what did you do to your 944 today

[WBray]

ORIGINAL: Super_Marv Nicely done - does the metal part separate from the plastic top easily?

Cheers man. Pretty easily is basically just slide underneath 4 plastic rails, just push gently down and slides out, then reverse sliding in. though you have to be careful as the plastic will probably be brital, I managed to break one of the rails putting it back in which annoyed me but you cant notice or tell that one has been broken, only thing that will need to be done is a bit more care taken if removing it again.

 

[muzz]

Had a problem with my central locking ie. drivers door would not lock on the remote. so I took the trim off the door and looked up towards the external door handle and saw a lever un-connected, so I removed the metal clip holding the pivot pin in place. The lever has a ball socket at one end with a clip that closes the socket a round a ball on a lever to the lock. Anyway the clip had broken and would not close the socket. So I had a thought, if I use a o-ring that would flex and close the socket around the ball , I found a 6mm internal o-ring and slip it over the socket end and is held in place by a vee in the lever. Refitted the lever with the pivot pin and the pushed the socket over the ball, then tried the remote hey presto perfect.

 

[Ex Skyline]

Picked the Turbo up from Jon's gaff (JMG) yesterday evening, practically flew home!![8D][][8D][]

 

[944 man]

Drove Das Panzer for the first time in months. I have refitted the matching 17" front wheels and returned the 16" Boxster rears to my garage. Ive also gone against my 'weniger, aber besser' mantra and refitted the rear seat squab and back, so that I can carry a couple of passengers. If its nice next weekend I may trial fit one of the competition seats to the passenger side, along with a sports seat and try to make up my mind as to what Im doing...

 

[blease]

Gave my S2 track car a good ragging around Anglesey Coastal Circuit. Now at Stage 3 after fitting Michelin cups bought from Mark K. And yet another transformation. Now really having fun with the car. Have fully dialled out the snappy spinning tendency when the rear suspension overloaded. Now have mild oversteer that easily corrects with throttle. And if the rear does step out it can be caught. Thanks Mark (and Kev at EMC). Oh, and a thumbs up for Anglesey. The coastal circuit is tremendous. They've nicked the best bits of other circuits like the banked curve at Oulton and the corkscrew at laguna Seca and put them onto the most picturesque setting imaginable. Really worth the effort involved in getting there.

 

[supersport]

Gave my car a oil, filter and plug change. Would have done the air filter but didn't have a long/thin enough screw driver to reach between the header tank and filter box. Also still not managed to get the oil filter out cleanly. The car is running nicely and ready for Bedford

 

[edh]

ORIGINAL: blease Have fully dialled out the snappy spinning tendency when the rear suspension overloaded. Now have mild oversteer that easily corrects with throttle. And if the rear does step out it can be caught. Thanks Mark (and Kev at EMC).

interesting...what did you change? I've fitted stiffer springs to counter what I think was roll oversteer at high speeds but I think my s2 is more lively than the turbo, and the back end does break away quite quickly. I like Anglesey - the sweeping right hander and the run up to rocket is definitely the best bit. must make for interesting racing

 

[blease]

Hi EDH, my car is running Gaz Gold suspension and I take it up 7 clicks up from the road setting at the rear but leave the front alone (settings done by EMC). I have 7J front, 8.5J rear 17 inch wheels with ex Mark K michelin cups. The front end is great. Put the nose in and it just sticks. On lesser tyres I could feel the back end starting to loose grip as power came back on and if you did not control exit pitch very well the rear would unstick quite easily and spin which I was not skilful enough to catch. The cups have cured that. I have now collected up a couple of mid to late corner twitches which I know before would have spun me out. Also, now, if I hit a corner too hot, I get gentle understeer that just compromises exit speed and position which means I can't get on the gas when I want but thats all. In short, the car now feels set up to teach me more about handling skills.

 

[edh]

So a combination of more grippy tyres and harder rear damper settings has helped. On AD08's I only find traction a problem on the slower corner exits - in the dry it's really just the second gear bends. In the wet at Donington it was more tricky, but just down to being careful and progressive with the throttle - the most unsettling was when the back end did try to come round on me a couple of times at the fast left hander after old hairpin. It's an odd corner that one - completely flat in most conditions, but seems to collect puddles of water in various places.

 

[MarkK]

After that rave review,"roll up roll up,get last two sets of Cheap used Michelin cups as we are swapping to slicks,look like at hero at Bedford"[][](shouted in a market trader booming voice).

 

[PAUL RUDDY]

Left it at Hartech for a full monty service, new belts, new cam chain & slipper. The train home was cold.

 

[simkin911]

I went down on the train on Friday and found myself surrounded my young lads drinking beer and farting generously. I'd rather have been cold! Good guys at Hartech. Will take the 968 back sometime.

 

[944 man]

I managed to drive spiritedly on two of the most dangerous roads in the country (A621 Owler Bar to Baslow & A5012 Via Gellia) and I survived! My immobiliser is now reluctant to disengage - obviously the car wasnt happy about being being laid up over Winter...

 

[DarrylH]

Just purchased some Mats recommended by GlennS [] Looking forward to collecting them!

 

[944 man]

Which?

 

[DarrylH]

Got front and backs from here: http://www.hamiltonclassic.co.uk/

 

[WBray]

As two of my dust caps were broken and didn't fit properly I bought some metal ones with Porsche crests off ebay. I know they are pretty good quality as dad's got the same one's on his cayenne and there's been no fading of the crest or corrosion to them in over the year he's had them, but they are worth the £5 just for the box description alone!

 

[colin944]

fantastic!!!!!! made in USA? [][][][][]

 

[Mike_Pollock]

Even the Americans can't make that much of a mess of English, must be the Germans as they are obviously OEM......

 

[PAUL RUDDY]

Took delivery of genuine Cup 1's, 7.5's and 9's, just need the car back from Hartech now so that I can fit them