what did you do to your 944 today

[Mike_Pollock]

Thanks for that - I've done it ok but my long reach socket wouldn't clear the terminal block.

 

[Eldavo]

2 pin was a 30mm socket. I had to bend the pins inwards carefully so I could get the socket on properly and then straightened them out again when fitted.

 

[Mike_Pollock]

The 3 pin has full a socket surrounding the pins so bending the pins wouldn't have worked. Amazing how different the same job can be!

 

[robwright]

Stripped off the rear calipers to get to the bottom of my musical car woes. Low and behold they have really bad plate lift. As I don't have the funds to refurbish them at the minute I had to take the cheats way out of curing plate lift and grind some material off the pads for now. Not perfect but it seems to have done the job as it didn't play any tunes on the way home. Just out of interest does anyone know anyone in the Peterborough/Stamford area who could do this kind of caliper refurb?

 

[rickware]

put it up for sale! gutted (but I have a 996 turbo with 490hp to play with instead)

 

[Fat Albert]

ORIGINAL: robwright Just out of interest does anyone know anyone in the Peterborough/Stamford area who could do this kind of caliper refurb?

Mine squeaks from the back end too... Try TWG in Peterborough, if they don't do it themselves they will point you in the right direction: http://www.twgsport.co.uk/

 

[robwright]

Thanks for that Jeremy I may drop in them tomorrow. What kind of noise is it? Is it a definite squeek like components rubbing against each other or is it more like say blowing across the top of a bottle? Does it go away under braking?

 

[sulzeruk]

Rob, they are dead easy to refurbish yourself. I can send you a set of screws for the plates if you want. Alasdair

 

[Fat Albert]

Just normal Brake squeal, I just need to chuck some copper grease in there...again

 

[colin944]

Got the rest of the floor out and fitted new section. Not welded in yet but just fixed in with tec screws. Need to make all the bits and bobs of panels and the it's all going back together at the weekend. Once it's all in I will post all the photo's I have been taking alomg the way.After that just the other side to do and then ready for paint.

 

[DivineE]

ORIGINAL: rickware put it up for sale! gutted (but I have a 996 turbo with 490hp to play with instead)

Unbelievably quick cars those, even standard! If you can justify it and have the space I wouldn't rush to sell the 944 though. After the initial addiction wears off the 944 definitely still has a place in the garage. It can offer driver interaction in areas the 996 falls down on.

 

[DivineE]

Just realised which 944 you are selling! http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2618317 So you're the owner of the most popular 944 turbo on youtube! That clip comes up as a suggestion every time I watch any 944 related video! You can't sell that. You'd definitely regret it and if you do... at that price!! Really? Should sell for £7.5-8.5k minimum. Someone who wants a track car will pay that in the blink of an eye to avoid the costs of setting up a car for themselves.

 

[robwright]

Took full advantage of the glorious sun and gave her a full clean inside and out and wax in preparation for a dirty weekend away in Skeggy tomorrow []

 

[John Sims]

I put a PCGB 50th Anniversary badge on mine today.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

ORIGINAL: John Sims I put a PCGB 50th Anniversary badge on mine today.

Excellent! Are you dishing them out at the AGM? []

 

[John Sims]

Not that I am aware of. Jen asked me to photograph it for Club Shop. It's very nice.

 

[Mike_Pollock]

Fixed the 2.7s iffy headlight - normal problem of the wire hardening and cracking. Still trying to work out why its running rich!

 

[rickware]

ORIGINAL: DivineE Just realised which 944 you are selling! http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2618317 So you're the owner of the most popular 944 turbo on youtube! That clip comes up as a suggestion every time I watch any 944 related video! You can't sell that. You'd definitely regret it and if you do... at that price!! Really? Should sell for £7.5-8.5k minimum. Someone who wants a track car will pay that in the blink of an eye to avoid the costs of setting up a car for themselves.

I know its sacrilege, I get an income from that video! Sold it last year for 8750 but guy then didn't turn up after he paid a deposit. It is a hard market so I've had to be real on the price but know choice. Can't justify both but I suspect I will live to regret it!

 

[DivineE]

ORIGINAL: rickware I know its sacrilege, I get an income from that video! Sold it last year for 8750 but guy then didn't turn up after he paid a deposit. It is a hard market so I've had to be real on the price but know choice. Can't justify both but I suspect I will live to regret it!

It's a sick market. If it was a less well made, less capable ford rs it'd be worth three times that! You will love the 996. There's nothing quite like it in any way and the design / reliability of the thing is just insane with that amount of power. No other car in the world offers the same no fuss, every day usability at that level of performance ..believe me I've looked. Make sure you post up a pic in your 996 forum thread so I can take a peek. The only thing I realise now is that after a while you'll start to get a hankering for a chuckable hands on track car (the 996 just feels so serious to drive it misses 'chuckability') and nothing meets that description better than a 944t for the money. Regards, Ben

 

[blease]

Took F40 for a full on thrash along my favourite back roads. Roof off, windows open, blue skies, grippy tarmac. Corners, straights, roundabouts, more corners. Chuck, blast, brake, chuck, chuck. Fabuloosa! 4th gear is my friend...almost like an automatic on such roads. The S2 engine just PULLLLLLS!