's relativly easy to raise the seat. You don't need to hunt for seat raising blocks - just buy some rectangular aluminium bar 20mm wide by the height you want to raise the seat (I raised my passenger seat 13mm and wife is now happy). You'll also need (per seat) 6 x M8 x (30+bar thickness) allen cap head screws - I got mine in A2 stainless from www.boltmeup.com. Then it's just a case of drilling 9mm holes in the appropriate places - easiest sorted by taking the seat out of the car onto a work bench. Be warned that the rear holes on the transmission tunnel side are further apart than the holes on the door side! I modified some raising blocks I bought off eBay - that were probably for a 944 or 911. If I were starting from scratch, I'd buy 2 lengths long enough to fit under the entire length of the seat rail, but you'd then have to be very careful marking up for drilling. Thankfully I have a pillar drill, which helps a lot!
The things we do for a little peace and quiet!
